Posted on 03/15/2012 7:53:42 AM PDT by Jeff Head
This is not hard to understand. Dump Obama. Dump the EPA. Dump the Energy Dept. End the left’s ridiculous war on energy which is basically a Marxist war against freedom.
One good start is to stop putting Ethanol in our gas.””
O pwn a station wagon I bought in 1980.
I own a Chevy Dually 1 ton truck I bought in 1986.
I keep track of my mileage—I always have since I got my first car at age 17 and I am now 72.
The addition of Ethanol into my vehicles drops my MPG as much as 14%. It drops a minimum of 10%, so I am using MORE fuel and making a larger “carbon foorptint” due to the messing around with gasoline blends.
IF Obama pushes the % of Ethanol much higher, the additive stuff will destroy gas lines & certain valves & gaskets. That will stall out many a vehicle with massive costs to repair them.
We need to start NOW!
In this age of short-term fixes, kick-the-can-down-the-road, etc., if “ - - - The result is that gas would do down due to the removal of the tax - - -, “ then the politician who signed THE FEDERAL FUEL TAX HOLIDAY BILL would be able to smile on camera holding up a newspaper that night with the glowing headline: “PAIN AT THE PUMP REDUCED.”
The basic problem is that Governments, World wide, are trying to compete with a marketplace system that has existed for thousands of years.
Since 95 % of the Oil sold in the World is under the control of National Governments (the USA is one of the few exceptions), it is only natural for a politician to think that the price of Oil is also controlled by Governments.
The reality is that SUPPLY AND DEMAND still are the major forces that controls the pricing of Oil, although few Governments, or cartels of governments will publicly admit that cruel, and very humiliating (to them) reality.
Amen...absolutely spot on, Jim.
I’m sick of the left and liberals and other pols making something sound difficult when it is pretty straight forward.
If someone has to go too such lengths to try and get you to understand something like this, particularly when we have the recent history that we have to look back on and compare, you can almost be sure they are feeding you a load of horse hockey and BS and that they are operating out of self, or ideological intersts as opposed to the common good.
If we develop our own abundant sources, if we tell the Arabs and others we are going to do so, if we take away the overburdensome central (marxist/communist) controls which are placed there precisely to stifle our capabilities, and if we then put American interests first, we will have abundant and cheap oil and gas.
God’s speed, Jim...I pray we can double donw on 2010 here in 2012 and continue making great strides to turning this thing around.
The 12% reduction is a NASCAR number since they have to burn that crap.
We could always invade Iran and cut off China’s major oil supplier and place an all around oil embargo on them, plus embargo jet fuel and scrap metal similar to what we did to Japan before WW2.
There is no point in drilling because it wont result in more oil for.....years and...but wait, that is what Dems told us 5 years ago...10 years ago...OK, maybe that is not a good argument....OK
but maybe solar panels and electric cars and algae will get us cheap energy faster than oil.....lets ‘invest’ more in companies like Solyndra, we might just need to raise your taxes now and you will get it back later in cheaper energy costs... just like paying for that birth control mandate is free...or how raising your taxes in obama-care paid off because health care premiums are going down now...right?...
only those that believe in flat earth dont believe in Green energy ....Obama says..
There is no point in drilling because it wont result in more oil for.....years and...but wait, that is what Dems told us 5 years ago...10 years ago...OK, maybe that is not a good argument....OK
but maybe solar panels and electric cars and algae will get us cheap energy faster than oil.....lets ‘invest’ more in companies like Solyndra, we might just need to raise your taxes now and you will get it back later in cheaper energy costs... just like paying for that birth control mandate is free...or how raising your taxes in obama-care paid off because health care premiums are going down now...right?...
only those that believe in flat earth dont believe in Green energy ....Obama says..
he wants high gas prices. he wants us to all suffer and do without.
Howdy Jeff! Godd to see you’re still in there fighting with us... Your points are right on; bam could flex our power a bit, but he is a socialist wuss trying to hamstring the USA in order to promote his “progressive”, anti-American agenda! I see more and more Americans everyday coming to their senses about this crapola!
JC
It is a crazy country that deliberately burns its own food!!
JC
I don’t think we do fracking in the Gulf, but there are other processes in play there to account for refilling of old wells. I’ve gotten tired of ‘splaining it to dumbass greenies who believe the “peak oil” crapola that is a 40 yr old meme!!
JC
“Horse hockey”?? I always thought it was “horsepuckey”!!
HAW!!
JC
Another good start would be removing epa laws. The epa forces auto makers to produce high milage vehicles. In the name of reducing oil consumption. Then the epa demands gas producers put additives in gas for cleaner burning fuel. Once again to reduce oil consumption. The only problem is. The so called cleaner burning gas. Reduces gas milage. Thus increasing in oil consumption.
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