Posted on 02/24/2012 4:13:10 AM PST by tobyhill
Gas prices are on the rise, and so like clockwork, a cadre of politicians are now selling the promise of lower prices at the pump.
Newt Gingrich, struggling to regain momentum in the Republican presidential primary, is leading the way, promising to get prices down to $2.50 per gallon.
"I've developed a program for American energy so no future president will ever bow to a Saudi king again and so every American can look forward to $2.50 a gallon gasoline," Gingrich said during his self-introduction at Wednesday's CNN debate.
The promise might garner attention on the campaign trail, but there's little more than snake oil in that rhetorical well.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
this MSM cannot even report on this admin using tax money to pay off it’;s donors in this green energy scam , heck they can;t even report on this admin giving guns to the drugs lords which in turn kill hundreds which in turn kill our border agents.
There is no way on this earth this MSM will ever report on o ama closing down a pipeline which will create jobs , which in turn get out oil from a neighbor and which in turn will reduce prices
The enemy of this country , the first enemy is the MSM
As it says in the Bible: “for truth has stumbled in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter.”
I hate the LIBERAL MEDIA!
Once we get our nominee, hopefully some one will make an ad with MSM blaming Bush and then saying it’s OK under ZERO.
We all hate them however they can be useful idiots. We can use their exact words and make them look like the fools they are.
More & More people are turning away from the MSM once they see how biased they really are. . . . .
If they don’t think that anything can be done then the media needs to cast its eyes to the Bakken Formation and realize that the oil industry is just ‘scratching the surface’ there. If the US makes it a priority we could (within 10 or 15 years) be a net exporter of each of oil, coal and natural gas. Could you imagine the impact on Medicare and Social Security if we sold our energy to the rest of the world and used the profits from foreign sales to boost those two entitlements? It would take a major committment...but its possible...if we allow ourselves to try.
I listened to Newt’s 1/2 hour long ad/address yesterday. I must say it was a good one, very, very good. I liked what he had to say especially his chain of events that would eventually lead up to us getting out of the Middle-east. I liked how it would reduce or eliminate the Saudi’s and Iranian economic power in the United States and possibly elsewhere.
If he keeps up this theme and then does it as President. Well then, He’s earned a supporter in me.
No mention of the price inflation caused by Fed money printing. The Gingrich plan works on that as well.
On the bright side, we have all of that ‘08 campaign footage of obama, Hillary, Pelosi and a bunch of other rats putting the gas crisis front and center. Splice those clips together and you have one powerful campaign ad.
You want to take the taxes and lease option profits from some of our most valuable natural resource pools and give them over to two of the least sustainable and unconstitutional entitlement programs? I would rather not imagine that. How about we use it to pay our debts? Or maybe reduce taxes?
Is Newt’s plan the entire answer to reducing gas prices? ..no, but it is far more likely to reduce gas prices than some algae boondoggle. There is no to my knowledge nothing more than a lab experiment for turning algae to gasoline. To go from a lab experiment to being able to commercially make gas from algae in quantities to meet even part of our needs might take decades and likely consume billions of dollars of tax payer money without ever being successful. Look at the ethanol boondoggle that has consumed billions in subsidies and hasn’t reduced our dependence on foreign oil one bit.
Well, except for during the Bush administration. Bush could have then...but he didn't...so it was his fault. Not now. No, there's nothing Obama can do.
This article effectively says that the laws of supply and demand don't work.
Well, except for during the Bush administration. Bush could have then...but he didn't...so it was his fault. Not now. No, there's nothing Obama can do.
This article effectively says that the laws of supply and demand don't work.
Only the corparate income taxes for sales/earnings of energy EXPORTS should be used to give a boost to Social security and Medicare. The corporate income taxes on on domestic sales should be taxed at a lower rate.
The truth of the matter is that Social Security and Medicare are very popular programs and not going to be cut. If we have to give them a boost then we should do so with taxes from sales to foreign countries. Let foreigners subsidize our entitlements.
You could open every wellhead in the world and push the price down for a year or two.
But afterward, you’ll wish you hadn’t when the price rockets.
One last binge.
Battle of the Bulge or Kursk from the German perspective.
On the bright side, we have all of that ‘08 campaign footage of obama, Hillary, Pelosi and a bunch of other rats putting the gas crisis front and center. Splice those clips together and you have one powerful campaign ad.”
THIS is precisely the problem. The Elite GOP knuckleheads REFUSE to fight this fight. They’d rather “get along with my friends across the isle”. I am so sick of this I could scream. As you say, use their own words against them. Turn the Joe the Plumber moment into an ad. Turn the “enerygy prices necessarily will rise” into an ad. Turn ALL the photos of Zippy bowing to our enemies into an ad. Need I go on?
Seriously folks, when you are out in public, at a restaurant, in a store - have you EVER heard so many people talk about zippy in the manner of “this guy has got to go” ???? Mr. WWWF and I are happy to state we hear this everywhere we go. Even our lib friends are disgusted with this guy occupying our White House.
Ads from the elite GOP ??? I won’t hold my breath. The NEW Tea Party candidates MUST do this.
It was a jaw-dropping moment on Bret Baier’s Roundtable discussion, last night, when the guy from the Washington Post said “he couldn’t remember the coverage in 2008” about high gas prices when GWB was president.
It showed how far the libs will go to protect the Prez.
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