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So why no public outcry on the rising price of gasoline?
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| February 1, 2011
| From The Deer Stand
Posted on 02/01/2011 7:13:10 AM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: From The Deer Stand
Filled up yesterday at $2.95 in nw Arkansas.
It was $2.60 two months ago.
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posted on
02/01/2011 7:22:37 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: From The Deer Stand
The complicit “media” and the democrats will be happy to let gas prices skyrocket, then take full advantage of the resultant “crisis.” The sheeple will bleat pleadingly for the government to “do something.” “Something” will be done alright, in the form of even more-restrictive cap-and-trade legislation. The GOPers in the House will be shamed into supporting it, lest they be accused of “wanting” $5-per-gallon gasoline.
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posted on
02/01/2011 7:23:07 AM PST
by
ScottinVA
(The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
To: oh8eleven
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posted on
02/01/2011 7:23:16 AM PST
by
onedoug
To: From The Deer Stand
That’s because Mr. Bush is not the president.
Anything bad that happens under Mr. Obama lead is stuff that is out of control, and the fault of Goerge W. Bush.
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posted on
02/01/2011 7:23:25 AM PST
by
RexBeach
To: From The Deer Stand
I don’t understand why Obama is helping Bush’s oil buddies get richer. /s
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posted on
02/01/2011 7:23:25 AM PST
by
MichiganCheese
(I "gotta sit in the back with all the other typical bitter clinging enemies"!)
To: From The Deer Stand
Oh, we care. The media just isn’t reporting it.
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posted on
02/01/2011 7:23:49 AM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(Rose, there's a Messerschmit in the kitchen. Clean it up, will ya?)
To: From The Deer Stand
Now that there is a liberal 'Rat in office, it simply can't be blamed on him, unlike the case with Bush in office. So that makes it a non-starter for the liberal media. I saw a limp, vapid attempt by the 'Rats to blame it on "speculators", combined with a call for more government regulation to rein in those eeeeevil speculators (Republicans, no doubt), but that really didn't generate much media buzz. Pinning it on nameless, faceless "speculators" just doesn't have the punch of pinning it on Bush and/or Cheney.
I'm surprised Palin hasn't been blamed yet. Give them time, though.
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posted on
02/01/2011 7:24:04 AM PST
by
chimera
To: From The Deer Stand
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posted on
02/01/2011 7:24:11 AM PST
by
Diogenesis
(Si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: From The Deer Stand
I have been laid off since November, I think I only drive into town once a week now, a lot of Americans are out of work and are probably not driving either.
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posted on
02/01/2011 7:24:49 AM PST
by
Eye of Unk
(What is YOUR snipe hunt?)
To: From The Deer Stand
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posted on
02/01/2011 7:24:59 AM PST
by
bolobaby
To: IYAS9YAS
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posted on
02/01/2011 7:25:14 AM PST
by
GlockThe Vote
(Who needs Al Queda to worry about when we have Obama?)
To: b4its2late
Because the media is not harping on it.
At some point the media should be held accountable for its lack of honest information and reporting. People should stop listening to the propaganda stations and let their owners - the honchos why. Of course, the honchos have their progressive agenda to pursue but we should make it at a dear price!
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posted on
02/01/2011 7:25:48 AM PST
by
Bitsy
To: From The Deer Stand
When Bush was president, TV crews staked out at gas stations in the early hours of the morning, just waiting for the owner to post a price with the big “$4.”
Now that obama is pres, the media will totally pay no attention when gas goes over 4. Or they will blame it on Egypt.
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posted on
02/01/2011 7:28:10 AM PST
by
Leftism is Mentally Deranged
(Liberalism is against human nature. Practicing liberalism is detrimental to your mental stability.)
To: From The Deer Stand
Just like when all the “homeless” miraculously vanished the day after William Clinton was inaugurated...
What matters to a leftist media depends on who has control.
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posted on
02/01/2011 7:29:24 AM PST
by
mmercier
To: From The Deer Stand
Pressure to tap the oil reserves in the U.S. will grow as the price of gasoline increases. Prices of $3.50 a gallon to not cross that threshold.
At $4.00 a gallon we will get local media in front of gas stations showing the price (as if we can't see that). There will be some mention of hardship. When record prices are reached, real cases of hardship will be visible without the news. The guy trying to get to work but not enough gas to get home.
When it gets to $6.00, $7.00, $9.00 a gallon there will start to be pressure to drill in the U.S.
Until then, find a car that gets 35 mpg or more. For most people, that will cut your gasoline cost in half. Actually some very nice cars out there.
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posted on
02/01/2011 7:35:01 AM PST
by
gunsequalfreedom
(Conservative is not a label of convenience.)
To: MichiganCheese
CNBCs John Harwood: So could the (high) oil prices help us? Barack Obama: I think that I would have preferred a gradual adjustment. The fact that this is such a shock to American pocketbooks is not a good thing. But if we take some steps right now to help people make the adjustment, first of all by putting more money in their pockets, but also by encouraging the market to adapt to these new circumstances more rapidly, particularly U.S. automakers
In a campaign speech Obama said: We cant drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times
and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.
Thats not leadership. Thats not going to happen.
To: Eye of Unk
Since I lost my job a year back, my one requirement for a new job was locality. The wife works down the street.
I now work a mile from home, and use about ten gallons of gas a month. More in the snow blower than the car.
It helps if one can stay local today.
Used to spend about $50 a week on gas. No doubt this lack of expenditure is doing wonders for the economy and the planet.
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posted on
02/01/2011 7:39:46 AM PST
by
mmercier
To: oh8eleven
To: From The Deer Stand
Because Bush is no longer President.
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posted on
02/01/2011 7:49:53 AM PST
by
sniper63
(Did you plug the hole in the border yet daddy........)
To: From The Deer Stand
Because the media was all about fomentinng hatred and anger when Bush was President, now they are all about tamping it down for Obama...
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posted on
02/01/2011 7:57:18 AM PST
by
Freddd
(CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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