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Obama Not Serious About Job Creation or Energy Production
The Obama administration’s delay issuing offshore lease sales shows Democrats are deceiving the public by following the game plan mandated by radical environmentalists. Obama is not serious about energy independence, says House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Cong.Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) (more…)
Gas Prices Are High Because They Want it That Way
Numerous pronouncements in the past from the president and leading Democrats show that high fuel prices aren’t by chance, they’re by design high gasoline prices are not a cause of the current economic recession, they are an avoidable and unnecessary symptom of liberal environmental and economic policies. When President Barack Obama took office the price of gasoline was $1.83 per gallon. Today it’s once again nudging $4.00. Understanding why that is so will give you insight into the patient game plan of the fossil-fuel-hating, combustion-engine-despising, environmentally obsessed left.
The Hidden Cost of Ethanol Subsidies
By mandating 40% of our corn crop be dedicated to ethanol, we’ve created domestic shortages that may turn the U.S. into a net importer of corn and destroy our dominance in one more area of the world economy. This is likely to be hard on food prices at a time when they are already going up. In an attempt to appease environmentalists — for whom nothing is ever enough — we risk mandating ourselves right out of dominance in one more area of the world economy. (more…)
Thanks, Democrats … We’re looking at $5 Gas This Summer
The forecast for the summer driving season: Hit the road early. Not to beat the traffic, but to beat the higher gas prices expected in mid-July. Goldman Sachs’ crystal ball is proclaiming that oil will soon soar to $135 a barrel, and likely have service stations jacking up fuel prices to $5 a gallon, just like the summer of 2008 that preceded the recession.
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