Posted on 09/09/2012 9:39:32 AM PDT by nhwingut
SAN RAMON, Calif. - Paul Ryan said today the president has gone to "great lengths" to make gas more expensive in this country.
The vice presidential candidate visited Google headquarters in Montainview to hold a Google+ Hangout where he took questions from supporters at campaign offices all over the country, including a question from a senior citizen in Florida named Ruth. She asked him how he was going to "improve the situation" of sky high gas prices.
"This is not just something that squeezes family budgets, it squeezes businesses," Ryan answered. "It also gives us a bad foreign policy in that we are so dependent on other countries for our oil imports, it's the biggest part of our trade deficit and so what's frustrating about the Obama administration's policies are they've gone to great lengths to make oil and gas more expensive."
The average national gas price is $3.82 up from $3.66 just a month ago, according to statistics from the American Automobile Association.
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good idea!
good idea!
Quite the opposite. Bumper sticker stock is specifically designed to be removed without damage.
I’ve even had a gas station owner request a full sheet.
And I suppose you always ask permission before applying?
Only if I go in the store.
The half life of a Post-it™ note is about a day.
My stickers last weeks to months and often show clear evidence of having been cleaned.
Yes, bumper sticker material is designed to stay on in the elements.
It is not easy to remove. Quite effective vandalism.
I keep yellow post it stickers in my car, and just write on them and stick em on the pump when I get gas..
Bumper sticker stock is specifically designed to be removed without damage.
I verified that my stickers can be easily peeled off without residue or damage before I started using them.
I'm in California, we don't have "elements" beyond sunshine most of the year.
One does wonder how strong a champion of Liberty you would be when push comes to shove if you are afraid to put a temporary sticker in a public space.
Ah well, I've got your back, even if you daren't lift a finger to help the cause of freedom.
perfect...
But honestly, what can a sitting president—or a man who is not much of a president—do directly about gasoline prices?
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Like most anything else NOTHING.
However if gas went from 1.85 in 08 to .85 today, it would be tolled from the highest mountains about how “HE” was the cause of it.
(Admittedly both parties work the same way, take 100% credit for the good and run away from the bad).
Since ‘they’ have the media on their side, it is up to us to spread the word about the shortcomings etc.
All these—the sort of people that lived in these houses, and all those damn little clerks that used to live down that way—they’d be no good. They haven’t any spirit in them—no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn’t one or the other—Lord! What is he but funk and precautions? They just used to skedaddle off to work—I’ve seen hundreds of ‘em, bit of breakfast in hand, running wild and shining to catch their little season-ticket train, for fear they’d get dismissed if they didn’t; working at businesses they were afraid to take the trouble to understand; skedaddling back for fear they wouldn’t be in time for dinner; keeping indoors after dinner for fear of the back streets, and sleeping with the wives they married, not because they wanted them, but because they had a bit of money that would make for safety in their one little miserable skedaddle through the world. Lives insured and a bit invested for fear of accidents. And on Sundays—fear of the hereafter. As if hell was built for rabbits!
Hmmm?
Just the THREAT of opening more land to drilling has caused an abrupt drop in crude prices.
A real President, not a communist agenda stooge, can do a lot.
What we could have...
What we can't touch according to our "government."
Now, this is a gas map but oil and gas usually trend in the same areas...
So, the Great and magnanimous jug ears has graciously granted some minor concessions with his "new" plan that "opens" offshore exploration and drilling with this...
Look at the shale gas map and the "new plan" from jug ears.
Notice the 800 pound gorilla in the room?
That newly opened area in yellow? There appears to be nothing there.
But hey, little bammy hussein the magnificent, mr. "you’ll love me even more," has, in his omnipresent wisdom, allowed the oil and gas companies to drill all the dry holes they like.
And what would that do for gas prices?
July 14, 2008. Bush lifts executive ban on offshore oil drilling and...
Note the date where the price breaks and begins to normalize. July 17, 2008.
Two days after the announcement to lift the executive ban.
Two days.
That is what a REAL President can do.
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“Didn’t the National Hoax say that energy prices would necessarily skyrocket???”
One campaign statement he made that he actually kept...
What Romney needs to do January 21st is to fire the first BIG salvos of a sort of “shock and awe” campaign to gut the regulations, agencies, and red tape that contribute greatly to the destruction of American wealth.
A sitting president (if we had one) could call off the EPA dogs from the oil exploration and drilling activities, and reopen federal lands for exploration and drilling leases and permits.
Almost all new drilling permits during Obama's term have been on private land.
I’m doing a search. Could swear I saw them somewhere online a couple of years ago.
Here on Placerville Cal. I am paying 4.50 a gallon for Diesel. It sucks.
Just the THREAT of opening more land to drilling has caused an abrupt drop in crude prices
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I agree, but the question was what can the sitting president do....
Also, as indicated, they are more than willing to take the credit for something they had ‘nothing’ to do with (I ‘killed’ OBL) but can’t imagine why the economy is in the dumpster (I inherited it)....and BOTH parties are to blame, not just these idiots.
By now, hopefully you’ve read post #34, and seen what a REAL president can and did do.
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