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Barbour says Obama seeks fuel price hikes
UPI ^ | June 5, 2011 | UPI

Posted on 06/05/2011 10:35:00 AM PDT by UniqueViews

Speaking on CBS' "Face the Nation," the Republican said: "This administration' policy clearly has been to drive up the cost of energy so Americans would use less of it. That's environmental policy. That's not energy policy. But that's their policy. They think it will give you less pollution, make these alternative energy sources more competitive."

"When Barack Obama became president gasoline was $1.80 a gallon," he added. "And now it's up to $4 a gallon.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climatechange; economy; elections; energy; environment; gasprices; globalwarming; jobs; obama
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Barbour is right -- I think Obama actually said it when he was running or shortly after he was elected -- I guess this is one promise he is keeping.

His real objective is to bankrupt the US economy.

1 posted on 06/05/2011 10:35:08 AM PDT by UniqueViews
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To: UniqueViews

The good news is that 50% of the jackasses living in this country agree with everything their boy is doing to bring about the destruction of America. The freeloaders are out of control.


2 posted on 06/05/2011 10:40:43 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("...that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,..")
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To: UniqueViews
I've been putting this sticker on gas pumps:
"Somehow we have to figure
out how to boost the price of
gasoline to the [$8-$10/gal]
levels in Europe." - Barrack Obama's
Energy Secretary Steve Chu Had enough yet???)

I've sized mine to fit twelve to a sheet of bumper sticker stock...
3 posted on 06/05/2011 10:42:46 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 864 of our national holiday from reality. - Obama really isn't one of us)
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“...so Americans would use less of it. That’s environmental policy.”

It doesn’t have a thing to do with the environment. It’s all about lowering our standard of living to third-world levels, to destroy the western way of life, to put us under the communist bootheel.


4 posted on 06/05/2011 10:46:25 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: UniqueViews
This whole fuel mess was created by government. 25,000 Volts are being purchased by the government. Every dime at our expense. Then we had to fund GM. Then we had to fund cash for clunkers.

The Gulf shut down. The Alaskan shut down. The Coastal shutdown.

Fund A frog, A fish, A wolf.

Fund the Muslim countries!!! Nothing like democratic muslims (there's no such thing)

Kill the babies. No COLA for Seniors. Obamacare for all!! If you die, you die!!

No good has come or will come from any one of these things.

Obama is a total failure as President, a man and a leader. He's a dictator.

5 posted on 06/05/2011 10:48:35 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ryderann

Yes. That is true, and it is working.

So how are we going to stop this?

Ain’t Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich.


6 posted on 06/05/2011 10:57:55 AM PDT by Shady (The President has become Judas.......)
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To: UniqueViews

The natural gas price has been low and stable for the last 2 years, while oil and related gasoline price spiked. This world simply cannot afford $100/bbl oil and $4 gasoline - its what pushed us into recession in the first place.


7 posted on 06/05/2011 11:04:16 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: UniqueViews
Hell yes he does............years before he was a senator, obama said ( paraphrase), I would love to see gas prices at the same level as europe or higher to finance, social programs.........

Hell for years the IMF wanted taxes to level prices with europe....................get that man out of the White House Now!

8 posted on 06/05/2011 11:04:39 AM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing....except not doing it sooner!)
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"I've been putting this sticker on gas pumps"

Upsize the Obozo name. Dummies don't read small print!

9 posted on 06/05/2011 11:16:08 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: Sacajaweau

“Obama is a total failure as President, a man and a leader. He’s a dictator.”

No, he is not a failure, he is succeeding admirable in what he undertook: destroy the US, help the radical Islamists obtain power all over the world.


10 posted on 06/05/2011 11:25:48 AM PDT by UniqueViews
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To: Shady

Palin or Perry.


11 posted on 06/05/2011 11:26:20 AM PDT by UniqueViews
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To: UniqueViews

It was all covered in 2008, no one was listening, their not listening still. Soaring Energy prices and Food prices make it easy to control...

http://youtu.be/8xtNr5-up0U


12 posted on 06/05/2011 11:29:05 AM PDT by swamprebel
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Great comment...in a nutshell. Mind if I use it to send out to some Libs I know?


13 posted on 06/05/2011 11:30:01 AM PDT by CitizenM (If we ever forget that we're one nation under GOD, then we will be a nation gone under.-Ronald Re)
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To: UniqueViews

Barbour is stretching the truth somewhat but he’s correct that Obama *intended* to raise energy prices to force us all into mass transit and “green” energy alternatives. Look at all the people he puts on the EPA, interior and other positions that affect policy. They’re all zealots.


14 posted on 06/05/2011 11:33:03 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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To: UniqueViews

Barbour is a moron spouting this total nonsense about the why of the prices increases. I am so sick of these idoits who repeat and belive this drivel.....

The ONLY reason the left, and this includes republicans want oil prices to go up is the FACT this is a MAJOR avenue of redistribution of America’s wealth to other countries.

Soon the 3 billion in loans to Brazil will result in billions of American dollars being spent there to buy their oil....

IT’s THE REDISTIBUTION>>>


15 posted on 06/05/2011 11:49:37 AM PDT by stockpirate (Republicans that vote for socialism, support socialists are socialists.)
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To: UniqueViews
It's a GREAT, GREAT point. Every time a conservative or a Republican opens his mouth in front of a camera, he should preface his comments with three or four comments just like that one. I don't understand why we don't.

It's as if Republicans believe that once you make a point, everyone's got it. But everyone hasn't got it. You have to repeat yourself over and over again, almost ad nauseam, before they all do get it.

For instance, if I were running a Republican presidential campaign, I'd make a commercial that showed the candidate going over a typical voter's check stub with the voter, explaining to him that it's "your money." It could be, and WOULD be, in your pocket if the Bumocrats were out of office. Three, four, five hundred dollars a week? Could you use that money, Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer? You don't have to give away your money to a mooch. Ever. A Bumocrat is a mooch. It is flat out wrong to give your money to a mooch instead of using it to provide for your children's future.

That commercial should be run hundreds of times in every city of the country, before every election. Anyway... just on my soapbox here a little.

Barbour's point will be forgotten by the middle of the week.

16 posted on 06/05/2011 11:50:55 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: UniqueViews

How does 4 to 10 dollar gasoline help poor people?..


17 posted on 06/05/2011 11:52:45 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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Obama doesn’t care about poor people — unfortunately they still haven’t figured it out.


18 posted on 06/05/2011 11:54:39 AM PDT by UniqueViews
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I just want to know who this guy thinks he is to have any right to tell me how much F’n energy I can use.


19 posted on 06/05/2011 12:06:51 PM PDT by eak3
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To: UniqueViews

Yeah but Obama got Osama.

/sarc


20 posted on 06/05/2011 1:21:10 PM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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