So a few days ago Bush lifted the 1981 offshore oil drilling ban put into place by his father. It was a smart & sensible move, & it immediately drove oil prices down about $9 a barrel. It’s simple, increasing supply, or even threatening to do it is going to influence the people who selling oil to drop the prices & maintain their precious market share. It’s easy business economics 101 stuff.. Competition controls pricing. But let me explain it for Pelosi & her minions anyway. Ok, ready?
If Johnny has a lemonade stand, the ONLY lemonade stand in the whole neighborhood, & it’s 105 degrees outside, guess how much Johnny can charge his neighborhood friends for a glass of ice cold lemonade? Pretty much whatever he wants if they want to get it without walking all the way three blocks back to home. But if little Jenny & Bobby on the blocks in between erect their own lemonade stands, then everyone will need to keep their prices lower to get a share of the market. Why pay an extra quarter to Johnny if you only need to walk 100 yds more, & can get an extra gumball out of the gumball machine by buying from Jenny or Bobby? Competition controls pricing.
Apparently the only thing more simple than that is the minds of the Democrats in Congress who are walking in lockstep with lead simpleton Nancy Pelosi. You know, the Congressman who thought gas was $2.56 per gallon at a time when it was about a dollar more?
Now months later we’re over $4 a gallon, & she’s still stalling for time. Why? Because if she does what is right for the American people & allows offshore drilling to commence, she will immediately have lost a POLITICAL battle with Republicans. It’s all she really cares about. After all, she doesn’t fill HER gas tank, we do, & with OUR tax payments to this government & her out of control congress.
You see if she can just hold off until AFTER November, she thinks she can make the Democrats look like the heroes by changing her tune in a flip flopping reversal that has become the signature of the Liberal Party, & even some of their rhino Republican kiss ass friends.
Meanwhile as they play their political games, the American people are going broke, & the economy is plummeting dangerously close to a deep recession.
I vote that we make the perpetrators pay dearly on Voting day in November. If you stalled on drilling & bringing relief to the people you were supposed to be serving & representing, you should be voted out of office. Remember, more than %70 (some polls as high as %74) of likely voters now support drilling for our own energy/oil reserves.
Keep standing in the way Pelosi… Go ahead, make our day.. >:)
The pen is mightier than the political horde..
Excerpted from the AP/Fox News story:
Today’s high gas prices could reduce auto deaths by nearly a third as driving decreases, with the effect particularly dramatic among price-sensitive teenage drivers, the authors of a new study said.
Professors Michael Morrisey of the University of Alabama-Birmingham and David Grabowski of Harvard Medical School found that for every 10 percent increase in gas prices there was a 2.3 percent decline in auto deaths. For drivers ages 15 to 17, the decline was 6 percent, and for ages 18 to 21, it was 3.2 percent.
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What they have conveniently forgotten to tell you in the above story is how increased gas prices have forced many people to buy motorcycles to be able to continue to afford commuting to & from work. This same people are at a higher risk for injury & death on a motorcycle, & as a result, motorcycle deaths have nearly DOUBLED in some places around the US. They have increased dramatically overall, thanks to the inaction of the Liberal Democrats in Congress. Remember, the cost of Gasoline has doubled since Nancy Pelosi & her cronies took over Congress. It’s no coincidence that these little sham studies pop out of the mostly liberal University system around the country to try & justify the insane prices we’re paying. It’s all part of the liberal educational establishment trying to help their leaders save face in an election year.
The truth is that their inaction on energy policy, along with “some” but fewer Republicans, has gotten commuters who desperately turned to motorcycles for transportation, killed.
Environmental extremism; Always looking for a way to dupe the public, but never able to dupe us all..
I don’t want to be a hypocrite, so I won’t blame the democrats for every bit of this loss on Wall street, however nobody can deny that the Oil princes are causing most of the jitters, & the Dems have had no viable solutions. In fact, their refusal to capitulate to the rest of the country on the need to drill for oil on our own soil, has directly contributed to the worries on the Market.
I personally see a disaster in the making for the Democrats in November. Their decisions & current positions on oil exploration are effecting everything from how many Police patrol cars can afford to patrol the streets (instead of officers doubling up in patrol cars to save fuel), to the prices of food, & how much your 401k is worth, or growing. You my fellow Americans are the ones getting fleeced by the Democrat’s blockade on Oil Exploration, & now it’s even taking the stock market down in a serious way that hasn’t been seen since the 9/11 attacks.
The only difference is that we’re being attacked by 1 party of our own Government, & attacked from within. That would be the arrogant Democratic Party, who’s gas tanks we fill up on our tax tab. They couldn’t care any less what you’re paying for gas, instead of putting braces on your child’s teeth, because we pay for all of that for THEIR families out of OUR pockets.
1.2 million Americans have signed a “Drill here, Drill Now” petition that was formed by Newt Gingrich, yet Nancy Pelosi has determined single handedly that we are all idiots, & drilling for oil in American territories as a solution to high oil princes is “a hoax”.
Pelosi was recently quoted as saying: “This call for drilling in areas that are protected is a hoax, it’s an absolute hoax on the part of the Republicans and this administration” Pelosi said at her weekly press conference. “It’s a decoy to punt your attention away from the fact that their policies have produced $4-a-gallon gasoline.”
Meanwhile China laughs hysterically at us, & drills for oil that should be going to us, just off the Florida keys.
Pelosi flailingly admits out of the other side of her mouth that putting more oil into circulation by releasing oil from the National Strategic Preserves would help lower prices, but somehow rationalizes that drilling for more of our own oil would not help. Does anyone else see how evil & crafty this woman is? She doesn’t mind weakening our national security in order to preserve her party’s relationship with environmental extremists, but yet she calls the idea of making our nation self sufficient on energy matters, “a hoax”.
Well Nancy Pelosi, your leadership in Congress is the real sham here, because since you took it over gas princes have doubled for the American people, & all you can do is blame everyone else.
Please be sure to e-mail “Speaker Pelosi” as I have, to let her know what you think of basically being called stupid enough to buy into “a hoax”.
Seriously people. You need to contact your Congressman (or “Congress Creep” in some cases) & let them know this behavior will not be tolerated, & the agenda of the American people WILL be tended to on OUR terms, not theirs.
This of course plays right into the result Democrats long for, & that is the destruction of the United States as the most powerful & sovereign nation on earth.
What she also wants from her “strategery”, is to make it look like she’s actually doing something about Gas Prices, since for almost two years now not only have the Democrats done nothing, but their crackpot global warming policies have made everything worse for all of us.
By the way, the earth has cooled significantly in the last couple years, making Al Gore & his traitorous Democrat conspirators look like the complete morons & scam artists they are. Have you noticed that the Democrats now call Global Warming “Climate Change”? This is so that when things that they claim end up being wrong, they can fall back on the ever ambiguous term “Climate Change”, which is in reality what the Earth has been doing since it was formed. Weren’t the Ice ages “Climate Change”? There were no industrialized nations to cause that, so what happened then? The answer is of course that the climate has ALWAYS changed.
The only difference now, is that the Democrats have convinced many of the sheeple that they are bad little sheeple who are ruining the earth, & that they will lead the bad little sheeple to redemption with their genius energy & environmental policies. You know, the ones that have led us to pay $4.00 a gallon for gas..
It should be noted that Pelosi’s demand for reserve oil, is an admission that she knows that more supply would lower prices. She just doesn’t want to hand the Republicans any political victory by allowing them to open up ANWAR & other offshore drilling sites. SOOOOoooOOoo…. She’s rather put our Nastional security at risk by taking oil from the strategic reserves.
The Strategic oil reserve currently holds 706 million barrels, about 97 percent of the reserve’s 727 million barrel capacity. That’s the most the reserve has ever held and would replace foreign supplies for about 58 days. If we were cut off from the rest of the world in another world war, we’d have 58 days to win, or be overthrown. That is unless we get ourselves back to reality & START DRILLING HERE, & DOING IT RIGHT NOW!
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that taping this reserve would be both irresponsible, & extremely Dangerous to our National Security, yet Pelosi is apparently to blind with ambition & the need for personal redemption, to care about piddly little details like, oh I don’t know, HOMELAND SECURITY!?
As long as we vote for insanely liberal politicians (whether Democrat or Rhino Republicans), we are going to pay through our nose for it, while they eat caviar & drive around luxury cars on our tab.
I think it’s time to vote liberals out of office.. Obama will bring you more of the same, & McCain isn’t much better. So we need to plan for the long term strategy of reshaping the political landscape.
That’s going to take for the American people to take their heads of of their TV’s,video games & adult entertainment for a few minutes, to realize what’s going on around them.. Will we do it? We’ll see in November.. ~Dan Lee
We are paying well over $4.00 a gallon for gas in this country, & for an extended period now. This is undoubtedly one of the biggest front page worthy stories out there right now, but you’d never know it by looking at the major news outlets in this country.
So why are you seeing so very little of it? Well because the Mainstream Media is covering for the fact that Democrats are mostly to blame for the crisis. They don’t want to talk about this, because they’ll inevitably have to talk about THAT..
CNN’s top priority for today for instance (at the time of this writing) is to continue the smear campaign of Scott McClellan against the current administration . Fox goes with whatever gets the most ratings for the moment. Nothing about fuel costs on either web site, at least nothing that isn’t buried a few links deep.
I do however give MSNBC credit today for talking about how Obama flip-flopped on Campaign finance once he figured out he could rake in millions of $$$ from virtually untraceable sources.
But the fuel crisis is something they won’t bring up often, because the WHOLE Democratic party had a hand in creating this mess.. Keep burning up that capital switchboard with your calls. Maybe it will sink in eventually?
Yep, after I listened to this moron & his cohort suggest that we Conservatives & Republicans belittle those who ride bicycles on C-Span tonight (Even though this conservative owns two of them), I decided to read up on this loudmouth Jay Inslee.. He went on for a half an hour about nothing, & a bunch of unproven energy technologies that we “should have” been working on up until now. Well Mr. Inslee, what has your Democratic led congress been doing about that for the last two years? NOTHING!
But anyway, on to his suggesting to the leftist extreme online environmentalist group motherjones.com, that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s death will stop gas powered Humvee’s from being produced.
MJ: When do you think we will see the last gasoline-powered Hummer on the streets?
JI:When Arnold Schwarzenegger goes to his reward—how’s that? That’s a crack, but I treat Governor Schwarzenegger well in my book. He’s done such great work in California; we’ll forgive him one personal habit. Everybody should have one not-totally-CO2-friendly habit they can be forgiven for. So we’ll forgive him that one.
Yep you read it right. Straight from this low class horse’s mouth. Arnold Schwarzenegger being dead is the how we will get rid of Humvees according to Rep. Inslee.
MJ: What do you think is the most promising new energy source?
JI: Not wasting energy. It is the least sexy, but the single most important and always the least expensive. You would be very interested in a report by the McKinsey consulting firm that concluded that 40 percent of everything that we have to do to mitigate our emissions are net economic winners. They are cost effective and the most cost effective is not wasting energy. That’s actually going to be the largest part of this whole journey, I believe—using less energy with the same beneficial results.
Al Gore, do you have Inslee’s number? Maybe if you call him once & a while & tell him how much of a hypocrite you really are, he’ll stop going out & overselling this environmental BS at the expense of your party? I mean I don’t mind because it shows Democrats for the hypocrites they really are, but man do you guys look like asses now!
During this tag team tirade on CSpan, Rep. Earl Blumenauer also suggested that the Government stop buying those damn Humvees! Yes that’s right, I guess he wants to put our troops atop unarmored 50cc Mopeds, balancing a 100 pound machine gun & tripod on the handlebars while they dodge I.E.Ds
I mean these suggestions were only slightly more offensive than Mr. Blumenauers really super gay bowtie, but still, that thing was REALLY OFFENSIVE, & thus so were his moronic statements!
Rep. Blumenauers tirade against most of America also included the suggestion that we generally don’t care enough to ride bikes to work like the gov. capital workers in Washington DC have been doing.. He apparently never noticed that the buildings in DC are like ten feet apart, whereas in rural America, you may have to go 10 miles or more before seeing anything, let alone ride a bike 30 miles to work. Incidentally, neither he or Jay Inslee mentioned riding a bike to work, or how they get around.
Listen my fellow Americans. Here’s the bottom line. These Democrats have had two years of full Congressional control to implement their grandiose solutions for lowering energy costs, & now things are about 300 times worse then when they took over Congress. They are running scared & playing the blame game, & go figure, it just so happens that everyone but the Democrats are to blame in their version of how we got to this place with exorbitant energy costs.
Write/call your Congressman. No more excuses, it’s time to work on drilling for our own oil, & natural resources. We tried it the Democrat way, & environmental groups & vile so called “Representatives” like Democratic Rep. Jay Inslee have led us to this place of despair. People like these two really need put aside their little partisan agendas, and get a clue about what the rest of the country is expecting of them.
*Update* 6/19/08 Michelle Malkin makes a great point with a post today on the Oil Drilling debate. While there’s plenty of legitimate blame to place on Democrats in this energy crisis, why hasn’t Bush revoked the
Offshore drilling bans his father put into place, since he has the power to do that by executive order? Politicians are playing political games as usual, in a “No You Go First” game that is costing US citizens more than they can afford. Lift the bans Mr. Bush, & lead by example!
Today a bill put before the Senate was shelved by Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in a stalling tactic that’s all too familiar to the American people. This Democratic led Congress who has approval ratings in the teens, is notorious for stalling for time while they try to use their bought & paid for Mainstream Media Cronies to sway public opinion on the issue at hand.
The problem is, while they are doing that, the public is usually starving for actual results & relief. In this case we need immediate relief from the exorbitant Gas Prices we’re being charged, as it continues to erode at the stability of our national economy.
The reason for this is simple from the Liberal/Democrat perspective. They’ve spent years working to build up their global warming scam & systematic fear tactics designed to brainwash the public into believing that they are the saviors of the world, & that all conservatives care about is progress, capitalism & the Oil that made it all possible. Of course we do care about those things, but I also don’t know any Republicans or Conservatives who think it’s ok to dump used motor oil down the drain. Hey here’s something I never hear Democrat owners of quick lube businesses talking about. Buy & promote synthetic oil, instead of pushing the lie that cars need their oil changed every 3,000 miles! That’s a whole other way we can lower dependence on foreign oil, but democrats are also making too much money off that scam to ever talk about it.
Al Gore (who is of course one of those fear mongers in the Democratic party), has lambasted the rest of the US about our energy policies, yet it was revealed today that his mansion in Tennessee is using 10% MORE energy than last year, despite all his pontificating to the rest of us about reducing our energy usage. I ask my fellow citizens how long you will be led by these extreme hypocrites like sheeple to the slaughter?
These people ( like Pelosi,Reid, & all the other democrats opposed to drilling) are driven around in government owned & paid for vehicles, & guess who pays for that AND the gas that runs them.
WE DO!
So since they have an agenda of creating fearful environmentalist sheeple who will always vote for them, & since they don’t pay a dime for gasoline to get around, what incentive do they have to give a rats ass about the rest of us who are getting PUMPED AT THE PUMP?
Who else has has enough? Here’s what you need to do. Call the capital switchboard, or find the e-mail of your local Democrat & BLAST them for stalling on the obvious solutions for lowing gas prices immediately.
What are they you ask? Well it’s the same as in every other business. You lower prices by creating competition! For instance, did you know that the reason gas stations within a small area all have gas prices within a cent or two of each other, is because they constantly shop/check each others prices to keep them comparable. They do this so they won’t lose customers to each other for long periods of time.
Similarly, if we begin drilling for our own resources, & stop listening to the environmental Steven Kings of the world, we will show oil cartels like OPEC that we are serious about NOT BUYING THIEIR PRODUCT unless they lower the prices!
It’s time to get serious peeps. Just look at your budget lately.. The only thing “Going Green” is Al “Green” Gore’s bank account.
Oh and then there’s Obama’s solution. Created a windfall profit tax against the companies who bring us our energy/gasoline. Oh that’s genius. Who do you think that tax expense will be passed on to? The consumers will of course end up paying the difference, just like we always do.
I leave with some truth about how we got here, & who’s trying to stop us from digging out of this financial crisis for every American household..
It’s all right here in his own words.. He wants to play “lets make a deal” with lying terror sponsoring nations, & then disarm us.. What a genius.. Watch the video, & then vote accordingly.
Obama’s racist anti-semitic friends would like to see this country disarmed too.. Coincidence? Watch Obama the stutterer futilely try to explain away all his racist/radical associations.
What you will see in the video below is a very powerful assembly of facts.
The victims of 9/11 had no trial, no judge, no lawyers. Yet they were instantly executed by incineration, falling from the trade towers (or being forced to jump), or being blown to little pieces by some of the very terrorists who await military trial at the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Despite those hard facts, Our liberal friends on the supreme court have just given foreign terrorists rights that I can guarantee that you would not have in THEIR native countries. If you were suspected of terror in some of these middle eastern countries you would not even make it to jail before your head was rolling around without you in some dark alley or slaughter house. They have also given them rights that they do not deserve by any stretch of the imagination. They are NOT US citizens, & do not have rights under our constitution, no matter what these moronic so-called “justices” have done.
Now, our supreme court as a whole has betrayed the victims of 9/11, their families, our nation, & completely failed the United States citizens who entrusted them with protecting US & OUR RIGHTS, instead of giving those rights over to foreign enemy combatants.
In a despicable act of omission most major media outlets have whitewashed the story leaving out justice Anthony Scalia’s ominous prediction & statement: Scalia: “The Nation will live to regret what the Court has done today. I dissent.”
What highest court has done, is it has forgotten the lessons of 9/11. Sadly, what it will probably take is for the idiots who we’ve allowed into our court system & government to see thousands more of our citizens murdered in another large scale terror attack. Even then, they may be too far gone to learn any object lesson at this point.
Scalia also said the following in his dissenting opinion:
“The game of bait-and-switch that today’s opinion plays upon the Nation’s Commander in Chief will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.”
Your nation’s sovereignty is being hauled off in tiny bits like ants stealing from a picnic, & most of America is oblivious to it happening. This is a very sad day for what was once a great & sovereign country, but is now being eroded to mediocrity by Liberals with no courage. The ACLU have become like legalized domestic terrorists, & are destroying this country from within, & the general population is letting them do it by continuing to vote for liberals like them. Someday fairly soon, they will all see how deceived they’ve been, but it will be too late. The only way out then, will be another civil war, as this nation’s legal system is now being stolen out from under its own citizens by insane & corrupt liberals who’s educational qualifications far, FAR outweigh their moral integrity. Problem is, most Americans have become too passive & spoiled, & would not appear to have the stomach to fight against a rogue Government. We as a nation have let the enemies of mankind infiltrate several of our most critical systems of government, & now we will all have to pay for it dearly. We are beginning to see the fruits of Liberal Labor against their own country in the gas prices we are paying now. If you think this is bad, Just wait until liberals sell us out to the whims of muslim nations who control most of the oil. Remember, it is liberals who are keeping us from drilling for our own on our own soil.
We are certainly a nation that has regressed in the name of “progress” & become lost. May God help us, as only he can.
Oh, & if you wonder how this could be happening? Here’s a list of the top Google searches of late. You can see what most of our nation is concerning themselves with first:
1. us open
2. hope dworaczyk
3. erin callan
4. chapman kansas
5. u.s. open
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While I’m obviously no fan of Clinton, It’s really kind of sickening to watch Obama/Media Lovefest shamelessly continue, despite the fact that in the end we all know that the Super Delagates/Pontiffs in so called “Democratic Party” will decide who gets the nomination. Additionally it’s hilarious to watch the MSM scramble to counter the obvious success of Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos.”
All over the news this morning we see headlines like this one on CNN’s main page:
Analysis: Obama gains, can Clinton rebound?
Barack Obama has taken a major step toward securing the Democratic presidential nomination. Not only did he score a convincing win in North Carolina; but the close race in Indiana made Hillary Clinton’s difficult path to the nomination even more challenging.
NEW YORK (CNN) – Barack Obama took a major step Tuesday toward securing the Democratic presidential nomination. Not only did he score a convincing victory in North Carolina; but by drawing to a virtual tie in Indiana he made an already difficult path for Hillary Clinton to the presidential nomination significantly more challenging.
Msnbc.com:
NBC’s Russert: Obama has the nomination
In the wake of the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, Tim Russert, moderator of “Meet the Press,” tells TODAY’s Matt Lauer that “we now know who the Democratic nominee is going to be and nobody is going to dispute it.”
Addtional headline from MSNBC/NYT: Options dwindling for Clinton
Even a split of Indiana and North Carolina primaries was not a draw.
Despite narrowly winning Indiana, while losing North Carolina, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton did not fundamentally improve her chances of securing the Democratic presidential nomination. If anything, Mrs. Clinton’s hopes for overtaking Senator Barack Obama dwindled further on Tuesday night….
If you look just about anywhere in the Main Stream Media today, stories of inevitable doom for Hillary Rodham Clinton abound!
Ok, but here’s the thing.. She could still win by the numbers!
Obama is a house of cards, & the winds of “Change” are blowing in HIS direction this time.
Meanwhile the William Ayers association picks up steam, with or without the help of the biased Main Stream Media Bowling club.. Eventually they’ll have to expose him, because if they don’t, bloggers will. The only difference between the MSM & bloggers these days, is we are better at bringing the truth to the people than the MSM. We & the geniuses in Conservative talk radio are their greatest competition, & they know it. So, the truth about Obama’s associations WILL eventually be forced out.
You gotta love the irony.. Mainstream Media who used to faithfully Bowl for the Clintons, now bowling for Obama, but eventually scoring a gutter ball just when it counts the most.. It’s coming, & you read it first here!
He “may” get the nomination, but there’s no way people will forgive his anti-U.S. associations in the end.
