Fuel prices? Meh!
ROS reminds us that gas is $4/gallon, and the president reminded us yesterday that “there’s no magic bullet” to fix gas prices. So he’s shooting magic bullets to increase gas prices by flying his entourage to Chicago to appear on Oprah and then on to New York City for a fund raiser;
Obama was heading home to Chicago on Wednesday to appear on one of the final episodes of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” The talk-show host and Obama supporter has announced that she is ending her top-rated TV program on May 25 after a quarter-century on the air.
Obama’s wife, Michelle, was joining him on Oprah’s couch for the interview, which is scheduled to be televised Monday.
The president’s day of politicking was continuing later Wednesday in New York with his first fundraising sweep of the city since he announced his re-election bid this month. Three Democratic Party fundraisers were scheduled across midtown Manhattan, including an event at the home of financier and former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine and a dinner at The Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Obama was not due back at the White House until the wee hours of Thursday.
I guess when you don’t pay fuel prices, it doesn’t make a bit of difference how much it costs. While I’m trying budget money to drive to DC for the Milblog Conference this weekend.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Economy
Straight out of Blazing Saddles…
“We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!”
“Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!”
“I didn’t get a, ‘Harrumph!’ outta that guy…”
Here’s a start, take that worthless 10% ethanol, which costs me more, delivers less and corrodes my engine, the hell out of my gas. Then defund all the “energy independence” non-sense which does nothing for anyone without a lobbyist and a unprofitable business model. Then stop raiding road maintenance funds fed by gas taxes for things that aren’t road maintenance.
Or, get rid of the piece of shit hypocrite occupying 1600 Penn who thinks that campaigning and partying with his homies rate burning more fuel than I use annually while lecturing us and telling us to buy different vehicles.
Seriously? Are there not more pressing matters in Washington right now than The Other O’s last show (booflippinghoo) and a trilogy of par-tays in la Gran Manzana?
I know, that damn President using all that gas in Air Force One and his ostentatious Secret Service convoys. Why can he just be like the rest of us? He should live in a three bedroom in Alexandria, drive a Honda and fly coach. It’s like he thinks he’s special or something.
Let’s see, Shell oil just spent $4billion dollars on an EPA permit to drill off the coast of Alaska. The EPA said no because of a village 70 miles away with a population of 250 people (who are pissed as hell) after something like 2 years. The same permit can be had in the Gulf in about 45 days. I guess Shell isn’t going to recup any of that in the price of gas…and I second NotSo, get that damn methanol out of my gas. They are going after “Big Oil” because of profits and then subsidizing the hell out of methanol…because it sucks!!
Save those pennies Jonn. Or dust off your bicycle. Makes you wonder how the rest of the world survives with gas prices twice ours.
Joe, the rest of the world is starving while we put food they could eat into our gas tanks.
It’s all Progressive fun and games until the farmers and ranchers shut down because of the cost of transportation.
“I know, that damn President using all that gas in Air Force One and his ostentatious Secret Service convoys. Why can he just be like the rest of us? He should live in a three bedroom in Alexandria, drive a Honda and fly coach. It’s like he thinks he’s special or something.”
You are determined to justify his every move. Maybe you’ve forgotten that he DOES work for us.
Now, exactly which part of this little campaign tour was absolutely necessary? And which part of his “buy a more fuel-efficient car” while jetting across the country and back isn’t hypocrisy?
Yet again, Joey, what part of ethanol comes from something that could be used for food by us and most of the world? Get back to us, after you do your homework. Or, are you content to let Algore get rich off of that scam?
Oh, and for reference, most of the rest of the world rides on subsidized trains, that their governments can’t afford.
re #8
Don’t be ridiculous. If you’ve paid even cursory attention you’d know that I’ve raised plenty of criticism of the Obama administration on this blog. I do, though, find the constantly touted idea that this particular President of the United States is somehow not due the traditionally appointed benefits of the office to be childish and petty. The idea that he can’t ethically put forth an energy plan that includes fuel efficiency in vehicles because he uses Air Force one to travel the country isn’t even worth debating. Grow up.
Operating AF1 and having bomb-proof vehicles goes with the job. That’s understandable.
What’s not understandable is goverment’s shutting down the supply of fuel when there hasn’t been a correlative decrease in demand for fuel.
We may be looking at Obama keeping just one promise he made in his campaign: to make America just like every other nation in the world. The only way to do that is to prevent cheap energy from reaching the US economy.
I still favor the view that he’ll release the Strategic Oil Reserves in time for voters to see a $1 or more drop in gas prices a few weeks before November 6th, 2012.
You really are a flaming idiot, aren’t you?
Let me explain this to you in little boy terms:
The President is most certainly entitled the same protection as his predecessors (that means the presidents before him), the same as he is entitled to protection (that means Secret Service, kind of like Men in Black, but without the talking dog). However comma, a day jaunt using AF1 to visit with a celebrity friend because her television show is ending and hopping on over to New York in the same day to party is not a part of his job description.
But you just keep on keeping on, pal. I’m sure he’ll throw some stimulus your way so you can buy more champagne.
That was re #10.
Yeah, NotSoOldmarine,
It’s not like he’s flying somewhere on important business, like hanging a “Mission Accomplished” banner on an aircraft carrier or something!
I still favor the view that he’ll release the Strategic Oil Reserves in time for voters to see a $1 or more drop in gas prices a few weeks before November 6th, 2012.
Sorry, but if history is a guide, even that won’t work. The three times previously that oil has been released from the strategic reserve, oil prices have gone UP.
And Joe, fuck you and the fucking horse you fucking rode in on, you fucking fuck. You want to play Bush as some disconnected buffoon, yet Obumbles has played how many more rounds of golf in 27 months than Bush did in 8 years? He’s taken how many more vacations on our dime? How many so far this year alone? Rio, anyone? Vail for the Missus? I’m lucky to take the family on a day trip to Boston two hours away for a walking tour of the Freedom Trail. This fuckstick thinks it’s just the cat’s ass to burn 2400 gallons of jet fuel per hour in AF1. BTW–that’s enough to supply me for three YEARS.
Finally, you DO realize the “Mission Accomplished” banner was more for the carrier than for Bush? Yeah, you got to make political hay out of that. Project much, libtard? Don’t piss on my back and tell me it’s raining, Joe.
re #11,
Of course, and that’s a totally different argument.
re #13
Okay big guy. We’ll just chain him to his desk. If he still won’t take the hint we can get him a frequent flyer account on SouthWest for the next time he wants to go somewhere you don’t think is worthy of his attention. I’m sure the nuclear football will fit in the over head compartment just fine.
They’ll be making political hay well into the next century on that one, NHSparky.
I’m thinking by the time take my vacation the first week of August, I’ll have to take out a loan to drive from Austin to Bella Vista, AR to The Castle, and back…
By “they” Joey, do you mean the likes of Olberdork, Madcow and the rest? They, like you, don’t yet realize that GWB won’t be running for president again.
How about we bring up “I’ve got better things to do, the country has better things to do” in talking about myriad things undone on his plate, while his Obamaness hops on AF1 to fly off to tape the Oprah show, then 3 fundraisers in NY? Those are better things to do? In what parallel universe are you living?
Only because you have nothing to point to in way of actually accomplishing anything, Joe. You’re little more than a shit-flinging monkey wearing a Che t-shirt.
Well I just wish stopping “all this silliness” would translate
into something other than golf, campaigning, and kissing Oprah’s ass. Then maybe he’d find something better to do than visiting my state (Alabama) while acting like he gives damn. Stay home ya damn TelePrompTer-in-chief. All he’s gonna due is tie up more traffic.
Madconductor,
I’m surprised he hasn’t sent a note of condolence to the Governor Bentley for all those golf courses ripped up by the storms.
NHSparky,
Where would I find some history on the effectiveness of releasing the oil reserves on gas prices? I’m having a synapse lapse at the moment – please and thanks.
A simple Lexis-Nexis search and corresponding oil prices for the timeframe immediately following those releases (aside from the “test release” in 1985). Desert Storm was one, 1996/97 sale was one, and in 2005 after Katrina was the other.