Posted on 04/29/2011 3:17:59 PM PDT by library user
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Are high gas prices a good thing?
That is not as dumb a question as it sounds. Examine a few revealing remarks from President Obama and the Cabinet officials who are in charge of the nation's energy use and oil leases on federal lands. Then decide whether soaring gas prices are supposed to be good.
In 2008, then-Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar — now the interior secretary in charge of the leasing of federal oil lands — refused to vote for any new offshore drilling. In a Senate exchange with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Salazar objected to drilling on America's outer continental shelf — even if gas reached $10 a gallon.
We can see why the president appointed Salazar, inasmuch as Obama recently promised the Brazilians that he would be eager to buy their newfound offshore oil — while prohibiting similar such exploration here at home.
From 2007 to 2008, Steven Chu, now energy secretary, weighed in frequently on global warming and the desirable price of traditional energy. Once he asserted, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe."
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"Chu ... once asserted, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe."
These guys are just plain EVIL. EVIL.
$15 a gallon gas instead of $5 a gallon gas?
I just read that Obama is thinking about selling off all of our oil reserves and use the money for alternative energy research. That makes my stomach hurt.
i have a bet that gas is $6/gal by Labor Day,
At this rate, I wouldn’t doubt it.
I know. Don’t remind me. :O)
Where?
And he’d be asking for political suicide if he actually went through with that. Only his most idiotic of useful idiots would stand for that.
Obama is a Marxist and so are the majority of environmentalists.
A weak, populace at the hands of their environmental tyranny is what they all dream about!
Obama needs to take a long hard look at the countries which have experienced recent popular uprisings which terminated in “regime change”.
How many of these were precipitated by rapidly escalating food prices and shortages?
How much of our food supply depends on diesel fueled transportation? Nearly all of it! “Gas” prices include diesel fuel prices. Higher diesel means more expensive food.
Couple that with the “save the planet” ethanol push which led to grain shortages and price escalation and we have the potential for food shortage and food price motivated demonstrations soon. Couple this with trucker protests because of the prices and Obama may have a “dinner table” revolt on his hands.
That’s OK, though. Michelle Antoinette has said,
“Let them eat Arugula with their wagyu steak... as long as they are Organic, locally grown and have no trans-fats!”
I agree and I think people will vote for who they think is best equipped to fix the economy.
“These guys are just plain EVIL. EVIL.”
Not to mention psychotic, adolescent, totalitarian,
goose-stepping, hateful morons.
IMHOd
baraq has mentioned selling off our reserves and instituting a new tax on oil companies to fund green energy research. This has nothing to do with alternative energy, it is all about punishing oil companies.
I just read that Obama is thinking about selling off all of our oil reserves
Where is Obama quoted in the article you linked? I see someone named Wiess quoted but not Obama. His suggestion was selling 30 million of the 700+ million barrels of oil and invest in his pet projects. But I didn’t see ‘ALL’ nor ‘Obama’ mentioned not that I would put it past him.
I never thought of it that way, but, wouldn’t put it past him. This is turning into a dictatorship. America can not take another 5.5 years of this man. The next 18 months is going to be hard enough.
Bump for an outstanding article ! (And I don’t usually like Victor Davis Hanson, but this one’s a beaut !)
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