Viagra, Caribou, and Steve LaTourette
What?
Wickliffe, Ohio (September 4, 2008) – Recently, while addressing the Twinsburg and Hudson Chambers of Commerce, Big Oil's Best Friend Steve LaTourette was asked a question about drilling in Alaska. His answer drifted to the caribou population, and somehow ended with the following quote:
"The warmth of the pipeline makes them (caribou) frisky, and the pipeline is actually like Viagra for caribou." (Video available here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gEmHRGJjPI)
What?
"Unlike Steve LaTourette, I have no expertise on the mating habits of caribou, but I guess if we're going to use these types of analogies you could call his energy plan 'Viagra for the oil companies,'" said Justin Barasky, press secretary for Bill O'Neill.
Bill O'Neill has a Five-Star Energy Plan that combines common sense short term relief with real long term solutions that will guide us out of the current energy crisis.
"I'm sure the voters of Northeast Ohio are grateful that they have a congressman so intimately familiar with caribou, but they deserve someone who will fight for them and not for Big Oil and Big Energy. And that's why Bill O'Neill is running to bring change to Washington."
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The Facts
- View Bill O'Neill's Five-Star Energy Plan: http://www.oneill08.com/fivestarplan
-According to Oil Change International's "Follow the Oil Money" site, which the LaTourette campaign cites, LaTourette has voted in the oil industry's favor 82% of the time.
-OpenSecrets.org reports LaTourette's career receipts from the oil and energy industries at more than $283,000.
-This Congress, Steve LaTourette proposed a massive taxpayer funded windfall for the oil companies as a solution to high gas prices (H.R. 6154). Since it was introduced with two cosponsors, it has yet to gain the support of any other members of Congress.