Posted on 06/27/2008 7:36:35 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
A leading democrat says Americans need to get used to paying $5 to $6 a gallon for their gas.
U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Miramar, has a double dose of predictions on gasoline prices that nobody wants to hear: Prices are going up a lot more, he says, and the nation doesn't have any good ways to bring prices down.
Translation continued: Furthermore, if we get you used to paying $6-$7 for gas, this will soften you up for all the tax increases we’re going to throw your way.
Delay, obfuscate, pander. These idiots in Washington had better move their asses on practical energy legislation immediately.
This situation is completely government caused.
Someone please send this article to the GOP. They obviously can’t write and reason as well as this guy.
“The answer is easy: voters remove such Congressmen and Senators from office this November and install representatives who will allow environmentally clean drilling off the left coast, the right coast, the gulf coast and the frozen tundra of the north.”
You have something there. This election will turn into a wholesale “Throw the bums out” scenario.
He can say with a high certainty what the gas prices will be in the future but he has no idea as to why.
BS ALERT! Typical from a dim!
However, big money is betting that oil will drop to $70-80 relatively soon because our economy can achieve demand destruction without collapse by means of conservation and easy switches to alternative sources of power.
So, take your choice. Who do you believe? Liberallarry the eternal pessimist, or big money?
Not only do that not have answers, but the rest of the world, USA included, can see that socialism, high taxation, “universal” healthcare, preferences, immorality, etc. has failed everywhere.
You have much more faith in the voters than I do. I think most voters are either....uneducated about positions or ideologically motivated.
I would love to be proved wrong but that is the only answer I can come up with that justifies the huge number of idiots we have representing us.
"Anybody who is predicting specific price numbers should be ignored. We do not know how much crude oil is being produced, we might come close to knowing how much gasoline is being produced. Some deep Amazon guy with a feather dance and a bone in his nose can predict prices this well."
While I think you are generally correct, a Congressman who is in a position to block exploration and development of OCS resources, support additional taxes on oil companies, promulgate onerous regulations on oil, shale or nuclear projects, support carbon trading schemes, etc. is both more culpable and more able to predict prices through their own obstructionism.
Says it all. Impeached. And a leading Democrat.
Deregulation? When you remove regulations enacted at the time of the depression, you take the chance of having a depression.
The more this guy talks, the more I like him.
Repeat after me, “WE CAN’T DRILL OUR WAY OUT OF THIS!”
But what does that mean? It has no basis in logic.
“WE CAN’T DRILL OUR WAY OUT OF THIS! WE CAN’T DRILL OUR WAY OUT OF THIS! WE CAN’T DRILL OUR WAY OUT OF THIS!”
The marching morons.
Amen to this. But I'm afraid the morons that are the American people will give the democrats a pass on this. My bet is that republicans don't lose the 70 seats everybody is predicting but I bet we still lose some. This should be a landslide for the republican party. The dems should lose every seat that isn't in the inner city.
Bill Clinton's campaign team had little sticky notes on their computer screens (or so the story goes): "It's the economy stupid". That was enough to propel him to victory over President Bush in what could best be described as a mild recession. Now if the McCain campaign doesn't have posters up saying: "It's oil stupid". Then they deserve to lose.
We are going through the worst financial crisis since the great depression. The fed has thrown billions at financial institutions and they are still in sorry shape. Couple that with a falling dollar and high oil and is it any wonder the stock market is tanking. McCain needs to hammer home a plan. The nuclear and drilling was a start. He needs to be shouting this at every campaign stop.
That reminds of when Clayton Williams said that when a woman is being raped, "to just lay there and enjoy it" ...
He lost the Texas governor's election because of that stupid remark. No answer, my @$$. Drill here, drill often and drill NOW.
I guess these dems were not listening to the hearing by Congressman Markey’s Subcommittee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. There was testimony from Nissan motors, the country of Denmark, and others. Their answer is to move to electric cars, with added investment in solar and wind power. Denmark gets 50% of their power from wind, which blows better at night when people would plug in their cars to recharge.
I have two south facing roofs which would be ideal for solar panels. Unfortunately the electric company only gives credit for power we put into the grid against our own electric bill. Since I have already cut my electric use to the bone, this would not be much help against the cost of installing solar. In Germany people are actually paid a premium for the power they put into the grid over their own usage. I would be happy just to get 70 to 80%, leaving the utility 20 or 30% for operating and infrastructure costs. Congressman Jay Insle is introducing a bill to make payment for surplus feed to grid available to all.
The final statement was that we should try to be completely independent of foreign oil in ten year. The analogy was drawn between Pres Kennedy’s response to the Soviet space challenge which involved incredibly complex technical problems, and Pres Bush’s minimal response to the energy problem which involves readily available technical solutions. Please don’t flame me I am just reporting what I heard.
Seems to me that anyone running for office would win just on the energy issue. We should strive for way less regulation, energy independence and even shoot for being a major exporter. We can do it.
We used to be a can do nation, now it’s a can’t do nation, thanks to the libs.
GOP needs to tell Americans their only chance out of this energy crisis is to get the democrats out of office. Imagine how bad this will get if they control all three branches?
Basically, their answer is that higher prices are a good idea. That’s why their solution is to increase taxes on the oil companies.
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