Gingrich Right on Gas Prices, Economy

Yahoo ^ | February 29, 2012 | Radell Smith

[Red Steel]

As a Georgia Super Tuesday voter, the Michigan and Arizona primary results will (and will not) influence my vote to some degree. Let me explain.

While I want to cast my vote for the candidate who shares my views politically and otherwise, the options currently available leave a lot to be desired, and that includes the current president.

But like my fellow voters, I have to decide on one candidate or the other, whether one of them fits the bill perfectly or not.

Of the Republicans, Newt Gingrich is the only one with ties to Georgia. He's also the only presidential primary candidate willing to venture into the northern portion of the state this week in advance of the Super Tuesday primary.

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However, I really like one thing that Newt said in North Georgia on Tuesday of this week:

"Newt equals $2.50 per gallon."

Who in America couldn't jump for joy if we could see $2.50 per gallon for our vehicle gasoline cost again?

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Romney, on the other hand, fresh off the Michigan and Arizona victories, appears to be leading. But he barely won his own home state, and that speaks volumes to Southerners like me.

It makes me wonder if he is the leading candidate, not because he is liked (or believed to be a good option for turning things around), but, instead, because he has deep political fundraising pockets.

And I can't help but go back to what Gingrich said on Tuesday, despite Santorum and Romney's "almost tie" in Michigan,

"16 million new jobs were created," Gingrich said, when he and Ronald Reagan worked together. If Gingrich was instrumental in seeing 16 million new jobs created all those years ago,

[thackney]

Sorry, I hit send before I finished editing

Keep in mind with the linked chart, that the slow down was

the slow down started before the drill rigs started to idle. Projects were put on hold, equipment orders were canceled, engineering/design laid off. Rigs at that point were on extended contracts to keep from loosing them. Mid 2008 it was getting tough to get a rig for just a couple holes. Companies had to make longer commitments.

[OHelix]

I’m afraid I wasn’t able to find the graph at your link.

I also associate that time (Katrina) with the first time I ever paid over $2.00/gal for gas. I remember soon afterwards all of the gas stations around here had to get new billboards because the “1” in the dollar’s place was permanent, and they weren’t able to change it like the other digits.

[thackney]

I’m afraid I wasn’t able to find the graph at your link.

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Hmmm, would not work on my phone either, back to the PC and it shows again.

Try http://wtrg.com/rigs_graphs/ and select “rigus.gif”

Or go to their home page (they have lots of useful related info) http://wtrg.com/

Top right, beside the moving pump jack, select “Rig Count”, this should take you to: http://wtrg.com/rotaryrigs.html

Scroll down for multiple graphs relating price to rig counts.

Note: this is a great site to put perspective of oil price to other related events. Roam around under the history section.

[OHelix]

I think they have it set to redirect you to a 404 page if the referrer is not their own site... once you have it in your computer’s cache, you will appear to be able to “link to it” successfully from that computer.