Congress failed to give the president more executive powers in an “energy emergency.”
With the average price of gas in the United States now above $4, Senate Republicans today rejected a plan by Democrats to give the president the authority to declare an “energy emergency” and sue OPEC nations, prosecute price gouging, assess a “windfall profits tax” on oil companies and cut down on speculation in the energy markets.
This goes back to points that I have made before that the American Federal Government and many politicians and leaders are essentially advocating a brand of neo-fascism. Notice that the details of this case, where it was Democrats wanting to give a Republican president state-super-powers to basically control the major aspects of energy policy. NO doubt the Democrats were thinking about the possibility of wielding that power sometime in the future. But either way, this shows that both parities are now more interested in expanding the powers of government as a means to achieve their ideals, rather than a small government solution.
Ironically, usually the most fickle in this kind of “emergency” - the general public actually seems to have a memory that reaches father back than last nights reality TV show. Polls show that Americans are more afraid of gas rationing and shortages than of high prices.
I don’t suspect that Americans have any idea why shortages happen when prices are controlled, but they at least seem to remember the last time prices were held down (by republicans that time).
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