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How much have the Democrats cost you at the pump?
www.americanthinker.com ^ | May 22, 2008 | Marc Sheppard

Posted on 05/22/2008 3:11:38 PM PDT by antonia

May 22, 2008

American Thinker

How much have the Democrats cost you at the pump?

Marc Sheppard

Senator Chuck Schumer claims that coercing Saudi Arabia to increase oil production by 1 million barrels a day would drop the per barrel price by $25, saving Americans 62 cent per gallon at the gas pump. Yet, somehow, that same amount of oil coming from Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would only ease oil prices by a penny.

In a Senate floor speech he gave on May 13th, the New York Democrat insisted that:

"If Saudi Arabia were to increase its production by 1 million barrels per day that translates to a reduction of 20 percent to 25 percent in the world price of crude oil, and crude oil prices could fall by more than $25 dollar per barrel from its current level of $126 per barrel. In turn, that would lower the price of gasoline between 13 percent and 17 percent, or by more than 62 cents off the expected summer regular-grade price - offering much needed relief to struggling families. "

Schumer repeated these words almost verbatim when grilling oil company executives during yesterday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearings.

Yet Schumer's daily magic number of 1 million barrels is the exact increase experts believe we would today be pumping through the Alyeska pipeline had Bill Clinton not vetoed ANWR drilling back in 1995. And even the most rabid anti-domestic-drilling Democrats don't take issue with that figure.

So then, the increase he demands of "Bush's friends," the Saudis - which he claims would reduce prices by up to 25 percent -- is the exact amount he argued earlier this month would only "reduce the price of oil by a penny" were it coming from ANWR - eco-sacred breeding ground of the Porcupine Caribou.

It doesn't take a Ph.D in economics to know that both figures can't be right.

Nor one in Poli-Sci to know why they're so starkly different nonetheless.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: americanoil; anwr; congress; energy; energyprices; saudiarabia; senatorchuckschumer
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To: NYC Republican
... NO REBUTTAL, especially from Cheney, whom I despise...

Just curious - why do you despise Cheney in particular?
21 posted on 05/22/2008 4:04:08 PM PDT by fr_freak (So foul a sky clears not without a storm.)
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To: Dutch Boy

Dutch Boy: “I tried all day long to educate a group democrats about the futility of lowering oil prices using only conservation. I then used a page from their play book. I said it is very selfish for democrats to hoard US oil from the world market. This was causing poor countries to starve, stay poor and make them unable to travel to affordable health care. I think there was a collective brain hemorrhage on their part. I go no response from them.”

LOL. I also get a kick out of the morons who say oil’s going to run out someday anyway so why bother drilling.


22 posted on 05/22/2008 4:04:12 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (Republican Who Will NOT Vote McCain!)
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To: Dutch Boy

The democrat party has its nose so far up the anus of The Sierra Club I’ll bet they have to ask permission to breath.


23 posted on 05/22/2008 4:07:23 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Tyrants should fear for their personal safety.)
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To: antonia

I will pay 5.00 USD for a bumper sticker like that!


24 posted on 05/22/2008 4:07:39 PM PDT by devistate one four (Nam 67-68)
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To: antonia
Since the idiots in Washington DC have placed the Polar Bear on the endangered list there can be NO more drilling in Alaska. A Judge will have to make the decision and as the stupid idiots and the Spotted Owl killed the harvest of trees in the west the idiots and the Polar Bear has stopped ALL new progress in Alaska and in the lower 48 as Global Warming has to be stopped and the way to do that is to destroy the United States and kill all its people which is left and the anti-human environmentalist goal.
25 posted on 05/22/2008 4:23:59 PM PDT by YOUGOTIT (The Greatest Threat to our Security is the Royal 100 Club)
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To: Jacquerie
The problem is that so much real estate is owned/controlled directly by the FEDS. The rest is regulated by the enviro true believers in Fish & Wildlife, EPA, and various state agencies.

Exactly.

26 posted on 05/22/2008 4:45:20 PM PDT by antonia ("Information is terrain and someone will occupy it.")
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To: antonia
How much have the Democrats cost you at the pump?

I'm commuting 75 miles one way 5 days a week right now, so the short answer is - - a lot.

27 posted on 05/22/2008 4:48:16 PM PDT by mykroar (Repentence and Faith.)
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To: antonia

The flip side of what ‘Rats cost Americans at the pump, is what Americans are putting into the wallets of terrorists. So, we pay more at the pump (to terrorists) while at the same time pump money into fighting them. What a sorry state of affairs!


28 posted on 05/22/2008 4:48:43 PM PDT by C210N (The television has mounted the most serious assault on Republicanism since Das Kapital.)
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To: Nanny7

Both parties have cost us dearly ... just by coming out with a pro-drilling plank that would drive a good part of the speculation out of the commodity markets ... those show trials we just had WERE THE CAUSE OF THE SPIKE TO $135+ ,, the world saw our gov’t has no intention of actually fixing the problems...

We need to fix the commodity markets by requiring delivery... why should we allow unlimited numbers of speculators with no need for the product , nearly unlimited funds, plenty of leverage , and no ability or intention to take delivery of a product conspire to push prices in one direction or another... these things take on a life of their own just as soon as a direction is established and they all jump on board ... and in the case of commodities where demand and supply are more or less pretty close to a balance it doesn’t take much to manipulate a market,,, especially when the “real” players that want delivery must play it long or risk having idle factories.


29 posted on 05/22/2008 4:53:20 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: antonia
In a Senate floor speech

Schumer is always opening his yapper.

"If Saudi Arabia were to increase its production by 1 million barrels per day

Well, god luck on getting that done with nothing more than your stupid speeches.

30 posted on 05/22/2008 5:03:59 PM PDT by lowbridge ("I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it" - Van Den Boogaard)
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To: C210N

That pretty much sums it up. The Democrats don’t like the money and profits the American oil companies are making. However, it’s perfectly ok with them for OPEC to make the trillions of dollars which should stay in this nation. And that’s money which WON’T fund terrorism! Go figure.


31 posted on 05/22/2008 5:09:19 PM PDT by Enterprise ((Those who "betray us" also "Betray U.S." They're called DEMOCRATS!))
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To: antonia

Gas prices went up $.15 today in 5 hours.


32 posted on 05/22/2008 5:09:24 PM PDT by Doctor Don
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To: Jacquerie

And I would have told her she was a dumb ass.


33 posted on 05/22/2008 5:11:40 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (No matter which one is elected, America may very well never recover from the damage to be done.)
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To: Jacquerie
"Sen Bill Nelson (Rat-FL) told me to my face at a townhall meeting that the reserves at ANWR were so miniscule that they could not have any impact on price whatsoever."

One more farmer planting any given crop probably would not affect the price of that crop either. But there is no logical reason not to let him plant it and earn a living. In ANWR, people will have jobs, earn a living, and pay taxes. But let the companies decide where to invest and let them take the risk.

34 posted on 05/22/2008 5:15:32 PM PDT by Enterprise ((Those who "betray us" also "Betray U.S." They're called DEMOCRATS!))
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To: Doctor Don

Gas prices went up $.15 today in 5 hours.
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Light sweet crude for July delivery shed $2.36 to close at $130.81 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after trading as high as $133.75. The contract gained $9.32 between May 15 and May 21.
July crude had surged to a record high of $135.09 during the overnight electronic trading session on Globex.
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The $9+ increase in the last 7 days equates to $0.22 per gallon in crude or about $0.30 per gallon when converted to retail gasoline. This means we’ll have (at a minimum) $4.25/gallon unleaded regular in the next few months and $5 diesel.


35 posted on 05/22/2008 5:16:59 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: Enterprise

Bill Nelson is a pinhead when it comes to economics...
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We can’t drill, drill, drill our way to oil independence. (Oct 2006)
Supports spending resources to stop Global Warming. (Sep 2000)
Voted YES on removing oil & gas exploration subsidies. (Jun 2007)
Voted YES on making oil-producing and exporting cartels illegal. (Jun 2007)
Voted YES on factoring global warming into federal project planning. (May 2007)
Voted YES on disallowing an oil leasing program in Alaska’s ANWR. (Nov 2005)
Voted YES on $3.1B for emergency oil assistance for hurricane-hit areas. (Oct 2005)
Voted YES on reducing oil usage by 40% by 2025 (instead of 5%). (Jun 2005)
Voted YES on banning drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Mar 2005)
Voted YES on Bush Administration Energy Policy. (Jul 2003)
Voted YES on targeting 100,000 hydrogen-powered vehicles by 2010. (Jun 2003)
Voted YES on removing consideration of drilling ANWR from budget bill. (Mar 2003)
Voted NO on drilling ANWR on national security grounds. (Apr 2002)
Voted NO on terminating CAFE standards within 15 months. (Mar 2002)
Include pickup trucks in CAFE; include hybrids in HOV lanes. (Feb 2002)
Keep efficient air conditioner rule to conserve energy. (Mar 2004)
Rated 100% by the CAF, indicating support for energy independence. (Dec 2006)
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http://www.ontheissues.org/International/Bill_Nelson_Energy_+_Oil.htm


36 posted on 05/22/2008 5:21:21 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: C210N
The flip side of what 'Rats cost Americans at the pump, is what Americans are putting into the wallets of terrorists. So, we pay more at the pump (to terrorists) while at the same time pump money into fighting them. What a sorry state of affairs!

What Americans are putting into the wallets of terrorists:

 

Saudi Support for Islamic Extremism in the United States' ~ pdf doc


The Saudi Connection In Iraq and elsewhere, terrorism thrives with Saudi support.
by Stephen Schwartz
07/30/2007 12:00:00 AM

http://www.weeklystandard.com

"ALMOST SIX YEARS after September 11, 2001, and more than four years since the beginning of the U.S.-led intervention in Iraq, the American government and media have begun to admit something every informed and honest Muslim in the world has known all along. That is: the "Sunni insurgency" in Iraq, as well as 9/11 and certain acts of extremist Sunni violence inside Iraq before then, are consequences of the official status of the ultra-fundamentalist Wahhabi sect in Saudi Arabia, Iraq's southern neighbor. Saudi Wahhabi clerics have preached and recruited for terror in Iraq; Saudi money has sustained it; the largest number of those who have carried out suicide bombings north of the Saudi-Iraqi border have been Saudi citizens." continued


TERROR FINANCE U.S. Tracks Saudi Bank Favored by Extremists Officials Debated What To Do About Al Rajhi, Intelligence Files Show
By GLENN R. SIMPSON
July 26, 2007

http://online.wsj.com

>snip<

"Confidential reports by the Central Intelligence Agency and other U.S. agencies, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, detail for the first time how much the U.S. learned about the use of Al Rajhi Bank by alleged extremists, and how U.S. officials agonized over what to do about it."

>snip<

"The U.S. intelligence reports, heretofore secret, describe how Al Rajhi Bank has maintained accounts and accepted donations for Saudi charities that the U.S. and other nations have formally designated as fronts for al Qaeda or other terrorist groups.
In addition, Mr. Al Rajhi and family members have been major donors to Islamic charities that are suspected by Western intelligence agencies of funding terrorism, according to CIA reports and federal-court filings by the Justice Department." continued

 

37 posted on 05/22/2008 5:24:39 PM PDT by antonia ("Information is terrain and someone will occupy it.")
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To: Izzy Dunne
And where's Bush / Cheney, RNC to call him on it?

Short answer...

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38 posted on 05/22/2008 5:34:13 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: antonia
Hey what happened to my post, I'm getting damm tired of having posts pulled by some one that doesn't agree with my thouughts. Either let us post or we can go somewhere else. Last notice.
39 posted on 05/22/2008 5:34:13 PM PDT by BooBoo1000 (Some times I wake up grumpy, other times I let her sleep/)
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To: CitizenUSA
The problem is, NONE of these jerks should be setting energy “policy.” We don’t need more “policy” as we already have more than enough. What we need is for government to get the (#$^& out of the way and let the so-called greedy capitalists solve this problem! It really can be solved, just not by reams of government proclamations from on high.

Bill O'Reilly does not believe in private enterprise. He wants to tax "big eeevil oil." And that jerk is supposed to be a conservative?

40 posted on 05/22/2008 5:44:54 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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