Re: When Gasoline Reaches $5.00 per Gallon Thank Liberals!
- From: Steven <stevebrooks@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:56:42 -0500
Sordo wrote:
When Gasoline Reaches $5.00 per Gallon Thank Liberals!
By JB Williams Wednesday, April 30, 2008
http://canadafreepress.com/
Financial Times reports “OPEC says oil could hit $200,” up from the
record $120 a barrel today. If and when that happens, predicted to be
this summer, the $3.50 to $4.00 prices you see at the pumps today will
top $5.00 per gallon and you can thank liberal environmentalists for
that!
When Bill Clinton took office in January 1993, the average retail price
of gasoline was $1.06 per gallon. By the time Clinton ran for
re-election in 1996, that average per gallon price had become $1.25 per
gallon, a 17.9% increase in less than four years.
By the time George W. Bush took office in January 2001, the price of a
gallon of gas had become $1.45 – a 36.8% increase in gasoline prices
during the first Clinton era. Yet Hillary Clinton says she can solve
this problem… and I hope she can, but let’s consider the facts.
2001-2006
During the first six Bush years, gasoline prices rose to $2.22 per
gallon, a 53.1% increase over six years, during which time the flow of
Iraqi oil had stopped after 9/11. Hillary Clinton was a leading US
Senator. Can we find any of her senate initiatives to increase domestic
exploration, production or refining, which would result in lower prices
at the pumps and reduce America’s dependence on foreign crude?
2006-Present
Americans blamed Bush and elected Democrats to turn the tide and from
January 2006 to March 2008, the price of gas shot up to $3.25 per
gallon, a price now dwarfed by the $3.49 per gallon a month later, in
April 2008.
In the 14 months since Democrats took control of congress, the price of
gasoline has shot up a whopping $1.26 per gallon, marking a record 56.8%
increase in just 14 months. So much for turning that rising tide…
Liberal Ideas at Work in the European Union
Democrats have no original thoughts of their own, so they simply adopt
the liberal ideas of their friends over in the European Union. However,
the European Union is the one place on earth in worse shape than America
in terms of energy.
European Union Gas Prices Today
Netherlands* $8.95
Germany $8.63
France $8.34
United Kingdom $8.18
Denmark $8.14
Finland $7.98
Belgium $7.64
Sweden $7.42
Italy $7.30
Romania $6.32
If we want what they have, we simply need to follow their lead and
institute the same insane levels of government regulation and taxation
that these countries have. That’s exactly the prescription being offered
by American leftists who are far better aligned with EU thinking than
American ideals. Remember the Kyoto Treaty the EU thought we should
sign? That treaty would likely our gas prices more in line with European
gas prices.
For a closer glimpse into that future, take a good look at California,
which enjoys the most extreme environmental laws, highest taxation and
highest energy prices in the U.S., not to mention its “fair share” of
energy shortages.
Exploration, Production and Refining
A steady flow of production is required to meet a rising demand for
energy. At present, the United States consumes a reported 25.9% of the
world’s oil production. But we only produce 10.7% of the world’s oil
supply. As a result, we are dependent upon foreign energy productivity,
consuming approximately twice the oil we are allowed by law to produce
and therefore importing the energy we need to keep the lights on.
Environmentalists have all but shut down domestic oil exploration and
production for almost 40 years now. They have also outlawed the
expansion of refining capacity for the same period, ever since Jimmy
Carter was president.
Our refineries are running at 98% capacity at all times. Even if we
could buy crude at a lower rate, we do not have the refining capacity to
meet demand for refined products and deliver a cheaper retail prices at
the pumps.
Despite cutting off America’s ability to explore, produce and refine oil
products for 40 years, our current $3.49 price per gallon is still well
below that of any member of the European Union. But it won’t be for much
longer because the liberal environmentalist energy policies of the last
40 years are coming home to roost.
Alternative Energy?
With old elitist arrogance, but an entirely new level of hypocrisy, the
answer to the following question really sets the stage for why America
is energy dependent as a result of its own gross ignorance…
The QUESTION: Guess which house belongs to the Nobel Prize winning
global leader of the secular socialist environmental whacko movement?
HOUSE # 1:?A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by
natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest
house all heated by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more
energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The
average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per
month. In natural?gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil
fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national average
for an American home. This house is not in a northern or Midwestern
“snow belt,” either. It’s in the South.??
HOUSE # 2:?Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national
university, this house incorporates every “green” feature current home
construction can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet (4
bedrooms) and is nestled on arid high prairie in the American southwest.
A central?closet in the house holds geothermal heat pumps drawing ground
water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67
degrees F.) heats the house in winter and cools it in summer. The system
uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of
the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system.
Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon
underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes
into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The
collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Flowers
and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding
rural landscape.?
HOUSE # 1 - (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville,
Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and
filmmaker) Al Gore.?
?HOUSE # 2 - (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford,
Texas. Also known as “the Texas White House,” it is the private
residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.
Wackos in the Hen House!
Guess who doesn’t like wind energy because birds fly into the windmills
and die?
Guess who doesn’t like ethanol because it’s burning food supplies while
the world is headed towards a food crisis resulting from high energy
costs?
Guess who doesn’t like hydro-energy because it disturbs the fish and
frogs?
Guess who doesn’t like the cleanest, cheapest energy known to mankind,
nuclear energy, because it’s “dangerous,” which can be said of all
energy sources?
Right! - The exact same wackos who have spent the last 40 years blocking
U.S. oil exploration, production and refining, forcing America to its
knees and leaving the nation completely dependent upon foreign energy
sources…
Now, - guess who America is dependent upon for the energy needs it
cannot fill on its own?
He with the Gold – Makes the Rules!
Meet the top ten oil producers in the world – (excluding #2 America)
Saudi Arabia
Russia
Iran
Mexico
Norway
China
European Union
Venezuela
Canada
United Arab Emirates
These are the nations with the power to hold America hostage over an oil
barrel. And you ask why we play ball with such anti-American regimes…
Because we have to!
Blame the “rich” and “greedy” Oil Companies?
According to leftist press reports stumping for liberal political
campaigns, yes. It’s the “rich” and “greedy” oil companies who are
responsible for these prices and they are getting even “richer” on the
backs of poor Americans who will soon be riding their bicycles to work!
BP and Shell just reported a combined $17 Billion in 1st Quarter
profits. It must be their fault!
Of course, no liberal member of the press was reporting the billions in
losses oil companies were reporting a couple years ago. Over extended
operating periods, it takes a lot of profits to cover up the red ink of
the past and invest in the future.
But most importantly, the left does NOT want you to know how the price
of every gallon of gas breaks down… But I’ll tell you!
Based upon our current $3.49 per gallon national average
• 68% or $2.37 per gallon belongs to the crude producing company (most
of them foreign)
• 13% or $.45 per gallon goes to TAXES
• 11% or $.38 per gallon pays for the cost of distribution and delivery
• 8% or $.28 per gallon pays the cost of refining (for those “greedy”
U.S. oil companies)
Now, since gasoline is usually a “loss leader” for the retailer that
prays you will walk into their market and buy something at a profit
while your gas tank is filling, and the vast majority of oil consumed in
this nation is not produced in this nation, American oil companies make
most of their earnings from refining.
$.28 cents per gallon is not how much they make refining. It represents
the TOTAL attributed to the cost of refining, which means, their
billions in profits are only a portion of that $.28 per gallon.
Since U.S. oil companies, which are owned by U.S. citizens hoping to
retire via their 401k and stock investments someday, are taking the
smallest cut from the price of a gallon of gasoline, how in the world
can it be their fault that the price of gasoline is higher than we like?
If they charged nothing at all for refining and therefore, went out of
business by making nothing at all, it would only reduce the price at the
pump by $.28 per gallon, at least until we ran out of refined product
altogether.
The ONLY Solution
Balance domestic supply with domestic demand. Explore, produce and
refine more domestically… while lifting the wacko environmentalist
blocks against all other alternative energy sources and encouraging
investment in all the above.
Talk to your neighborhood environmental wacko about that soon, would ya!
Meanwhile, Barack Obama says eliminating the $.45 per gallon in taxes
won’t help you. Send this freshman to Europe to study the problem more
closely!
Like I've said before, the Democrats are killing our confidence in them.
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