Posted on 03/07/2011 7:08:55 PM PST by pissant
WASHINGTON D.C. — Gas prices are the highest they’ve been in two years and a Congresswoman from Minnesota says the Obama administration is partly to blame.
Michele Bachmann says President Obama’s energy secretary has said Americans need to be paying as much as Europe does for gas in order to prompt alternative fuel research and development.
But, Bachmann says it shouldn’t come at the expense of Americans who are struggling to pay their bills. She says she supports alternative energy fuels, but we need to get gas prices in check in hte meantime.
Oil was trading at more than $103 a barrel last week.
(Excerpt) Read more at wjon.com ...
Nice to see someone get it right.
It seems half the people here blame BIG SPECULATOR or BIG OIL for the prices...when the cause is more than obvious.
Spot on! Where are the men with stones enough to say the same thing without compromise?
She is right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The oil companies are as gutless as 99.9% of Republicans in office.
“The oil companies are as gutless as 99.9% of Republicans in office.”
You mean because they put billions and billions at risk to drill in some really NASTY places when they could instead sit back and just import oil and sell it here.
That was an odd statement.
The lack of drilling and other energy development is costing the U.S. at least 500 billion..
All that money for domestic supplies could be circulating in the United States..
Not to speak of all the jobs eliminating much unemployment and food stamps and other safety net outlays..
America runs on energy.. no development is like cutting Americas wrists..
Shout it from the mountaintop Michelle. Love her!
Pray for America
No, I'm not talking about oil's upstream operations. I'm talking about fighting for the truth and putting things into perspective.
My wife worked for Texaco for 30 years, the last 15 of which in their world headquarters. She was there when Texaco declared bankruptcy and sold off companies in order to remain solvent. She's traveled all over Europe in various roles.
My point was, the opil companies never explain their position to the public. They let the Dems blow their cyclical profits out of proportion; never explaining a 5% return on sales.
Open your eyes to the general public's perception of "big nasty oil."
Who should get the blame for high petroleum prices if not the clown heading up the entire U.S. gummint?
Meanwhile Moochelle is re-educating us on how to eat. How much longer before she begins putting out recipes for dog anus soup and barbecued stuffed kitten heads?
The problem is, I believe, that the federal government has gotten so big -- and so powerful -- that every corporation in every industry is flat afraid to confront them.
With the government positioned (and willing) to inflict greivous damage on a company's markets, operations and finances (and profits), there is no percentage in trying to defend yourself. Especially with the Democrats having brought political extortion to a high art.
Better to cower publically and lobby privately -- and pay the "protection money" -- than to come out fighting.
“Open your eyes to the general public’s perception of “big nasty oil.” “
Hell, you don’t have to tell me that. I agree...there is a thing called advertising, rather than COWERING.
The companies should SURE AS HELL make the country aware of what they do. How about if they did a little commercial series called “Life Without Oil”, where they showed a family, and bit by bit, pieces of their lives disappeared...as they showed how much oil went into each bit. The drain from that toilet...2 gallons of crude for every 20 feet of PVC pipe (or whatever)...then show a wooden outhouse as the alternative. Hell, I could make a living designing commercials for these guys. They SURE AS HELL better speak up...unless they want our President Hugo here to own them.
When we owned both Houses and the White House, corporate America was cowering.
Partly to blsme? Would we have such prices with the energy independence 0bama and other extremists are preventing?
I’ve started saying it every time I fill up - 0bambi gas.
This isn't Europe (excepting New England, of course)...we have wide open spaces, and need cost-effective fuel to get around. Americans are not going to accept postage-stamp size cars to get from point A to Point B in Teeny-town.
Republicans should be screaming 'Drill baby, drill!' at the top of the lungs.
Why aren't they? (excepting Bachmann)
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