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Post by hisea on Feb 21, 2012 7:14:04 GMT -4
Regular Gas on the island, 3.54 a gallon. Sure glad the prez rejected the keystone pipeline!
Darn that George Bush!
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Post by grova on Feb 21, 2012 13:14:36 GMT -4
The pipeline would have done nothing for gas prices. It all goes onto the global market. It's not "our" oil. Even if it was OPEC would just slow production to make up for it. Trouble in the mid east namely Iran cutting off parts of Europe coupled with a abnormally cold winter there, increased demand from China and our old friends the speculators are whats causing this. US oil production has increased under the Obama administration. www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFPUS1&f=M
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Post by bchevy on Feb 21, 2012 22:36:52 GMT -4
DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW. Drill everywhere we can and watch the prices drop, and see the sorry a$$ greedy arab oil kings and OPEC self destruct. Too bad we don't have the ba11s for it.
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Post by hisea on Feb 22, 2012 9:04:59 GMT -4
WHAT? Fill up your gas tank and grab some more KOOL-AID!
Carney: Obama Didn't Turn Down The Keystone Pipeline
White House press secretary Jay Carney first says Republicans "forced" President Obama to deny the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. Later in his press briefing, Carney says Obama didn't turn down the pipeline.
"In terms of Keystone, as you all know, the history here is pretty clear. And the fact is because Republicans decided to play political with Keystone, their action essentially forced the administration to deny the permit process because they insisted on a time frame in which it was impossible to completely approve the pipeline," Carney said when asked about the pipeline by ABC News' Jake Tapper.
Later in the briefing, Carney says it is the Republicans' fault.
Jake Tapper: "How can you say that you have an all the above on approach if the President turned down the Keystone pipeline? And you blame the Republicans for making it political."
Carney: "But the President didn't turn down the Keystone pipeline. There was a process in place, with long precedent, run out of the State Department because of the issue of the pipeline crossing an international boundary, that required an amount of time for proper for review after an alternate route was deemed necessary through Nebraska at the request of the Republican Governor of Nebraska and other stakeholders in Nebraska and the region that needed to play out, to be done appropriately. You can't review and approve a pipeline, the route for which doesn't even exist.
"The Republicans were the ones who unfortunately decided because they were looking for scalps, I guess, or wins in a situation where they somehow found themselves on the wrong side of cutting taxes for 160 million Americans last December. They decided to play politics with this decision and attack the payroll tax cut extension. Even though it was made clear by the State Department that doing so would make it impossible for them to conduct the review responsibly, they did it anyway knowing what the result would be."
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Post by hisea on Feb 22, 2012 9:11:17 GMT -4
Regular Gas price on the island, 3.55 a gallon! Sure glad the Republicans rejected the keystone pipeline! Maybe I'll buy a volt!
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Post by grova on Feb 22, 2012 22:19:05 GMT -4
Interesting read...granted he might be somewhat biased but there are some good points. Stop Keystone pipeline before it's too late The purpose of Keystone XL is to bring tar sands crude oil through the United States to Gulf Coast refineries. The route through the United States is actually the oil industry's second choice: Transporting the oil west from Alberta to the Pacific Coast would be shorter and much cheaper, but Canadians concerned about environmental impacts and threats to native people's lands are challenging that route, and with good reason. The existing and potential environmental impacts along the 2,000-mile pipeline route are profound. In Canada, extraction of tar sands crude requires clear-cutting thousands of acres of boreal forests, diverting rivers, strip-mining, and destroying critical habitat for some of the largest populations of woodland caribou left in the world. Thirty percent of North America's songbirds and 40% of its waterfowl rely on the wetlands and waterways of the boreal forest. www.cnn.com/2012/02/22/opinion/turner-keystone-pipeline/index.html?
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Post by hisea on Feb 23, 2012 9:36:45 GMT -4
A little biased? Next time you stop and fill up your SUV make sure you grab a couple of gallons of that Kool-Aid.
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Post by hisea on Feb 23, 2012 9:41:33 GMT -4
Obama's Double Talk on Sky-High Gas Prices Energy: When gas prices hit $4 a gallon in 2008, candidate Barack Obama said it was due to previous failed energy policies. Now that prices are heading still higher, President Obama calls it progress. Already, pump prices are higher than they've been in previous years, suggesting they will top $4 soon and possibly reach an unprecedented $5 this summer. President Obama is starting to notice the political implications. So he sent Robert Gibbs — now a top campaign adviser — out to tell the public not to worry. "Just on Friday, the Department of the Interior issued permits that will expand our exploration in the Arctic," Gibbs said Sunday. "Our domestic oil production is at an eight-year high, and our use of foreign oil is at a 16-year low. So we're making progress." "Progress" isn't exactly how Obama described the country's energy picture in 2008, when gas prices were closing in on $4 a gallon. Then, it was a clear sign of "Washington's failure to lead on energy," which was "turning the middle-class squeeze into a devastating vise-grip for millions of Americans." "For the well-off in this country," Obama said in May 2008, "high gas prices are mostly an annoyance, but to most Americans they're a huge problem, bordering on a crisis." In August that year, he declared rising energy costs to be "one of the most dangerous and urgent threats this nation has ever faced" and that gas prices "are wiping out paychecks and straining businesses." While Gibbs is right that domestic production has climbed in the past three years, Obama's policies had nothing whatsoever to do with it. Subscribe to the IBD Editorials Podcast Oil coming from offshore wells was in the pipeline, so to speak, during the Clinton and Bush years, when those permits were issued. And the oil pouring out of North Dakota is the result of drilling on private lands. Obama, in fact, has made it clear for years that he has no real interest in boosting domestic production. When President Bush announced plans in 2008 to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling, Obama dismissed it, saying "it would merely prolong the failed energy policies we have seen from Washington for 30 years." "Offshore drilling," he said, "would not lower gas prices today, it would not lower gas prices next year and it would not lower gas prices five years from now." In a big energy speech he gave in August 2008, Obama argued that "if we opened up and drilled on every single square inch of our land and our shores, we would still find only 3% of the world's oil reserves." And while in office, Obama's done everything he can to limit production — slow-walking offshore permits, killing the Keystone XL pipeline, making it even harder to get oil out of federal lands. Instead of aggressively expanding oil production, he offered a set of ridiculous alternatives — hugely wasteful "green" energy subsidies, a call for a million electric cars by 2014 and costly fuel economy mandates that won't make a dent in consumption for decades. With gas prices up 93% since Obama took office, we're seeing just how well this approach works. news.investors.com/article/601827/201202211837/obama-shifting-talk-on-high-gas-prices.htm
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Post by grova on Feb 23, 2012 15:27:27 GMT -4
So I've got a question... Why in 2008 when a barrel of oil topped at $145 we were paying $4+ a gallon but right now oil is trading at $107 a barrel and we're already hitting $4 a gallon in certain parts of the country.
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Post by bchevy on Feb 23, 2012 16:51:00 GMT -4
So I've got a question... Why in 2008 when a barrel of oil topped at $145 we were paying $4+ a gallon but right now oil is trading at $107 a barrel and we're already hitting $4 a gallon in certain parts of the country. Greed Corruption Price Gouging etc. etc.
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Post by highlander73 on Feb 23, 2012 16:56:31 GMT -4
Surely you understand more goes into the price of retail goods than commodities costs. It's not all about where it (oil) comes from but how hard it is to get it (permits, pipelines), how hard it is to process it (labor, facilities, healthcare, taxes, unions, bridge tolls(!)), how much you tax it, and the perception of how available it will be in the future.
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Post by hisea on Feb 23, 2012 19:38:46 GMT -4
So I've got a question... Why in 2008 when a barrel of oil topped at $145 we were paying $4+ a gallon but right now oil is trading at $107 a barrel and we're already hitting $4 a gallon in certain parts of the country. THE ANSWER IS Steven Chu's Europe gas quote haunts President Obama “Somehow,” Chu said, “we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” Read more: www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/73138.html#ixzz1nFdy26Eq
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Post by hisea on Feb 24, 2012 20:02:44 GMT -4
Regular unleaded 3.58 at the Gulf Station. Thank you barack.
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Post by rosario on Feb 25, 2012 7:16:56 GMT -4
barack HUSSEIN obama. uhhh, uhhhh, uhhh
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Post by bluecrabber on Feb 25, 2012 7:32:52 GMT -4
What continues to puzzle me is why the elected elitist idiots cannot figure out that crazy gas prices is what killed the economy in the first place, and continues to stifle any hope of recovery.
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Post by hisea on Feb 25, 2012 9:15:16 GMT -4
Went to fill up my pick up and couldn't find the ALGAE pump? So I had to settle for unleaded reg. ;D Obama's Energy Plan -- Algae (CNSNews.com) - "The American people aren't stupid," President Obama said on Thursday -- as he insisted that drilling for more oil on U.S. territory is "not a strategy to solve our energy challenge." The president's solution? Algae, for one. There are no quick fixes to the nation's eneergy problem, the president said, dismissing Republican calls for more drilling as a "bumper sticker." "We’re making new investments in the development of gasoline and diesel and jet fuel that’s actually made from a plant-like substance -- algae," the president said at a campaign stop in Florida. "You’ve got a bunch of algae out here, right? If we can figure out how to make energy out of that, we’ll be doing all right." Obama said the nation could replace up to 17 percent of the oil it imports for transportation with "this fuel that we can grow right here in the United States. And that means greater energy security. That means lower costs. It means more jobs. It means a stronger economy." Obama's mention of algae drew snorts from one prominent pundit. Speaking on Fox News with Bret Baier, Charles Krauthammer said he was "impressed by the president's analysis of this situation." "He talked about something really revolutionary today -- algae -- a $14-million dollar grant for the development of algae. So it's not oil. His solution is algae." Krauthammer quoted Obama as saying algae can be grown right here in the United states: "Now it happens that algae will grow anywhere on earth," Krauthammer continued. "It grows in oceans and lakes and ponds and your swimming pools, when the pool man is on vacation, in snow, in ice, on soil, lives well on turtles, sloths, the bark of trees and rocks. "Now why are we drilling for oil?" Krauthammer continued. "We are the Saudi Arabia of rocks. We have a mountain range called the Rockies, and we are allowing ourselves to be dominated by these oil producers." In his "energy" speech -- which comes as gasoline prices are zooming toward record levels -- Obama downplayed "annual gas price spikes that happen every year." He said the nation needs an "all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy. Yes, oil and gas, but also wind and solar and nuclear and biofuels, and more." cnsnews.com/news/article/obamas-energy-plan-algae
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Post by hisea on Feb 29, 2012 7:10:47 GMT -4
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Post by dmki on Feb 29, 2012 9:07:06 GMT -4
How about Gingrich set price on gas $2.50 a gallon.
I think these tea party nuts will say anthing.
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Post by Frank on Feb 29, 2012 10:35:16 GMT -4
How about Gingrich set price on gas $2.50 a gallon. I think these tea party nuts will say anthing. Geee... Just like your president! Promise the world to get elected, and don't follow through!
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Post by Frank on Feb 29, 2012 11:26:02 GMT -4
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Post by hisea on Mar 1, 2012 6:48:57 GMT -4
Energy Secretary Chu Admits Administration OK with High Gas Prices President Barack Obama's Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu uttered the kind of Washington gaffe that consists of telling the truth when inconvenient. According to Politico, Chu admitted to a House committee that the administration is not interested in lowering gas prices. news.yahoo.com/energy-secretary-chu-admits-administration-ok-high-gas-193900713.html
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Post by hisea on Mar 10, 2012 10:23:15 GMT -4
3.63 unleaded reg! More pond scum needed to drop prices!
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Post by hisea on Mar 11, 2012 16:24:47 GMT -4
Thank you Barry! UNLEADED REG NOW ONLY 3.72! No Hope and NO CHANGE!
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Post by hisea on Mar 12, 2012 15:09:43 GMT -4
Now unleaded is at 3.78 a gallon. Can't wait much longer for the pond scum! ;D
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Post by hisea on Mar 15, 2012 6:41:27 GMT -4
3.83 a gal of unleaded reg! Obama lite wants to add Marylands six percent sales tax? WTF? I know, gas prices haven't risen in a decade?
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