Posted on 04/30/2008 12:58:11 PM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
Financial Times reports “OPEC says oil could hit $200,” up from the record $120 a barrel today. If and when that happens, predicted to be this summer, the $3.50 to $4.00 prices you see at the pumps today will top $5.00 per gallon and you can thank liberal environmentalists for that!
When Bill Clinton took office in January 1993, the average retail price of gasoline was $1.06 per gallon. By the time Clinton ran for re-election in 1996, that average per gallon price had become $1.25 per gallon, a 17.9% increase in less than four years.
By the time George W. Bush took office in January 2001, the price of a gallon of gas had become $1.45 – a 36.8% increase in gasoline prices during the first Clinton era. Yet Hillary Clinton says she can solve this problem… and I hope she can, but let’s consider the facts.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
There is NO chance Democrats are going to allow sound energy policies to move forward in congress during an election cycle when they need the voters to NEED regime CHANGE!
The American people need to know the truth, and hold members of congress accountable this fall!
Blame the whole government. Don’t give repubs a pass. Remember, they ran the show through 6 of those skyrocketing years.
You mean no republicans had anything to do with the price of fuel?
Total bunk. Politicians can’t increase the production of oil all that much. Domestic production is about 40% and might be increased to 44%. That’s it and it wouldn’t be cheap.
My thoughts exactly. If they only had the nards to stand up and do the right thing instead of....awwww,what’s the use!!!
I blame the whole damned pack of them, and for a lot more than the price of oil.
During which time they advanced several attempts (in some cases defeated by one vote) to open up domestic production.
Conservatives MUST be smart enough to single out the few Republicans who sided with the wrong team in those votes, and work to replace those up for re-election this fall.
Other countries are drilling off our shores right this minute. But environmental wackos are blocking American oil companies rights to do the same...
They also oppose all alternative energy sources when push comes to shove, because they all have environmental hazards.
What's your plan for reducing America's dependence on foreign oil? Democrats think we should institute more EU environmental policies. How do you like their energy prices?
Sadly, I can say the same “If they only had the nards to stand up and do the right thing instead of....awwww,what’s the use!!!” for FAR too many Freepers today!
That was then... What’s your plan TODAY?
We agree... So, what’s your plan?
4%
Liberal drivel.
This is Peak Oil and no ad hominem will change that blatant fact.
Some Republicans sided with the wrong team at vote time... but most did not.
Can you tell me which Republicans contributed to this problem over the last 40 years and how? Or are you just hoping to divert attention away from the movement actually responsible for our energy dependence today?
What does this number represent and where did you get it?
I made it up just like everybody else including you.
Folks, the obstructionist politicians preventing domestic development deserve some blame but look to the BRIC (acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China) economies and the billions of people moving up the economic ladder. These countries have tasted capitalism and they like resources too. The reality is that competition for resources is increasing and there will be no stopping price increases across the board. I can’t wait to hear the ethanol blamers.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
At least you are “half” honest...
I made nothing up. I posted a column and the numbers in that column are easily confirmed at true and accurate for anyone interested in truth.
Clearly, you don’t qualifiy.
At least you admit that here!
Your comments here are also true and accurate, and represent the reason for today’s acceleration of the problem. World demand in greatly increasing as capitalism takes root and flurishes abroad.
That only makes it more important to stop environmental wackos from continuing to wreck our own energy production.
Next time post that $10 a gallon number that everybody else is reporting. $5 just doesn’t get the scare into folks. Gasoline is actually down 15 cents from its recent peak, which is not scary compared to a made up number like $200 a barrel.
McCain sucks!
Obama is a Muslim white America hating freshman nobody wacko.
Hillary for President!
Agreed.
That’s true. I haven’t yet identified who the players really are in the Chukchi Polar Bear action, but a lot of oil and natural gas is involved. The producers are a motley lot and not all are oil companies themselves.
You are the ONLY one “making up” numbers on this thread...
Opec says oil could hit $200
By Carola Hoyos in London
Published: April 28 2008 13:56 | Last updated: April 28 2008 20:03 Financial Times
“Opec’s president on Monday warned oil prices could hit $200 a barrel and there would be little the cartel could do to help.
The comments made by Chakib Khelil, Algeria’s energy minister, came as oil prices hit a historic peak close to $120 a barrel, putting further pressure on global economies.”
That’s a direct quote from the Financial Times column, which quotes the $200 per barrel prediction, according to the President of OPEC... in his statements two days ago.
It was reported around the globe. You have to stop relying on Al Franken for you daily dose...
If you think the Republicans or Bush have an energy policy you are smoking something. The current administration policy is do whatever it takes to keep the lobbyists happy so we can keep scraping by in keeping the Iraq war going.
Like the column says, “you can thank liberal environmentalists for that!”
Republican and Democrat liberals... Union and corporate liberals...
If 500 Democrats and 10 Republicans set these policies, should we blame Republicans? Or just the 10 Republicans on the wrong side with 500 Democrats?
Chairman of OPEC. He made it up and he knows he made it up. Repeat it all you want, it's a projection and de facto made up.
Go Hillary Go!
Shale Oil in Montana??
Saw Montana’s Gov on TV the other night, he said they were ready to roll (200 year supply?) but the producers needed the carbon tax to be set per ton of CO2 by the Feds.
Makes me wanna scream!
Bears repeating...
“Democrats have no original thoughts of their own, so they simply adopt the liberal ideas of their friends over in the European Union. However, the European Union is the one place on earth in worse shape than America in terms of energy.
European Union Gas Prices Today
Netherlands* $8.95
Germany $8.63
France $8.34
United Kingdom $8.18
Denmark $8.14
Finland $7.98
Belgium $7.64
Sweden $7.42
Italy $7.30
Romania $6.32 “
Exactly!
Elect Hillary! But keep your hands clean by claiming no responsibility via a no vote.
“The Democrats are notable for lacking an energy policy.”
It seems that they do have an energy policy. While the objectives of that policy are probably 180 degrees off, from a policy you’d like; it is a policy none the less.
Are you really this ill informed?
I buy the “whale” part, but not the “right” part...
They were ready to roll in 1920. They have been ready to roll several times since, but have been sunk first by East Texas and then by cheap imported oil. Maybe they can make a go of it now, but it won’t be cheap and they won’t be producing the daily volume they would like for a long time to come.
Opec says oil could hit $200
The Japanese oil tanker Takayama in an undated photo released in Tokyo on April 21. Reuters/Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha
Opec’s president on Monday warned oil prices could hit $200 a barrel and there would be little the cartel could do to help.
The comments made by Chakib Khelil, Algeria’s energy minister, came as oil prices hit a historic peak close to $120 a barrel, putting further pressure on global economies.
His remarks suggest Algeria wants Opec to continue to resist calls by US and European leaders for the cartel to pump more oil to help ease prices. But Mr Khelil blamed record oil prices on the weak dollar and global political insecurity.
He told El Moudjahid, Algeria’s government newspaper: “I don’t think that an increase in production would help lower prices, because there is a balance between supply and demand and the stocks of gasoline in the United States have recorded a surplus and are at their highest level for five years.”
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/mideast.asp
500 Ds and 10 Rs? Out of thin air.
Good point!
An adopted policy, from the EU...
matthew
alagory’s house uses $2400/month in natural gas?!
It would take me 9 YEARS to use that much gas.
what an slob.
a bum.
No question at all. Follow the money they say, but the road becomes a dirt road and then a trail and then a game run and finally disappears up a tree.
Unlike your outright fabricated lies, this was a “hypothetical” question...
You are the only third grader here who missed the “hypothetical” part...
Sure, play scientist. Chakib Khelil is an excellent source of fantasy, not of the caliber of Algore, but he will do.
GO Hillary GO!
All us non-voters are rooting for ya!
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=62880
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
WHISTLEBLOWER MAGAZINE
Queen of Darkness: Hillary poised to devastate America
How President Hillary Clinton would devastate America
April 28, 2008
Although Hillary Clinton likes to compare herself with the movie character “Rocky” – claiming that, like the underdog prizefighter, “I never quit, I never give up” – many longtime Clinton observers say a more apt comparison would be with “The Terminator.”
And I agree that Khelil made that oil price projection up. With our leaders chickening on Iran, the Algerian might have even had an Ahmadinejad/Chavez moment (like Dr. Strangelove).
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