As a follow-up to Bryan Preston’s post this morning on Obama’s long-held, malevolent and anti-American desire to see U.S. energy costs soar to historic highs,
A recent Gallup poll on the US energy situation indicates that the public favors construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, 57 percent to 29 percent. The poll also found that 91 percent of the public say the energy situation in the US is either very serious or fairly serious.
An AAA poll found that 84% of Americans are changing their driving habits to cope with the current national average of $3.90 per gallon prices, which in California are already at $4.33, on average.
Economists predict the obvious: with more of consumers’ money going to pay for gas, and fewer trips to any but bare-necessity retail establishments in the offing, the entire economy of the United States will have only one direction to go, and that would be down.
Americans who try to avoid the prohibitive costs of traveling by car this summer by taking to the skies, will fare no better (emphasis added):
Unfortunately, air travel may be no less expensive than driving. According to FareCompare.com, Southwest Airlines raised fare prices Monday by $6 to $10 per round trip. This follows a price increase last Thursday of $10 round trip for JetBlue. The last time both airlines raised their fares, the other airlines followed soon after. This is the fifth price increase this year for the industry.
For readers with neither a calendar nor a calculator handy, that would mean the fifth price increase in 87 days, or an average of one airfare price increase every 17.4 days.
With his proposed end-run around the Democratic Congressional refusal to enact his wretched cap-and-trade plan, his ever-more-dangerous-to-American interests EPA is now about to enact yet another executive branch order, wresting the power vested in Congress from Congress.
I regret to say a pattern is clearly emerging before our eyes. It’s beginning to sound a lot like a one-man rule and the one man is none other than Barack Obama. When he was a Constitutional law lecturer (a lower academic rank than the “professor” he likes to falsely claim he was), did he always skip the part about the three coequal branches? Was his emphasis only on the executive branch?
All in all, Obama may be on course to piss off so many members of his base, who actually have to drive to work — the ones who aren’t part of the 9% unemployed — and appall the rest of us, that he may just have to start filling his own gas tank in January, 2013. Let’s hope so.
I hope Obama is filling his own gas tank soon, but I’m beyond hope his rubes will hold Obama accountable for his failed energy policies.
Every day in every paper you read across America, the troglodyte dupes are still blaming George Bush, or the Tea Party, or the Republican house for every conceivable problem across the globe.
When they’re not doing that, their praying to Gaia and Gore that Rush Limbaugh has a stroke.
Really. The lefty bastards got too damn lucky with the loss of Andrew Breitbart. But if enough of us take after his example, they might not count themselves so lucky anymore…
Be still, my beating heart.
1. The EPA’s end-run around Congress is Congress’ own fault. It has abdicated too much responsibility to the Executive. It has done so by passing vaguely worded bills that allow too much leeway for the Executive. This regulatory state has to change, and it’s up to the Republicans to do so, even though I know that is not on the radar screen of Republicans. It should be. Indeed, Congress has to pass a law that limits the Executive’s ability to make changes in regulations; in particular, any regulation or change to a regulation (including spelling errors) that is not an internal to the Executive must be presented to Congress as a bill to be passed by Congress and to be signed by the Pesident.
2. As for your last paragraph, all I can say is: From your electronic pen to God’s eyes.
I’M WITH JACK.
“All in all, Obama may be on course to piss off so many members of his base, who actually have to drive to work…”
A presidency so bad and a reality so harsh, even Democrats notice????
Well … gas prices may be the one thing that unseats The One!
Wouldn’t that be perfect!
Belladonna
Like your other readers, I pray for the accuracy of your prediction.
Keep up the good work
The former President Obama will have a Secret Service person to pump his gasoline for life. Isn’t that special?
“When he was a Constitutional law lecturer…”
I haven’t heard any interviews w/those who attended Barry’s classes. Could it be that ‘those who attended’ are now lawyers who are afraid to talk?
They are in line for refunds of the classes BO taught.
from your pen, to God’s ears.
Not so fast! One must have a valid birth certificate in order to have a valid drivers license.