Obama panel to investigate high oil prices

I read where Obama has appointed a panel to investigate high gasoline prices.

Being the good citizen that I am, I always want to help us find truth, justice and the American Way.

To do this, please return to the day Obama was sworn into office. If you filled up with gasoline the price was $1.61.

Link to a chart of average gasoline prices.

Yes, Bush's and Congress' actions had broken the back of the speculators.

But from that low prices have risen steadily to the current $3.87, a $2.26 increase.

Now why have they done this?

5:45 a.m., Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Facing gas prices near $4 a gallon and a pivotal national election, congressional Democrats allowed a ban on offshore drilling to lapse in September

But times change, and on Tuesday, the Obama administration - with gas prices roughly half what they were and many Democrats’ having been swept into office - blocked offshore drilling plans put in place at the last minute by the Bush administration, including plans to open the national outer continental shelf for drilling.

Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar also announced last week that his agency would block drilling on public lands in Utah, criticizing the Bush administration for releasing its offshore drilling plan just days before leaving office.

Link to article.

So why did the President do that? Well, listen to what he had said the previous summer (2008).

MSNBC Video

Obama rambles on about how we are running out of oil, about how India and China are expanding. Then the interviewer asks, "...could oil prices help us?" Now, remember that we had just seen the highest oil prices in history. So the question was "could high oil prices help us?

So what did Obama say? That it would be okay if it was a gradual adjustment. We could help the people and our auto industry could adjust.

Now, do you understand why and what he did on February 11, 2009 and what has happened?

Obama actually thinks high oil prices are good.

At 2 minutes Obama is mocking anyone who drives a vehicle that gets 8 miles to the gallon. The man he's mocking responds that he has a big family. Obama is amazed and apparently put off at the news the man has ten children. Barry, who has never wanted for anything in his life, then says the father should buy a hybrid.

The man with ten kids who can't afford gas entirely due to Obama's policies he tells to go buy a brand new car.

Disgusting. Democrats are the party of the little guy. What a sick lie.

Bonus: At 2:40 Obama explains that they didn't change gas mileage standards through the law, they got everyone to agree to it. The first people that come to mind in his list of participants: auto workers. In other words, unions. But no, no, he isn't a Leftist or a socialist.

Link

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Recycle or cry

In the line at the store, the cashier told the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bag because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't
have the 'green thing' back in my day."

The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. The former generation did not care enough to save our environment."

He was right, that generation didn't have the green thing in its day.Back then, they returned their milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and
sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over.

So they really were recycled.

But they didn't have the green thing back in that customer's day.

In her day, they walked up stairs, because they didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. They walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time they had to go two blocks.

But she was right. They didn't have the green thing in her day.

Back then, they washed the baby's diapers because they didn't have the throw-away kind. They dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts - wind and solar power really did dry the
clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters,not always brand-new clothing.

But that old lady is right, they didn't have the green thing back in her day.

Back then, they had one TV, or radio, in the house - not a TV in every room.And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief, not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, they blended and stirred by hand because they didn't have electric machines to do everything for you.When they packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, they used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.

Back then, they didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. They used a push mower that ran on human power. They exercised by working so they didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills
that operate on electricity.

But she's right, they didn't have the green thing back then.

They drank from a fountain when they were thirsty instead of using a cup or
a plastic bottle every time they had a drink of water. They refilled their writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and they replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just
because the blade got dull.

But they didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or rode the school bus instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. They had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And they didn't need a computerized
gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space
in order to find the nearest pizza joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful the old folks
were just because they didn't have the green thing back then?

Hat tip to Mike L!

OnTwitter I am Lesabre1

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.” - William Pitt

"Logic. There is little logic among the cultural elite, maybe because there is little omnipresent fear of job losses or the absence of money, and so arises a rather comfortable margin to indulge in nonsense." - Victor Davis Hanson