If you are a Newt supporter, please consider doing national calls for Newt. He has been hit big time from all sides, but we know he will endure. Thank you very much.
http://www.newt.org/activism/pb
p.s. if you didn't know, Newt writes a new article every week for Human Events, and they have a special "Newt" tab that has lots of Newt stuff...
Easy, The Fischer–Tropsch process
Drill here...drill now. Frack here...frack now!
And the economy was pretty damn good during most of Bush's (Republican controll of house, senate, presidency) time. It got bad when DEMONcrats started taking control.
NOBODY, absolutely NOBODY makes more sense than NEWT GINGRICH.
And we could reduce current levels of gasoline consumption if we took the corn out of it, without reducing our miles driven.
It takes a higher volume of gasoline, plus the added ethanol, for me to drive a thousand miles with gas-a-hol than if it were pure gas. How this lowers pollution is beyond me, what it does is increase demand for the oil companies, which in turn increases their profits... oh wait, I think I am beginning to understand something here.
Reading this piece makes me hopeful. I am currently reading Armageddon, Oil, and Terror...a bit unnerving. I am glad Gingrich offers solutions and not just talk, that is what I want—a map, no more wandering around aimlessly.
Then reading Maxine Waters comments today...UGH!
“She also noted that if Democrats re-take the majority, she would become the chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services, the committee that regulates Wall Street.”
The lady who said/did this:
The Shell exec said paying $5 at the pump “will look like a very low price in the years to come if we are prohibited from finding new reserves, new opportunities to increase supplies.”
Waters responded, in part, “And guess what this liberal would be all about. This liberal will be about socializing … uh, um. …”
The congresswoman paused to collect her thoughts.
“Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies. …”
The oil executives responded, according to Fox News, by saying they’ve seen this before, in Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela.
http://www.wnd.com/2008/05/65111/
Then recently there was this:
The former president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister, says Americans could be paying $5 for a gallon of gasoline by 2012.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/27/markets/oil_commodities/index.htm
We really need to work hard to hold the house and gain the senate and I think we need Gingrich as our president. He has a plan and he has been working on some of these problems for years and he has solutions. That is what I want, solutions! Cheap gas would be a nice added benefit... :)
Though right now I’m pretty much only concerned with trying to save this country from going under, because it sure feels like that is where we are headed unless we turn this around fast.
Go Gingrich! I’m counting on you!
Perpetual motion
Here's another interesting article:
It wasn't that long ago that refineries were full to capacity, and that kept the price up as no more could be refined to meet the demand.Be prepared because sky-high gas prices are coming!
The price of gas could soon soar to $4 a gallon or more, according to ABC News. The average price of gas, across the country, is $3.52 per gallon. The country came close to $4 gas last Spring but gas prices haven’t actually surpassed $4 since the summer of 2008.
Tom Kloza, of the Oil Price Information Service, believes that “it’s going to be a chaotic spring.” And, Andrew Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates, in Houston, opines that where the price of gas peaks “depends if the Middle East blows up in a war or not. That’s really the big headline out there: Whether or not geopolitical events disrupt supply. We see that affect already.”
Regarding this month’s crude oil prices, Kloza said that, “early February crude oil prices are higher than they’ve ever been on similar calendar dates through the years, and the price of crude sets the standard for gasoline prices.”
As reported by ABC News, while demand is falling (people are not driving as much), U.S. inventories are rising and prices aren’t declining because of increased uncertainty.
Underscoring the situation is the fact that Sunoco, Lipow points out, has begun closing refineries because of the decrease in demand. But, they have also been impacted by the switch from gasoline to renewable fuels and by competition from foreign imported gas. One third of Sunoco’s Northeast refineries have been closed in the past two years. Lipow notes that once a refinery is closed, it is not likely to reopen.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has been quoted as saying that there is a “strong possibility” that Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear facilities this coming spring. Analysis performed by NBC News indicates that any military aggression in the Middle East will result in an accession in crude oil prices:
“But if crude were to spike to $200, and we’re at $100 per barrel now, the industry consensus generally holds that for every $10 increase in crude we typically see about a 25-cent increase in the price at the pump. So if you’re seeing $3.50 a gallon in your local market and Israel attacked today, add $2.50 to that and now we’re looking at $6 gasoline. “
To read the complete NBC report, click here
Countering NBC’s analysis, are a few Israeli and American experts. According to an article by Michael Hirsh, in National Journal, they argue that an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities will have less of a negative impact than originally thought. The following points are offered in support of this position:
- Iran’s governmental disorganization and infighting. The military is also disorganized and lacks strength.
- Iran is dealing with a poor economy
- Hezbollah and Hamas are reluctant to launch a counter attack on Israel
- Iran’s primary ally, Syria, is engulfed in civil war
- A “deterrent threat” from the U.S. could keep the Strait of Hormuz open
- Iran desperately needs oil sales in order to keep its gutted economy going, so it is unlikely to halt the petroleum trade.
Either way–regardless of whether a Middle East war is on the agenda, it appears that gas prices will accelerate.
-Candice Lanier
Now the Obama/Soros/leftist/Marxist plan is in full swing.
Refineries closed never to reopen again.
If they try (under an Obama regime), regulations and red tape will prevent them from doing it.
Your link
http://www.newt.org/activism/pb
doesn’t go anywhere.
Is there really a way to act on this?
Thanks
From your link, more excerpts:
"The fact that Americans must cope with ballooning gas prices and energy vulnerability while living in a country with some of the richest untapped energy resources on the planet is an absurdity that can only be accomplished by bad government.
Without opening up more areas to drilling, we have no way of knowing how many more Bakken-sized discoveries are waiting for us. But we do know this. The potential to increase American oil and gas supplies dramatically and become energy secure and independent is real. Increasing oil supplies will lower fuel prices significantly. And the biggest thing standing in the way is the government obstruction.
What’s even more baffling is that these lands are potentially a huge source of revenue for the federal government –revenue that doesn’t involve raising taxes on the American people. Experts in the private-sector royalties industry estimate that implementing commercial standards in federal leasing of oil and gas royalties could bring over $100 billion into the federal treasury over the next decade. Harold Hamm, who discovered the Bakken formation, recently told the Wall Street Journal that with expanded drilling for oil and gas on federal lands, onshore and offshore, “I truly believe the federal government could over time raise $18 trillion in royalties." That’s more than the U.S. national debt, $15.4 trillion.
Not content to confine its hostilities to curtailing new leases, the administration frequently demonizes energy companies for political purposes and advocates new taxes and fees on producers. But the United States is already one of the worst places in the world for oil and gas companies to do business. As the American Enterprise Institute’s Steve Hayward writes, “when compared properly with the royalty and tax systems of 29 other nations, only Venezuela extracts a higher take from oil and gas production than the United States.” New taxes will just drive producers abroad even further.
We must embrace an all-of-the-above energy strategy of oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, biofuels, wind, and oil shale if we are to achieve energy independence, lower gasoline prices, power a renewed boom in American manufacturing, and raise government revenues with no new taxes." - NEWT GINGRICH
