If you’re going to complain about gas prices, Nancy…
…maybe you should know what gas prices are before you go on the attack. Ask your government driver to let you know the next he/she makes a stop at that thing called a gas station. Man of the People Larry King actually has to correct her–and does a good job pressing her to explain what happened to her big promise two years ago to bring gas prices down:
Watch her stammer, blink, and struggle to quickly pull a number out of her hat.
I have no idea where she got the “$2.56 on average” figure.
Maybe it was in her Bible.
After King tells her the average is $3.50, she mumbles “Oh, it’s down six cents.”
Huh?
Liberal math.
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In San Francisco, fyi, the average gas price is $3.98/gallon.
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OT a little(or maybe not) - Y’know, my daughter-in-law once hooked a seagull. The gull swooped in before she could get her bait into the water. It was quite a struggle to get that hook out of the bird.
Don’t leave your baited hooks where the gulls can swoop in and grab them.
… just saying …
Can I get soem of that mythical $2.56/gal gas. Last time I got gas i payed 3.49. Oh, what WE pay for her gas, I forgot.
Would someone please explain to me what the federal government does that justifies adding 18.4 cpg tax to every gallon of gas sold?
AHHHHH
lgm,
You forgot to blame Bush for global warming - idiot.
Although it wouldn’t solve the total problem I have a suggestion to at least stabilize some of the fluctuation of gas prices … in addition to the obvious point of drilling for more here at home …
We need to have a SINGLE FORMULA FOR GASOLINE nation-wide … no exceptions … one gasoline blend that is sold everywhere …
Right now many refineries are shut down to get ready to reformulate to produce the summer blends that all the different states require …
Each time they have to retool in order to produce a different blend they have to shut down production and flush the entire refinery system (pipes, etc.) before they can start making the next blend …
This causes a temporary shortage of gasoline while they retool the refinery production equipment … and this happens multiple times during the year …
They currently have to produce over 100 different formulations of gasoline … they have to produce all of these because of the many different air quality standards they have to meet from state to state …
If they only had to make one blend nationally the overall costs of production would be reduced and the temporary shortages associated with the refinery shutdowns would be eliminated …
Can someone list Nancy Pelosi’s accomplishments?
Besides plastic surgery.
To be an “accomplishment”, doesn’t it have to be something reasonably successful? If so, that leaves her cosmetic alterations out.
For those who still think Big Oil is evil incarnate:
http://redinktexas.blogspot.com/2008/04/word-to-those-who-think-that-big-oil-is.html
#83 xler8bmw said:
Very true. This same correlation is why oil company’s profits were in the gutter when oil prices dropped to historical lows in the 1980s.
And I didn’t hear Bill O’Reilly types crying about “price-fixing” or “evil oil” on the downside.
#109 I have to agree with you I like BO but, he hasn’t a clue about the oil companies. He even suggested that the feds get involved! NEWS FLASH BILL they can’t do anything unless they do what Chavez did and take over.
That’s all we need - the Feds taking charge of oil and gas.
They could screw it up like so much other stuff. I can count everything that the government is good at doing on one hand and still have the vast majority of those fingers left over.
The last time Pelosi bought gas, was when Trent Lott bought her lunch.
To be fair, it’s $2.56 at the Esso station near her house. Oh no, sorry, that was 1973.
I believe lgm is a math teacher…
Unconfirmed: China is drilling in Cuban waters, in the Gulf of Mexico where we can’t drill. 45 miles from Key West, Florida.
With Cuban permission.
I believe lgm is a math teacher…
and a scientist
and a Christian
and a Jew
and the moral authority
and the all knowing Oz
and leader of the world
and…
Doesn’t “accomplishment” also imply something you’ve done yourself, not someone else? Is this to say the plastic surgery was self-done?
Come to think of it, the way it looks….oh, never mind.
Like I said several days ago, “Token” contributes the whiney, pointy-finger used by the bleeding-hearts in every political disscussion…”Oh yeah, but ’so-and-so’ does it, too!”
Thank you for your insight to the obvious! And now, we can add a new adjective to your contributions…deflection.
Yo, Nancy!
Check out this site - no $2.56 gas in sight!
Yes, but you forgot about VP Dan Quayle (R) misspelling the plural of tomato, or GW not knowing the names of foreign leaders when he was first running for POTUS. lgm will certainly point that out, and put us in our place! No?
deepdriller said:
Oh really? And the FUTURES price of oil would go which way the day after Congress indicated some sanity to start drilling for our OWN oil instead of propping up 3rd world commie dictators and protectors of wahabism?
By that logic then nobody should have drilled a first one. Got capitalism?
It is environmental whack jobs who artificially limit our gasoline refining capacity. Show me the list of people not willing to INVEST in it if only they could? As to how much it costs, they seem ready willing and able to do that. Ever consider the cost of rationing gasoline like back in the 70’s? I waited in those lines son…
Yes, indeed you have that right because of the LONG TERM lack of common sense and long term nonsense about AGW etc; yes, the solution also gets longer day by day as liberals and RINOS control energy policy.
For those who keep claiming that it doesn’t matter if we tap the oil reserves we have in Alaska and off the coastlines because it is expensive and would take a long time to actually make a difference……IF WE HAD STARTED YEARS AGO WE WOULD HAVE THE OIL FLOWING BY NOW!!!!!!
Also, you watch how companies stampede to buy the rights to those oil reserves!
Come on. It is better to have the supplies under OUR control rather than Iran, Venezuela, or Russia. How about the new jobs??? Yes, we need additional refining capacity and to eliminate the exotic blending that forces shut downs of the current refineries.
START DRILLING NOW!
# 121 Danceswithdachshunds
Well said!
Also imagine China and India buying oil from the US….can we say reduction in Trade Deficit?
This statement brings up a good point, I think. When a company want to prevent it’s delivery drivers from speeding, some have installed “governors” that will inhibit acceleration above a certain rpm.
Is it possible that refining capacity has been limited by the use of “governors” in order to maintain a lower than nominal output, thereby creating demand? I can’t believe that as a company grows, and profits increase, that not even additions to existing refineries have not been considered.
Yes indeed. And consider if corn ethanol was scrapped we’d have 50% more corn to sell to them in place of the rice they are missing.
right_on
Profits attract investment. They WANT to build new refineries and expand existing ones but are blocked by whacko laws. Many new refinery building permits are pending right now; some are over 7 years old! How long would you want your investment money held up by liberals before you just say “screw it” and invest in FOREIGN oil and gasoline ventures?
My husband has worked for the oil industry for 10 years. My parents love to try and tell me that its big oil company profits that are creating high gas prices.
But profits are part of capitalism. 10 years ago when my husband started working, lay offs were everywhere in the oil industry and a barrel of oil was around $15-$20. No one seemed to complain when the oil companies were hurting.
What a difference 10 yrs makes! But with whacky environmental regulations, restrictions on drilling in the US, too many different types of gasoline needed for different states, limited refineries, the war in Iraq (the military uses as lot of oil and gas, increased demand of oil from countries like China and India - you are going to see higher prices at the pump.
The govt needs to do all it can to support our own companies - not belly ache about their profits.
And stop whining about the environment!Get over that hurdle and stop all the BS regulationand we can see prices go down. There is no other alternative source for energy. Using food for fuel is plain stupid.
But … but … but … we were told that using corn to produce ethanol wouldn’t reduce the available food supplies … do you mean we were LIED to? Oh, the shock, the horror of it all!
/sarc
hatelibs said (#122):
The real reason is that there isn’t all that much oil there. It would be worth it to drill there, but it would not lower the price of gas much.
Look who her constituents are and your surprised?
No doubt she is one out of touch woman, she has no idea the price of gas, bread or milk or anything in regards to daily living…stupid byotch.
That’s the type of people that make laws in this country? No wonder we’re headed in a downward spiral.
Swoop and poop again, huh? If you bothered to do your homework, and were honest, you might have found this.
Sorry, folks, I couldn’t help myself. Mea culpa.
Great! A professor in the film and music appreciation department hath decreed, it ain’t enough for us drill.
Thank you professor Warner Brothers.
cpodug, not to worry, he’s a typical liberal troll as you know. They(being trolls) spout crap and bs to get under our skin…not the best way of convincing a theory is right or wrong, but does get an emotional response.
Yeah, I know that, rir, we’ve all had our share of trying to pound some sense into him, but there seems to be a short circuit somewhere between his ears. He certainly fits the description of a seagull, though - swoops in, poops all over, swoops out.
cpo,
I used to ignore him. Nobody else seemed to so I just join in and have some fun. Besides, when we shoot him down, sometimes we release some useful info for others. Mainly, how to slap down a troll and expose his/her weak spot - his/her brain.
P.S. lgm gave me an award today. I am racking them up. I put it on the shelf with “Michelle’s #1 groupie”!!!!
Congratulations, Soap - something to cherish forever!
Bush must have made her say that she would bring the price of gas down, which is now up 75% over when the Democrats took over Congress.
The way she genuflects to Bush. BDS has really got her by the throat. I wonder if peoiple are stupid enough to buy that?
So why has food sky-rocketed?
lgm said:
To which cpodug said:
Ok, I think I have what is both a sensible bi-partisan solution AND new territory for the Atkins diet: CARIBOU-BURGERS!
There’s plenty of room for God’s creatures .. right next to the mashed potatoes!
Facts are of little use to lgm, cpodug.
lgm stated there isn’t much oil there. But I don’t think anyone really knows how much is there.
New technologies in oil and natural gas exploration and drilling have allowed companies to find and retrieve oil and has in places they never would have been able to 20 years ago.
My husband works in one of the largest natural gas reserves in the US. Most companies 10 years ago sold their rights to this natural gas field because they didn’t think much was there. Boy were they wrong! The natural gas is seriously flowing now.
Ok, so I don’t sound like too much of an idiot….I said natural gas is “flowing”. It can’t actually “flow” like a liquid would since it is a gas. But I could not come up with a better word.
I keep coming into the office and commenting as I try and get my house cleaned up for company tonight. You’d think it would not be too hard to switch gears from typing to cleaning toilets!
Jenmom - I was always told that women were fully capable of multi-tasking, a skill which I have never mastered. I am shocked!
OK you have a wingnut article with no sourcing saying ANWR will solve our energy needs forever. I have a main stream sourced (to the US government) study that says the opposite:
danceswithdachshunds (#121), you are absolutely correct on every one of your points. My point, though, was that the sheeple see ANWR, etc as a magical panacea that will instantly lower prices at the pump. They consider oil industry profits as excessive, and buy into the propaganda that is spewed forth by politicians & the MSM. We’ve shot ourselves in the foot by limiting where we can drill & relying on antiquated transport & refining systems. It’s going to take time, money & more reliance on industry (not government) commonsense to fix the problem, something that Madam Speaker & her ilk don’t seem to understand.
Pelosi, et.al., have one goal in mind. By continuing a nothing approach to more drilling and exploration, blaming oil companies for vast profits, failed programs for alternate fuels, high taxes on oil, continuation of imports from the volatile middle easy, sooner or later they will make the decision. It will be presented to the American people as a saving of the industry, and helping the American people starved for oil, because of prices, a national emergency. Nationalization. A big coup, welcome by Americans, by the democrats. Mission accomplished.
This is juvenile, but I can’t help myself.
She’s Sofa-King-Stupid!
OK lgm, which is it, the government is reliable when you agree, and unreliable when you don’t?
You come just for the attention don’t you? Sort of blogger graffiti?
Libtards like LGM have a problem understanding the concept of “proven reserves” too. They invariably think that means all the oil and gas that there is, period. That is simply not true. It is a legal accounting term used to place a value on in-ground oil and gas deposits. It is based on the amount of oil and gas that can be extracted using TODAY’S technology. But the thing they don’t grasp is that technology is a moving target. It is constantly improving. That is why the “proven reserves” of a given reservoir grow over time, despite being depleted by pumping. because we keep finding newer better faster easier ways to get it out of the ground.
I was having a discussion with another trucker this morning over fuel prices. He looked offended when I told him the high cost of fuel was his fault. And only slightly mollified when I told him it was mine as well. And everyone else’s.
For thirty years we have allowed environmentalist whackos to prevent us from drilling for more oil or building more refineries.
Over the same thirty years, we have bought bigger and bigger SUVs and moved farther and farther from where we work.
I am a capitalist to the bone. I don’t believe anyone has the right to dictate to anyone else what kind of vehicle they should be driving. Or where they live. Or the size of the house they live in. Or the number of cool toys they have.
But people have to realize there are consequences for their decisions. Go out and buy the biggest Hummer you can find. Use it to not only pull your boat and jetski to the lake every weekend, but to drive 45 miles (one way) to work every day. In that kind of world, what do you expect to happen to the price of fuel when you don’t allow more oil to be drilled, or more gas refined?
As for ANWR, he had much the same answer as we have all heard over and over again. “It would take to long for the production to come online to do any good. It’s going to take ten years to see anything from ANWR” Really? When was the first time you heard talk of drilling in ANWR? If memory serves I first heard about it, oh I don’t know, about 1995.
It’s time to tell the dirt worshipers to sit down and shut up and start drilling for more oil.
It’s fun math time!
$3.50 x .70 = $2.45 –We pay $2.45 in taxes, per gallon of gas.
(Bob Barker) And the actual retail price is… (/Bob Barker)
$3.50 - $2.45 = $1.05 –This is what gas costs per gallon, without the taxes.
Hey Pelosi… Ever consider CUTTING TAXES?! Oh no! I used the C T words!
#149 actually ANWR was (and I hate to admit it) was Jimmy Carters idea in 76 to drill in ANWR. Only intelligent thing that came out of his mouth. When the crisis in 76 was so bad he said we need to stop depending on foreign oil he was actually right.
The second part above is correct … there is no SHORT term solution. But you don’t get to the longer term solution (say 15 to 20 years out), which is your first part, without starting somewhere, sometime.
If we keep going as is, in 2025 we’ll be no closer to a solution (short or long term) than we are now, but prices will be even worse since demand will have increased.
Someday there will be a realistic alternative to fossil fuels and this will all be behind those who are around. That’s many years away, however. So why not start now by adding refining capacity and drilling what we have. It will not be of much help to me (I’m over 60), but I’m thinking of the next few generations who would benefit. I had affordable gas for most of my life; they should too.
We’re sitting on billions of barrels of oil that we control. There is no reason (except the stupidity of the greenies) people should be paying an exhorbitant price created by an artificial shortage caused by our current energy policy in 20 years.
The oil companies have the money; it’s simply a matter of time and the willingness to harvest what we have available.
Neither has probably bought their own fuel since elected, but Pelosi is the one with the promises of lower fuel prices, thus, the criticism applies. She is the one with “commonsense plans” for price reductions that never seem to materialize.
Democrats invented pork spending and obstructionism in the Congress. Republicans merely use the Dems own tactics against them, although not nearly as effectively, I admit.
Did we get any oil from Saddam’s Iraq?
When has the middle east NOT been unstable?
Yeah, Bush invented deficit spending. Of course, Clinton invented a deficit military, which Bush had to rebuild, and left a terrorist in power, which may have had a bit to do with instability in the region.
Car fuel efficieny. Hmm. Like using multiple regional formulations and oxygenates that actually reduce the efficiency of our automobiles and drive the price of food up because we are converting corn (food, feed, etc.) into an inefficient fuel additive? Oh yeah, that one.
Like refusing to permit more and modernized refineries, so the current ones have to operate at 95% capacity, and maintenance shutdowns cause major price spikes.
Like not allowing us to drill for our own oil, which would be a force for lowering fuel prices. Meanwhile, the environmetal giant China is working with Cuba on drilling near Florida. Let me know how that works out, both ecologically and economically.
How about the “do as I say, not as I do” Democrats, who preach conservation and live in enormous houses and drive giant SUVs and private planes (Mr. Gore, there is a call for you in the hypocrisy office)? How about the ones that fight windfarms because it is “in their backyard?”
How about Democrats sitting imperiously on a committee, pointing the finger at oil executive for “windfall profits” when the government makes more money per gallon than the oil companies and do nothing to find, drill or process it?
How about Democrats (and some wayward Republicans, admittedly) who promote the economy destroying global “warming” farce, but only try to penalize the U.S.?
BMW lover, I should have worded that better. ANWR, after dropping off the radar for a while, came back into the spotlight about 1995.
Sorry for that.
I live in Europe and pay about $10 a gallon (1.50 Euro a liter times 1.6 exchange rate times 3.7 liters to the gallon = Just over $10). ANYONE who says, “stop complaining America because we should look at Europe and Canada’s gas prices and be thankful” should step back and ask themselves the following question: Why is it we don’t live in Europe and Canada? Because the USA is a fantastic place on soooooo many levels that, although nice places to visit, living in Europe of Canada is not an option. We should be out of our minds upset that some mooky idiots in Nigeria shooting at an oil well raise gas prices in the USA by 10% (at least that has been the excuse). The real price of gas (or any commodity) is what people will be willing to pay for it. The roads are packed with cars here so Europeans, at least, will pay $10 a gallon to drive.
The US should never be compared to Europe or Canada - we are so much better than that.
I can’t wait to come home.
BTW - Thank you to McDonalds for providing decent food for my family of 4 for under $50 a sitting. That is a rarity here.
I repeat - NEVER, EVER think that a US/European comparison is fair..
Dimsdale,
I disagree with your assertation that Bush did things to cause the lowering of the Dollar’s value. The only thing that Bush did was to continue Clinton’s unexcusable support of China.
China has been gobbling up natural resources for the last 20 years without regard to any environmental or financial effects. This typical disregard for everything that isn’t the ruling class of China has caused a surge in the commodity markets unlike any seen since WW2. Of course, the West supports this by helping China import and sell it’s slave manufactured products because our labor laws have priced Westerm manufactured goods out of the range of the average person.
China has used the money we gave them to do two things - 1. Prop up dictatorships like Venezuela’s and 2. Flood the world market with US and European Cash it has hoarded over the years.
Both of these things, along with China’s industrial increase has caused weakness in the dollar.
The US should devalue all US Currency currently not within the borders of the USA. Give the world a 1 month deadline to return US Currency in exchange for debt relief (most of the world’s national debt is held by the US.) and then burn it. We should go back to gold but that really isn’t realistic after 40 odd years of paper printing.
BTW - the Debt that Bush ran up has saved lives - money well spent. Just like the Debt that Regan ran up - we won the cold war.. Money Well spent.
This isn’t a big surprise considering how out of tough Congress (both parties) is with reality.
JConrad999 - your taxes seemed to be a little high. See this link:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/upload/EC_5.pdf
On the subject of Pelosi, how would you like to have a choice, come Election Day, like this:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/25/BAU310AJJ9.DTL&tsp=1
I would write in my own name.
Geez, I hate to be the one to do this again, but MICHELLE, YOUR COPY EDITORS ARE ASLEEP!
Look up top of this page, under “Related”… The story entitled, “Analyst: War in Iraq has strengthened U.S. international strategic position” carries this photo
and this teaser blurb, “Schools closed due to freezing weather: Hades Elementary, Gehenna Junior High. Colombia left out in the cold.”
Hunh???
I disagree. If the government announced today that the oil companies were free to build more refineries and to drill where-ever they wanted and all regulations against coal powered utilities would be repealled the price of oil would drop 50% overnight.
She flies to and from SF on an Air Force transport plane that burns thousands of gallons of aviation fuel. Her flying habits are helping drive up fuel prices. If she were serious about bringing down the price at the pump she would scrap the 50 cent tax on gasoline.
If Pelosi is so worried about rising gasoline prices, why doesn’t she allow oil drilling in Alaska’s ANWR?
Larry King is a powder puff, a notorious sycophant to liberals. An interview with him is like being hit with a nerf ball.
AAAAAAAAAAAhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Car + Gasoline Price + Headlights On = infamous & clueless Pelosi stare.
~Dan Lee