Posted on 12/01/2018 7:23:35 AM PST by rktman
Like the rooster that takes credit for the sunrise, President Barack “You Didn’t Build That” Obama woke up the other day and decided to take credit for another thing he had nothing to do with. The president who said that companies like Solyndra were the hallmark of a future in which workers drove Chevy Volts, predicted that manufacturing jobs of the past could not be brought back, not only took credit for an economy he didn’t build, but also for the energy boom he opposed which is fueling it.
Back in 2012, geologist Barack Obama, poster child for the “peak oil” crowd, told us that calling for increased production as Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin did. by increased drilling – "drill, baby, drill," she called it -- was not a plan, but rather "a bumper sticker." Obama assured us, "You know, we can't just drill our way to lower gas prices,"
Well we have, just as those manufacturing jobs that weren’t coming back have come back. So now Obama would have us forget what he said about the fuels of the past, as he massaged his ego one more time:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Obama fought the oil and gas industry every way that he could and tried to destroy the Coal industry. The fought him and won..
“U didn’t drill that!’ - 0bama
I saw $1.99 gas yesterday on a trip across a big part of fly-over-country.
If you took all the Mitt out of the SkidMark president, he’d be transparent...
If the father of all lies had a son...
The DC establishment were far more concerned with destroying and shutting her up than listening to her.
$1.85 with a fuel rewards card.
Even though Her formal education more than likely included all those leftist ideas during her class times, common sense prevailed.
Too bad the dumb as** politicians in NYS don’t take advantage of the gas deposits and some good paying jobs. Maybe even lower taxes....Yeh...right...
I hate Alcohol laced Gasoline.
$2.49 @ 87 [Fed described Octane rating] sans alcohol was the best deal I found.
Its part of the Resistance.
Eschew the Federal Government...
Drill baby drill was coined by Michael Steele at the Republican Convention.
If oil out of the ground (crude) were free, gas would still cost too much because of federal and state taxes. plus the expensive government mandates such as gasahol,low sulfur, etc.
Look at the price of fuel oil. In this state it costs as much as diesel because of government regulations and taxes, when it probably should be about half the cost.
https://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/items/price-of-a-gallon-of-gas-in-1968
https://www.tititudorancea.com/z/us_diesel_onhighway_retail_prices_graphs_history.htm
I’m going to have to go with a:
YEAH!, baby!
I hate the corn laced poison too.
My old running stuff, such as they are, gets the ethanol free.
The last two daze of fly-over-country surface travel indicated that:
Diesel wuz YUGELY overpriced vs. gasoline.
Watts-up-wid-dat?
[I left my Diesel carz at home..]
way
Below $2.20/gallon here in Ocala (FL)... finally!!
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