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hahahahaha are you kidding me? do you Cheney n Busch- and all those BIG OIL folks. are suffering now with the low prices as the Saudis- did NOT hold back production- Wall Street is crying baby hahahaha
First of all it wasn't an OBAMA SUPPORTER who started this thread. It was an ignorant RW person who started this thread as a means of bashing Obama - so we're just responding in the spirit of the thread.
Secondly, higher energy prices DID break American consumers "dependence on oil" - or at the very least diminished it quite a bit. U.S. gas consumption is way down - to a large degree because there are now things like wind turbine farms producing electricity which previously would have been produced by coal or oil powered power stations. Wind farm are cropping up everywhere. I see trains rolling through town probably once a week or once every 10 days or so hauling trainloads of those enormous turbine blades. Also, higher government mileage standards means new cars are getting better mileage - and thus using less gas. Same is true regarding all those hybrids and all-electric vehicles out there. All those "alternative energy" industries have help push oil consumption and prices DOWN.
At the same time oil production has been allowed to increase (so much for him "working against the oil industry nonsense).
It's been a 2-pronged approach - let oil production rise and also encourage the adoption of alternate energy sources and conservation. And it looks like it's working pretty darned good at the moment.
Prices are always the result of TWO things - production AND consumption. All those idiot "drill baby drill" goons tend to IGNORE the second while focussing just on the first. But increasing productions doesn't help all that much if consumption rises right along WITH the production increases. It's when you INCREASE production while DECREASING consumption that big drops in price occur.
And THAT is exactly what's happened.
Ken
PS - whereever you live, you're getting scr*wed.
This is so VERY true.
Then again, karma has a way of redistributing
I spend quadruple to own property, but I don't have to drive, after 911 , Halliburton got what it wanted, pipelines under the Caspian Sea.
Govts think in terms of profit$, not people, esp. GOP criminals
What a disgrace.
We who gained nothing after the illegal wars of tens of thousands will have a merry xmas this year God Bless you.
catty intraparty feud between Republican hawks and GOPers skeptical of foreign intervention, former Vice President Dick Cheney took a shot at Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). But Paul is not likely to be fazed by criticism from Cheney, for several years ago the Kentucky senator was pushing the conspiratorial notion that the former VP exploited the horrific 9/11 attacks to lead the nation into war in Iraq in order to benefit Halliburton, the enormous military contractor where Cheney had once been CEO.
Speaking at a private Las Vegas gathering of Republican funders and activists on March 29, Cheney blasted what he termed isolationists within the GOP. "One of the things that concerns me first about the [2016] campaign, that I'm worried about," Cheney said, "is what I sense to be an increasing strain of isolationism, if I can put it in those terms, in our own party." He didn't name names, but he didn't have to—at least, in one case. He obviously had Rand Paul in mind. And Cheney, who also approvingly talked about bombing Iran, chided the unmentioned Paul and other less hawkish GOPers for having not learned the supposed lessons of 9/11.
So all those energy surcharges that have driven up the price of everything have gone away, right? Food prices are cheap again, right? Your electric bill is going down too, right?
Prices have gone down in spite of the boy emperor's efforts to have energy costs "necessarily sky rocket". After all, that's what he promised and the quote is there for all to hear. No one hates lower gas prices more than that chimp-in-chief.
So all those energy surcharges that have driven up the price of everything have gone away, right? Food prices are cheap again, right? Your electric bill is going down too, right?
Prices have gone down in spite of the boy emperor's efforts to have energy costs "necessarily sky rocket". After all, that's what he promised and the quote is there for all to hear. No one hates lower gas prices more than that chimp-in-chief.
What it shows is that all the conservative cries that liberal policies will drive gas prices to the moon were wrong once again. What we have is lower gas consumption due to those nasty CAFE standards that mandate higher mileage. As a result, consumption is down.
Paid $2.29 on Monday for gas near Eloy AZ. Could have got it for $2.27 if I'd bothered to go to the other side of the freeway. That's a FAR CRY from the $4.19/gallon Dockside blamed Obama for - so, in the spirit of the OP: For cutting the price of gas NEARLY IN HALF since Dockside's original post: Thanks Obama.
So, will Dockside be fair and honest enough to CREDIT Obama for the low gas prices after he BLAMED Obama for the high gas prices 2.5 years ago?
Not bloody likely.
Ken
So you credit obama with the lower gas prices which makes me ask you why Obama kept them so dam high for so long..
What it shows is that all the conservative cries that liberal policies will drive gas prices to the moon were wrong once again. What we have is lower gas consumption due to those nasty CAFE standards that mandate higher mileage. As a result, consumption is down.
This is great news. More production, less consumption is the way to energy independence.
That would be Demcorats who continued this nonsense talk to excuse the high gas prices we had..
yeah, their imbeciles alright.
Riiiight, the president who brought gas prices down from the idiot who raised gas prices in the first place invading Iraq wants high gas prices. You Teabaggers are running on fumes. Ironically, you can now afford gas instead of having to sniff fumes now
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