These oil companies are making profit hand over fist as consumers are suffering.
It will not reduce America's dependence on oil and it will not create a cleaner energy future, ... Instead the bill allows big oil companies to pollute water supplies, plunder the Treasury and attack our coastlines.
Basically, the opponents of this project have lost in the court of public opinion. So they've gone behind closed doors.
The president has the power to pick up a pen and require car companies to raise fuel-efficiency standards.
It's Christmas in August for big energy, and consumers get lumps of coal.
We're hoping the reconciliation bill does go away. It's becoming very controversial.
Big energy lobbyists may be cheering the bill's enactment, but ordinary Americans had better hold fast to their wallets. As gasoline prices careen out of control, the bill keeps America speeding down the wrong road toward more oil consumption, more drilling, and more pollution.
