Biofuels will save us all...right after Bigfoot does an interview with Barbara WaWa.
Posted on 12/06/2010 11:58:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Last week’s reversal on offshore oil drilling by Barack Obama didn’t go over well with likely US voters, according to a new Rasmussen survey. Sixty percent support offshore drilling in principle, and 48% oppose the ban directly, with only 35% supporting Obama’s reversal. A majority expect economic damage and higher fuel prices as a result:
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 54% of Likely U.S. Voters believe the new seven-year ban will increase gas prices, while just 11% think it will make gas prices go down. Twenty-five percent (25%) expect the ban to have no impact on prices at the pump.
Alternate headline: 11% of likely voters don’t understand economics. How can limiting supply while demand remains constant or increasing result in lower prices for consumers? Do they expect a vast decrease of auto trips to the shore for the recreational activity of watching people drill for oil?
While most voters project problems from the continuing partial ban, they’re more narrowly divided on the decision itself. Thirty-five percent (35%) favor the seven-year ban on drilling in some offshore areas, while 48% oppose it. Seventeen percent (17%) are undecided.
Still, 60% continue to believe offshore oil drilling in general should be allowed. Twenty-two percent (22%) disagree and oppose such drilling. Eighteen percent (18%) are not sure.
The Obama administration announced an end to the ban in the first place because of political pressure and a stumbling economy. Gas prices have risen back into the $3 per gallon range this year despite the lack of economic growth. As those numbers climb, the pressure to drill will once again become enormous, especially since the Obama administration had already made that decision once.
That will play strongly with independent voters, the kind Obama needed to get elected the first time and now needs more than ever. Independents want offshore drilling by a 60/19 margin, with 83% of them following the issue somewhat or very closely — slightly higher than either party’s voters. They oppose the ban by a majority, 54/30, and a slightly higher majority of 58% believes it will harm the economy. For that matter, a majority of Democrats believe it will raise gas prices (57%), which in itself will harm the economy with compounded inflation for distribution channels, eroding consumer buying power.
Obama wants new offshore drilling stopped for the next seven years. I’d expect a reversal, at least partial, within the next two, or else the following four will be completely irrelevant to Obama as President.
How convenient, just before the Chevy Volt is available to buy.
Biofuels will save us all...right after Bigfoot does an interview with Barbara WaWa.
How is it that zero can put a stop to drilling, which is vital to America’s future and security, literally overnight and can’t stop wikileaks in a year?
“Alternate headline: 11% of likely voters don’t understand economics.”
If were only 11% we would be OK. It is more like only 11% understand anything of anything...
RE: can’t stop wikileaks in a year?
He could have stopped Wikileaks as soon as it came out.
He has a method to his seeming incompetence... which is this -— he doesn’t want to stop it because it makes his potential 2012 primary rival (guess who) look BAD.
lol.
let the wookie win.
and I expect that will go up another 10% with every 25 cent move in the price of a gallon of gas....Barry is just gonna absolutely wipe-out the Democrats, isn’t he?
It’s too late. Obama has wrecked the offshore oil industry for at least a decade, if not longer.
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Bttt
Meanwhile we are considering locking up 11 billion barrels of recoverable oil by declaring ANWR a national monument.http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/30766
You need to call your congress critters and Senators about this scam by the environMENTALISTS.
And the TransAlaska Pipeline is 2/3 empty.
Meanwhile we are considering locking up 11 billion barrels of recoverable oil by declaring ANWR a national monument.http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/30766
You need to call your congress critters and Senators about this scam by the environMENTALISTS.
And the TransAlaska Pipeline is 2/3 empty.
The man in the white house has stopped drilling in the gulf for Americans while the communist nations are buying the shut down rigs and insstalling new ones in the very same area. I can only wonder if their rigs are better constructed and safer than ours and would not ever gush oil into the sea.
How come demorat liberals always shut down American buisnesses from operating but allow communist rigs to set up in the same places. I wonder,hmmmmmmmm..
My interpretation of this is; 35% of Americans are foolish world communist greenies, 48% are patriots who appreciate capitalism and know Obama is a liar and thief as are most democrats, 17% are illiterate fools who will stand still with their hands in their pockets while America is being overrun by the democrat communists wondering what is going on.
Thanks SeekAndFind.
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