Obama could ease gas prices overnight if he:
a) Removed all barriers for drillers to obtain a drilling license.
b) Opened up ANWAR and other domestic deposits for production.
c) Removed Federal gas taxes.
d) Stood up to Middle East oil thugs rather than bending over and kissing their ass!
And inflation could be greatly curtailed and auto maintenance expenses for consumers lessened if he ended all ethanol subsidies!
a) Drilling now won't actually increase supplies for 2-3 years minimum. And that will only increase oil reserves by what, a couple % points? Oil isn't scarce now so why would drilling more ease the issue?
b) Again, oil isn't scarce. And you really want companies like BP drilling in ANWAR? Prive companies have proven time and again without proper regulation that oil spills will continue happening... and this taking place in ANWAR is criminal and unacceptable a risk.
c) Great, but I thought the US had this huge deficit to pay off? I thought conservatives were all about paying down the American debt, yet now you want to remove a massive source of income to do so? Makes no sense and doesn't align with the recent rhetoric from the right.
d) What's so special about Obama that he has to do this and no one expected Bush JR and Sr, Clinton and .. well every president ever to do it?
I agree with you on ethanol subsidies. Subsidies like this hurt the food supply and are worthless anyways. All farming susbidies need to end or America and Canada need to stand up to Chinese market tampering.
And other domestic sources of energy could be more productively harnessed if we built more refineries, distribution capacity and built more nuclear and coal-fired power plants.
Wishfully thinking we can convert to a green-energy dreamworld and leave oil behind is naive. We are addicted to oil, that is weak-minded psychobabble served up by Ruling Class overlords to control ignorant masses. What we are currently addicted to his hopey/changey socialist BS!
Sacrifice?
The Productive Class has given more than its fair share! Time for the Looting Class to put thier hands to industrious and productive uses, not holding them out to self-serving politicians to bestow somebody elses blood and sweat!
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