The Left's Double Standard: Gas Prices

LOLOL..

60 new deepwater drilling permits have been issued for the Gulf of Mexico.

BP has always had difficulty with their core values.. dating back to the 1960s.

And, with deepwater lift costs running $60 a barrel ... you can see the temptation to cut corners.

 

Could be a little like that... but I think it's fairly certain all victims would take lots of money to help them get over their trauma -- along with the satisfaction of knowing the perp had to pay dearly for their mistakes -- if given the choice.

Or maybe you think a victim should turn down cold, hard cash... on principle?

 

The point is that BP doesn't want to pay... they want Halliburton to pay.

 

No, the point is, the price of gasoline is skyrocketing and Obama's not saying a word. Neither is Pelosi, even though she dragged Bush over the coals when the same thing happened during his administration.

Why do you think that is?

 

Lift costs for US companies are running $60 a barrel..

Drop the ppb and they will shut down operations.

What do you want Obama and Pelosi to do? You want them to issue an edict and crash all this new capital investment in oil and gas?

 

Here's how it works.Democrats and particularly Big Liberal
Democrats like Nancy Pelosi Live to make claims.Pelosi ran
around for a couple years before she won her Speakership accusing Bush
of Cronyism.Being Incompetent and Corrupt.
There is NO bigger example of Cronyism than Barack's White House.
The most recent and probably visible example of this is Barack's
unconstitutional use of Recess appointmenst made not temporarily
as is allowed or during a Recess but made permanently and when Congress
was not in recess { August is the recess }.
Adding disturbing insult to injury Barack traipsed around the Country
during his 2008 Presidential campaign boosting claims of how fair
and even-handed his administration would be.No more Politics
as usual in Washington.Literally at times appearing to pat himself on the back
with pride as to how he would " bring Democrats and Republicans together ".
Nothing could be further from the truth.Republican Senate Leader Mitch
McConnell was aggressively denied access and even snubbed.
Back room deals over the Stimulus and a Closed-door policy in crafting
Obamacare.Obama pledged to " restore our moral standing " and
" The time has come for a president who will be honest about the choices
and the challenges we face,who will listen to you and learn from you,even
when we disagree. "
Oh ... is that so.Say it ain't so.
Did Obama the Magic Negro Listen when the results of the 2010 Congressional
elections came back.Or did he make a disagreeable turn to the left.
You be the Judge.And the Jury.

 

This thread is about Obama signing on 60 new deepwater drillling projects and opening up 21 million acres in the Gulf for exploration and drilling.

 

Acknowledge there's a problem... instead of flying off to Hawaii for Christmas vacation????

How 'bout Barbara Boxer? Where's her outrage now?

It's Bush's Fault!

 

LOL, NO IT'S NOT. It's about the high price of gasoline and Obama burying his head in the sand.

Start your own thread, Margot... or bump up one of the dead ones you started earlier.

 

Oh would that be the same Obama who just can't bring himself to
sign { Guy Lives to have TV coverage over signing bills } that
Canadian Pipeline Project.Obama could do it in a heartbeat.
Within the next half hour if he choose to.But he won't.
Obama is a Partisan.Forget that Pipeline would automatically create
20,ooo New jobs.Close to a Million when all is said and done.
But Obama won't.He likes to jerk the chain of his Opposition.
Loves to pander to his pander groups { Environmentalist's }

 

Why do you want to be "outraged"...

A decade ago offshore reserves were producing 1.5 million bpd.. Today they account for 5.5 million bpd.

There are NO shortages and the ppb is high enough to allow for capital investment, exploration and drilling.

You are so fixated on cheap gas that you aren't facing the realities.

 

I'm fixated on how bad low-income Americans are suffering with the high price of gasoline right now. Food prices have gone thru the roof -- due primarily to high fuel costs.

How can anybody NOT be outraged about the lack of concern coming from our elected officials?

I did get a laff listening to Barbara Boxer's rant though. Wonder how many of those 'green' companies she was touting as being the answer to all our problems have gotten millions in US tax dollars, then filed bankruptcy?

Yeah, the Dem's energy plan is so much better than Bush's, right? I mean, look how great we're doing now!!

 

Well.. you can kill the domestic oil business or move forward. There are lots of green companies that are succeeding quietly.. Solyndra is a fluke. Bush wanted to vet them and grant them a loan since 2005.. Obama went along.. failing to re-open due diligence..

I never listen to Boxer.

I know the Dems don't have an energy plan.. Its a private sector issue..

 

The price of gas was a major issue when Bush was president... under Obama, not so much.

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Maybe because Barack told us we'd have to pay more, ya think?

 

Why? As state a couple of times here, we are a net exporter of gasoline.

 

That's the problem.Even when gas was around $ 2 bucks,the Democrats
wanted to punish Bush for whatever Oil Policy he had.Bush could not
win for losing.Now that we have an almost Gas crisis,the media is
reluctant to even bring it up.Which goes directly to a double standard.
Bush gets lambasted when gas was $2 Bucks yet Obama is treated with
kid gloves at twice the price {$4 bucks}.Which should send up huge
smoke signals as to what this says about the apparent double standard
the Liberal Lamestream prefers to conjure.

 

We Hope Obama Will Change Gasoline Prices
01/09/2012 06:53 PM ET



Energy: After enduring a holiday season with gasoline prices at all-time highs, Americans are now dealing with record high prices to begin a new year. Does the president plan to do anything?

When Barack Obama took office three years ago, gasoline was less than $2 a gallon. The national city average for a gallon of regular was $1.79. On Monday, that same regular gasoline cost $3.37, the highest mark ever to start a new year and nearly a full quarter higher than the start of 2011.

Consumers probably saw this coming while Christmas shopping. Gasoline hit $3.21 gallon, a record for the season and an increase of 23 cents over the Christmas 2010 price — the previous record, according to the Heritage Foundation, until it was broken in 2011.

If gasoline prices aren't an issue at this point in the presidential campaign, they could be by summer. Patrick DeHaan, a senior petroleum analyst for GasBuddy.com, told the Los Angeles Times that the gas hikes are "setting up an ugly year for motorists." So ugly, DeHaan told ABC, that by Memorial Day he expects gasoline will be $3.86 to $4.13 per gallon.

We know what the Republican candidate will propose to bring down prices. But what will Obama, who, unlike his GOP opponents is in office where he can have an impact, do?

Will he change his mind and agree to let the Keystone XL project proceed? While crude shipped through that pipeline won't be on the market as gasoline for years, giving the project the go-ahead will affect near-term prices as the market reacts to the certainty of increased supplies in the future.

Will the president lower the barriers to development? Heritage reports that "less than 6% of federal lands and 2% offshore are open to exploration, limiting the potential of Americans to produce energy here at home."

Doubling both those figures would bring prices down and still leave large chunks of federal and offshore zones off-limits to drilling.

Will Obama back off his administration's assault on shale oil and gas? With the largest supply of shale resources in the world, the U.S. is sitting on an energy gold mine waiting to be developed. America is the Saudi Arabia of shale.

In fact, U.S. shale has about eight times as much oil as Saudi Arabia's sand.

The president isn't likely to choose any of these options — or any of the many other possibilities available to him that would increase energy production. His administration is so opposed to drilling that it even ignored U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman's order to lift a drilling moratorium that it imposed in 2010.

Even so, Obama will ask consumers who'll be paying as much as $300 more this year for gasoline than they did last year for their votes in November.

They shouldn't give them to him. The country doesn't need another four years of an elitist president who chokes the power of the market consumers so that he can placate narrow interests.

Just as Judge Feldman did, the voters should hold him in contempt.

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*knock knock* Dems, anybody home? Better answer this call...

 

HOW will the Republicans bring down gas prices? HOW will Keystone XL bring down gas prices?

 

The truth the drones will never except is that The Obama and the leadership on the left want high gas prices. They say it all the time. They want gas in America to cost the same as it does in Europe. Al Gore says the ideal price for gas is 5 bucks a gallon in his book. The left blocks everything attempt to increase supply of energy here in America. They block pipelines, they shut down power plants, and they stop new power plants from being built. It's been over 30 years since a refinery was built in America. They all say this is to give solar/wind a chance but the REALITY is solar/wind are great supliments to the energy supply but could never be a stand alone source. Nuclear power is the answer. If we began building nuclear plants across the country we would make electric cars affordable to plug in. 500 dollar power bills could become 50 dollar power bills. Rationing out a limited supply of energy to those who can afford it is a favorite past time of socialist.

 

Easy... by undoing the Dem policies that caused it to rise.

Keystone would create thousands of jobs immediately and help bring some stability to oil futures. How can doing nothing be a better plan for bringing down gas prices?

 

By increasing the over all energy supply. If we build nuclear power plants, that will make it affordable to plug your car into the wall. As of now we can bearly afford to run our AC units and on hot days we have brown outs. Now you want everyone to plug there cars in as well? Its as if the left thinks electricity comes from the wall magicly.

 

Unless the government confiscates gasoline and gives it away, thet's NOT going to happen.

The ONLY reason that TransCanada wants a pipeline is because the ppb is high.. That's the ONLY thing that is driving shale oil and 60 new deepwater rigs in the Gulf.

 

WHO are you talking to?

 

Every leftist dream LOL

LOL.. TransCanada is an evil corporation out to kill everyone and everything to make a buck. Only brave liberal drones stand in there way.

 

does it matter? Address my points unless you're scared.