A little bit of civil disobedience and political theater won’t do any harm and makes for a nice tweak, I suppose. But before it’s over, we’re going to have to put Post-It notes on our faucets, our food, our clothing, and our furnaces, as well.
— Which, this is what one should have expected from a President who told people in advance that energy prices under his plans would “necessarily skyrocket,” and whose Administration is so into the idea of tyrannical social engineering that it presumes it is role to forcibly ween Americans off of oil.
So where were all the pre-November 2008 Post-It notes, I wonder? And how many of them would have, instead of sounding the alarm, chided those of us trumpeting the very public warning signs that Obama is not, contrary to the conventions of popular self-righteous decorum, a “good man”…?
Geez, put some more air in your tires, get a tune up, and relax, wingnuts. Help is on the way!
But, but, but….the SF Chronicle informed me that high gas prices are completely outside the control of the POTUS…..
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/01/MNN71NDJQG.DTL
Of course, the same newspaper also told me 6 years ago that the “two oilmen in the White House” were directly complicit the last time gas was priced this high.
It’s just different this time…I guess.
The Obama Regime cannot escape the following facts regarding skyrocketing gas prices:
1. In September 2008, Obama’s “Nobel-prize winning physicist” of an Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, told the Wall Street Journal: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”
2. In 2008, then-candidate Obama admitted that, like his future Energy Secretary Mr. Chu, he believed that high gas prices would be a good thing because they would force Americans to ween themselves off of oil, but that he would have “preferred a gradual adjustment.”
3. On January 19, 2009, the day before Barack Obama was sworn in as President of the United States, gas prices were $1.84 a gallon. As of February 20, 2012 a gallon of gas cost $3.59.
4. As Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson points out, “Offshore drilling permits are being issued at less than half the rate of the previous administration. The average number of leases issued on public lands is less than half than during President Clinton’s term.”
5. In 2008, Barack Obama seemed perfectly comfortable with soaring energy prices if they meant curbing green house gas emissions. As Mr. Obama confessed: “Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”
6. Obama’s own 2008 campaign rallies actually cheered higher gas prices because they would “force us to think about changing the culture to create more emphasis on mass transportation.” Following the sustained applause, then candidate-Obama proceeded to laud Europe (not unlike his future Energy Secretary Steven Chu) for its rail system.
7. Try as he might, President Obama’s campaign will try to distance themselves from the fact that a central pillar of Mr. Obama’s 2008 campaign was a pledge to reduce the “pain at the pump” caused by high gas prices. However, the record reveals the extent to which Obama promised that, if elected, he would bring down the cost of gas for “everyday Americans.”
Missing no opportunity to invoke class warfare, Obama said: “For the well-off in this country, high gas prices are mostly an annoyance. But to most Americans, they are a huge problem, bordering on a crisis. Here in Indiana, gas costs $3.60 a gallon.”
With all due respect to the AWWA, I have to remark that hearing a bunch of water engineering advocates bleat about aging infrastructure is about as interesting and surprising as a bunch of air quality advocates bleating about tailpipe emissions.
And as one who deals with municipal utilities regularly, I should note that animosity to Washington in this case is misplaced. The President and his lackeys have nothing to do with the fact that a lot of municipal utilities have deferred their capital improvement plans in order to keep customer bills artificially low. I’d say more, but anonymity is hardly to be taken for granted these days.
Very nice pvrwc. I momentarily pause from wailing and rending.
This might be interesting if there were more details, considering this old info