By DemocracyRules
h/t Dan Haley, Denver Post
It could just come down to this.
$4 and $5 gas is on everyone's mind and it won't go away anytime soon. Republicans have the best strategy for dealing with the problem. It's not just the high prices, it's the fact that the extra money is going to feed a bunch of Islamist nut jobs who want to kill us.
High fuel prices wind up being 'impounded' in everything we buy. Everything from baby food to legal briefs have an energy component embedded in the price. If gas prices go up, the extra costs must be passed onto the consumer. Inflation is inevitable, because people have to pay more to buy the same things.
The USA is not as bad off as many other countries. High oil costs bring more revenue to American petroleum producers, and it also enriches the Canada-USA oil partnership, from which both parties benefit.
But the pain and frustration is real, and the resentment of the Arabs is real. The high oil prices are caused by the Arabs. It costs the Saudis about $5 to extract a barrel of oil, and they have enough reserves to supply world demand for decades.
The Dems blame Bush but that's obvious crap. The Dems have obviously strangled American attempts to achieve energy self-sufficiency. They have opposed offshore drilling, oil shale extraction, nuclear power, clean coal, clean diesel, conversion of coal to gasoline, conversion of coal to methanol, cellulosic alcohol, and on and on and on.
They have even opposed hydro power because some tiny snail darter fish might be harmed.
More than 70% of American want to drill now, and the Dems refuse to comply. This is the best opportunity the common-sense majority has ever had to remove the Dems from power.
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