Roger Wicker voted no on raising CAFE standards; incentives for alternativeCAFE standards are the fuel efficiency standards that automobile manufacturers are required to maintain. So Roger voted with the Big Oil lobby to keep our cars inefficient and most importantly not reduce our dependency on oil. Only a fool would not acknowledge the need to reduce our dependency on oil as well as funding research into alternative fuels.
fuels. (Aug 2001)
Voted YES on implementing Bush-Cheney national energy policy. (Nov 2003)You mean the policy written in secrecy by Dick Cheney with all the major oil companies and our worst polluters making up the panel?
Roger Wicker once again sides with the big monied interests and against the people. This time it is with Big Oil.Voted NO on prohibiting oil drilling & development in ANWR. (Aug 2001)
Voted NO on starting implementation of Kyoto Protocol. (Jun 2000)
The way I see it, Senator Wicker voted for all the right things. "Big Oil." You make me laugh. If we want to be less dependent on foreign oil then we need to be drilling everywhere. I mean in the US and not in some foreign location. We are an economy and society fed by fossil fuels. Wishing that were not true is not going to change anything overnight. Sure, we should be investigating other energy sources, but in the short term we have to drill and refine more oil, use coal to the max extent possible and produce more nuclear energy. All of those options can be accomplished in an environmentally sound manner. So, Senator Wicker didn't support Kyoto. So what!
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