We have a Democratic US rep from New Hampshire, a far northern and rural state. We are so far north we touch Canada. Winter up here lasts into May. We had four inches of fresh snow at my place just seven days ago. We all heat with oil. $4 a gallon oil. One oil delivery can set us back $700.
We are a rural state. We don't have mass transit, commuter rail, light rail, plain old diesel bus service or even taxis. Up here we drive to work, every day. At $3.70 a gallon.
We are not addicted to oil. We use as little as possible. But we must get to work. And we must heat our houses.
We want lower prices for essential fuel. Now we have a project to pipe vast amounts of crude oil to American refineries from a friendly neighboring country. That will be turned into gasoline and furnace oil, vastly increasing the supply. We all know the law of supply and demand, increase the supply and the price goes down. Plus building the pipeline will put a lot of unemployed people to work and increase demand for a zillion different industrial items.
And so how does our gallant Democratic US rep vote?
Annie Kuster voted to kill the pipeline. Just to support all her constituents.
We better remember in November. Or Kuster will have us all living a Hiawatha lifestyle.
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