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Posted on 10/08/2012 6:56:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
One of the great priorities of the left is to get Americans out of their cars and onto public transportation. When the masses no longer have access to cars, it clears the streets for the limos of the nomenklatura, just as it did in the old USSR, and still does in North Korea.
The best way to accomplish this goal is to push up gasoline prices. Energy Secretary Steven Chu famously hoped that energy prices would double, and President Obama also admitted to wanting energy prices to rise, just not too quickly, lest the frog catch on the water is getting hot.
Due myriad regulations, California's gasoline market is cut off from supplies from other states. Unique blends of gasoline are required, and only the state's refineries are set up to produce them. And because it is all but impossible to build a new refinery, and expanding production at existing refineries runs into a regulatory blizzard, capacity is closely matched with demand, with little spare capacity in the event one or more refineries experience downtime or production shortfalls.
When accidents happen, as at Chevron's Richmond refinery (and a few days ago at Exxon-Mobil's massive Torrance refinery) and supply is constrained, prices soar. Consumers, commentators, and politicians may complain that this is price gouging, but they ignore the reality of markets, which use price to allocate supply. The hard fact is that there isn't enough gasoline to go around if current prices remain static. There will be shortages if price controls are imposed, because there just isn't enough gasoline to supply all takers at the prices that prevailed before the refinery accidents.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
All the left’s programs/policies are geared toward decreased public mobility, communications ability, and constraint of other liberties, 2nd Amendment liberties being prime among them—that’s the way they will control us. Their mold for our future has got to be broken.
During the last “hurricane hype” story, it was reported that in Cuba approx 3% of families have automobiles.
That seems like a reasonable target for the Baraqqis. Everybody else can ride “high speed rail”.
Perhaps the principal sponsor of those regulations is the Natural Resources Defense Council, also singularly responsible for MTBE. Guess who controls the NRDC?
Now, let’s look at who gives the NRDC money, shall we?
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Top Funders of NRDC |
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Funder |
Total Donated |
Comments |
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Descriptions in bold are major energy investors |
Pew Charitable Trusts |
$11,568,000.00 |
Sunoco money |
Blue Moon Fund |
$7,818,735.00 |
This is W. Alton Jones Money (Citgo) |
Energy Foundation |
$6,965,000.00 |
Launched by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and The Rockefeller Foundation. The Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation joined as a funding partner in 1996, and The McKnight Foundation joined in 1998. In 1999, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation joined to support two programs: the U.S. Clean Energy Program (now the Climate Program) and the China Sustainable Energy Program. In 2002, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation joined to support advanced technology transportation and clean energy for the West. |
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation |
$5,636,500.00 |
Bankers Life and Casualty money (investment portfolio unknown) |
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
$4,681,097.00 |
Your tax dollars at work subsidizing the interests of whom? |
Turner Foundation |
$3,795,167.00 |
CNN, and a lot more |
Public Welfare Foundation |
$3,500,000.00 |
Too confounded to determine |
Joyce Foundation |
$3,309,445.00 |
Timber Wealth |
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation |
$3,022,340.00 |
General Motors |
Ford Foundation |
$2,733,300.00 |
Ford |
Beinecke Foundation |
$2,150,000.00 |
Major player at Yale. |
J. M. Kaplan Fund |
$2,057,500.00 |
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William Bingham Foundation |
$1,995,000.00 |
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Homeland Foundation |
$1,733,000.00 |
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San Francisco Foundation |
$1,654,739.00 |
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Rockefeller Brothers Fund |
$1,377,510.00 |
Them again |
McKnight Foundation |
$1,365,500.00 |
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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation |
$1,310,000.00 |
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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation |
$1,310,000.00 |
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Bauman Family Foundation |
$1,226,000.00 |
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Nathan Cummings Foundation |
$1,220,000.00 |
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Educational Foundation of America |
$1,210,000.00 |
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Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund |
$1,205,000.00 |
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Mertz Gilmore Foundation |
$1,201,000.00 |
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Carnegie Corporation of New York |
$1,200,000.00 |
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Park Foundation |
$1,198,010.00 |
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New York Community Trust |
$1,186,821.00 |
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Overbrook Foundation |
$1,182,585.00 |
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Surdna Foundation |
$1,147,000.00 |
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Bullitt Foundation |
$1,122,675.00 |
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William & Flora Hewlett Foundation |
$1,075,000.00 |
Note also the participation with the Energy Foundation |
This is racketeering. Blame the government, but also hold accountable the people who control it.
If only a smart political group could point out that a fleet of 5 trucks doing service work and having a $2.00 increase in the cost per gallon of gas is equal to 40 hours of work or one employee. The higher the gas prices the lower the number of peopel a comapny can afford!!
“All the left’s programs/policies are geared toward decreased public mobility, communications ability, and constraint of other liberties, 2nd Amendment liberties being prime among them—that’s the way they will control us.”
TO facilitate all of that, they first need an ignorant, apathetic public - and they’ve used the public school system to create just that.
Instead of attacking the basic changes in energy supply created by this regime which are directly contributing to the recipients dependency on whatever the regime is handing out ,by design.
Too many pundits drawn from their limited personal immediate surrounding and life style are attacking the recipients with condemnation for using what a one time was termed “relief” .They are demonstrating they haven’t a clue what a retiree on a fixed income or even those out of work are going through at this time. And that’s the problem.
You have a regime which by design is driving up the costs and uses of energy the most a basic resource because it suits its socialist matrix. What’s even worse is the massive corrpution resulting from that regime doling out tons of funds for so called alternate forms which don’t work towards its campaign donners. That’s getting a pass even by the Romney campaign and a huge mistake because this policy affects everyone. It is a bread a butter issue.
They’re just doing that so they can ride on the HOV track.
This is what the Securities and Exchange Commission used to stop. Who can remember the last time they did something useful? Baby Bells?
Gas goes up, bread goes... Cha Ching... gas goes up the cost of shipping your new living room furniture goes up, Cha Ching... gas goes up the cost of a gallon of milk goes up, Cha Ching..... gas goes up the cost to take the family out on a friday night goes up at Pizza Hut,, Cha Ching.... gas goes up the cost of new shoes and socks goes up, Cha Ching ( btw ? not so long ago I could have gotten a whole bag of new socks for under $5.00, not so now ) CHA CHING....
YOU GOT IT....That is A KEY ISSUE
Instead of attacking the basic changes in energy supply created by this regime which are directly contributing to the recipients dependency on whatever the regime is handing out ,by design.
Too many pundits draw from their limited personal immediate surrounding and life style are attacking the recipients with condemnation for using what a one time was termed “relief” .They are demonstrating they haven’t a clue what a retiree on a fixed income or even those out of work are going through at this time. And that’s the problem.
You have a regime which by design is driving up the costs and uses of energy the most a basic resource in the US because it suits their socialist matrix. What’s even worse is the massive corrpution resulting from that regime doling out tons of funds for so called alternate forms which don’t work towards its campaign donners. That’s getting a pass even by the Romney campaign and a huge mistake because this policy affects everyone. It is a bread a butter issue.
IT’S TIME FOR ROMNEY TO CORRECT HIMSELF AND POINT OUT AMERICANS OF EVERY COLOR PARTICULARLY OF THOSE WITH RESTRICTED INCOMES ARE VICTIMS OF THIS POLICY
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