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We'll just ignore a little thing called "Supply and demand" and it's effect on price.Why not 10 dollar gas or 100 dollar gas? Why 7 dollar gas?
Republicans are so stupid, they think that when companies drill here, it's our oil. But it's not. It goes to the world market where other companies compete to buy it. That's right. We don't get to keep it. We have to buy our oil from foreign oil companies even when they drill here.
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."
That sure was true of global-warming policy, and especially the cap-and-trade bill. Many observers thought the measure, introduced last year in the House by Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.), was dead: The American people didn't seem to think that the so-called global-warming crisis justified a price-hiking, job-killing, economy-crushing redesign of our energy supply amid a fragile recovery. Passing another major piece of legislation, one every bit as unpopular as ObamaCare, appeared unlikely in an election year.
So Obama and congressional proponents of cap-and-trade spent several months rebranding it -- downplaying the global-warming rationale and claiming that it was really a jobs bill (the so-called green jobs were supposed to spring from the new clean-energy economy) and an energy-independence bill (that will somehow stick it to OPEC).
Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) even reportedly declined to introduce their new cap-and-trade proposal in the Senate on Earth Day, because they wanted to de-emphasize the global-warming message. Instead, Kerry called the American Power Act "a plan that creates jobs and sets us on a course toward energy independence and economic resurgence."
But the new marketing strategy wasn't working. Few believe the green-jobs hype -- with good reason. In Spain, for example, green jobs have been an expensive bust, with each position created requiring, on average, $774,000 in government subsidies. And the logic of getting us off oil imports via a unilateral measure that punishes American coal, oil and natural gas never made any sense at all.
Now the president is repackaging cap-and-trade -- again -- as a long-term solution to the oil spill. But it's the same old agenda, a huge energy tax that will raise the cost of gasoline and electricity high enough so that we're forced to use less.
The logic linking cap-and-trade to the spill in the Gulf should frighten anyone who owns a car or truck. Such measures force up the price at the pump -- Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs thinks it "may require gas prices greater than $7 a gallon by 2020" to meet Obama's stated goal of reducing emissions 14 percent from the transportation sector.
Of course, doing so would reduce gasoline use and also raise market share for hugely expensive alternative fuels and vehicles that could never compete otherwise. Less gasoline demand means less need for drilling and thus a slightly reduced chance of a repeat of the Deepwater Horizon spill -- but only slightly. Oil will still be a vital part of America's energy mix.
More here...$7-a-gallon gas? - NYPOST.com
You are a fear mongering asshole. You like spreading around bullshit..for what purpose?
Commodities speculators would like high gas prices...Saudi Arabia would like high oil prices.
For this ignorant post you get a ride in "The List". Enjoy!
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."
That sure was true of global-warming policy, and especially the cap-and-trade bill. Many observers thought the measure, introduced last year in the House by Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.), was dead: The American people didn't seem to think that the so-called global-warming crisis justified a price-hiking, job-killing, economy-crushing redesign of our energy supply amid a fragile recovery. Passing another major piece of legislation, one every bit as unpopular as ObamaCare, appeared unlikely in an election year.
So Obama and congressional proponents of cap-and-trade spent several months rebranding it -- downplaying the global-warming rationale and claiming that it was really a jobs bill (the so-called green jobs were supposed to spring from the new clean-energy economy) and an energy-independence bill (that will somehow stick it to OPEC).
Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) even reportedly declined to introduce their new cap-and-trade proposal in the Senate on Earth Day, because they wanted to de-emphasize the global-warming message. Instead, Kerry called the American Power Act "a plan that creates jobs and sets us on a course toward energy independence and economic resurgence."
But the new marketing strategy wasn't working. Few believe the green-jobs hype -- with good reason. In Spain, for example, green jobs have been an expensive bust, with each position created requiring, on average, $774,000 in government subsidies. And the logic of getting us off oil imports via a unilateral measure that punishes American coal, oil and natural gas never made any sense at all.
Now the president is repackaging cap-and-trade -- again -- as a long-term solution to the oil spill. But it's the same old agenda, a huge energy tax that will raise the cost of gasoline and electricity high enough so that we're forced to use less.
The logic linking cap-and-trade to the spill in the Gulf should frighten anyone who owns a car or truck. Such measures force up the price at the pump -- Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs thinks it "may require gas prices greater than $7 a gallon by 2020" to meet Obama's stated goal of reducing emissions 14 percent from the transportation sector.
Of course, doing so would reduce gasoline use and also raise market share for hugely expensive alternative fuels and vehicles that could never compete otherwise. Less gasoline demand means less need for drilling and thus a slightly reduced chance of a repeat of the Deepwater Horizon spill -- but only slightly. Oil will still be a vital part of America's energy mix.
More here...$7-a-gallon gas? - NYPOST.com
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."
That sure was true of global-warming policy, and especially the cap-and-trade bill. Many observers thought the measure, introduced last year in the House by Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.), was dead: The American people didn't seem to think that the so-called global-warming crisis justified a price-hiking, job-killing, economy-crushing redesign of our energy supply amid a fragile recovery. Passing another major piece of legislation, one every bit as unpopular as ObamaCare, appeared unlikely in an election year.
So Obama and congressional proponents of cap-and-trade spent several months rebranding it -- downplaying the global-warming rationale and claiming that it was really a jobs bill (the so-called green jobs were supposed to spring from the new clean-energy economy) and an energy-independence bill (that will somehow stick it to OPEC).
Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) even reportedly declined to introduce their new cap-and-trade proposal in the Senate on Earth Day, because they wanted to de-emphasize the global-warming message. Instead, Kerry called the American Power Act "a plan that creates jobs and sets us on a course toward energy independence and economic resurgence."
But the new marketing strategy wasn't working. Few believe the green-jobs hype -- with good reason. In Spain, for example, green jobs have been an expensive bust, with each position created requiring, on average, $774,000 in government subsidies. And the logic of getting us off oil imports via a unilateral measure that punishes American coal, oil and natural gas never made any sense at all.
Now the president is repackaging cap-and-trade -- again -- as a long-term solution to the oil spill. But it's the same old agenda, a huge energy tax that will raise the cost of gasoline and electricity high enough so that we're forced to use less.
The logic linking cap-and-trade to the spill in the Gulf should frighten anyone who owns a car or truck. Such measures force up the price at the pump -- Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs thinks it "may require gas prices greater than $7 a gallon by 2020" to meet Obama's stated goal of reducing emissions 14 percent from the transportation sector.
Of course, doing so would reduce gasoline use and also raise market share for hugely expensive alternative fuels and vehicles that could never compete otherwise. Less gasoline demand means less need for drilling and thus a slightly reduced chance of a repeat of the Deepwater Horizon spill -- but only slightly. Oil will still be a vital part of America's energy mix.
More here...$7-a-gallon gas? - NYPOST.com
You are a fear mongering asshole. You like spreading around bullshit..for what purpose?
Commodities speculators would like high gas prices...Saudi Arabia would like high oil prices.
For this ignorant post you get a ride in "The List". Enjoy!
I think the price has more to do with additional gas taxes and fees and not with the price per barrel.
Why is anyone surprised here about this claim?????
During the campaign he said TWO things about this that burned into my memory about gas prices.
1. He was upset that gas prices rose so quickly because that caused resistance from the public.
2. His ultimate goal was to get to $8/gallon gas.
So why are we surprised this is his goal and he'd use this disaster to help achieve this?
The man's not an idiot... he's a revolutionary working to destroy this nation. Everything he's passed is going to have to be repealed. Hell, everything new back to at LEAST 2006 is going to have to be repealed for us to repair this nation.
obama gives ok to more offshore drilling
Month later we have a major offshore oil leak.
Obamas agenda has been to raise gas prices.
He is very untrustworthy, I would not be surprised to find out that the obama adminastration had something to do with the oil rig explosion. I could be wrong many if not most will say I am wrong, chances are I am but this will happen when you have a President that remains closed to the public and lies when he say's he is transparent.
Huh... interesting.
Hot Air Good news: Obama backs off-shore drilling! Update: A Soros connection?
The trackbacks make for a very damning picture of P-BO's administration and this disaster.
Why not 10 dollar gas or 100 dollar gas? Why 7 dollar gas?
Republicans are so stupid, they think that when companies drill here, it's our oil. But it's not. It goes to the world market where other companies compete to buy it. That's right. We don't get to keep it. We have to buy our oil from foreign oil companies even when they drill here.
HOLY SHIT! WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE! THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! THE SKY IS FALLING!
It must suck to be you people scared to death of everything ALL the time.....
drop your pants and bend over liberals. you voted for it.
drop your pants and bend over liberals. you voted for it.
Faggot
Hot Air Obama: I’d like higher gas prices, just not so quicklyWhy is anyone surprised here about this claim?????
During the campaign he said TWO things about this that burned into my memory about gas prices.
1. He was upset that gas prices rose so quickly because that caused resistance from the public.
2. His ultimate goal was to get to $8/gallon gas.
So why are we surprised this is his goal and he'd use this disaster to help achieve this?
The man's not an idiot... he's a revolutionary working to destroy this nation. Everything he's passed is going to have to be repealed. Hell, everything new back to at LEAST 2006 is going to have to be repealed for us to repair this nation.
obama gives ok to more offshore drilling
Month later we have a major offshore oil leak.
Obamas agenda has been to raise gas prices.
He is very untrustworthy, I would not be surprised to find out that the obama adminastration had something to do with the oil rig explosion. I could be wrong many if not most will say I am wrong, chances are I am but this will happen when you have a President that remains closed to the public and lies when he say's he is transparent.
Oh my, another member of the tinfoil hat brigade.
drop your pants and bend over liberals. you voted for it.
Faggot
Why is anyone surprised here about this claim?????
During the campaign he said TWO things about this that burned into my memory about gas prices.
1. He was upset that gas prices rose so quickly because that caused resistance from the public.
2. His ultimate goal was to get to $8/gallon gas.
So why are we surprised this is his goal and he'd use this disaster to help achieve this?
The man's not an idiot... he's a revolutionary working to destroy this nation. Everything he's passed is going to have to be repealed. Hell, everything new back to at LEAST 2006 is going to have to be repealed for us to repair this nation.
obama gives ok to more offshore drilling
Month later we have a major offshore oil leak.
Obamas agenda has been to raise gas prices.
He is very untrustworthy, I would not be surprised to find out that the obama adminastration had something to do with the oil rig explosion. I could be wrong many if not most will say I am wrong, chances are I am but this will happen when you have a President that remains closed to the public and lies when he say's he is transparent.
Oh my, another member of the tinfoil hat brigade.
He's under the impression that's called intelligent wit.drop your pants and bend over liberals. you voted for it.
Faggot
Another typical Huggy post. Got any ideas Huggy or do you simply prefer to call people names?
HOLY SHIT! WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE! THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! THE SKY IS FALLING!
It must suck to be you people scared to death of everything ALL the time.....
Translation: I agree this is a bad thing, but I don't have the balls to admit that my living god is making a mistake, so instead I will engage in pointless, juvenile hyperbole to try and misdirect the conversation.
