67% rise in gas prices and where is the outrage?

According to the Weekly Standard, gas prices have risen 67% since Obama became the imperial leader.

Mark Hemingway writes that “this is the President who told us “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.”

This is the President that appointed a Secretary of the Interior that famously said he didn’t mind if gas hit $10 a gallon.

This is the President whose administration secretly urged him to bypass needed Congressional approval to create as many at 17 national monuments throughout the west, effectively closing off all that land to energy exploration forever.

This is the President who has illegally tried to illegally enforce an offshore drilling ban.”

But here is where Mark misses the point: “How much higher is gas going to go before the Administration takes a long hard look at what its doing to send gas prices through the roof?”

News flash, Mr. Hemingway: This regime knows what it’s doing to raise the price of gas and heating oil. It’s their plan to make prices go high and higher. We all know it and all your links provide proof of it. Obama told us as a candidate that we would see prices go through the roof with his cap and trade scheme. His transportation secretary has told us that they were going to “coerce” us out of our cars and into government transportation.

Make no mistake: THIS IS ALL PLANNED! This regime knows what it’s doing and how it’s doing it. It was Obama’s budget that calls for cutting out subsidies to heat the homes of the poorer among us. And where are those poverty pimps – Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton – on that? Not a word. Not a whisper. No outrage at all.

Where is the outrage at 67% higher gas prices? Have we all become a nation that lays down and accepts this because we’ve been told that “this is how it’s going to be forever?” Get used to 9% unemployment and $5/gallon gas because they tell us to?

Not me. Not you. And not ever!

 

The big brains at Harvard say gas at $7/gallon

From the SINDYA N. BHANOO/NYT:

To meet the Obama administration’s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, some researchers say, Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $7 a gallon.

To reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector 14 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, the cost of driving must simply increase, according to a forthcoming report by researchers at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

The 14 percent target was set in the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget for fiscal 2010.

In their study, the researchers devised several combinations of steps that United States policymakers might take in trying to address the heat-trapping emissions by the nation’s transportation sector, which consume 70 percent of the oil used in the United States.

Most of their models assumed an economy-wide carbon dioxide tax starting at $30 a ton in 2010 and escalating to $60 a ton in 2030. In some cases researchers also factored in tax credits for electric and hybrid vehicles, taxes on fuel or both.

In the modeling, it turned out that issuing tax credits could backfire, while taxes on fuel proved beneficial.

“Tax credits don’t address how much people use their cars,” said Ross Morrow, one of the report’s authors. “In reverse, they can make people drive more.”

Dr. Morrow, formerly a fellow at the Belfer Center, is a professor of mechanical engineering and economics at Iowa State University

Researchers said that vehicle miles traveled will increase by more than 30 percent between 2010 and 2030 unless policymakers increase fuel taxes.

Okay. So unless the government stop us, we will continue to travel, ship produce and other consumer goods, and even go to work. Unless they stop us by taxing the hell out of us. This also limits our ability to move to another city or state.

How many of us can afford gas this high? How many of us can afford to pay for food or other consumer goods when gas goes this high? How many truckers will be out of work? How many farmers? What about the car companies, like Government Motors, that can’t ship cars to people who can’t afford to drive them anyway? Where will the union workers find jobs?

The idea of this is cataclysmic to our economy. We think 10% unemployment is bad? We’ve seen nothing yet.

Once they control our health care, cap and trade is next. They will be confining us to one place. Easier to control the population that way, isn’t it?