Does Congress not watch the news? All their rhetoric about pork spending and now this from CNN -

“There’s a war going on against energy from fossil fuels,” said Rep. Ralph Hall, R-Texas. “I can’t understand the pure venom felt against the oil and gas industry.”

Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, said the bill was “a political exercise” to promote “pet projects, … pet ideas.” He predicted it “isn’t going anywhere” because President Bush will veto it if it gets to his desk.

Exactly like our failing infrastructure being ignored for pork pet projects, now our oil infrastructure is on the same path. Instead of drilling more domestic oil or spending money on coal to oil, they are working on something else that makes them look “green” instead of fixing the problem.

Wind and solar might work for lighting up a few houses, but what about trucks? Remember those? The trucks that made America great? The trucks that are going to be crossing every river in the country on ferries?

Everyone else gets this. From the politicos to just simple truck drivers like ourselves here and here. A post about the bridge from a political blog, The Captain’s Quarters -

Well, I hate pork as much as anyone else, but I’m a little perplexed by this statement. Even without the pork, Minnesota got a 46% increase in transportation funds from that bill. That amounted to a $1.1 billion windfall over five years — certainly plenty of money to conduct inspections. In fact, as I’ve noted before, we could have replaced that bridge almost three full times with that increase.

McCain hates it, the public hates it, everyone hates it, but not even a week later, Congress is back to working on pet projects that will make them look better instead of fixing the actual problem right now.

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