As a driver who has put over 95,000 miles on her 3 year-old car, it makes me nuts that I’m paying close to $3.00 a gallon for gas and the politicians in D. C. stop any attempts at a domestic solution to this problem:

Despite talk of an energy crisis and the need for independence from foreign oil, Congress seems to be in no mood to open more of the country’s coastal waters to energy development.

The House late Thursday rejected an attempt to end the quarter-century ban on oil and natural gas drilling that has been in effect for 85 percent of the country’s coastal waters from Alaska to New England despite arguments that new supplies are needed to lower energy costs.

Lawmakers from Florida and California, who led the fight to continue the drilling moratorium, said they feared energy projects as close as three miles from shore could jeopardize multibillion-dollar tourism industries in their states.

“People don’t go to visit the coasts of Florida or the coast of California to watch oil wells,” Rep. Sam Farr, D-Calif., said.

Read the rest here.
They just don’t get it. What do I care about the coast line of California or Florida and for that matter New Jersey, when I’m paying almost $3.00 a gallon? What about the rest of the country that is suffering because they don’t want to drill in Alaska and they don’t want to drill off the coast in Florida or California?
Our representatives aren’t representing us. And this from a Republican controlled House. You expect this from the Senate but the House. There are too many Rinos in the House.
(Link via Gateway Pundit)