Newt should just go ahead and say $1.99 or $1.98
Why not while he’s at it?
That’s just stupid and desperate. Please. We all know that’s BS.
Santorum 2012
He said $2.50 on Hannity today. Now he’s down to $2.00??
Someone should ask him to make a good six pack of beer $3, and a fine steak $5 as long as he’s determining the price of free market goods.
Proving once again, Santorum has no confidence or of any domestic plan in turning the economy around. He tells us, get use to the price increases. Very un -inspiring. Between the candidates, Newt is right on target. Drill here, open up the fuel reserves in which God gave us.
Conquer Saudi Arabia?
Info Ping.
Watch out for the pest poop.
He shouldn’t be making price predictions, as that lends the impression that he’d mess with the marketplace to achieve his goals.
Give us a promise to get out of the marketplace and tell us how’d you do that, but no price promises.
In other words: price setting is an empty political slogan. Newt can put in place good policies and give us a better energy outlook, but promising gas at price X is silly.
Desperation
Sold
Gasoline in the range of $2.50 per gallon would be possible much more quickly than you may think. During the Arab oil embargo of the Carter years the price per barrel was pretty high. Deregulation under Reagan started a domestic energy production boom. Arab countries started flooding the market with oil, the price of which dropped like a stone. Because of the lower price (and profits) domestic drilling slowed...but we had much cheaper energy costs, which helped fuel the great economic expansion that resulted. We start drilling...the same thing will happen again. The Arabs are nothing if not predictable.
... and a chicken in every pot?
I see many people here really don’t understand economics.
It is entirely possible. Drill baby drill. More natural gas. Nuclear energy. In fact all forms of energy. That will take the demand off of oil and the price will drop. Quite simple really. Just a matter of supply and demand. GO NEWT GO!
I could go for $2.00 gas. That would mean we could now get 93 octane in Oklahoma and 700hp muscle cars from the auto makers. And best of all, we could fill up the junkyards with Volts.
Lot of Rino’s roaming this thread, Red. Romneybots dressed in Santorum clothing. Can always tell- they’re the ones who hate Newt the most.
Newt is a leader trying to solve real problems. He has a plan to lower gas prices that is workable.
By pushing domestic production on federal lands, by opening up leases and by creating a tax holiday for all new equipment for one year and by OKing the Key Stone pipe line immediately and by declaring that his admin will make the US into the world’s largest oil producer.
That will have an impact on Oil futures that will lower prices in weeks.
What impresses me about Newt is that he hits on an issue like this that affects all Americans and is tied to our productivity.
All costs for food and products are tied to the high cost of gas.
Tourism also is affected.
Newt is brilliant. The other two guys are not talking about something so practical and something that a conservative admin could actually move to correct.
Newt offers solutions and possibilities. Santorum offers nothing.
I see from this thread that the followers of Saint Ricky are very nervous about the possibility that the voters will listen to Newt.
Oh well, Santorum may very well win the nomination, but there will not be any forward movement.
I will thank him for stopping Romney, but will damn him for giving Obama another 4 years.
President Newt Gingrich—”Our beloved republic deserves nothing less.”
OBambi is in a very tough spot. He won’t attack Iran because that would cause oil/gas prices to go up and that would doom his re-election chances, and, of course, IT IS ALL ABOUT HIM.
He will have a very tough time controlling Israel because, for some odd reason, they want to live.
OTOH, he hates the oil companies and will plow ahead with additional regulations thus putting added pressure on oil companies to raise prices.
The Dimocrat Senate hates private enterprise and especially oil companies so they’ll have another show trial soon in the bowels of the Senate to paint Shell, et. al. as ogres.
Poor Barry, what’s a clueless twit to do?
i didnt get past about 60 replies, but some of em are greeeeaaaatt...
greengrinch is just like uncle bambam in his ability to heal the earth and make the rising gas prices halt and recede...
do any of these hero worshippers realize that ANWR has been stalled pretty much since noot went into lobbyi, er, ah, *consulting* and that the promise to abolish the EPA, or any other alphabet agency for that matter, has become a worn out attempt to rally guys like us ???
too bad he was all in greenhouse gas nancys couch, helping to pave the way for the crap he now says he can *fix* on day one...
BLOAT some more...