For all you that took to riding your bikes more and curtailing much of your driving, your thanks may be coming in the form of a 10 cent a gallon increase in federal gas tax, if Democrats get their way.
While President Bush has lifted the ban on offshore drilling to enable more oil on the market and pressures Congress to follow suit, Democrats steadfastly refuse to lift the congressional ban on offshore drilling. Now, they talk of raising federal taxes on gas even higher with excuse of needing more money for highway repairs and to prevent job losses.
Current federal fuel taxes are 18.4 cents a gallon on gasoline and 24.3 cents on diesel fuel. Some Democrats even wish to gradually raise federal fuel tax to 40 cents a gallon!
Oil has increased over $100 a barrel since Democrats took back Congress. The price of gasoline has soared to over $4.00 a gallon. People feel the pinch and many curtailed driving to conserve fuel and save money. Their reward from "New Direction" Democrats? Pay more anyway.
If this continues, the "New Direction" is going to bankrupt us all.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Bush Calls For Lower Gas Prices, Dems Call For Higher Gas Tax
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There are times that I beleave that the D's would be all over bankrupting all of us .That way we would all be under there control , with the goverment hand outs that we would have to have . ( I just hope that the rainbow city counceldoesn't get the ideto tax us out of our cars. You know $2 or $3 dollar a gallon tax on gas , to pay for more bike paths , or bike bridges !!!!!)
I believe that the best way to combat the Dumocrat's proposed gas tax increase would be to vote for just about anyone whose name does NOT have the word 'incumbent" behind it, especially the Dumocrats. They care nothing about the people of Oregon or Washington who are on fixed income. They can afford the higher gas prices, so why would they care about the rest of us?
As far as Tram Scam Sam and the Toadies on the Portland City Council, they would be perfectly happy if the Interstate bridge had just one lane going either direction. The new bridge should have at minimum of 5 lanes going in each direction. Anything less would be a colossal waste of money.
Also, the estimate now is that the new bridge will cost $4.2 billion to build. If the Disneyland ride of Tram Sam Sam's is any indication of things to come, look for the final cost to be in excess of $25 billion.
BTW, I noticed that the price of regular at the Chevron on the corner of Fourth Plain and 121st in Vancouver went from $4.25 yesterday to $4.19 this morning. Maybe this is some sort of a trend, but likely isn't. Not if the Dumocrats have their way.
I am tired of hearing that there is no energy policy in this county. There is and has been an official policy for decades. It is directed at preventing new oil field development and has manifested itself in increasing the country's dependence on foreign sources.
It is and has been largely dictated by the Enviromental lobbyists and sympathetic politicians of both parties, to the detriment of the electorate. The Republicans are largely complicit simply by their impotence in opposing it.
Obfuscate and obstruct --- the only strategy the Democrats can formulate to address the current fossil fuel shortage.
Fitting that (O)bama is leading the latest obfuscation charge. Now we have three zeros that the Democrats are throwing at the solution to dealing with the current crisis.
The Democrats use the smoke screen that the speculators and traders are causing the problem. Never mind that the spot market price of oil, reflecting the immedicate price for oil delivery also reflects historically high prices. The obvious fact that points to the real problem that supply is insufficent to meet demand.
Their next solution is to obstruct by preventing drilling or directing it to marginal existing leased lands to delay real productive drilling. If they (and I blame some Republicans, as well) were truly concerned with the high price of oil and the country's dependence on foreign oil, politicians of both parties (and particularly the majority party in Congress) would make sure that the mandate to solving this crisis was clear --- drill here and drill now. Furthermore, they would make sure the United States would have the future refinery capacity to deliver the product to the consumer.
The ruse that it will take 10 years to deliver new oil sources to the market is a farce. After all America got to the Moon in less than 10 yrs, when we resolved to make it a national goal. Both Government and the Private Sector made sure we got to the Moon and did so in less than a decade!
And now the Washington, DC types have the audacity to tell us that despite 30 years of technological advance, it will take us longer to drill a few oil wells at a depth of several thousand feet on the continental shelf than to go a quarter of a million miles to the moon???!
What they don't seem to say is that if they were to remove the Federal and State regulatory morrass surrounding the energy industry, we could expand production in less than 5 years. If the politicians really had the country's best interest at heart, they would insist that gas drillers and refiners produce new oil, be it from traditional oil wells, oil from new deeper fields or other more risky market endeavors --- oil shale and coal. They would, in fact, in typical Washington DC style subsidize it and do so heavliy to make sure we were energy independent.
There really is no current oil crisis. It is a reflection of crisis of government. The long term failure of government to serve the electorate and make assure that goverment policies encourage the exploration and production of adequate known energy sources. This failure was not created here and now, but has resulted from the systematic retrictions placed on resource development over the past 10, 15, or 20 years.
Pete, you are dead on right on this. Maybe you ought to put your post in a letter to the editor at the Zero as well as the Columbian. They might even print it.
Or more like not.
Also, the price for regular gas at the Chevron on Fourth Plain and 121st in Vancouver came down to $4.13 overnight. I would like to think that this could be a trend toward prices getting back to whatever would be considered normal these days. I guess we'll see, won't we?
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