Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

$7-a-gallon gas?The folly of O's oil-spill 'fix'
NY Post ^ | 6-18-10 | BEN LIEBERMAN

Posted on 06/18/2010 11:51:46 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich

President Obama has a solution to the Gulf oil spill: $7-a-gallon gas.

That's a Harvard University study's estimate of the per-gallon price of the president's global-warming agenda. And Obama made clear this week that this agenda is a part of his plan for addressing the Gulf mess.

So what does global-warming legislation have to do with the oil spill?

Good question, because such measures wouldn't do a thing to clean up the oil or fix the problems that led to the leak.

The answer can be found in Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's now-famous words, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste -- and what I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before."

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 7dollargas; barackhusseinobama; bhofascism; capandtrade; crisis; democrats; domesticoil; drillheredrillnow; economy; energy; energyprices; envirofascism; fubo; gasprices; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hopeychangey; obama; oilspill; pelosi; reid
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-83 next last
To: Irisshlass

diesel would be around 10 buck a gallon so that 2 dollar loaf of bead will now be 10 bucks.


61 posted on 06/18/2010 2:49:48 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to GOD! Thomas Jefferson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: SQUID
I believe it is possible to make a vehicle that generates it’s own engergy. No fuel no plugging into the outlet.

That would be called walking, but you still need to eat don't you?

62 posted on 06/18/2010 2:50:29 PM PDT by X-FID
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
So what does global-warming legislation have to do with the oil spill? Good question, because such measures wouldn't do a thing to clean up the oil or fix the problems that led to the leak.

63 posted on 06/18/2010 3:05:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: OB1kNOb

Hahaha! I’m only the second owner and I’ve had it since late 2004. Interior is kinda rough, but she runs. Still only has 147,000 miles on it. For a diesel, that’s nothin’!


64 posted on 06/18/2010 3:44:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Don't care if he was born in a manger on July 4th! A "Natural Born" citizen requires two US parents!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies]

To: SQUID
I believe it is possible to make a vehicle that generates it’s own engergy. No fuel no plugging into the outlet.

You're kidding, right?

65 posted on 06/18/2010 5:17:40 PM PDT by WFTR (Liberty isn't for cowards)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: SQUID

The laws of thermodynamics cannot be ignored. You can’t create something from nothing.


66 posted on 06/18/2010 5:27:05 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (Stand up and fight.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: pabianice
I know a lady that got T-boned in a de Ville like that. Police and paramedics said that car saved her life in that situation.

She didn't even miss a day of work.

67 posted on 06/18/2010 7:54:35 PM PDT by oyez (The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has it limits.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies]

To: Irisshlass

Not only are many of us already doing that, what is the cost of gas or electricity to can or even to dehydrate?

I only dehydrate and I see it on the electric bill every Fall.

We need electricity and propane for our businesses. We are using 1/3 less than we were 3 years ago and paying the same amount. Last month, we used $89 of electric power and the bill, with facility fees, taxes, donation to the electric bills of the poor, we paid was $129. The less propane I use, the higher the amount I am charged. When I do negotiate a cut by taking the company up on their promise to meet anyone’s price, suddenly, my budget payment amount increases.

We get 36mpg and my husband drives 45 miles one way 3x week in order to make enough money to live and pay insurance and property taxes. The Focus is paid off in 10 months and we will drive it into the ground before replacing it. It will take us 2-3 years to save enough for a down payment on a new car, anyway, because everything has gone up and we cannot raise our prices as much.

This needs to end. Everyone was ok with cutting back _some_. They sold it by promising lower bills. Then, they raise the rates and add on more fees and taxes. We don’t pay enough taxes to use all the deductions we already have, let alone be seduced by tax credits. We are too old and lack the capital to retrofit our 100-year-old house to some modern alternative, even if it would work or their would be a payback. In -30F winters, those alternatives don’t work, either.

They are just pushing, pushing, pushing.


68 posted on 06/18/2010 8:25:26 PM PDT by reformedliberal ("If it takes a blood bath, let's get it over with." R. Reagan)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies]

To: nascarnation
The new EPA diesels have far more emissions claptrap than any gasser.

There's a reason they're barred from entering the U.S. They're not burdened by EPA standards.
69 posted on 06/18/2010 8:26:45 PM PDT by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: pabianice

You’re right, that is a CAR. They just don’t build them like that any more.


70 posted on 06/18/2010 9:12:28 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Progressivism, Socialism, Marxism, Communism - it's all shades of black.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies]

To: WFTR

No, think about it. Stored energy is only needed upon start up. Then, you have a resource for an alternate energy and that is motion.


71 posted on 06/19/2010 9:19:16 AM PDT by SQUID
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 65 | View Replies]

To: X-FID

Nice try! No my friend, I am serious. You will see. It will happen.

There were people who thought flight was possible in the midst of the impossible so to with this come to be possible.


72 posted on 06/19/2010 9:21:34 AM PDT by SQUID
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 62 | View Replies]

To: CincyRichieRich; Thunder90; Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; Entrepreneur; Darnright; Nipfan; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

73 posted on 06/19/2010 10:24:18 AM PDT by steelyourfaith (America should take a mulligan on the 2008 presidential election.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SQUID
No, think about it. Stored energy is only needed upon start up. Then, you have a resource for an alternate energy and that is motion.

That's not true. The first law of thermodynamics says that energy is neither created nor destroyed. The motion of the car is work, and doing work requires using energy. You cannot do work and generate more energy from the same energy. Doing so would be creating more energy. In order to make a car run, you have to convert energy from some stored form into the motion of the car.

74 posted on 06/19/2010 2:35:26 PM PDT by WFTR (Liberty isn't for cowards)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 71 | View Replies]

To: WFTR

“The motion of the car is work, and doing work requires using energy.” Exactly! We agree.

A generator can feed the main power source from its motion at the same time. There will also be stored energy to smooth out the feed.

you will see


75 posted on 06/19/2010 5:06:48 PM PDT by SQUID
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 74 | View Replies]

To: SQUID

kinetic energy


76 posted on 06/19/2010 5:09:12 PM PDT by SQUID
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 75 | View Replies]

To: SQUID

induction


77 posted on 06/19/2010 5:10:57 PM PDT by SQUID
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 76 | View Replies]

To: SQUID

No, we don’t agree. You don’t understand the laws of thermodynamics.


78 posted on 06/19/2010 6:36:24 PM PDT by WFTR (Liberty isn't for cowards)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 75 | View Replies]

To: WFTR

No, YOU don’t understand what I’m talking about, as I expected. You need to venture out of your little box once in a while.


79 posted on 06/19/2010 6:44:50 PM PDT by SQUID
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 78 | View Replies]

To: SQUID

LOL You don’t know what you are talking about. You need to take some basic science courses or at least do some reading about the basics of science and engineering. When you come to understand basic laws of thermodynamics, you’ll be qualified to talk about these issues.


80 posted on 06/19/2010 9:01:57 PM PDT by WFTR (Liberty isn't for cowards)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 79 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-83 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson