CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE LEAVITT BLAMES HURRICANE SEASON OPPONENT AND CONGRESS FOR HIGH FUEL PRICES WHILE OFFERING SOLUTIONS TO STABILIZE THE MARKET
Bradley S. Leavitt, Congressional Candidate for Ohio’s Ninth District, will hold press conferences on Tuesday, September 16, 2008. These conferences will be scheduled as follows:
9:00 am City of Lorain, 200 West Erie Avenue, Lorain, Ohio 44052
11:00 am Sandusky City Hall 222 Meigs Street Sandusky, Ohio
1:00 pm Port Clinton City Hall 1868 East Perry Street Port Clinton, Ohio
3:00 pm One Government Center, Toledo, Ohio
Leavitt will highlight this year’s hurricane season and its affect on rising gas prices. He will address his support for opening ANWR and the continental shelf for oil exploration. He will focus on lowering fuel prices for consumers, job creation in Ohio and throughout the United States, and the progress toward energy independence.
Leavitt will highlight Congressman Kaptur’s recent votes against lowering fuel prices for families and small businesses. He will call into question her understanding of the situation and how it affects individuals and families who are already struggling with a failing Ohio economy.
Leavitt will take to task Congress in its failure to address rising fuel prices and their inability to provide neither a long not short term solution. He insists that Congress refused to provide solutions; instead they discussed increasing taxes on fuel, dismissed the idea of a gas tax holiday, and left for a six week vacation.
"Bradley S. Leavitt repeatedly refused to provide any responses to citizens on the issues through the 2008 Political Courage Test when asked to do so by national leaders of the political parties, prominent members of the media, Project Vote Smart President Richard Kimball, and Project Vote Smart staff." (source)
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A casual reading of this 'political courage' website gives this quote- Representative Marcy Kaptur repeatedly refused to provide any responses to citizens on the issues through the 2008 Political Courage Test when asked to do so by national leaders of the political parties, prominent members of the media, Project Vote Smart President Richard Kimball, and Project Vote Smart staff.
No one wants to take the test anymore...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Political_Awareness_Test
However, the response to the Political Courage Test has dropped, from 72% in 1996 to 48% today, because politicians from both parties are afraid that challengers will use their responses out of context in attack ads, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Despite the fact that 2008 presidential candidate John McCain took the 2004 test and requested other politicians to take 2006 test, he has refused to take the 2008 test. Other presidential candidates, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Ron Paul, have also refused to take the 2008 test.
That there was more off shore drilling.
Knowing that the bulk of the refineries are located in coastal regions, which are prone to hurricanes and other natural occurrences, and noting that large areas of Texas are with out power, how does more drilling help us?
We are witnessing the market place, sans most government intervention, react to the changing habits of the American driver and consumer.
We are driving less, we are buying smaller and more fuel efficient cars and yet Congress wants to interfere in a business matter.
With the Federal Highway Fund nearly exhausted from the slow down in gas tax revenues, we have congressional members calling for more oil, in theory to lower gas prices, and spur more driving, and boost up the tax revenue to repair the crumbling infrastructure of the U.S.
" Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil tumbled, dipping below $91 a barrel and taking its two-day decline to more than $10 on concern that turmoil on Wall Street may weaken the global economy and reduce demand.
Oil fell more than 5 percent today after American International Group Inc. had its credit rating cut, threatening efforts to raise funds to keep the insurer afloat, and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. yesterday sought bankruptcy protection.
``The fear is that the sharp deterioration of the banking crisis in the U.S. will spread to the real economy and demand for oil,'' said Carsten Fritsch, a Commerzbank AG analyst in Frankfurt. ``There's a good possibility prices will fall further before they stabilize.''
Crude oil for October delivery fell as much as $4.88, or 5.1 percent, to $90.83 a barrel, the lowest intraday price since Feb. 8. It was at $91.36 at 12:50 p.m. London time on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Oil has declined 5 percent this year and dropped 37 percent from the record $147.27 a barrel reached on July 11.
Gasoline for October delivery fell for a second day, declining as much as 9.03999 cents, or 3.5 percent, to $2.471 a gallon in New York. "
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=anjbtd.hf0Uw&refer=h...