Posted on 04/24/2012 4:58:53 PM PDT by Nachum
Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said that "no one knows" if gasoline prices in the United States will reach $9 per gallon, and acknowledged that the possibility is outside his control.
"I don't think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices because they are set on the global economy," Salazar told reporters when asked if gas prices could reach $9 per gallon, as they have been in Greece. "Where it will all end, no one knows.
He explained that "what we see happening today are the influences first of unrest in places like the Middle East and Iran, which disrupt the markets and allow the futures markets to play on some of what they see [in] the unrest around the world; and secondly the huge demand that you've started seeing in places like China, India and Brazil."
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That may be just what it takes for the fricking pendulum to swing the other direction.
I'd gladly give up my job to wake the country up.
If Ubama is reelected, America is over. Ubama will open the borders and grant voting rights to everybody who makes it across.
They aren't.
Unfortunately the secretary is hoping it goes over $9.
Pray for America
Getting rid of Salazar is one of the most important reasons to get rid of Obama.
One of them will give you warts if you get too close. The other one is Kermit the Frog.
We do know Salazar is against offshore drilling even if gas reached $10 a gallon.
IRS Business Mileage Rate right now is at 55.5 cents per mile.
What would it be at $9/gal?
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