Posted on 03/13/2011 10:36:31 AM PDT by george76
"This administration's policies have been designed to drive up the cost of energy in the name of reducing pollution, in the name of making very expensive alternative fuels more economically competitive."
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
I think it’s more like....in the name of destroying the American way of life in favor of a totalitarian tyranny.
bttt
Wait a minute here.....wasn’t Barbour the idiot that praised Soetero last week?
Correct me if I’m wrong.
I still see the advertisement with pelosi...Ugh
Yep, it the same clown!
One of the few times Obama told the truth during the campaign is when he said his energy policy would make energy costs skyrocket.
DUH!
Was there ever a doubt?
And as all prices start to rise, someone should play that video over and over again.
Either passively or actively driving energy costs up should be punished in the world of public opinion.
Fuel prices are experiencing a man made bubble because enviro-terrorists are choking us with their hot air.
What we need is HIGH SPEED RAIL!
But wait! With the complete loss of a high speed train in Japan with 400 people on board maybe we should put on the brakes for trains and DRILL, DRILL,DRILL!
A state with oil (Texas or Louisiana, for example) could begin drilling on state-owned land, refine it within the state, and sell it at state-owned gas stations. Set the price to be lower than commercial stations. It would be a benefit for state residents and businesses. You'd probably want to find a way to keep existing stations from going out of business, or else you won't have enough locations to service all the people.
But there is no reason why a state that generates its own electrical power and sells it to its citizens can't generate its own gasoline and sell it to its citizens.
The effect would be that supply that is currently dormant because the feds are interfering with private enterprise will enter the market and prices in general will come down.
"This administration's policies have been designed to drive up the cost of energy in the name of reducing pollution, in the name of making very expensive alternative fuels more economically competitive."It's an idea he got from Al Gore, or more accurately, from whatever enemy entity Gore got it from.
Kind of like Alaska - either drive prices down or send a check to every one that pays taxes each year.
Too late. The liberals saw that possibility and attacked it 25 years ago with a Commerce Clause case that basically extended federal regulation under the ICC and FTC all the way back to the wellhead.
If a drop of your state oil or an atom of your state gas touches, or even throws a shadow on, a facility, tank, or pipeline that handles federally-regulated products, you're federalized all the way back to the wellhead.
They say.
Well, Lochner said the same thing about a farmer’s grain, but that decision is ripe for reconsideration by the court.
But I think I know what you're talking about now -- the infamous feedlot grain case, where the farmer did no more than carry his own grain across his barnyard, and the Court federalized it for him.
Yes, I hope that one would be taken down eventually -- that and all similarly, nakedly fascist Commerce Clause interpretations.
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