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$7-a-gallon gas?The folly of O's oil-spill 'fix'
NY Post ^
| 6-18-10
| BEN LIEBERMAN
Posted on 06/18/2010 11:51:46 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich
President Obama has a solution to the Gulf oil spill: $7-a-gallon gas.
That's a Harvard University study's estimate of the per-gallon price of the president's global-warming agenda. And Obama made clear this week that this agenda is a part of his plan for addressing the Gulf mess.
So what does global-warming legislation have to do with the oil spill?
Good question, because such measures wouldn't do a thing to clean up the oil or fix the problems that led to the leak.
The answer can be found in Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's now-famous words, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste -- and what I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before."
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 7dollargas; barackhusseinobama; bhofascism; capandtrade; crisis; democrats; domesticoil; drillheredrillnow; economy; energy; energyprices; envirofascism; fubo; gasprices; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hopeychangey; obama; oilspill; pelosi; reid
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To: Gondring
It still requires fuel to operate the machinery for planting and harvesting.
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posted on
06/18/2010 12:55:05 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: ErnBatavia
be careful in anything approaching high water; the sidemount engine is very susceptible to total ruin if it gets too wet.Thanks for the tip!
42
posted on
06/18/2010 12:57:04 PM PDT
by
Glenn
(iamtheresistance.org)
To: ichabod1
“their pissant little countries all have public transportation”
Actually, you answered most of the question right in the 1st part - they’re LITTLE. We’re big and spread out. People wonder why we had big cars all the time while Euro’s were so “advanced” with teeny ugly cars, and that’s the answer - they don’t understand BIG, because they’re all tiny inherently. Even together they don’t have our “big sky country”.
43
posted on
06/18/2010 12:57:41 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: Utilizer
That’s still 30mpg - albeit you don’t have the stability or the capacity of even an EconoBox.
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posted on
06/18/2010 1:01:35 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: rwfromkansas
45
posted on
06/18/2010 1:11:54 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200 and a substantial tax cut save you 30 cents?)
To: CincyRichieRich; Glenn
Just pick up a $100 Mercedes like I did...
46
posted on
06/18/2010 1:13:43 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(Don't care if he was born in a manger on July 4th! A "Natural Born" citizen requires two US parents!)
To: Glenn
I hedged by buying a Mini Cooper two weeks ago
It's a shame the guberment won't allow the diesel version to be imported. I wouldn't mind the 63mpg and being able to do all of the engine maintenance with the parts I've got in the shed.
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posted on
06/18/2010 1:18:56 PM PDT
by
Renderofveils
(My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
To: CincyRichieRich
The report projects $7 per gallon in 2020. Hate to break it to these ivory tower types, it’s going to be much higher than that once inflation starts kicking. Print/borrow/print/borrow/print has consequences.
48
posted on
06/18/2010 1:24:17 PM PDT
by
Renderofveils
(My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I’ll give you $200 for it! Quick double your money profit? ;-)
49
posted on
06/18/2010 1:24:18 PM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. - Thomas Jefferson)
To: Irisshlass
People still need to eat. Increased transportation costs will just be passed on from the food companies to the consumers. The same with other petroleum-based products (plastics, etc.).
Can you say inflation?
50
posted on
06/18/2010 1:24:29 PM PDT
by
mellow velo
(Obama has no past; America is losing its future.)
To: rwfromkansas
$4 gas had a large part in crashing the economy. $7 would kill it for good.
It'll be dead on the floor given the fact that millions only make 6 or 7 per hour....
This happens, and people will be exchanging canned food for gifts this Christmas.
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posted on
06/18/2010 1:28:08 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
To: Renderofveils
The new EPA diesels have far more emissions claptrap than any gasser. You better have a bank of computers and interface boxes in the shed.
To: mellow velo
Grow a garden and start canning.
To: CincyRichieRich
The Clueless 0ne-in-chief ban on drilling will put the spurs to that $7 and get us there in a hurry. He won’t even need Crap-and-Tax. The deepwater rigs are headed to Brazil, Cuba/China, and we won’t get them back. The contracts will be ‘force majeured’ out of US hands and offered to highest bidder. Only Americans who might win are the lawyers.
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posted on
06/18/2010 1:41:29 PM PDT
by
CRBDeuce
(here, while the internet is still free of the Fairness Doctrine)
To: Army Air Corps
...and? Food prices will go up.
55
posted on
06/18/2010 1:41:34 PM PDT
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: CincyRichieRich
I can see November from my house.....
To: the OlLine Rebel
Yar, or mebbe a bit better since I am not exactly sure how much the reserve really held. My first bike, a 650cc ricerocket did better than that, but as I said I did not buy the Hog for its fuel efficiency. The other nice thing about it was I can’t tell you how many times I would be waiting at a stoplight and some cager would call out “Hey, nice bike”. Yes, I did customize it some. *smile*
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posted on
06/18/2010 1:49:29 PM PDT
by
Utilizer
(What does not kill you... -can sometimes damage you QUITE severely.)
To: the OlLine Rebel
People-carry capacity was unimportant as well. Nimbleness was great, as well as being incredibly surefooted due to a very low centre of gravity.
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posted on
06/18/2010 1:54:15 PM PDT
by
Utilizer
(What does not kill you... -can sometimes damage you QUITE severely.)
To: mowowie
So, For all of my energy saving habits i can now expect a tripling of my energy bills?As a part of your comprehensive energy saving strategy, don't include bicycling as a substitute for your motor vehicle. Around here in FR, child rape is viewed as being less sinful than inconveniencing a motorist for even one second.
To: Disambiguator
My brother left me his 1974 Cadillac Sedan de Ville. THERE was a car, 6,000 pounds of Detroit steel, 500 Cu inch engine, 8 city, 11 highway. You could actually see the gas gague needle move down on the highway. Man, was it safe. Once I month I had to scrape the Corollas and Hundais out of the wheel wells. It was so big I had to look through the steering wheel to see. I miss it.
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