According to this post on Leader Boehner’s blog, John Boehner is speaking out in favor of the American Energy Act:

First I want to tell you why we’re here. Republican members have a plan to help bring down high gas prices. Unfortunately, the Speaker has refused to allow a vote on our comprehensive ‘all of the above’ plan. We’re not asking her to pass it, just let us have a vote.

70% of our oil comes from other countries because Democrats in Congress have walled-off drilling for oil in the outer-continental-shelf and oil shale in the inner-mountain West. Our plan is simple: ‘all of the above’. That means more conservation, biofuels, renewables like wind and solar, as well as increasing American energy production.

Talk to your member of Congress to find out where they stand on ‘all of the above’ and the American Energy Act.

Thad McCotter also weighed in on Ms. Pelosi’s obstinance:

Demand Maximum American Energy – Now!
Leaving by example, Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi jetted off on her summer vacation under the assumption energy squeezed Americans would throng to buy her book, Know Your Power.
But Americans weren’t buying it – literally.
Economically maimed by the pain at the pump, citizens demanded vacationing Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats’ “Don’t Care” Congress get back to work and pass an “all of the above” energy bill to lower gas prices.
Unmoved by these working families’ sufferings, Speaker Pelosi conjured up another so-called “energy” proposal – one that is already acclaimed by none other than the anti-energy zealots at the Sierra Club. Yes, this is the same Sierra Club that pronounced: “We’re better off without cheap gas.”
Unfortunately, the Sierra Club’s collective “we” included us.
Not surprisingly, then, the Speaker’s latest lethargy proposal apes other energy schemes she’s brought to the House floor without amendment and under a super-majority vote requirement. Desperate to guarantee these bills’ defeats and blame Republicans, the Speaker orchestrated the nauseating spectacle of “Don’t Care” Democrats, who a few months ago wouldn’t vote to drill a tooth, now hugging derricks instead of trees.
This time, though, with a month of vacation under her Beltway, Pelosi’s ploy has a new wrinkle. In the media she is floating specious reasons why Republicans will vote against her radical cornucopia of energy insecurity.
What she still fails to grasp, as with all her energy scams, is that the public will not be misled.
Americans understand House Republicans’ bi-partisan “all of the above” energy plan provides maximum American energy and, so doing, ensures lower gas prices and energy security.
So let us save the Speaker’s breath, which she can use to inflate Senator Obama’s tires. House Republicans will vote to stop Pelosi’s ploy, because her latest anti-energy proposal will not include “all of the above”:

• Maximum American energy production;
• Common sense conservation;
• Free market alternative energy innovations; and, thus,
• A responsible transition to American energy security and independence.

The only real question about the “Don’t Care” Democrat Congress’s proposal is this:
When Pelosi’s ploy thumps into the dust bin of hypocrisy, will she and her Democrat majority’s “Most Hated Congress in History” finally stop saving the planet and start sparing working families’ wallets?
Or will the “Don’t Care” Democrats’ author (nee Speaker) start inking her book’s sequel – Know Your Abuse of Power?
Regardless, there is one thing you can count on. Working families and House Republicans will continue to demand maximum American energy!

The bottom line is that Pelosi and majority Democrats are in panic mode. They’re on the wrong side of the most important issue of this campaign.

Deocrats are now attempting to spin this by telling people that drilling isn’t really problematic, that prices won’t really drop. The American people have made up their minds. They’ve heard about supply and demand. Democrats can spin if they wish.

The American people demand a solution. Democrats don’t have a solution. It’s only a matter of time before this starts showing up in the polls.

Technorati: Gas Crisis, John Boehner, Thad McCotter, American Energy Act, Drilling, Republicans, Nancy Pelosi, Democrats, Election 2008

Cross-posted at California Conservative