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CBS News Portrays $7 Gas as Positive
Newsbusters.org ^ | June 27, 2008 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 06/27/2008 11:15:43 AM PDT by Rufus2007

Expensive gas isn't so bad to the "CBS Evening News," as long as it promotes an agenda that caters to left-of-center sensibilities and makes Americans behave more like Europeans.

Economists from Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) (NYSE:CM) forecasted $7-a-gallon gas prices by 2010, which according to some analysts would force 10 million vehicles off U.S. roads over four years. CIBC based its prediction on $200-per-barrel oil by 2010.

"In fact, by 2012, higher prices could send an additional 10 million vehicles off the road," CBS correspondent Priya David said June 26. Although $7 gas would do the most harm to low-income Americans, David praised the effects it would have in easing congestion.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: british; cbs; cfap; energy; energyprices; environment; gas; propagandawingofdnc
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These elitist are not going to be happy until we're all in some cramped up bus or peddling our way to our jobs.
1 posted on 06/27/2008 11:15:43 AM PDT by Rufus2007
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"CBS News Portrays $7 Gas as Positive"

CBS News is also under the impression that they are a News organization.

2 posted on 06/27/2008 11:17:20 AM PDT by avacado
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Seems they're ignoring the fact that all other prices will skyrocket. At some point hungry, jobless people may take action against those who are trying to kill them.
3 posted on 06/27/2008 11:19:50 AM PDT by isrul (Help make every day, "Disrespect a muzzie day.")
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To: Rufus2007

It think $7.00 a gallon gas is part of that “new direction” that “americans” have been telling the pollsters that they want to go in. That and adding a hammer and sickle to the stars and stripes. Old Glory decked out in red and yellow instead of red, white and blue after January 2009 is really going to be an eye opener.


4 posted on 06/27/2008 11:21:21 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (De-Globalize yourself !)
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To: Rufus2007
They sound more and more like Obama with each passing day.

...and he is an abject marxist.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA


5 posted on 06/27/2008 11:22:19 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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How long before these libtards want another hike in the minimum wage to offset the cost of gas for lower income people?
6 posted on 06/27/2008 11:24:44 AM PDT by WakeUpAndVote (Huh?)
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Of course it’s positive.

The people this will force out of their cars aren’t enlightened newsroom people. It’s something that’ll happen to those bitter religious folks in small towns that you see on TV.. why they’re barely people at all, what’s a little want and inconvenience for them when carbon footprints are at stake?

Pass the beaujolais!


7 posted on 06/27/2008 11:25:06 AM PDT by CGTRWK
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I hate it when these people pat us on the head...


8 posted on 06/27/2008 11:25:29 AM PDT by Coffee200am
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Although $7 gas would do the most harm to low-income Americans, David praised the effects it would have in easing congestion.

...especially at the grocery store, where there would be far fewer people in line, because they'd spent all their money on gas. These upscale liberal weasels just have no clue of the pain some people are in. Anyone who can up their charitable giving at all, please do so. These are our neighbors. I just found out the people three doors down from us walked away and let the bank take their house.

9 posted on 06/27/2008 11:26:49 AM PDT by nina0113 (If fences don't work, why does the White House have one?)
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PELOSI-REID CONGRESS PUTS MOTORING PUBLIC AT HIGHER RISK!

— NEW MPG STANDARDS REDUCE SAFETY OF VEHICLES TO UNACCEPTABLE

LEVELS FOR CRASHWORTHINESS!

— designers of cars have reached a Point of Diminished Safety as they are forced

to use more and more light materials that expose driver and passengers to

greater physical harm in a crash! Slower speeds would help but they are not

enforceable in the American Culture! Problem? Lack of Personal Discipline in our

rank-and-file population!

— putting POLITICS above the SAFETY OF THE CITIZEN IS NOT ACCEPTABLE!

— should POLITICIANS who cannot pass an 8th grade science test decide what

kind of cars and products you should buy?

— WHERE DO THEY FIND THEIR EXPERTS WHO TESTIFY REGARDING SCIENCE &

TECHNOLOGY? ANSWER: UNIVERSITIES, GREEN THINK TANKS &

PROFESSORS WHO WANT MULT-MILLION DOLLAR GOVNMT RESEARCH

GRANTS!


10 posted on 06/27/2008 11:26:56 AM PDT by griswold3 (Al qaeda is guilty of hirabah (war against society) Penalty is death.)
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Let gas get to that and this is what we should see decending upon Washington, only in larger numbers:


11 posted on 06/27/2008 11:37:07 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (PUT AN END TO ORGANIZED CRIME. ABOLISH THE I.R.S.)
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The moonbats and drive-by's think this is great. A great way to destroy the automobile as we know it, oil companies, suburbs, the whole bit. And it'll be quicker that the global warming slow death to the economy.

I think this will really boomerang on them, though. The American people are getting more and more fed up with the Pelosi-Reid run-up in gas prices.

12 posted on 06/27/2008 11:37:47 AM PDT by colorado tanker (Number nine, number nine, number nine . . .)
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Yea, and they are all Socialist creeps that want America to go down so they can take over and run our country their way. They were shaking in their boots when The Supreme Court ruled the Washington D. C. gun ban was unconstitutional.


13 posted on 06/27/2008 11:39:11 AM PDT by tallyhoe
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"Family of six gunned down by released mental patient. Brian Jones has this report --"

"This is Brian Jones. The carbon footprint of this city just got a little smaller. Air pollution, water pollution, and greenhouse gases are all expected to diminish in the wake of this afternoon's brutal killing of a family of six ..."

14 posted on 06/27/2008 11:39:43 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Et si omnes ego non)
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Behave like Europeans? Did the idiots who wrote this piece actually have a clue about how bad traffic is in any major European city? Apparently $10 a gallon gas isn’t causing people there to abandon their cars.


15 posted on 06/27/2008 11:43:00 AM PDT by pnh102 (Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
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I Know! I know! Let’s raise food prices until we cure Obesity in America!


16 posted on 06/27/2008 11:51:34 AM PDT by Sundog (Hussein . . . B. Hussein or S. Hussein?)
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Obviously I need to live in a city, close to a bus, where i can grow my own vegetables and have a chicken and a goat at least. Maybe then I could afford to live in this new world.


17 posted on 06/27/2008 11:56:45 AM PDT by Aria (Obama: Porluck for President! "I serve as a blank screen on which people..project their own views")
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those bitter religious folks

Don't you mean those bitter, gun-loving, meat-eating, Reagan-worshiping, family-oriented, "never shopped at Whole Foods", religious folks?

Obama will outlaw all of these traits.
18 posted on 06/27/2008 12:08:41 PM PDT by Sociopathocracy (Ad majorem Dei gloriam)
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....our local food bank is T-A-P-P-E-D O-U-T....they’ve never seen such an onslaught....we’re taking down one pound bags of rice, beans, ect.


19 posted on 06/27/2008 12:17:20 PM PDT by STONEWALLS
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(It would certainly ease congestion.)

He’s actually right. I already can see a difference on the roads. This will mean that only the rich will be able to drive, and they will enjoy less congestion. So much for liberals caring for the poor! We now know that between their socialist agenda and the poor which one is more important!


20 posted on 06/27/2008 12:28:44 PM PDT by winner3000
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