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Al Gore’s Global Warming Scam and get-rich-quick Carbon Deposit scheme

Why Democrats Love High Gas Prices!



The average American voter understands no more about the contributing factors of the current price of gasoline, than they do the falling value of their national currency. That makes them easy targets for political manipulation in a very important election year.

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Simple Supply and Demand Economics

Most Americans kind of get this one, though they are often misled about the ups and downs of natural free market cycles and how much impact government has, or should have, on the matter. In short, the cost for one gallon of gas (or one loaf of bread) is dramatically increased when there is only one gallon (or one loaf) and 100 people want it. Likewise in reverse, when 100 loaves of bread are about to go bad because nobody wants them, the price per loaf (or per gallon) will become very reasonable. In a general sense, America does have a very real supply and demand problem. More than 70 percent of the oil America consumes is supplied by foreign sources, some of them with a very different agenda for our country than our own. Our government has spent the last thirty years blocking domestic oil exploration, production and refining capacity. That led America from less than 40 percent dependence on foreign oil thirty years ago, to over seventy percent dependence upon foreign oil today. There is no world shortage, only a shortage of domestic product which results in the ability of foreign producers to hold America hostage over the proverbial oil barrel.

The Speculation Racket

Speculating on world demand and the lack of American production, international financiers (futures traders) have bought and re-sold barrels of foreign oil eight or ten times before they reach the end destination of an American refinery. As a result, what costs Saudi Arabia $3.00 a barrel to extract from their corner of the earth reaches $140 a barrel by the time a U.S. refinery can buy it. This is the single largest reason for today’s price at the pumps. But watch what happened the minute the U.S. President announced he was lifting the executive ban on domestic production… Speculation changed and so did crude prices.

Who Blocked Domestic Energy Production for thirty years?

That’s an easy question to answer. The same people still blocking domestic production today, congressional Democrats, at the beck and call of their eco-nut constituents hell-bent upon forcing Americans to wean themselves off of fossil fuels, no matter the devastation to the American economy. As demonstrated by the recent drop in crude prices, the mere mention by President Bush, of opening up American production for the first time in thirty years caused the market to immediately react with a drop in crude prices. Prices dropped only marginally because investors know that Bush alone can not open up domestic production and congressional Democrats immediately promised to block his efforts. But because even many congressional Democrats would support lifting the congressional ban on domestic production, current Democrat leadership in both houses will not allow the matter to come to the floor for a vote, where the measure would certainly pass. At present, two individual American members of congress are responsible for holding America hostage to foreign oil, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid. Neither will allow a vote in their respective house because the measure would pass a floor vote. It would pass a floor vote for two reasons. 1) The vast majority of Americans want the ban on domestic production lifted and no member of congress hoping to keep their seat could afford to vote against it; and 2) even the average Democrat is smart enough to know that America can not remain 70 percent reliant upon foreign energy and maintain national sovereignty and security at the same time.

So, what’s in it for Pelosi and Reid?

Hiding beneath Al Gore’s Global Warming Scam and get-rich-quick Carbon Deposit scheme, key Democrats assert that “conservation is the ONLY solution.” They intend to “force” Americans to conserve by wrecking their economic ability to do anything else.

But to what benefit for congressional Democrats?

Despite growing public support for ending the ban, even in California, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she won't allow a vote. “I have no plans to do so,” Pelosi said Thursday. Calling the current high gas prices a “Bush failure,” Pelosi seeks to saddle the current President with the results of a thirty year old Democrat legislative blockade on domestic energy production. Did it work? For some it does. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, “Sen. Reid faces pressure from senators who want to lift the offshore ban, including some in his own party who, at a minimum, favor more offshore production and opening up oil-shale development in the Midwest.” According to the WSJ piece, “In the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) said he is open to a compromise that would encourage more domestic oil and gas production but wants to focus on strengthening oversight [government intrusion] of energy-futures markets, arguing that speculation has driven up crude prices.” Of course, every Democrat “compromise” is laden with both “power grabs” and “pork barrel” spending that weighs every piece of Democrat legislation down to a crawl and subjects it to the potential veto. The fact is, market speculation on foreign oil products may need restraints, but only because Democrats have placed Americans over a barrel by blocking domestic production for thirty years. In an otherwise “free market,” such measures would not be needed.

A “winning” Energy Strategy?

Democrats indeed have a “winning” energy strategy. But the prize is not cheaper – cleaner energy. It’s more Democrat power. Democrats are to some degree beholden to their eco-nut sycophants, without whom they would not be in political power today. But they are even more beholden to their agenda of a Democratic Socialist America, as described by their leadership at the Democratic Socialists of America. Americans would never intentionally vote for socialism, unless properly motivated to do so. When Americans can no longer afford gas to get to work, or food at the grocery, or heat in their homes, they will welcome Democratic Socialism as the least inconvenient means of survival. Hungry Americans will vote for socialism via democratic process, never once even thinking about the individual freedoms and liberties they are trading in for a mouthful of food. Democrats are blocking domestic oil production not for ecological purposes, but for the economic impact on the masses they need to support Democratic Socialism, in this and future election cycles. Whatever it takes to break the free-spirit of the average American voter and force them to vote for socialism, more central power, is only a means justified by the ends. That’s why Democrats continue their legislative blockade on American energy production and they will continue that blockade through the election cycle, even if gasoline reaches $10 a gallon. The higher the better frankly… More Democrat seats will be won this fall. Their current demands that the President release supply from the emergency strategic reserve is nothing more than a political cover story aimed at misdirecting the attention of their idiot minions. Such a move only deepens the domestic supply shortage, making it even easier for foreign oil producers to hold America hostage going forward. It does nothing to break America free from foreign oil, short term or long term. Whether dealing with international terrorists or modern Democratic Socialist in command and control of today’s DNC, voters must come to grips with the reality that both play by a different set of rules than most Americans are accustomed to. The tenets of radical Islam and Democratic Socialism are the same in that neither is in the least concerned with the damage caused in pursuit of their agenda. Both seek to bring Americans to their knees by any means available. And in the end, it won’t even matter which one America falls to… Either way, Americans will die or live in bondage. And that’s the truth, whether you care to believe it or not. Only the people can force Pelosi and Reid to allow a floor vote to free America from energy hostage… Be a part of the solution here - Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less. [4]



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JB Williams is a writer on matters of history and American politics with more than 3000 pieces published over a twenty-year span. He has a decidedly conservative reverence for the Charters of Freedom, the men and women who have paid the price of freedom and liberty for all, and action oriented real-time solutions for modern challenges. He is a Christian, a husband, a father, a researcher, writer and a business owner.

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