$5 Gas Predicted Under Obama -- What, No Pitchforks?

Townhall.com ^ | December 30, 2010 | Larry Elders

[1_Rain_Drop]

"Avoid buying anything that you don't really need. Become more self-sufficient each month. Learn set up to manufacture something of necessity (mechanical part, electrical part, piece of wool clothing,...). Grow some food. Such actions will contribute well to killing the beast, while it's wounded. "

I've been doing that for a while now. The past few years. The price of fuel, gas, taxes is what is hitting me hard. I've cut down, gone without a lot of things. I don't have anything else to cut down. I'm living practically Amish-like. I was hoping that one day I'll be able to afford cable but now that's an impossible dream.

[1_Rain_Drop]

"I’ll be shocking hay by hand in the field "

Make sure you have a good pair of gloves. Hay hurts!

[Vaduz]

Nobody to blame except Obama and other democrats for the ban on drilling and the high cost of oil,liberals you got what you voted for shoe sales to increase lots of walking to ensue.

[Kaslin]

You got that right, the only ones to blame is the arrogant pos, who resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, the rats in the House and Senate and the idiots who voted for him

[Kaslin]

I agree with you 100 percent. You are one of those who paid attention, just like I did

[Kaslin]

Oh I remember that very well. I also remember that when Pelosi; who was the one complaining about the gas prices when it rose to $2.60 promised to get the price s down, but instead of going down it went up to over $4.00. It only went down because President Bush lifted the ban on drilling and that is a fact

[gunner03]

Right now all is worked on paper, passing laws, plans to steal from us. Guns can’t stop that.

But not paying taxes would. It would depend on the majority of the people withholding their taxes on April 15. It would start the shooting war or starve the beast.

[Chewbacca]

Al Gore advocated $5/gal gasoline in his book to reduce “global warming”.

The plan of the leftists continues.

[SeeSac]

Gas/Oil - get some energy stocks.

I had my mother invest into some oil stocks quite a few years ago but she still gets ticked when gas prices go up even though she makes much more in the oil stocks than she spends on gas as she drives only about twenty miles per week.

[driftless2]

I had a co-worker who fervently believed Bush called the oil companies and told them to raise the prices. He used to curse Bush in the lunchroom every time the price went up. I wonder what he’s thinking now. I prefer to blame Obama and his oil buddies. I’ll use that on all the idiot Dems who used the “Bush and his oil buddies” refrain ad nauseum.

[LomanBill]

>>What's a pitchfork?

A device used for tuning destructive harmonics out of the social orchestra?

Something like this here:



Works well for digging potatoes too... in between musical renditions.

[1_Rain_Drop]

Hey! how did you get your hands on moochelle’s fork?

[gitmo]

If you want petroleum, you gotta drill.

[sickoflibs]

RE :"What can a dirty capitalist like myself do in a situation like this when one knows that this administration is DELIBERATELY setting things up to make conventional energy more expensive?"

...and then blame failure of Cap and trade to pass (that one is hard because the Senate never put up a bill for a vote) , and blame greed and corporate profits. Some at MSNBC were doing that just yesterday. We have seen it all before.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

Hmm. My math shows a different answer.

Gas is currently 100p per liter (last I heard about 3 or 4 days ago). They run on an imperial gallon rather than a U.S. gallon, so the conversion from 100p to US $ is 100 x 1.54 so 100p is $1.54 per liter. Multiply that by 3.8 (US gallon) and I come up with $5.85 per gallon.

Am I making a boo-boo somewhere?

[1_Rain_Drop]

"But not paying taxes would. It would depend on the majority of the people withholding their taxes on April 15. It would start the shooting war or starve the beast."

Not paying taxes could get individuals in trouble unless everyone refuses to pay. Maybe another option would that everyone pay taxes on April 15 and not a day sooner. All those that are to receive a refund should file ASAP.

I wonder if one could legally not pay the taxes to the government but put the money into a special account. This would show that there is intent to pay but not to this present government.

[RayChuang88]

If Obama wants to get re-elected, the first thing he should do RIGHT NOW is raise the minimum margin requirements (MMR) for trading in commodities and index futures from 5% to 15%. Once that happens, watch a massive speculator dump that could send the price of commodities reeling down 25% because there will be a LOT less speculators willing to put up 15% of the cost of a commodity to trade in its futures.

[TheThinker]

An imperial gallon? I didn’t know there was a difference. I’ve been comparing apples to oranges all along then...

[Kackikat]

Obama plan is working, and then when noone can afford to look for work, who is laid off, then they will have to go on welfare....it’s ‘bottom up’ and ‘top down’...just like the marxists planned.

Just remember that $5 gas hurts conservatives more, because the red states are more rural, and most of heavy blue is inner city with buses. Think about it!

[Kaslin]