Posted on 02/22/2012 2:12:21 AM PST by Marguerite
Gas prices are spiking. That's great news, right? We have to wean ourselves off the stuff. At least that's what we've been hearing for years. Oil is dirty. We import it from nations that hate our guts (like Canada!).
And moreover, we're running out. Oil is "finite." Finite much in the way water is finite. So why aren't Democrats making the case that the spike in prices is a good thing? Isn't this basically our energy policy these days?
If Democrats had their way, after all, we would be enjoying the economic results of cap-and-trade policy these days -- a program designed to increase the cost of energy by creating false demand in a fabricated market.
As the theory goes, if you inflate the price of fossil fuels, the barbarians might finally start putting thought into how peat moss might be able to power a toaster.
In 2008, Steven Chu, Obama's (and, sadly, our own) future secretary of energy (sic) lamented, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." ($9 the gallon)
Obama, when asked whether he thought $4-a-gallon gas prices were good for the American economy, said, "I think that I would have preferred a gradual adjustment."
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
http://youtu.be/vOImnCrKPZ8
Excerpt from the header: “Part of “figuring it out” surely had something to do with the recent decision by Obama to nix the Canadian Keystone XL pipeline project that would have pumped 700,000 barrels of oil per day into the United States. More oil just means more excessive, immoral, ugly energy use.
Well, get used to it. You can’t take three steps without stepping over some potential 10-billion barrel reserve of dead organisms.
According to the Institute for Energy Research, there is enough natural gas in the U.S. to meet electricity demand for 575 years at current fuel demand, enough to fuel homes heated by natural gas for 857 years and more gas in the U.S. than there is in Russia, Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and some place called Turkmenistan combined.
Oil? The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that the United States could soon overtake Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world’s top oil producer. There are tens of billions of easily accessible barrels of offshore oil here at home — and much more oil around the world.”
http://www.newt.org/solutions/american-energy-plan
Newt’s American Energy Plan:
Remove bureaucratic and legal obstacles to responsible oil and natural gas development in the United States, offshore and on land.
End the ban on oil shale development in the American West, where we have three times the amount of oil as Saudi Arabia.
Give coastal states federal royalty revenue sharing to give them an incentive to allow offshore development.
Reduce frivolous lawsuits that hold up energy production by enacting loser pays laws to force the losers in an environmental lawsuit to pay all legal costs for the other side.
Finance cleaner energy research and projects with new oil and gas royalties.
Replace the Environmental Protection Agency, which has become a job-killing regulatory engine of higher energy prices, with an Environmental Solutions Agency that would use incentives and work cooperatively with local government and industry to achieve better environmental outcomes while considering the impact of federal environmental policies on job creation and the cost of energy.
Pixie dust is the only energy source that makes sense. Unlike hydrocarbons, it creates no CO2. Unlike Solar power, it doesn’t displace wildlife. Unlike Biofuel, it doesn’t decrease the world’s food supply. Unlike wind power, it down’t kill birds. Unlike nuclear power, it doesn’t frighten Jane Fonda. Pixie dust is the only answer, I say!
The Marxist’s admin.wants higher oil and gas prices so that they can continue to push their worthless “green” energy tax-payer funded projects.
It’s all part of their plan to redistribute wealth and bankrupt our country.
I am convinced that only President Gingrich can save and restore our Republic. His rivals on our side, can only preside and maybe forestall, its ultimate decline.
Newt Gingrich is the candidate with solid and radical solutions. I pray he wins the nomination and goes onto win the White House.
Democrats only like high gas prices when they’re high because of taxes.
Ahhh, the same pixie dust smoked and snorted by the average Obama voter.
A GOP representative was interviewed on Fox yesterday and is proposing eliminating the federal taxing power on gasoline. When that tax originated, to build interstate highways, etc., it was intended to end within a few years. Its purpose was fulfilled decades ago. Now the money is used for grass, highway beautification, and such — not its intended purpose. This rep is proposing turning over gas taxation to states alone and that should bring down the price.
The God-forsaken (and I mean that literally) dems in the House will never let that happen, but it’s sure a great idea.
“The God-forsaken (and I mean that literally) dems in the House will never let that happen, but it’s sure a great idea.”
That’s why the largest number of liberals must be driven out of Congress and the White House.
The dems want to act like this is the only complaint against Obama too. They think we have forgotten the past three years of economic depression because he finally managed to fuzzy up the economic statistics enough to claim that things are turning around thanks to his stewardship no less. what a joke. FUBO. you are national disaster. Your administration has made Jimmy Carter look good and made plenty of people realize that George Bush wasn’t so bad after all in hindsight. Unemployment is still rampant. Foreclosures are on the rise again now that your stalling tactics are over. You have created more debt in three years than the first 41 presidents combined and we have nothing to show for it except sky high inflation at the gas pump and the supermarket. Then there’s the record increase in the use of food stamps and record number of people that have fallen into poverty under your administration. I repeat, you are a disaster obama and sky high gas prices are just one aspect of the disaster that is you.
The dems want to act like this is the only complaint against Obama too. They think we have forgotten the past three years of economic depression because he finally managed to fuzzy up the economic statistics enough to claim that things are turning around thanks to his stewardship no less. what a joke. FUBO. you are national disaster. Your administration has made Jimmy Carter look good and made plenty of people realize that George Bush wasn’t so bad after all in hindsight. Unemployment is still rampant. Foreclosures are on the rise again now that your stalling tactics are over. You have created more debt in three years than the first 41 presidents combined and we have nothing to show for it except sky high inflation at the gas pump and the supermarket. Then there’s the record increase in the use of food stamps and record number of people that have fallen into poverty under your administration. I repeat, you are a disaster obama and sky high gas prices are just one aspect of the disaster that is you.
The dems want to act like this is the only complaint against Obama too. They think we have forgotten the past three years of economic depression because he finally managed to fuzzy up the economic statistics enough to claim that things are turning around thanks to his stewardship no less. what a joke. FUBO. you are national disaster. Your administration has made Jimmy Carter look good and made plenty of people realize that George Bush wasn’t so bad after all in hindsight. Unemployment is still rampant. Foreclosures are on the rise again now that your stalling tactics are over. You have created more debt in three years than the first 41 presidents combined and we have nothing to show for it except sky high inflation at the gas pump and the supermarket. Then there’s the record increase in the use of food stamps and record number of people that have fallen into poverty under your administration. I repeat, you are a disaster obama and sky high gas prices are just one aspect of the disaster that is you.
The dems want to act like this is the only complaint against Obama too. They think we have forgotten the past three years of economic depression because he finally managed to fuzzy up the economic statistics enough to claim that things are turning around thanks to his stewardship no less. what a joke. FUBO. you are national disaster. Your administration has made Jimmy Carter look good and made plenty of people realize that George Bush wasn’t so bad after all in hindsight. Unemployment is still rampant. Foreclosures are on the rise again now that your stalling tactics are over. You have created more debt in three years than the first 41 presidents combined and we have nothing to show for it except sky high inflation at the gas pump and the supermarket. Then there’s the record increase in the use of food stamps and record number of people that have fallen into poverty under your administration. I repeat, you are a disaster obama and sky high gas prices are just one aspect of the disaster that is you.
The dems want to act like this is the only complaint against Obama too. They think we have forgotten the past three years of economic depression because he finally managed to fuzzy up the economic statistics enough to claim that things are turning around thanks to his stewardship no less. what a joke. FUBO. you are national disaster. Your administration has made Jimmy Carter look good and made plenty of people realize that George Bush wasn’t so bad after all in hindsight. Unemployment is still rampant. Foreclosures are on the rise again now that your stalling tactics are over. You have created more debt in three years than the first 41 presidents combined and we have nothing to show for it except sky high inflation at the gas pump and the supermarket. Then there’s the record increase in the use of food stamps and record number of people that have fallen into poverty under your administration. I repeat, you are a disaster obama and sky high gas prices are just one aspect of the disaster that is you.
The dems want to act like this is the only complaint against Obama too. They think we have forgotten the past three years of economic depression because he finally managed to fuzzy up the economic statistics enough to claim that things are turning around thanks to his stewardship no less. what a joke. FUBO. you are national disaster. Your administration has made Jimmy Carter look good and made plenty of people realize that George Bush wasn’t so bad after all in hindsight. Unemployment is still rampant. Foreclosures are on the rise again now that your stalling tactics are over. You have created more debt in three years than the first 41 presidents combined and we have nothing to show for it except sky high inflation at the gas pump and the supermarket. Then there’s the record increase in the use of food stamps and record number of people that have fallen into poverty under your administration. I repeat, you are a disaster obama and sky high gas prices are just one aspect of the disaster that is you.
“The God-forsaken (and I mean that literally) dems in the House will never let that happen, but it’s sure a great idea.”
That’s why the largest number of liberals must be driven out of Congress and the White House.
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