On an almost party line vote, the House Republicans today voted to grant oil companies $500 million of your tax dollars for exploration of new oil.
Oil company executives in a Senate committee hearing late last month told Congressmen that, though they would gladly accept the money, they do not need such an incentive to explore for more oil sources. According to them the current price of oil, expected to remain high or higher for quite a while, is enough incentive. Even Bush in a press conference urged Congress not to offer the funds.
That's just another moment of evidence that, though Bush has been a problem to the prosperity of average Americans, it's the Republicans in Congress that are the real problems for anyone but the wealthy.
