Here is Pelosi talking on ABC about drilling and on her decision to turn the lights off on the Republicans last week. She states emphatically that she will not allow an up or down vote even though when they took the majority, House Democrats proclaimed that…

“bills should generally come to the floor under a procedure that allows open, full and fair debate consisting of a full amendment process that grants the Minority the right to offer its alternatives.”

Apparently not on drilling. Who believes anything that comes out of her mouth? My question is this. The Dems. want alternative energy and say that drilling won’t help now. But in reality how far away are we from being able to use the “alternative energy” that they keep touting? I bet longer than it will take for the oil we can drill this afternoon to help. This energy crisis should be a driving force in the free-trade world we live in. Where are the solar powered cars, solar powered air conditioning units, natural gas cars? No where because they aren’t viable or even non-fiction for that matter.

Click the video to watch and a full transcript is below the fold.

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