Posted on 02/25/2012 7:34:39 PM PST by Iam1ru1-2
Last Monday, I heard a business analyst being interviewed on a popular television news network. In discussing the recent alarming rise in gasoline prices, he made this statement to the viewers: "Go buy gas for your car today. It will be more expensive tomorrow."
Boy, he was right on. Where I live, gasoline has risen 16 cents per gallon since he voiced that warning.
By early February, the national average for a gallon of regular unleaded was $3.56. That's not the highest it's ever been, but gasoline prices have never been this high this early in the season. It's interesting, too, that demand for gasoline is also at record levels -- record LOWS and falling! According to MasterCard, demand fell by 3.1% in recent days and is 5% below last year. And even though Europe has had a brutal winter, this has been a rather mild one for the US. Yet, heating fuel prices have not fallen despite the fact that Americans used far less heating oil than expected this year.
Some observers credit the fact that Saudi Arabia has cut production by more than 250,000 barrels per day. Also, Iran decided to punish Europe for threatening to impose fuel sanctions. The Iranians announced they will stop sending more than 300,000 barrels per day to France, England, and Germany.
So, there seems to be no easy answer to the most popular question these days, "Why?" Why are fuel prices rising when demand is falling?
And, it appears the Obama administration is not going to take advantage of a golden opportunity to drive those prices down, put tens of thousands to work, and decrease our dependence on Arab oil.
Canada has more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. Because of new technologies not available just a few years ago, Canada has been able to begin successfully recovering that crude oil. The Canadians announced that they wanted to sell that oil to their neighbors to the south. That's us! So the private sector got busy and in 2005 began developing and building a pipeline that would move Canadian crude from northeastern Alberta province to refineries throughout the Midwest and on down to the Gulf Coast states.
Talk about a bonanza! The mammoth pipeline project is privately funded. No government stimulus funds needed. It will employ tens of thousands in construction-related jobs and maybe hundreds of thousands in related industries as the project grows and the oil is finally pumping. And there's so much oil available, it will help make us less dependent on Arab oil. And it will help drive down the refined prices because, currently, Saudi oil is selling for $105 a barrel while Canadian oil is going for $33 per barrel. Some analysts speculate that within a few years, by combining our reserves with Canada's, America could become a net oil exporter. We could sell oil to fuel-hungry China and maybe get some of our money back!
Sounds like a no-brainer, right? Wrong! Remember, we are now living in a "progressive" society. There's no such thing as a "no-brainer" anymore. You see, our President is either so ideologically bound or so financially beholden to the environmentalist lobby that he feels obligated to do its bidding. So, on January 18, President Obama announced he was rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline project.
You see, he first tried to "postpone" his final decision until 2013 so he wouldn't have to antagonize the environmentalists going into the 2012 general elections. Congress would have none of that, though. So they passed legislation requiring him to make a decision within 60 days or formally reject the project.
Then, President Obama complained that his government didn't have time to do an effective environmental survey. That excuse brazenly ignored the fact that his own State Department had already issued an environmental impact study in 2010 that gave the project the environmental "green light." So, the so-called "smartest President" in American history caved to the far Left and said "no" to a "no-brainer." Even many in his own party are outraged.
Canada had already declared that they intended to sell the oil. If not to their closest neighbors (that's us), then to someone else. It is now late February and the Canadians have already begun signing agreements with the Chinese to build the pipeline to Canada's west coast and begin shipping the crude to China.
Unfortunately, I suppose President Obama is keeping his campaign promise to "fundamentally change America." And if America has been, as President Ronald Reagan famously declared, "A city shining on a hill," to fundamentally change that means dimming the lights of the city.
It grieves me to see this happening to our beloved nation. But, I must confess, it doesn't surprise me. I find no role in the Scriptures' prophetic scenario for a nation that resembles the United States. That does not necessarily mean that our country will no longer exist, but I firmly believe it means that it will no longer be a superpower. It will no longer be the "last best hope for a dying world." It will no longer be that "city shining on a hill."
I miss America already.
When it comes to promoting his agenda, Bambi is the most successful president in recent history.
Thanks to a do-nothing and dare-nothing Congress.
Obummer: Angel abroad, devil at home.
The global muslim street voice used propaganda to demonize Bush and propel obama into the WH. Now we have a muslim catering to them and doing everything to weaken, marginalize, dismantle and destroy America.
Its just a matter of time before these elements hit the street in America and obama pushes for his dictatorship.
At $6 per gallon you'll find SEIU leaning on Democrats in Congress.
At $6.50 per gallon SEIU will send their legal counsel to talk to Obama.
At $7.00 per gallon SEIU will be burning Joe Biden in Effigy Illinois
At $7.50 per gallon SEIU will be taking up pitchforks and firebrands to run down Democrat politicians at night.
At $8.00 per gallon, the Republican Establishment will join SEIU
One day this bass-turd intentionally ignores the economic law of `supply and demand’ ...
The next day he tries to take credit for seeking relief for American drivers and high gas prices.
Then, he suggests pumping algae in our gas tanks.
Until Obama, I didn’t think it possible for an American president to be evil, dishonest and stupid, all at the same time.
The only explanation I can think of is that he is a complete fraud.
I just paid 4.70 for premium here in CA
Not his fault. Just ask him. he’ll tell you.
NAILED it!!!!
Bttt.
Up 16c since “last Monday”? Hah. It’s up 25c in three days in Silicon Valley. Once they broke $4.00, they decided to make up for the $3.959 pussy-footing all at once.
Iran is going to take over the world.
The refineries need maintenance
The speculators are doing it
We're running out of oil
We have plenty of oil
Americans are driving less, so we need to raise prices
The Chinese have millions of mopeds to fuel
There is a leak in a pipe in Moose Jaw Alaska
A rodent chewed through a line at the main pump station in Texas.
Demand is down but we are producing more however, our refineries have been and are being shut down
Prices will go to 6.75, but 3 days before the election, Obama will lower prices to 1.40 to ensure reelection
A school of endangered blowfish have been sucked into a pipe, and it takes time to get them out.
Iran has nukes
Unstable markets worldwide.
A big refinery fire
A small refinery fire
A refinery fire could possibly happen
New gas additives are being developed to make Americans even more stupid
They forgot to build a pipe
They don’t like pipes
Rich liberals want the price even higher.
Obama hates the oil industry
The oil industry hates Obama and are hoping this kills his reelection
Liberals want everyone ridding donkeys and bicycles to work as a sacrifice for the planet
We moved more armaments to the gulf because Iran is taking over the world
Wild money printing and massive deficits
Americans love high gas prices
Refinery margins are tight…They hardly make any money at all.
The masses have no idea how free market works.
It is being exported because we are making more than we use.
Demand has fallen
We need refinery upgrades and expansion
We are making more than we use so we have to sell it to the Chinese, (They have 1 billion mopeds to fuel , and need to go to work so they can send us more Communist products)
We have plenty of oil, so much so, we need to sell it abroad to keep prices low.
We have plenty of oil, so much so, we need to sell it abroad to keep prices high.
Obama has seriously pissed off the oil companies and seriously limited their profit, and this is part of his election strategy.
And that has made it a "public good", complete with heavy-handed, widespread extortion aka "eminent domain" activity. They can't even keep track of the farmers being served in Texas for a project that doesn't even really exist on paper.
Who cares already.....
ND is pumping 500,000 barrels a day and rising....
A single sounty in South Texas went from zero to 100,000 barrels a day today....so it only took them 4 years.
Time for ND to join OPEC.
Fracking drill baby drill.
An honest question-
wouldn’t the gas produced by this pipeline be exported anyway? I’ve read people claiming we are actually exporting oil and gos
Thanks
sorry...fat fingers .....sounty = county
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