Posted on 04/26/2011 5:43:13 AM PDT by Libloather
Interesting this move, which I think is a big mistake. All the Republicans and Fox News have to do is play the clips of Salazaar saying he would not drill if gas were 10.00 a gallon. How long before the public figures out the strategy on anything that people don't like is basically to appoint a commission, blame someone else, then blame Bush, then do nothing. Hilarious.
Take away the subsidies and the price of gasoline will go UP.
Is that too difficult a concept for these liars.
You beat me to it. Either the Dims are really that stupid, or they believe the American people are.
Or both.
Obama and the gov’t is not the solution to high gas prices, they are the problem ! Drill Here and Drill Now !
Is that too difficult a concept for these liars.
No, that's what they want. Never lose sight of that fact. They want the price of gas, and oil, to be as high as possible.
Carley: “Take away the subsidies and
the price of gasoline will go UP.
Is that too difficult a concept for these liars.”
Actually, THEY KNOW.
Chu and Obama WANT $10 to $20 a gal gasoline.
Heck, it doesn’t effect THEM.
Excellent! I am trying to find a link to Salazar’s exact quote on that.
I will post it if I can find it.
It is the same group who think you can tax the rich with an income tax.
We are caught in the clutches of an absolutely insane government.
The problem...Two many of BOTH are truly stupid. Liberals idea..make GAS so damn expensive that no one will drive, let’s say, to CAPE COD for summer vacation. That will really help the economy of the tourist areas. Help ease traffic on the Cape, cut down on air pollution, help Mother Earth, cut the toll of little turtles killed by cars crossing the road.
The benefits are virtually endless. And this would hold true across the entire country.
Lord Forbid!!!
The voters have proven their stupidity.
It's not that the American people are stupid as much as they are lazy. They'd rather sit back & let Katie Couric et al TELL them how to think & feel.
These idiots are going to do something about the prices alright. And as usual they will screw it up.
Get ready for gas lines.
At this point, we don't have a shortage of gas. I doubt gas lines will be an issue. In fact, prices could come down somewhat what with less of a market from consumers not driving. But they won't come down much, and people staying off the highways will impact other areas of the economy.
Oil Companies + Rivers of Cash + Citizens United decision should be able to put together a PR campaign to assure Obama goes back to Chicago in 2012.
“Is that too difficult a concept for these liars.
It is the same group who think you can tax the rich with an income tax.”
That my friend, is too funny. I love it.
Corn ethanol subsidies totaled $7.0 billion in 2006 for 4.9 billion gallons of ethanol. That's $1.45 per gallon of ethanol (and $2.21 per gal of gas replaced).
Even with high gas prices in 2006, producing a gallon of ethanol cost 38¢ more than making gasoline with the same energy, so ethanol did need part of that subsidy. But what about the other $1.12. Not needed!
So all of that became, $5.4 billion windfall of profits paid to real farmers, corporate farmers, and ethanol makers like multinational ADM. Why is it the farm states put up with this?!
Where did those subsidies come from:
1. 51¢ per gallon federal blenders credit for $2.5 billion = your tax dollars.
2. $0.9 billion in corn subsidies for ethanol corn = your tax dollars.
3. $3.6 billion extra paid at the pump.
That's quite a bit when you figure it only made us 1.1% more energy independent and only reduced US greenhouse gases by 1/19 of 1%.
Five years ago, a US General Accounting Office report showed that ethanol had received $11.6 billion in tax incentives since 1968, while the oil industry had received over $150 billion in tax benefit over the same period.
While true, the oil industry produced 1068 times more energy so the subsidy rate per unit energy was 54 times higher for ethanol. That's like ethanol gets 54¢ and oil gets 1¢.
Likewise while impossible to tell how many people the Ethanol Business employs, it is nowhere near the est 330,000 people who work in the eeeeeevil oil industry.
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