Friday, August 15, 2008

Pelosi to address nation on gas prices House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is hitting back directly at President Bush and congressional Republicans on energy and gas prices. Pelosi (D-Calif.) will deliver the Democrats’ weekly radio address, which is a response to the president’s weekly address to the country. She will take aim at Republican energy policies, highlighting Bush's and Vice President Cheney’s background in the oil industry, and lay out the Democrats’ latest plan for energy independence and addressing high gasoline prices. “America faces a choice: a continuation of the Bush-Cheney-McCain approach that perpetuates the failed policies that have produced soaring prices,” Pelosi will say, according to a partial transcript of her remarks released Friday, “or a comprehensive, bipartisan strategy that develops new and traditional sources of energy.” That partial transcript does not mention whether the Democrats’ plan will include offshore drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf, which is currently banned by a moratorium....

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