Posted on 05/14/2010 8:17:33 AM PDT by Willie Green
US President Barack Obama is asking auto-loving Americans to use public transportation more as the fact that Indians and Chinese are buying more cars will push up oil prices.
"Because one of the things, obviously, that we have to recognise is, is that no matter what we do, oil prices are going to be going up over the long term," he said Thursday at a rally in Buffalo, New York.
"I mean, year to year, they may vary. Sometimes it's four bucks a gallon at the pump, sometimes it drops back down to two-and-a-half," he said. "The mass transit system would be good for the environment too."
The new grouse about Indians pushing up gas prices comes after his much publicised rhetoric in May last year when he announced that US companies that outsource jobs from "Buffalo to Bangalore" will lose their tax incentives.
"You're not always clear what's going on, but the long-term trend is just because countries like China - they're starting to buy cars and countries like India are starting to buy cars, and so the demand on petroleum and fossil fuels are going to be greater and greater," Obama said.
"We've got to get a first-class transit system," he told auto-loving Americans, who have 950 cars per thousand people as against 8.5 per thousand for Indians.
"We don't have one right now. We used to be at the top. Now you've got China - they're building multiple high-speed rail lines all across the country, leaving us behind," Obama said. "But it's not just transit. It's our ports, our airports, our sewer systems, our water systems."
"We're going to figure out how do we make those kinds of long-term investments, but do so in a way that doesn't increase our deficit, and that's going to be a challenge, but I think it's going to be a priority," the President said.
Economists might have used "all kinds of fancy formulae and mathematical equations" to declare recession has ended," Obama said. "But if you're still looking for a job out there, it's still a recession. If you can't pay your bills or your mortgage, it's still a recession."
When you add up oil and shale, yes we do.
FUBO
Yeah, because drilling for our own oil is out of the question, huh? I don’t WANT to ride the train.
He takes public transportation every day. Big difference in that it is private, goes where he wants and we pay for it.
Since when has this country ever been compared to these two?
Ever since globalization began undermining our Middle Class.
what he means is : “you peons get on the damn bus, and stay out of the way of my limo”
“We’ve got to get a first-class transit system......We don’t have one right now.”
Any excuse to spend more money.
Yeah I know, but I never accepted “Globalization” and won’t.
Not as long as Ive got Mr. Colt, and Remington.
>Seeking always to divide rather than unite.
Ironically that’s what’s uniting a LOT of people.
Is that Hugh Hefner on the left? Didn’t know he was Indian.
Yeah, because drilling for our own oil is out of the question, huh?
Because we wouldn't have enough even if we drilled it all.
I don’t WANT to ride the train.
Suit yourself.
You can ride in one of those tiny little battery powered Obamamobiles for all I care. Or bicycle or walk...
There will be plenty of options available.
I just want to make sure that passenger rail is one of them.
“If I’m still in office, it’s still a recession.” “But we’re working on getting those tiny Tata cars here for our peasant class, which means everyone but large donors, Democratic officeholders and Muslims.”
translation: When gas spikes at $4.50 a gallon later this year, don’t blame me, don’t blame Ken Salazar, blame some poor schmo in Mumbai who saved all his money for five years to buy a used Hyundai...”
“I mean, year to year, they may vary. Sometimes it’s four bucks a gallon at the pump, sometimes it drops back down to two-and-a-half,” he said.”
Why it is like by magic!
A pretend president unqualified for the job having continual hissy fits.
Score: Russians 8 , Obama: Zero
When you add up oil and shale, yes we do.
No we don't. The shale-oil is too expensive to extract.
Limousines for the elevated special few
like Pres_ _ent Obama.
With whites as his slaves, traveling by public
transit, to serve with taxes his terrorists and
illegal aliens. Sounds good. Right?
And yet he still has supporters.
I spoke with a man this week who brought up, unsolicited, his thoughts that O was right about too much technology.
I asked him if he wanted the government deciding what we could read?
He didn’t have an answer.
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