Republican Panic

Gasoline prices have decreased 35 cents per gallon in this area over the past couple of weeks commensurate with a decline in oil prices. Republicans are in a panic because of the possibility that prices may not rise as much as thought. Probably some are considering legislation to ban drilling in the Gulf and the process of fracking. Probably they will also ban use of the slogan, "Drill,baby, drill".

Panic is also caused by the preference by a wide margin of women for Obama over Romney. Republicans are desperately seeking a way to suppress the female vote. I imagine consideration is being given to requiring women voters to present a sworn statement to the effect that they do not use methods of contraception in order to vote.

But the greatest crisis is that they feel that feel the restrictions they have placed on the ease of registration, the times available for voting and the ID requirements will not sufficiently suppress the Black and Latino vote. As a result I believe that they are working on legislation requiring all females in those ethnic groups to provide a sworn, notarized statement that they have had a tubal ligation before being permitted to excercise the franchise.

I could not respond yesterday because I could not stop laughing at all the stuff your making up.

Your just spinning stuff or plain making things up to distract from the fact that the Obama regime have no accomplishments to run on.

How come you never talk about the 10-14% real unemployed.

or the vanishing shovel ready jobs,

or all the money wasted on Obama's defunct stimulus program,

or the fifteen and a half trillion dollar debt,

or the Obamacare program that 73% of Americans don't want,

or all of the foreign policy accomplishments this regime has not achieved,

or the class warfare Obama and his gang of socialist are using to divide the country,

or Obama's contribution to the increased racial division in our country,

or the squandering of tax dollars on so called green companies like Solyndra.

Maybe if your posts included all these, you would not have to resort to making stuff up to distract from all the problems Obama and the rest of the Socialists/Alinsky gang are responsible for!

I could not respond yesterday because I could not stop laughing at all the stuff your making up.

Well, Jack, there's hope for you yet. I thought laughter wasn't part of your repertoire. Makes you feel a lot better, I'll bet.


Art

gas down another eight cents today. soon he will start crying.

Headline in USA Today, " Gas Price Surge Likely Over". Republican's consternation increases over this apalling crisis, however it is not likley they will hold Obama at fault.

I guess you think that should make me feel better with gas hovering close to $4.00 a gallon.

When Bush left office gas was $1.84 per gallon.

It's $3.96/gal here as of today. No decrease yet.

"When Bush left office gas was $1.84 per gallon." Maybe it was, but gas prices come from both supply and demand. The supply was good, the demand wasn't.

When Bush left office, people were more concerned about their jobs, wall street crashing, making their next house payment, etc., etc.
Traveling was at an all time low. Gas prices fell.

Your making excuses, but that doesn't change the fact that gas was $1.84 the day Bush left office and today it's close to $4 a gallon.

Actually after checking I found that gas was $1.78 the day bush left office and since Obama became president gas has gone up almost every month.

A few months before Bush left office gas price was $4.25 a gallon. Does anyone recall what he did to bring it down to $1.78.-----I didn't think so.

eyemaratzass wrote:

A few months before Bush left office gas price was $4.25 a gallon. Does anyone recall what he did to bring it down to $1.78.-----I didn't think so.

Your right, you didn't think.

When gasoline prices rose under George W. Bush, the Democrats went crazy with accusations of how he and Vice President Dick Cheney were putting their allegiance to “big oil” over their allegiance to the American people. However, even amid their unfounded criticisms, Bush was able to bring gas prices down to approximately $1.84 a gallon simply by pushing for expanded drilling both on the continental U.S. and offshore. (For the record, the Democrats who were criticizing Bush for high gas prices also did their best to keep him from expanding drilling.)

Enter President Barack Obama. Under him, when gas prices began to rise, he laughed them off by telling one American to trade his SUV for a vehicle that got better mileage. And as the prices continued to rise, he made his often stated observation that green energy is the only long term solution for high energy prices. Then he rejected the Keystone Pipeline, which would have brought nearly a million barrels of Canadian crude to American refineries each day. Most recently, in a desperate attempt to get Americans to play along with his pin-the-high-gas-price-on-Exxon game, Obama has called for raising taxes on oil companies (as if increasing their cost of operations won’t increase the price we pay for the product they produce).

Oh, and I almost forgot, early on in this process he also told us to be sure our tires were aired up properly so we could get the best possible mileage out of our vehicles. And even before Obama was saying and doing these things, people he had selected to serve in his administration, like Senator Ken Salazar—now Obama’s Secretary of the Interior—said that even $10 a gallon gasoline wouldn’t convince him to allow expanded offshore drilling.
So why did gas prices fall under Bush, once they had spiked, whereas they are rising under Obama with no sign of abating?

That’s simple: Bush wanted to lower them, and Obama doesn’t. Bush knew that Americans needed oil at an affordable price in order to live the good lives they’d grown accustomed to living. Obama, on the other hand, thinks he knows best (as all true ideologues do). Therefore, he wants us to trade our reliance on fossil fuels for solar panels and wind farms, come hell, high water, or $10 a gallon gasoline.

I've got a mental image of the Obama wind mill mobile with a solar panel on the trunk. I'll have to work on that!!