I’ll give you a hint, it’s not because of more fuel efficient cars. It’s an interesting analysis that all goes back to this chart:
It’s worth clicking to the story and reading the entire analysis, especially since it’s worth knowing what these numbers indicate.
Blogs For Victory 
Why has gas consumption dropped? Continued high prices and continued high unemployment – I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to figure that one out. Unfortunately the Obama regime would prefer to enrich OPEC tyrants and pander to his mildly retarded eco base rather than employ Americans, tap into domestic oil reserves, spur the economy and bring down gas prices.
If only we had not elected an inexperienced, partisan Senator.
Insert: Bush handholding Prince of Saud photo here.
How about that law of supply and demand. Demand is way down, supplies constant should push prices lower in theory? NOPE, lower supplies don’t exist because GOP losers put sanctions on Iran. Maybe a war might be good for the economy. Worked in Iraq! A trillion bucks, nothing to show and the economy is roaring.
The US gets most of its oil from Canada. I know facts have a liberal bias, but the 70’s called and want their OPEC talking point back.
I just read that most anti-occupy folks think there are plenty of jobs out there, but people need to work harder to find them. If that is the case, then unemployment is a matter of lack of will, not lack of way. I don’t see why Obama should be concerned about the unemployed who are too lazy to work hard and find the jobs.
baldork
Insert:
Bush handholdingUbomba BOWING to Prince of Saud photo here.an $800.00 gasoline bill for LAST MONTH alone and consumption is down why?
Stool,
Aside from the fact that the Bush’s have a long family history with the Saudi royalty and consider each other friends, your attempt to deflect from the main point is duly noted. Obama is not at all a serious president when it comes to energy independence. He would rather pander to his base and reward his friends via the green energy industry. What an excellent way to spread the wealth.
Clueless
The amount of gas that people are using under Obama is way down. Any more independence and everyone will be unemployed, is that what you are after?
Stool,
That doesn’t even make sense. Lower energy consumption does not equal greater energy independence. Tapping into, and utilizing our own reserves is smart whether consumption is down or up, and lessens our reliance on others for that product.
Clueless
Again our oil comes mostly from Canada. The whole NAFTA thing makes the reserves pretty reliable. Your attempt to tie everything to Obama vs. the GOP is pathetic.
Just for you Bardolf. Always use some extra ammo no?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/07/05/ten-years-after-decriminalization-drug-abuse-down-by-half-in-portugal/
Thank GMB
This just in: Obama has now decided that super pacs are not a threat to our democracy and has embraced his own. Kind of like in 2008 when he decided to forgo public financing in favor of special interest money after years of decrying the horrors thereof.
1/20/13
In other words, Obama doesn’t see any reason to play by more stringent rules than the GOP. Maybe Obama isn’t a socialist after all.
baldork
and MAYBE he isnt a muslin usurper POS either….we all can dream.
barky is not a socialist with his own money for sure. When it comes to OPM thats when barky is a socilaist.
Stool,
I know that you deride Romney for his flip flops, but here you give Obama a pass. Why is that?
Clueless
I never voted for Obama. I don’t expect much from the Dems. Y’all are pretty slow. I think the GOP candidates should be held to HIGH standards. You think that being a tad better than baby killers is okay.
What do you call a person who is against abortion, against putting people in prison for drugs, against wars for nation building, against wars to guarantee low oil prices for China, against pat downs of old ladies at the airport, against government subsidies for failed business models, against using taxes to encourage people to buy more house than can afford, or telling what age a state can allow people to drink, or using taxes to inflate the amount of money that flows into Wall Street, or against using taxes to support faux alternative energy, ..
The state should take on enterprises where the barrier to entry is so prohibitively large that no business would undertake it. Providing affordable mail service to all residents of the US, providing electricity and roads to all the US, space exploration, most of medical advances, the internet, defense spending (not a Billion dollar embassy in Iraq that is military spending), education for future-looking degrees etc.
I would say that you are not entirely tethered to reality
hey matt neo
$800 for gas?
that’s your choice yknow
quit your complainin’
wonder what you’re driving now anyway?
::))
bottom line this chart would be much more insightful
with a price per gallon on the x or y axis
Baggi, neo WORKS.
Odd concept, ain’t it? At least to such as you.
Has a business, has a job, has to make service calls.
His “choice” would be to join the OWS types and sit on his donkey, hand out for some of what other people earn.
You people really have no clue, do you?
matt zona
work? no it’s not an odd concept to me
you know what i do for a living
unlike yourself i’m pretty transparent on this site
nothing to hide
technically you should be supporting my efforts as i’m a small businessman in the usa
instead of lumping me into your lovely discriminatory moniker of ‘you people’
i love it when you get angry
your true colors fly
and your self imposed cluelessness clouds your ability to read
and matt neo?
does he really have to work?…….he’s got those two pensions and s.s.
surely he’ll spout off now and respond to that
teehee
nanu nanu dork
.he’s got those
twoTHREE pensions and s.s.Fixed.
I work because I enjoy it, make a few $$ to play with and keep my family and others employed, quite a simple formula.
you know what i do for a living
REALLY?? I dont.
test test
Listen to this man, he gets it……..
http://www.therightscoop.com/full-speech-daniel-hannan-at-cpac-2012/
I be jammin today
But neo, don’t you understand? To someone like baggi, you are not SUPPOSED to work, you are SUPPOSED to sit around and live off things like pensions, if not the dole.
Slugs and drones just don’t understand work. They don’t understand the pleasure of doing a job well, of problem solving and accomplishment. They just don’t get it. To them work is a bad thing, something to be avoided if at all possible.
And they titter like fools, soooo impressed with their own pweshussness.
Ahhh, baggi, you flatter yourself if you think you can spark anger in me. Bemused awareness of your vapidity and eagerness to make any comment, no matter how tran transparently stupid and inane, in an always-failed effort to appear witty and pweshuss is more like it.
But then someone whose entire persona, and evidently entire political “philosophy” , are based on emotion would naturally assume others are as emotional as well.
According to baggi, my efforts to hide my profession have been quite successful. Whew. I wasn’t sure how long I could hide the fact that I am a rancher, afraid that every mention of my ranch or my livestock might give me away, but it seems that I have managed to cloak any hint of what I do in an impenetrable shield of utter non-transparency.
What’s with the racism over at this link in the comments:
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/02/11/whitney-houston-dies-at-48/#comment
I wouldn’t have thought your average Fox News commenter would behave like that!!
patriot –
Are the eeeevil racists at Fox offending you again? You are a sensitive little one aren’t you? But maybe you can share with us the racist portion of the article, I must have missed it, of course I don’t have the maturity level of a 3rd grader like you do though either.
I think Pop, peering through that special lens that can suss out racism in darned near everything, may have zoomed in on the racism of Houston’s black critics, who attacked her for ” not being white enough”.
And of course noting black racism is racist.
unpatriotdiggy1
Live with it……
TMZ: Houston died of drug, alcohol combo…
Jeeebers, there’s just no long term memory here. How can this guy do a “thorough analysis” and not mention word one about Cash for Clunkers, which swapped almost seven hundred thousand guzzler cars. The Department of Transportation reported the average fuel efficiency of trade-ins was 15.8 mpg (miles per gallon), compared to 24.9 mpg for the new cars purchased to replace them, translating to a 58% fuel efficiency improvement.
Seven hundred thousand cars. In 2009. Not a word. Like it didn’t happen.
Good thinking bozo,
That must be it. Hey I know, let’s subsidize more car purchases with tax payer money and then our consumption will be nearly zero. Just ask barstool.
And I would be interested in seeing the proof that 700K cars were traded in. Care to share?
Because if Bozo provided data you would be open minded and say, you’re right Bozo. LOL. You’d just say the data is misleading because of xyz.
Amy has already done the hard work of explaining why everything Obama does is a catastrophe. She’s closed minded too, just not as lazy about it.
Informational purposes only. I have no opinion.
http://green.autoblog.com/2009/08/26/cash-for-clunkers-final-numbers-690-000-vehicles-sold-2-8-bil/
690,000 cars! That’s more than I would have thought. Although all it did was waste my tax payer money and move peoples purchases up sooner. I highly doubt this program brought any new consumers into the market.
1. The policy concentrated benefits on political interests.
2. The policy had the effect of sucking revenues from other industries ailing from recession.
3. The policy destroyed goods that had value, which means it destroyed value.
4. The policy distorted the used-car market by reducing the availability of cars desired especially by the working poor.
5. The policies’ stated goals, if met at all, were met inconsequentially.
6. The policy generated considerable opportunity costs
7. The policy successfully purchased a prophecy that would have fulfilled itself within two or three months.
8. The policy subsidized people to make unwise purchases.
9. The policy allowed politicians to claim success despite failure.
10. The policy was an old-fashioned wealth transfer.
American Enterprise Institute.
Cash for Clunkers = Keynesian Tax Boondoggle at its finest.
It was probably not mentioned because of the later data that showed that the expensive programs had no net benefit at all, doing nothing but spending billions of dollars to artificially cram several months’ of trade-ins and new car purchases into a smaller time frame.
Cash For Clunkers was one of the more blatant debacles of Obama’s history of interference in the marketplace. I think he and his administration are hoping it will be forgotten——-looks like you didn’t get the memo.
bozo, Have you signed up for your “truth team” assignment yet? I hear you get a cool looking
party membership badgeshirt button and a free chance for dinner with putt and mooch.P.S. It’s not mandatory but the party leadership highly reccomend that you wear a brown coloured shirt.
Don’t ask me why. I guess it go with the button.
I had no idea UPS brown shirt drivers were so political…
I’m not saying Cash for Clunkers was the only reason. But a 58% efficiency increase in 690,000 cars all at once is pretty hard to just completely ignore, unless it undermines your basic thesis, which in this case, it does.
Clint Eastwood would approve, though. I think it falls under the “if we can’t find a way, we’ll make a way” category.
“today I’m pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office. This will not be easy. It will require us to make difficult decisions and face challenges we’ve long neglected. But I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay — and that means taking responsibility right now, in this administration, for getting our spending under control.”
Barak Huessein Obama Febuary 23, 2009.
This statement alone is worth five percentage points in November. Maybe the repubs will use it someway.
The questions are though, is this the right time? Is this the battle to fight? Is this the hill die on? Shouldn’t we just compromise and cross the isle and work with barky on it?
Yadda yadda yadda.
Gas? Who has money for gas these days?
But they have a ready-made excuse. The deficit Obama inherited was (according to them) actually $1.4 TRILLION in “Bush’s Last Budget”
… even though Bush never approved the dimocrats’ 2009 Budget, * the democrats controlling Congress never sent Bush their Budget & Obama added $800.0 BILLION in Porkulus in February 2009.
Drudge……………
OBAMA GONE WILD!
$800M FOR ‘ARAB SPRING’
REALLY? REALLY?
EIGHT HUNDRED MILLION of OUR TAX dollars for the muslim brotherhood to build armys to defeat us ??????
But SS and medicare is going broke?
when is America going to wake up and end the plague of socialism.? and this regime
“when is America going to wake up and end the plague of socialism.? and this regime”
Oh, I am pretty sure they know whats going on. Maybe Boeher, Cantor, and McConnell will do something about it.
Ya think?
YET
Rolls out $3.8 trillion budget; $1.4 trillion in new taxes…
GMB
we are soooo F’d
😦
“we are soooo F’d ”
Well, barky has done one thing for us fringe types. Under barky the underground economy has thrived.
Ich bin eienen schwartzenegger!!
WASHINGTON — House GOP leaders announced Monday they were putting forward a “backup plan” that would extend the payroll tax cut for 10 months, while cleaving it from a similar extension of unemployment insurance benefits and what’s known as the “doc fix,” a measure needed to prevent dramatic cuts in Medicare reimbursements. The plan would not be offset by cuts elsewhere, the announcement said, meaning the cost of the tax cut would be added to the deficit.
RINO has been outmaneuvered by Obama once again. RINO is circling the wagons hoping to not lose too many seats in the upcoming election. I don’t know what’s more disappointing, the House GOP or the Tea Party’s inability to hold anyone’s feet to the fire. Well at least Iran is picking a fight with Israel so maybe we can be entertained by another war.
OPM! OPM!! I want my OPM!!!
Its an addiction worse than any illegal drug out there. All the powers that be have to do is order up another batch from the printing press, all nice and legal. Unlimited supply.
Took us a hundred or so years to get here. How long do you all think it will take to break the addiction? Or will society collapse and force a cold turkey on us?
GMB
If someone I know takes drugs, I can both decrIminalize it and expect they will outgrow the habit. I have neither possibility to undo the stupidity of promising a ss benefit that people are not paying fora now.
Will it be comforting to tell poor 65 year olds in the future, “sorry but you had your holiday”?
That’s a great question GMB and the reason why I call for conservatives to take a different approach. We can’t win this war with one election or even one full term. We not only have to change Washington, but we have to influence change in people’s minds and maybe more importantly the media. We need to look at this as a business and right now our marketing is poor, our staff is average and our bottom line is abysmal. The media, liberals, and certainly the liberal influence in our educational system have effectively created a dumbed down dependent populace and that may take a generation to change.
Obamas budget director just lied through his teeth today and when you have a regime and a party that has no problem lying, and a media that will cover for them, you know we have an uphill battle. That is why this time around, I just want a win and Romney is the only current candidate that can. If Obama wins another term, America will no longer be a financial super power, nor will it really be the land of the free and home of the brave
Barstool just said more than he knows. Liberals want to frame this as an issue of taking something away from people by not wanting to extend the tax holiday, when that is the topic and not the issue. Liberals win all day long if the narrative is about an extra $40 or month or not because that is what they want people dependent on – their generosity. I don’t want people to have an $40 a month. I want them to have an extra $400 a week by increased opportunity and the skills to market themselves. We need to teach people how to fish, not give them fish. liberals want control by being the ones to distribute the fish rather than having people learn how to fish for themselves.
“the liberal influence in our educational system have effectively created a dumbed down dependent populace and that may take a generation to change.” – Clueless
If I can take the econ101 mythology courses (where NAFTA is great, Ricky Ricardo teaches competitive advantage and Philips curves debunked 40 yeas ago still rule the day) you can take out whatever art classes you like. I would also like stop paying for the hundred thousand dollar stadiums or at least in exchange get a free classics that I don’t have to pay for out of my pocket.
Where did I say I wanted to eliminate art classes? And if you have a problem with stadiums, that’s an issue much easier addressed with your own institution. I think the folks at Ohio State would disagree with you in terms of their university.
Spot on. Republicans are seeing “25” floating before their eyes as they stare into the electoral abyss.
To be clear, Obozo’s not giving us liberals what we want by lowering SS taxes. We want SS balanced for generations to come. The “doc fix” is also a big right-wing millionaire pander. Oh well. Good with the bad.
But RINOs are seeing the real possibility of 25 seats swinging in the House as they flounder around with their millionaire tax cuts while calling for raising taxes on the unemployed and working stiffs. Apparently they think breathing cement and farm dust, drinking Keystone oil, driving less-efficient cars, and swimming in coal ash are great job creators. The “circular firing squad” primaries aren’t helping. Republican gubernatorial overreach isn’t helping.
25, and dare I say it — Madame Speaker returns.
The horror. The horror.
bozoz,
Just a real simple question for you that maybe even you can answer – is letting the payroll deductions expire, a tax increase on workers?
You just asserted that, so I am curious to see if you actually believe it.
Ah, the proverbial “splitting of the hairs.” It’s all in the wallet of the beholden. I b talkin’ ’bout every Republican tax plan offered would raise taxes on the working poor. 9-9-9, Gov Brownback’s, Romney’s tax-a-burger-flipper debacle: “On average, households making less than $20,000 would see their taxes increase by more than 60 percent, said the Tax Policy Center, a Washington research group that studied the Romney plan.”
But, hey, I’ll go with “tax cut expirations are not tax hikes,” and let Bush’s expire without millionaires complaining. Think that’ll happen?
You almost got it – the SS deduction is not a tax, it’s an insurance deduction – funds that are not suppose to be in the general fund, but thanks to democrats, those funds are now interchangeable and spent.
And again you are speaking about a topic, not an issue. IF you were concerned about generating more revenue to federal government, you’d be talking about reform, because it is well known to all thinking people that simply raising taxes on the top 1% will do nothing to address our real problems, but it sounds good in sound bites.
And IF you were concerned about helping to poor, you would be advocating for regulatory reform and creating a global competitive business climate that encourages companies to expand and employ, rather than supporting a president who thinks throwing crumbs to his constituents is good leadership
” You almost got it – the SS deduction is not a tax, it’s an insurance deduction.” – Clueless
I am not tethered to reality buy clueless maintains Social Security is not a tax.
Does it walk like a tax? Tax=A compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers’ income and business profits. Yes
Is it called a tax? Yes “FICA TAX” at the bottom of my pay stub.
Is it lumped into government revenues? Yes, if you look at the budget it includes receipts for and expenses paid for Social Security.
Could it be interpreted as insurance? Only if you also called socialized medicine public health insurance. The early beneficiaries of social security didn’t put in anywhere near the amount of benefits that they took out. Just like Neoconehead and the boomers didn’t put in anywhere near the amount into Medicare to cover the trillion dollar liability that Bush gave to the geriatric set.
Barstool,
SS deductions are NOT to be confused with general revenue, therefore not a tax. These are meant to be specifically earmarked and accounted for deductions that are not to be used as general funds – unfortunately they are, but again these are deductions which are in return for specific individual benefits, so not a tax. And yes it is socialism in that most people draw more then they pay in, and as a conservative, I am in favor of reforming and strengthening the program – can you believe that? Don’t people like you accuse me of being anti government?
Ford had a 43 percent increase in SUV sales as of December 2011. So you would be wrong again but I did enjoy your man bashing. Problems at home?
And now only conservative men drive giant SUV’s? I am surprised you didn’t throw down the race card too.
Problems at home?
the pony died.
ZOW !!!!
guess which ONE of these three is the LIBERAL……
http://zionstrumpet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/9-2-10-good-butts-and-not-so-good-butt-at-white-house.bmp
Hillary Clinton’s big butt to be big target in next debate
“She can’t keep hiding that thing behind pantsuits. The American people need to know the truth,” said John Edwards to a crowd in New Hampshire.
“I have seen some ghetto booties, but Senator Clinton’s ass looks like a two Christmas hams that I would never be able to eat.” Barak Obama said the same day.
The Clinton camp has been trying to keep her ass under cover, but they knew this day would come.
“I am just shocked that our fellow democrats are attacking her ass, this is just the sort of Swiftboating I would expect from Republicans,” said a Clinton staffer.
My previous reply, as innocuous as it was, was apparently not accepted. Let’s see if this one is.
With republicans like boehner and cantor, who needs a democratic majority in the house!
caving on the “payroll tax” issue and adding it to the deficit! man, the tea party sure is holding their feet to the fire.
what’ that you say about dying on this hill GMB? I guess this wasn’t the hill to die on…
One battle at a time? Since when have the repubs found the courage to fight any battle lately. barky wants something, he gets it.
3.8 trillion budget
1.5 tillion deficit
1.4 trillion in new taxes
Is it now time?
(insert repub excuse here)
Neo, I am not sure but I think the department of trnasportation requires a “wide load” banner on one of those butts. Maybe you shoild complain?
😛
Good news Rico, your innocuous second response was accepted.
James, it wasn’t quite 60 days ago that the GOP House favored a one year extension in the payroll deductions with the caveat of approving the keystone pipeline. Obama, in his infinite dictatorial wisdom, decided to kick the can down the street again, and decided to only extend the additional crumbs for his peasants for 60 days, and not approve thousands of good paying jobs. So the GOP House is at it again, trying to put something positive on this effort on behalf Obama to throw more crumbs to his dutiful base.
By your post, I am guessing you would rather have crumbs, then gainful employment. Which comes as no surprise at all.
you’re an idiot.
The SENATE republicans and democrats worked together to extend it for 60 days.
Keystone does not create 20k jobs like you claim, go do a factcheck and see how many jobs it really does create…
Obama simply delayed Keystone, because it can’t be tied to something that has no relation to it. Payroll Tax and Keystone are two different things entirely.
The GOP took a beating in the house, and they are now not willing to put up another fake fight for Keystone, hence the approval for 1 year, and no other conditions.
Good try though partisan hack.
Also, by the looks of it, you and Neoclown are the ones who are unemployed….posting on blogs all day everyday.
Real people like me, work, travel for their job, and have a life.
come again old timer.
jimmy jimmy jimmy
Neoclown are the ones who are unemployed….posting on blogs all day everyday.
Real people like me, work, travel for their job, and have a life.come again old timer.
LOL, ignorance is bliss, and stupidity is comical. You must enjoy the blissful life of a “comedian”.
Isn’t it strange how quick to anger James is. I hope his wife stays on his good side. But going back to his response – I said thousands of good paying jobs James, not 20,000, and there would certainly be thousands of jobs created. The payroll deduction is not a tax, see my response to bozo, but you are correct, the keystone pipeline and the payroll deduction are two completely different things, but bills often include items of completely different natures, you might want to look into that sometime.
And I suppose “real” people like you do work for other people, as for neocon and myself, we own our own business’s and employ “real” people like you.
cluster
neocon and myself, we own our own business’s and employ “real” GOOD people, and FIRE those like you. …..fixed LOL 🙂
Good news Rico, your innocuous second response was accepted.
Yay!
Gas prices’ earliest-ever rise above $3.50 a bad sign for motorists
http://www.mcall.com/business/mc-gas-prices-20120214,0,2776477.story?track=rss
Dear oil speculators, according to B4V and Zerohedge gas consumption in the US is extremely low and econ101 says that this shouldn’t correspond to record high prices. Could you stop raking the American people over the coals.
Dear mr pResiden, because of YOUR radical left wing policies we now use LESS oil and pay TWICE as much for it.
The destruction of the coal industry, nuclear industry, fracking industry not with standing.
Would you stop raking the American people over the coals with your marxist, cloward piven agenda?
OT
yee haw, love those Texas women…… 🙂 LOL
Naked Texas Cowgirl, 18, Arrested After Slow-Speed Police Chase
When Corpus Christi cops responded to a suspicious person call early Sunday, they spotted Burnham, 18, standing in an alleyway next to a Jeep Wrangler. The teenager was naked, except for a pair of cowboy boots
ROTFLMAO…….
allahbabbah akbar………HOLY SHIITE!!!!
Iranian Terrorist in Thailand Blows Off His Own Legs in Attack
“somehow [the grenade] bounced back” 🙂 🙂 🙂
Dear oil speculators, according to B4V and Zerohedge gas consumption in the US is extremely low and econ101 says that this shouldn’t correspond to record high prices. – barstool
If there was only something our federal government could do – let’s see, what could it be? Any ideas stool? Or are we just at the mercy of those eeeevil speculators?
From a liberal stand point, please tell me what it’s like to be dependent on so many other people? This is probably a better question for our resident anger management liberal James. So James, what is it like to be dependent on the federal government to give you an $40 a month? Or to be dependent on someone else to give you a job? Or dependent on someone else to bring gas prices down? Or dependent on someone else to tell you what health care you will receive? I think we should label the democratic party as the dependent party – they can even still keep the (D).
@ Neoconhead
Well if supply is more than adequate it makes no sense for government to encourage more supply. NOPE the government can’t do anything. Unless you think they should nationalize the oil business!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Clueless
I never said I personally am at the mercy of gas prices. I don’t have anything to lose if prices go to 10 dollars a gallon. NEO seems much more concerned.
YOUR whole view is pathetic. You can’t explain why prices are high in view of the low demand. You are not against speculators making $$ at the expense of hard working Neoconeheads.
I can’t decide which of you is more anti-American for your attitudes toward the all powerful market invisible hand.
baldork
NOPE the government can’t do anything.
REALLY ????? WTF
a cave in tora bora?
baldork
I can’t decide which of you is more anti-American for your attitudes toward the all powerful market invisible hand.
you should be fired from your government basket weaving and pole sitting “job” and be given a Tzar position in this regimes energyless policy.
Obama’s War on Oil
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 4, 2011 on The American Spectator website.
As a guest on a black radio talk show recently, I suggested that someone ask President Obama what his plan is for bringing down high gasoline prices.
What a gaffe that question would be. The current high gas prices, and more, are precisely the President’s plan.
President Obama’s Secretary of Energy is former Berkeley physics professor Steven Chu, who said in 2008, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” We still have a way to go to achieve Secretary Chu’s goal. The average price for a gallon of gas in Europe is over $8.
President Obama’s Secretary of Interior is Ken Salazar. When he was a Senator in 2008, he proclaimed on the floor of the Senate that he would oppose any offshore drilling no matter how high the price of gasoline rose, even to $10 a gallon.
When President Obama took office in 2009, the average price of gasoline in America was $1.83 a gallon. Today it is more than double that at $3.87. As the above quotes indicate, the Obama Administration’s policy is to increase it well beyond that.
Extremist Quackery
Why would President Obama want high gas prices? It’s a matter of ideology for him. He thinks it’s good for the environment for gas prices to be high. The higher gas prices are, the less you will drive.
Also, higher gas prices make his beloved “alternative fuels” more competitive. That is because these alternative fuels are inherently more expensive, and so can’t compete with cheaper gas. Note this is not a prescription for easing the financial burden on working people. High gas prices make it more likely you will buy expensive “alternative fuels.” But either way, your wallet will still be drained.
Worst of all, these “alternative fuels” are not anywhere near sufficiently viable to power the modern American economy into the 21st century. To sharply restrict and drive up the price of the traditional energy that can power our economy today decades before any possible alternative energy can take on the burden is a policy of national economic suicide. That is President Obama’s energy policy today.
http://theacru.org/acru/obamas_war_on_oil/
Supply down, prices up. That should not be too hard to understand even for a grassroots Democrat. But highly skilled Obama propagandists say, hold on, domestic oil production for 2009 and 2010 is up, not down. President Obama cited the figures himself, saying, “So any notion that my administration has shut down oil production might make for a good political sound bite, but it doesn’t match up with reality.”
But the reality is that just as the economy grows over time, oil production is supposed to grow with it. All of the above actions the Obama Administration has taken to shut down oil production means unambiguously that oil production is now or soon will be lower than it would have been otherwise. Which means prices are higher than they would have been otherwise.
Beyond oil supply and demand, there is another powerful factor driving up oil and gasoline prices. The price of oil tracks closely with the price of gold going back many decades. Look it up for yourself. The same wildly loose, Keynesian, Federal Reserve monetary policies (fully backed by President Obama) that have been causing gold to soar are causing oil to soar as well, along with other commodities across the board. Hence the rise of inflation, which is causing real wages to decline in this brave, new world of Obamanomics.
mmmm mmmmm mmmmm
@Neoconehead
Are you saying I should be fired from my job for holding certain opinions which are not in any way related to job performance? On the surface that seems anti-American, against free speech.
Even if I were a communist it wouldn’t matter since I am not teaching econ or history or any other social seance. If I teach the kids how to weave baskets properly my religious or political beliefs are extraneous.
OBUMMER Keynsian economics. LOL, once the GOP stops their out of control spending they can give advice to the rest of the country. Tax holiday, RINO season is open.
So is Social Security a TAX or not?
baldork
alinsky 101
On the surface that seems anti-American, against free speech.
and under the surface your cry babying is BS.
seems you conveniently overlooked this and be given a Tzar position in this regimes energyless policy.
but hey, if that nonsense works on campus with pimply faced dumbed down 19 yo lefty drones why not TRY to pitch it here?
cept we might smell it for what it is…… 🙂
baldork
So is Social Security a TAX or not?
the REAL question
is it IN a TRUST FUND, LOCK box? or not?
or is it a ponzi scheme perpetrated by the donk party on Americans?
IRS Tax Tip 2011-26, February 07, 2011
The Social Security benefits you received in 2010 may be taxable. You should receive a Form SSA-1099
which will show the total amount of your benefits.
US Weighing Steep Nuclear Arms Cuts
The Associated Press
The Obama administration is weighing options for sharp new cuts to the U.S. nuclear force, including a reduction of up to 80 percent in the number of deployed weapons, The Associated Press has learned.
Neoconehead
I’m willing to cheat the taxpayer by teaching basket weaving. I would have to draw the line at being a Czar, even I’m not that unethical.
I am not even willing to apply for education basket weaving grants though there is pressure to do so. I continue looking for new innovative weaving techniques.
baldork
LOL LOL
astounding stupidity…..
but then Bush did a little fiscal conservatism and pissed away the entire world economy.
ROTFLMAO !!!
Oh no!!! Now how will neocon sleep without wetting the bed!!
seems a while back there were 25 million Jews thinking the same thing.
bloodyregurgitatingdrone, there is NO “lock box”, “trust fund” or any “account”. Social Security is a giant ponzi scheme, which makes Maddoff’s scheme nothing.
Maddoff went to jail for doing what the federal government (Democrat scheme) does every month.
Barstool,
My whole world view is pathetic? Common sense is now pathetic? Speculators are only one component of of rising gas prices despite your contention, so who has the distorted view? The fact is if we had focused on tapping into, and extracting our own reserves years ago, instead of pandering to the mildly retarded eco base, we would have lower prices. Do you remember when Bush announced the opening of the off shore drilling? Prices dropped. So next time you spout off about outside influences, keep in mind that we can control that more than you think.
bloody,
Let me remind you of this:
In early 1968 President Lyndon Johnson made a change in the budget presentation by including Social Security and all other trust funds in a”unified budget.” This is likewise sometimes described by saying that Social Security was placed “on-budget.”
Try and retain this information. As far as nuclear weapons, at a time when more volatile nations are ramping up their nuclear capabilities and arsenals, do you really think that now is the time to scale down ours?
“Do you remember when Bush announced the opening of the off shore drilling? Prices dropped.” = Clueless
Wow, do you still believe in Jack and the magic beans too?
You are not against speculators making $$ at the expense of hard working Neoconeheads. – barstool
What in the hell do liberals have against people making money? Liberals are complete and utter losers, always whining and complaining about people who have more brains and more money. Hell if we actually lived by Darwins theory, liberals wouldn’t exist.
If we actually lived by a ‘free market’ you wouldn’t be posting on the internet. You might not know, but government is responsible for that. Do you think the speculators rely on the internet?
If we actually lived by a ‘free market’ the costs of guaranteeing a free flow of oil would not borne by the taxpayers. Do the speculators rely on the US military to prevent supply shocks?
In fact, the entire trading system is dependent on government regulation, government guarantees, quasi-monopoly status etc.
The speculators aren’t making money by introducing new ideas, new products, … they are relying on barriers to entry to enrich themselves. They aren’t adjusting to a Darwinian environment because they are adaptable. They control the economic environment to make themselves appear the most adapted.
Given that the speculators are so dependent on the government to amass their fortunes, it seems reasonable to ask why people like Neoconehead should have to pay for it now at $800/month and in the past in Vietnam.
When prices of commodities have no bearing on supply and demand the system itself is completely unstable. The conservative version of the housing bubble is that it’s all the fault of those po folks. That conveniently ignores the real estate brokers, banks etc. who amassed a fortune from the fact that the price of a house was becoming less and less a function of supply and demand. It was driven up and up and up by people speculating that prices would just keep going up.
Again, I’m with GMB in addition to making myself as independent of Big Government as possible I try to make myself independent of Big Banking and Big Stock Market and Big Speculator. Of course, Big ends up touching everything in the end so there is only a littler that can be done.
Live off grid as much as possible. When the bottom falls out it will fall out hard. If you have anything of value the government will be there to take “thier fair share” if not all.
We are papering over the cracks with more and more worthless paper. Soon that paper won’t be worth the cost of printing.
Your semi-daily installment of DOOM!!!. Enjoy 🙂
barstool,
Are you saying that I advocate a completely unregulated free market? You are either lying, or have sh*t for brains. My guess is the latter.
“Liberals are complete and utter losers, always whining and complaining about people who have more brains and more money.” -Clueless in response to my questioning speculators profits.
That seems to imply that you believe speculators have some “brains” some “skillz” some “entrepreneurship” that others who pay $800 per month in gas bills are lacking. I called bulls**t.
Speculators rely on the lack of free markets to make their money.
Personally, I doubt you have any skills that a hundred million Chinese don’t also have. You have your small portion of the world as a curious result of circumstances whereby the US elderly and you in particular avoided the severe competition which will face your kids and grandkids. I hope NAFTA and the cheap stuff at the dollar store is worth seeing your kids compete with slave labor from India.
Stool, stool, stool
Are you foaming out the mouth yet? Their are laws on the books to keep speculators in check – they are called anti trust laws and can be easily enforced by the justice department if only our government had the foresight to do so. I do remember indictments and convictions under the Bush admin. but oddly, there have never been any perp walks under Obama – strange isn’t it. Now don’t take this as my ringing endorsement of commodity speculation as you most likely will, rather just an acknowledgement of their existence, and all of it not bad.
We do need to level the playing field for our kids, I will agree with that, but those things can be resolved as well in an adult manner. Sadly many people like you can’t get beyond their cartoonish perceptions of whom their opponents really are. Actually those “many people” would be the entire democratic party.
Clueless less
Antitrust laws are not meant to keep speculators in check. They are meant to keep single individuals like the Hunt Brothers in check. It’s not the side of the large bets on commodities that is the problem, it is the bet itself. An airline which needs fuel needs energy derivatives in it’s portfolio, a pension fund manager looking for a fast buck doesn’t. If fuel prices go up, the airline’s hedge keeps people working and the economy moves forward. The winning speculator simply transfers money from the pockets of the consumers.
Good that you are willing to admit that you and yours have no adaptive abilities in the current environment. You might want to start following GMB’s advice before long.
Again,again,again, Obama is a friend of Wall Street. No news there. Did not vote for the guy.
Maybe you could clue me in on who the OPPONENTS really are. I am sticking with Paul and saying it’s not a bunch of crazy Muslims.
bloodyPpump.
if we slightly reduce our nuclear stockpile.
80% reduction is “slightly”?
however you do seem quite persistent in your familiarity with homosexuals and bed wetting.
It would take a thermal nuclear attack to clean up the results left in the white house and your bed, sink, cigar or what evvveeeeer
Got my new toy today, the Princess is NOT happy…. 😦
Ooh well, Boys will be Boys
Harley Dyno Low Rider bad to the bone!
Dyna not dyno. Are you in shape!
I am, my typing fingers ? may need some work (not dyno)
actually a Dyna glide low rider but who is splitting hairs? 🙂
Who are the Democrats going to blame now?
Before they blamed the “two oil men in the White House”. . and their “protectors” in the Senate after the Democrats supposedly passed initiatives to lower high energy costs.
They had no problem blaming the then REPUBLICAN President for gasoline that peaked at one time close to $4.00/gal during the summer of 2008. At the end of 2008, the price dropped to about $1.60 – right about the time a wave of idiot voters elected Barack Obama — and have been increasing ever since. In fact under the obAMATEUR January gas prices set a new record last month — the most expensive January ever at U.S. gasoline pumps. Your pas at the pump averaged $3.37 in January. In 2010, January gasoline prices averaged just $2.71 a gallon. And experts predict that gas will be around $4 by this summer.
Remember – oil production on federally owned lands in the US is down … that’s DOWN … by 40%. Deep water drilling rigs that used to work in the Gulf of Mexico now work off the coast of Africa and Brazil. And some Obama sycophant was telling us in the last election that Americans really needed to be paying the same for gas that they’re paying in Europe.
None of Obama’s past statements or actions to reduce oil production matter now. As gas prices go up they’ll find a way to blame Bush or Wall Street. Ditzy Debbie will be the first out of the chute followed by the chief dogwasher Jay Carney and the leftist drones will minlessly follow after that.
Minless follower, that’s me…
Oil is fungible. Look it up. Any oil drilled anywhere on the planet gets sold anywhere to the highest bidder. However, ecological disasters as a result of drilling and transporting are born solely by the nations they destroy. China wants all that cheap gas from the Keystone pipeline, and doesn’t really care if the Ogallala aquifer is destroyed in the process. Do you?
Drama alert! Another whiny liberal is forecasting the end of the planet if if these eevil oil mongers aren’t stopped.
Good call bozo
“China wants all that cheap gas from the Keystone pipeline, and doesn’t really care if the Ogallala aquifer is destroyed in the process. Do you?”
So you are saying that if the pipeline is built and they find a way around the aquifer, gasoline prices would drop significantly? After all, you did say “cheap gas” or do you consider, anything less that what it is now due to obAMATEUR’s pathetic energy policies (or the non-existence of one)?
As I said, mindless drone, which you have again proven yourself to be.
…doesn’t really care if the Ogallala aquifer is destroyed…
Wahhh wahhhh wahhhh. And skyyyyyy is falllllllinggg!!!! And the oceans are rising!!! And the polar bears are drowning!!!!!! And the cries of their cubs as their dens collapse on them are so saaaaaddd!!! And the oil companies are making too much monnnney!!
Well, we finally got to the heart of the matter.
If there is an issue with the aquifer, the reasonable solution would be to keep the entire proposal in play and work on that one issue. But the administration has set it up so any change will require dumping the whole thing and going back to Step One, a process which will take years.
All you have to do to discern the true motives of the objection is to look at how it is being handled.
Why has gas consumption declined?
Well, I’d say because the darn gas is so high … $4.00 a gallon? My gosh! Who, with a 30 gallon tank could afford that price?? Good golly ms. molly!!
Man this blog hasn’t posted anything since sunday. We need more mess thrown about from Neocon!!!!
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Im in