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Democrats Demand High Gas Prices
Saturday 15 March 2008, by admin



There are two ways to raise the cost of a product. You can raise taxes on the product or you can limit the supply of the product. You can do both, plus you can make it expensive to bring to your market.

So, the Democrats have stopped the additional drilling for oil in Alaska. Then Democrats like Al Gore and Fabian Nunez call for higher gas taxes.

In doing so, they have destroyed 200,000 American jobs, lower gas prices and higher gas tax revenues. The Democrats are economic illiterates, they are socialists who believe government is smarter than the people.

Isn’t it time to vote NO on Democrats? Isn’t it time to explain to the poor and middle class you are being harmed by Nunez, Gore and their ilk?

The time to get angry is now. Every time you fill your tank with gas, a major portion of the costs is due to the policies of Democrats.

Drill in Alaska or pay $5 per gallon for gas—your choice. Democrats or freedom?

Get angry or get poor.

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Alaska’s Real Bridge

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY, 3/14/08

Energy: With oil now $111 a barrel, Alaska’s senators are trying again to persuade Congress to let their state’s massive untapped resources help bring prices down. How high do these prices have to go?

It’ll be a long, hot summer across America with pump prices expected to hit $4 a gallon. It’s no longer doom talk; it’s real.

"Americans are getting fed up with astronomical oil prices being imposed by unstable foreign governments," said Sen. Ted Stevens, "and the problem is getting worse every day."

He and fellow Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski are sponsoring a bill to drill for new oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Within just an 8% sliver of ANWR, some 10.4 billion barrels of oil may be recoverable, enough to beef up supply and cut prices. Stevens says he’s been trying for 25 years to get such a bill passed, as 75% of Alaskans want. But he’s always been thwarted by environmental lobbyists and errant fellow senators — including even John McCain — who busybody Alaskan affairs to everyone’s detriment.

This time Alaska’s two senators are trying to sweeten the deal by setting the trigger point for ANWR drilling at $125 a barrel over five days and dedicating royalties to aid alternative energy.

But the straightforward story right now is that our economy needs oil. Recession looms in part because businesses are being squeezed by high energy prices. Consumer spending is falling. OPEC isn’t budging on production. And prices are going through the roof.

Congress, the Energy Department, presidential candidates and even President Bush talk a good game about "alternative energies" such as ethanol, solar power, batteries and switchgrass. It’s nice sentiment, but it won’t solve our energy problem anytime soon.

A recent study by Cambridge Energy Research Associates found that alternative energy will at best supply 16% of global electric and transport needs — by 2030.

In reality, drilling ANWR is critical, as the two senators urge. "We almost passed it in 2001," Stevens said. "Some said that if we had acted then, we would have had (the oil) to market right now."

Yes, getting oil into production would take time. But Murkowski thinks the very act of passing the bill would damp price speculation. Said Stevens: "There is so much oil out there. It would be a win-win-win across the board in terms of the economy."

No doubt Stevens and Murkowski are also eyeing the 200,000 jobs that ANWR drilling would bring, as well as the $138 billion in taxes and royalties it would generate for government coffers. But most important for now is the fact that it would help ease prices and spray out recession like Raid on roaches.
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