An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Just Some Thoughts
I was doing some snooping and came across two items that I thought might be of interest considering today’s price per gallon of gas.
First, I found this from CNNMoney.com dated 30 August 2006:
Gas may be headed back near $2
The recent drop in prices at the pump could pick up steam, driving gasoline sharply lower in coming months.
“I’d say $2 to $2.50,” said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information Service. “Once you get past Sept. 15, it’s really a downhill game.”
Kloza said so far the average cost of a gallon of gas peaked this year at $3.036 on Aug. 10 and has come down largely thanks to diminishing hurricane fears.
Also while perusing, I came across this really interesting tidbit at Enter State Right, dated 24 July 2000:
Bozell noted that “The role of the EPA under Al Gore ally Carol Browner has been known in the Midwest for weeks. Local talk show hosts had been lamenting the arrival of ‘Gore gas.’ By mid-June, as gas prices threatened to become a campaign issue, the Clinton-Gore administration went into damage control mode, insisting that the EPA’s rules had minute costs, and that this price increase was in fact a dastardly plot by Big Oil to exploit the summer driving season. Did the press fall for it? Hook, line and sinker. Rich Noyes of the Free Market Project did the simple math. From then through the end of the month, the networks aired a grand total of two stories on EPA regulations while devoting 16 reports promoting the administration’s position that private-sector ‘price gauging’ and ‘profiteering’ were at fault.”
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The Gore campaign is, of course, now pointing to George W. Bush’s ties to Big Oil. As Ms. Mostert notes, “Thanks to Bill Clinton and Al Gore there’s been a near eight year moratorium on the development of oil and coal resources. Increasingly, we are dependent on foreign sources, which of course increases the prices.”
On July 6th, Ms. Mostert returned to this theme, noting that Al Gore’s web site boasts that “Since his time in the Senate, Gore has been recognized as a leader on energy policy and the environment.” The site quotes his spokesman, Douglas Hattaway, who takes a shot at George W. Bush, as a “Texas oil man (who) favors higher energy prices for consumers.” Here is the Nazi Big Lie process in full throat. Bush is accused of favoring “big oil at the expense of cheaper, cleaner forms of energy.”
The average price per gallon in 2000 was $1.51.
Now, if you’ll notice, the price from 2000 to 2006, with a Pubbie controlled Congress, rose about .50, right? Well, considering during those particular six years, we got attacked, got involved in two wars, one definitely justified and the other I question frequently. From 2006 to now, 2008, the price per gallon has doubled. In case you’ve forgotten, we have a Democrat controlled Congress. Is there a connection the country has been going to hell in a hand basket since the Dhimmi takeover at the beginning of 2007? Well, I wouldn’t say there is 100% connection, but I sure would say there is some.
The Boracle’s meddling hasn’t stopped. Question: What do you think the prices would have been if he had, Heaven forbid, actually won in 2000? Which he didn’t, no matter what the raving lefties want to think.
I’m pretty sure, and I’m no expert here, that if the government got the hell out of the way, we’d see immediate relief. Granted, it wouldn’t be to the extent we’d all like to see. Personally, I remember the “gas wars” real well. It was great. I had a ‘65 Buick La Sabre with a gas tank the size of an Olympic sized swimming pool. A dollar’s worth of gas, and I was good to go for a REAL long time, back and forth to school, running the roads with my buds, etc.
I’m just thinking off the top of my head here, don’t you think that we, THE PEOPLE, have a good case AGAINST the U.S. Congress for violation of some of our rights? Well, a LOT of our rights when it comes right down to it, but “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” comes to mind. Oh, and there’s that “involuntary servitude” business. As best I can figure, the American people have been in ’servitude’ of the gubmint for quite a while now.
How about some criminal offense? U.S. Citizens VS U.S Government: charges of reckless homicide? How many citizens have died because they’ve failed to do their job, and protect our borders? Complicit in child abuse? Aiding and abetting type thing?
There are numerous ways the gubmint has abused it’s power, and we the people have had to pay the price, in more ways than one or two.
Just thinking “out loud”. I’m going to watch Saving Grace now.
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