Posted by
JayPeriod on Monday, May 12, 2008 10:45:28 AM
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-al Qaida) and Sen. Harry Reid (D-Hamas) are just great at getting in front of cameras and reporters and pining about the rising gas prices. They can show empathy and state that something needs to be done. Even Hillary (D-Hezbollah) is showing that she's on our side by demanding a gas tax holiday with the evil gas companies paying for it. But I see through their thinly veiled eco-terrorist friendly masks.
I've read several reports over the last few days about people with SUVs struggling to deal with the higher gas prices. The resale of these vehicles is far below the average for used cars and many are having trouble unloading them. No one seems to want something that gets less than 20 mpg. My motorcycle and I can understand that.
This led me to think about what has been happening for the last few years on the SUV front. Terror groups like PETA and Sierra Club have been complaining about the evils of SUVs, telling us that no one needs one. Eco-minded Hollywood stars parrot those statements just before climbing into the back of their SUV limo. They've decided that no one should be able to choose one of them, they should be removed from manufacturers fleets and have convinced their puppets in Congress to add gas guzzler taxes and force car companies to up their fleet mileage.
Keeping this in mind, sales continued to rise, so Democrats must have determined that the only deterrent would be higher gas prices. So, for the last 16 years, they've done all they can to force gas prices up. They've blocked intelligent, logical drilling in ANWR and other places in our sphere of control. They've put up roadblock after roadblock to new refineries. They've done everything they can to make sure gas prices continue to rise. All the while, though, they've shed crocodile tears, telling us that the Right has been in the pocket of oil companies, wanting them to profit more and more.
Their not done, either. As Hillary has stated, she wants to cut us 18 cents worth of slack and make oil companies pay with much higher windfall taxes. I'm sure she knows that oil companies will not simply pay the tax, but will pass that along to us, as well as cutting production. She's just trying to drive gas towards $8 per gallon, just like her friends in Europe, so we'll have to stop driving anything that remotely looks like a useful SUV.
There really is only one way to cut gas prices. We must put more product on the market. We must build more, many more, refineries that can refine the oil at a much higher rate. We must also flood the market with more, much more oil. If we were to drill in ANWR and flood the market with cheaper oil, the terrorist supporting nations would be forced to cut their prices. The Left doesn't want that, though. It doesn't fit their agenda.
So, as they cry about how the average person is struggling to pay for gas, food and energy bills, behind our backs, they are contemplating what they can do drive those prices even higher. They are determined to fulfill the wishes of their eco-terrorist supporters, no matter how many people they hurt, or how dangerous they make the world.