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Richard Viguerie: Liberals Should be Held Accountable for Energy Prices
(Manassas, Virginia) “It’s time to hold liberals accountable for the energy crisis they have created,” Richard A. Viguerie, publisher of ConservativeHQ.com, said. Viguerie sent e-mail, fax, and postal messages to conservative leaders and grassroots activists across the country, encouraging them to go on offense to expose liberals’ record on energy. His message included specific examples of liberal efforts to prevent the development of U.S. reserves of oil and gas and to block the use of energy technologies like nuclear power. “Four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline represents a unique ‘teaching moment’ for conservatives,” Viguerie said. “Along with the price of gasoline, the price of everything made out of oil and everything that requires lots of energy for manufacture or transportation – all those prices are rising rapidly. Add to that, big hikes in the price of food caused by the ethanol program.’ “The American people, especially the poor, the elderly, working people, and small business people, are suffering greatly. We must channel Americans’ anger toward those who deserve the blame – the environmental extremists, and those too timid or complacent to stand up to them,” he said. “We must expose the role of those who worked to prevent the development of our oil and gas reserves, who blocked the full utilization of technologies like nuclear power, and who kept us dependent on dangerous foreign sources for energy.’ “High energy prices caused by bad liberal policies exemplify perfectly the differences between conservative principles, which work in the real world, and liberals’ failed ideology.” He added: “We have a major opportunity for conservatives to take ownership of the #1 issue in America this summer and advance the conservative cause while putting the Left on the defensive.” Viguerie’s article, “Liberalism has caused our energy crisis,” is online at http://conservativehq.com/news-from-the-front/liberalscausedcrisis --30--
NOTE TO EDITORS: Richard A. Viguerie pioneered political direct mail. His latest book is Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big-Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause (Bonus Books). |
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