At least one person in Obama’s cabinet is giving honest answers. When Energy Secretary Chu was asked about gas prices he said that they are not focusing on that
“We agree there is great suffering when the price of gasoline increases in the United States, and so we are very concerned about this."
And it's good the administration doesn't want to get involved in telling the free market what it should charge or trying to interfere in the free market.
“But is the overall goal to get our price” of gasoline down, asked Nunnelee.
“No, the overall goal is to decrease our dependency on oil, to build and strengthen our economy,” Chu replied. “We think that if you consider all these energy policies, including energy efficiency, we think that we can go a long way to becoming less dependent on oil and [diversifying] our supply and we’ll help the American economy and the American consumers.”
Gas at $4 a gallon is still cheap. We pay that for a cup of Starbucks coffee. Of course, if you drive a gas guzzler, you pay for that privilege at the gas pump.
Gas at $4 a gallon is still cheap. We pay that for a cup of Starbucks coffee.
You liberals keep posting about the cost to drive a car- you may not realize that this is the least of which to be worried about- it's the cost of everything else you should be worried about- because everything goes up when the cost of energy goes up.
Gas at $4 a gallon is still cheap. We pay that for a cup of Starbucks coffee.
You liberals keep posting about the cost to drive a car- you may not realize that this is the least of which to be worried about- it's the cost of everything else you should be worried about- because everything goes up when the cost of energy goes up.
Just so. The cost of getting groceries from the fields to the local supermarket goes up. The cost of growing and harvesting that food goes up. The cost of getting the clothing on your backs to the stores goes up. The cost for the containers in which nearly every product you purchase in the store and which keeps it free from contaminants - plastic - goes up. The cost of the thread that is in your clothing - polyester, rayon, nylon - goes up. The cost of a barrel of crude and its effect on our economy goes well beyond the cost associated with filling up the tank of the family automobile, though this may be the most immediate and noticeable effect on the family budget. Wonder why your food prices are so much more than they were 3 years ago when, according to the figures being spewed from the official halls of the general government, there has been little if any inflation over that period of time? Sustained increases in the cost of oil.
Gas at $4 a gallon is still cheap. We pay that for a cup of Starbucks coffee.
You liberals keep posting about the cost to drive a car- you may not realize that this is the least of which to be worried about- it's the cost of everything else you should be worried about- because everything goes up when the cost of energy goes up.
Just so. The cost of getting groceries from the fields to the local supermarket goes up. The cost of growing and harvesting that food goes up. The cost of getting the clothing on your backs to the stores goes up.
The cost of everything goes up, regardless. Some people don't understand this and expect the price of gas to remain steady. It's supply and demand.
It goes up every year through the summer and declines in the Fall. This year, the tinfoil hats will likely claim the declining gas prices in the Fall are the result of the upcoming election, even though the cycle happens every year.
Maybe if we'd quit exporting refined gasoline, and keep it at home, we'd have more supply.
