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Gingrich woos with prospect of $2 gallon gas
Money.com ^ | February 20, 2012 6:05 PM ET | BRIAN BAKST

Posted on 02/20/2012 5:52:44 PM PST by Red Steel

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To: Red Steel

Lot of Rino’s roaming this thread, Red. Romneybots dressed in Santorum clothing. Can always tell- they’re the ones who hate Newt the most.


81 posted on 02/20/2012 6:51:39 PM PST by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, than to consent to wrong.)
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To: SVTCobra03
And best of all, we could fill up the junkyards with Volts.

Well, maybe one junkyard, anyway.

They haven't sold enough Volts to fill up two.

82 posted on 02/20/2012 6:52:45 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: bigdaddy45

“How do YOU back up that Newt could wave a magic wand and make gasoline $2 a gallon?”

Dumb question. Just undo what’s gotten us into this mess.

Oh, and drill, baby, drill. And nuclear energy.


83 posted on 02/20/2012 6:53:44 PM PST by Theo (May Rome decrease and Christ increase.)
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To: WorkingClassFilth

[Please include an addendum on the EU’s control of our European friends buoyant economies. You might also include a brilliant recital of control economies in the Eastern bloc. ]

Already done. The book will be out by Friday. It is called “Biflationary Depression” and gives a thermoeconomic/information theory model of money and the existence of simultaneous inflation and deflation. It is filled with about fifty charts on the economic state of the world and money flows. I’m an engineer, but I do economic software modeling both on the stock market and real estate, so I’m pretty adroit at number crunching and money theory.

So I actually know a hell of a lot on this subject and know a fair amount about the European situation. But I’m just one of those of low IQ (145) Stanford idiots who I’m sure are beneath you intellectually.

So, perhaps you will present your research on the subject of money valuation and your background so you can prove to everyone you are the smartest one here.


84 posted on 02/20/2012 6:54:58 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: WorkingClassFilth

That word is an insult and Newt does not deserve that. He has an energy plan to save this country.

Who is your candidate to solve our problems? Romney? Santorum? Paul? You? Who?


85 posted on 02/20/2012 6:56:30 PM PST by Marcella ((Newt will smash Hussein in debates. Newt needs money.))
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To: RIghtwardHo

Before obimbo, it was $1.79. Why is it stupid and desperate? I don’t know that it is BS.


86 posted on 02/20/2012 6:56:49 PM PST by I_be_tc
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To: okie01

“They haven’t sold enough Volts to fill up two.”

There are going to be lots of Volts to junk. General Electric announced they are buying all Volts for their employees who get company cars.

If you see a dead Volt in the middle of the road, it will likely be a GE employee inside. You choice whether or not to give him/her a ride in your gas eating machine.


87 posted on 02/20/2012 7:00:53 PM PST by Marcella ((Newt will smash Hussein in debates. Newt needs money.))
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To: Marcella; WorkingClassFilth; C. Edmund Wright

Not to mention, the bible claims to be from God.

If God referred to whores and whoredom, it was and is God doing it.

I hardly think it a valid excuse for a FReeper to call Newt or anyone else that word.

And you are correct, Newt has a plan to fix the energy mess.

That’s a good thing.


88 posted on 02/20/2012 7:02:09 PM PST by txrangerette ("HOLD TO THE TRUTH...SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR" - Glenn Beck)
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To: Past Your Eyes

No, one should assume that bigdaddy has a life and part of that involves chauffeuring children around (which i was doing).

Any politician who promises a fixed price for a free market commodity is a fool. And I’ve heard lots of rhetoric, but little about how, in spite of billions of Chinese and Indians now wanting to buy cars (driving up demand significantly), oil is somehow going to drop to $50 a barrel if “government gets out of the way”. Would government getting out of the way help? Absolutely. Should we drill more? Absolutely. Of course... where do you think that extra oil would be sold? Here’s a hint.. wherever the oil companies could get the highest price. (And China has plenty of OUR money to spend on oil).

Also, lets say oil flooded the market and the price went to $50 a barrel. What would the oil companies do? Stop drilling!!! Its not worth it when the price gets too low.

All this clamoring for some magical price point of $2 a gallon ignores economical realities.


89 posted on 02/20/2012 7:05:09 PM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: DaxtonBrown

HAHAHA... c’mon... REALLY??? You’re quoting your IQ and the fact that you went to Stanford?? On an anonymous internet chat board? What a hoot. Should we bow down?


91 posted on 02/20/2012 7:10:42 PM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: fight_truth_decay

Just “sometimes”?? No sometimes about it....ALL the time!!


92 posted on 02/20/2012 7:11:11 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it doesn't get any better than that!)
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If cars ran on piss, this thread would supply us for months.


93 posted on 02/20/2012 7:20:46 PM PST by matt1234 (Bring back the HUAC.)
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To: Red Steel

Newt is a leader trying to solve real problems. He has a plan to lower gas prices that is workable.

By pushing domestic production on federal lands, by opening up leases and by creating a tax holiday for all new equipment for one year and by OKing the Key Stone pipe line immediately and by declaring that his admin will make the US into the world’s largest oil producer.

That will have an impact on Oil futures that will lower prices in weeks.

What impresses me about Newt is that he hits on an issue like this that affects all Americans and is tied to our productivity.

All costs for food and products are tied to the high cost of gas.

Tourism also is affected.

Newt is brilliant. The other two guys are not talking about something so practical and something that a conservative admin could actually move to correct.


94 posted on 02/20/2012 7:27:28 PM PST by garjog
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To: bigdaddy45

“HAHAHA... c’mon... REALLY??? You’re quoting your IQ and the fact that you went to Stanford?? On an anonymous internet chat board? What a hoot. Should we bow down?

Well my qualifications were called out by another who suggested I write a book on the subject of pricing, so I responded in a truthful way by giving my qualifications and admitting that I actually have just finished writing just such a book.

You can bow down if you want, but most people would think you a fool for doing so. The point was not to get admiration, I’ve done enough in my life that I couldn’t give a hoot what you or anyone thinks of me, but I’m not keen on having my arguments dismissed out of hand without a response. Perhaps if confronted with the same question you would have responded that you were born to a clown family and have an IQ of 3, as a means of establishing your Internet humility bona fides, but I would suggest that might be a mistake.

So, let’s turn the tables a little. Since you have called me out, I will ask you what your background in economics is, where you went to college, what your IQ is and what you have written on the subject. You seem after all to believe your pronoucements on economic matters are beyond reproach and I just want to make sure you aren’t puffing yourself up like some Internet babboon.


95 posted on 02/20/2012 7:40:36 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: WorkingClassFilth

[I think you’ll agree that anything other than fostering free markets is beyond Constitutional gub’mint mandate.]

Much of the damage to te energy sector has been by executive order and unConstitutional regulation - Newt has forcefully argued he would role tose things back - by executive order - on day one.
Secondly, Newt has said he would fire Bernanke post haste.

Both those actions can have substantial effects on oil prices. Watch which way commodities go with Fed Reserve pumping and you will understand what we are getting at and why your wh——— comment is truly out of bounds. You can argue whether Newt’s gas price goals would be reached in practice, but you cannot honestly arguee that they lack substance and a mechanism.

I log in to get commodity and Fx prices every morning here at 6:30am, do you follow this issue that closely?


96 posted on 02/20/2012 7:49:54 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: bigdaddy45
Hey, $2 sounds about right and doable to me. It was that much what, only eight years ago? Nothing else has doubled in price over that time span. Its inflation is manufactured.

If regulation was pulled back on commerce alone, let alone energy production, you'd see prices go back down so fast it would make your head spin. Listen, this country has the resources to be poised on the verge of a great rebound, if its people and markets were able to pursue happiness.

97 posted on 02/20/2012 7:52:14 PM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: DaxtonBrown

If you seriously think that effective energy policy is going to come out of DC and that they will do their Constitutional duty to foster free enterprise without statist controls, you’re beyond intellectual redemption. Here’s your hero before he changed into the hero you endorse, which, of course, was the antithesis of the hero he became...before he changed his mind...and before he was an acolyte of the ‘Third Wave’.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upphPTRr_PE


98 posted on 02/20/2012 7:59:32 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (I'm for Churchill in 1940!)
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To: WorkingClassFilth
little more than the window dressing of a preening whore.

Using FR to campaign against Newt Gingrich? You're not very bright, are you? Tell me something, in your estimate, how much have the Reid-Pelosi-Obama radical leftist anti-energy policies increased the price of gas?

99 posted on 02/20/2012 8:00:06 PM PST by death2tyrants
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To: garjog
http://www.newt.org/news/video-message-newt-gingrich-american-energy

Exactly This is classic Newt.

Now where is Santorum or Mittens plan on Restoring our energy Independence.

100 posted on 02/20/2012 8:01:54 PM PST by Bailee ( Pray for your salvation and a miracle, Prepare for the end of the USA.)
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