Posted on 04/08/2011 8:30:12 AM PDT by Starman417
The man who made clear that he wanted gas prices to be higher has made good on his promises.
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Gas prices have doubled under Barack Obama. The pain visited by the higher prices will not be felt only at the pump. It will felt in many areas.
1. Transportation of Goods – While rising gas prices often lead to higher prices for a gas tank of fuel, the cost of oil is built into the price of anything. Oranges, for example, may travel several hundred or even thousands of miles from Florida. All that travel time means burning fuel, and later higher costs for oranges, even though oranges aren’t directly tied to oil. So, basically everything rises in cost after oil does.2. Export Economies – These higher oil costs often mean economic softening in areas that are dependent on foreign purchases of goods. Take, for example, China and Vietnam which each produce a large amount of consumer products for export to the United States. Due to the distance these goods have to travel, they become more costly in foreign markets against local competitors with lower exposure to oil. Thus, exports usually decline.
3. Consumer Spending – Higher gas prices mean that shoppers are either 1) valuing more the small amount of extra money they have to spend or 2) seeing a general decline in the amount of money they can afford to spend.
4. Rising Derivative Costs – Oil may help us get from A to B in the form of gasoline, but it is also very important in making plastics and polymers, two very important materials that are used in just about everything. Higher prices for oil means higher prices for plastic and ultimately higher prices for transporting the plastics from one place to another.
And of course, home heating oil.
Barack Obama's answer to the high cost of home heating oil?
Just buy a new car!
Obama needled one questioner who asked about gas prices, now averaging close to $3.70 a gallon nationwide, and suggested that the gentleman consider getting rid of his gas-guzzling vehicle.“If you’re complaining about the price of gas and you’re only getting 8 miles a gallon, you know,” Obama said laughingly. “You might want to think about a trade-in.”
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When an audience member commented that he had a family of ten kids, Obama replied:
"Well, you definitely need a hybrid van then."
Hilarious.
Except, where is one to get a hybrid van? Let's start with mini-vans.
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“If you’re complaining about the price of gas and you’re only getting 8 miles a gallon, you know,” Obama said laughingly. “You might want to think about a trade-in.”
I got your trade-in Buckwheat!....and it’s you!
Damn....that comment is reminiscent of an imfamous quote by another elitist....”Let them eat cake”. And I guess we all know how that other quote turned out. It didn’t play well either.
Clunkers for a New President...(an eligible one)
2012: You’re Fired!
I find O’s statement to simply trade in your car as rude and cruel. It truly is his “let them eat cake” moment. It shows not only doesn’t he care about the economy but he truly is a jerk. I can only imagine when people can’t purchase enough food, he will say “then stop eating”. I have always tried to remain respectful on FR. Let me be the first to say FUBO!
I have always tried to remain respectful on FR. Let me be the first to say FUBO!
Once you cross that bridge, it’s a good feeling!...like being Hannitized....Welcome!
Well said
..and the Beast he rode in on..."
“... it’s a good feeling...”
I guess it is! Sort of liberating! What is so infuriating is he could do something about this if he WANTED to. He could allow drilling! For the life of me I don’t understand if we have oil, why we don’t use it?
He already did that during the presidential campign in '08. Remember, "we can't ride around in SUV's, eat what we want and set our thermostats to 72 degrees?"
““If you’re complaining about the price of gas and you’re only getting 8 miles a gallon, you know,” Obama said laughingly. “You might want to think about a trade-in.”
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@ssclown.
He has buried himself in his dogma. He was not smart enough to compromise like Clinton did. He has remained loyal to the whack radical base of his and he will go down with it. Americans have had it up to here with this crap!
“He already did that...”
And morons voted him in. Why in the world would someone vote someone in who would restrict what we drove, how much, how much food was available, how much to heat/cool your home etc? I personally think when people start going hungry and not being able to feed their kids that we will see some scary “civil unrest”. IMHO
America can’t afford another hour of this hot-shot, know-nothing typical idiot Marxist.
LOL times like this is why I keep my 97 Saturn (35mpg) around.
It saves more on gas in year than what I could sell it for.
LOL times like this is why I keep my 97 Saturn (35mpg) around.
It saves more on gas in year than what I could sell it for.
He said he would bankrupt elec utilities using coal.
Wonder if he plans to give everyone a free government gas card if they votes for him?.
In his speeches anything goes.
Trade your 8 mpg armored SUVs and limos in first, Barry.
I know he doesn’t care because he doesn’t pay for gas.
Not yet.
JANUARY 20, 2013, YOU WILL BE PUMPING YOUR OWN GAS AGAIN, BARRY.
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