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Plot the decline in the number of registered Democrats against the rise in the price of motor fuel.

There is a certain minimum that are in FAVOR of higher prices for gasoline, but this is offset by a far larger number who are greatly dismayed by the effects of increasing energy costs. Not all of this may be attrributed to the comparative “softness” of the dollar, though the impact of that is serious enough. An artificial scarcity of energy supply, through regulation or outright prohibition of the reasonable access to the sources of additional supplies, has a multiplier effect that runs through every aspect of our economy and daily lives.

All but the most doctrinaire of Democrats, or their close brethren with whom they travel, have felt the impact of escalating energy costs, as these costs consume more and more of every dollar spent on ANYTHING. Sure, on the short term, there are bargains to be had, but remember, there won’t be anybody to extend these “bargains” to you in only a very short while from now.

We are in for a period of inflation, the likes we have not seen since the 1970’s, when the prices of so many basic goods accelerated sharply from what had been a slow, steady rise from about the early 1950’s on through most of the 1960’s, then about the time Nixon applied price controls, the markets went all skewed, and HUGE displacements took place. Jimmy Carter, for his part, took a bad situation and made it MUCH worse, resulting in something called “stagflation”, with skyrocketing interest rates and the value of the dollar falling simultaneously.

Should Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., the charismatic, messianic Magic Negro, somehow win the White House, and manage to keep a majority in both the House and Senate, there is nothing to prevent a resurgence of the Jimmy Carter years, an isolated period in history we are STILL paying for, nearly a third of a century later.