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If you have an SUV, screw you, trade it in.
"If you are poor, screw you, Im the king, go eat cake. Pssst, by the way, I am going to kill American oil jobs so we can buy from Soros, uppps, I mean Brazil."
What he said, quoted in the article at the link, was if you get 8 miles per gallon fuel economy . . . you might want to trade in your vehicle. I guess I can agree with him! Heck, my Suburban gets somewhere around 14 MPG!!! What gets 8 MPG, the biggest HumVee you can buy?
To stay away from the sound bite -- and that was the sound bite above -- it is probably true that Obama (or any president) cannot do much about the price of gasoline in the short term. The only thing a president can do is long term and through the mechanism of energy policy. The bigger question is, what is the right energy policy? Wind power isn't going to be effective for replacing crude oil, not give current technology. Most crude oil is used in transportation to fuel internal combustion engines and jet engines. Electricity ain't going to work for jets. There is no viable electric vehicle today. It isn't like people have not been working on electric vehicles for a long time. Price point issues. Total cost of ownership issues. Sure, some things can be done to increase the efficiency of consumption of fossil fuel in automobiles -- hybrids such as the Prius, higher gas mileage economoy cars. But the hybrids have total cost of ownership issues, I believe (that is, where is the break even point on a Prius versus a Corolla, and where do you stand at 250,000 miles when maybe you have had to replace your big honking Prius battery a couple of times?). I do not see a consistent, coherent energy policy. The things Obama says about energy are no more enlightened than Sarah Palin's statements on foreign policy -- for which she gets lambasted and lampooned by all the main stream media.
On second thought, there is possibly one thing Obama could do to impact gasoline prices in the short term. He could renew the deep water drilling in the gulf of mexico. When Bush did this late in his second term, oil dropped from $150/barrel to $70/barrel pretty darn quick. Do you all remember that? By the same token, the factors driving up the prices today may be different -- true uncertainty of governments in the middle east since last summer.
Location: land of the Lilliputians, In the state of insanity
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On second thought, there is possibly one thing Obama could do to impact gasoline prices in the short term. He could renew the deep water drilling in the gulf of mexico. When Bush did this late in his second term, oil dropped from $150/barrel to $70/barrel pretty darn quick. Do you all remember that? By the same token, the factors driving up the prices today may be different -- true uncertainty of governments in the middle east since last summer.
That was pretty much my point. I would also like to add that I am about sick of the "wont help in the short term" crap. I recall this starting with Carter. That was 30 years ago. If we had focused on our own reserves, as well as alternative energy sources, we might not be having this problem now. Most every president passed the buck on the notion that, its to late now.
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That was pretty much my point. I would also like to add that I am about sick of the "wont help in the short term" crap. I recall this starting with Carter. That was 30 years ago. If we had focused on our own reserves, as well as alternative energy sources, we might not be having this problem now. Most every president passed the buck on the notion that, its to late now.
Bingo. Everyone who says "But, but, but, it'll take ten years before we get any of that OCS oil..." is a MORON. It may take ten years to get huge quantities of that oil, but, they'll be producing way before ten years, IF the stupid regulators would issue permits. AND, the impact on prices would certainly occur well before that. Bush announced that he was ending the executive order banning OCS drilling, and the price of oil IMMEDIATELY began to come down, even though there is also a legislative ban. BHO announced he was reinstating the executive ban, and the price of oil IMMEDIATELY began to rise. A week and a half before BHO was sworn in, the price of gas here in Houston was $1.39 per gallon. It's now $3.69. Anyone who votes for him again is an Idiot, with a capital "I."
...... Anyone who votes for him again is an Idiot, with a capital "I."
I"ve been saying that for 2 years now....hehheehhe
Yet another reason to turn this bum out, is the apparent fondness
held for him by none other than Moammar Khaddafi...heehehheh....who referrs to him as "Our Dear Son, Excellency, Baraka Hussein Abu Oumama"
If you have an SUV, screw you, trade it in.
