Aren't High Gas Prices What Democrats Want?

Realclearpolitics ^ | February 22, 2012 | David Harsanyi

[Marguerite]

Gas prices are spiking. That's great news, right? We have to wean ourselves off the stuff. At least that's what we've been hearing for years. Oil is dirty. We import it from nations that hate our guts (like Canada!).

And moreover, we're running out. Oil is "finite." Finite much in the way water is finite. So why aren't Democrats making the case that the spike in prices is a good thing? Isn't this basically our energy policy these days?

If Democrats had their way, after all, we would be enjoying the economic results of cap-and-trade policy these days -- a program designed to increase the cost of energy by creating false demand in a fabricated market.

As the theory goes, if you inflate the price of fossil fuels, the barbarians might finally start putting thought into how peat moss might be able to power a toaster.

In 2008, Steven Chu, Obama's (and, sadly, our own) future secretary of energy (sic) lamented, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." ($9 the gallon)

Obama, when asked whether he thought $4-a-gallon gas prices were good for the American economy, said, "I think that I would have preferred a gradual adjustment."

[conservativejoy]

Thank you, Marguerite, and Thank You for being a Warrior in the Good Fight!

[hadaclueonce]

Future Speculators have learned to play the MSM like a $2 piano.

Thanks Main Street Media, we take it in the shorts because you guys are trying to sell papers and have access to a media outlet.

Speculators know that MSM does not care and the masses are too stupid to figure it out.

just maybe we should be spraying gatorade on our crops.

[hadaclueonce]

Changing my Tag line.

[hadaclueonce]

any more coments would get me on the list....