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Last year when The Obomination looked good for the Presidency, I predicted $7 a gallon gasoline by the end of 2009. I fear I'm right.

He's cutting us off from known oil and gas deposits on and off-shore America. He's going to put the Green River shale deposits off limits. He's going to do something completely insane against coal. He's roadblocking nuclear already.

There is no actual way to reproduce all that energy with wind, solar, and fairy juice (ethanol) in the same time period.

Are these people actually insane?

Are these people actually insane?

Yes. We don't call them moonbats for nothing.

this is where this present administration is leading u.s. - they desire that we be helpless so we may rely on them more and more.

God help u.s.

Actually I doubt $7 a gallon will happen since by the end of 2009, we could be in a global Great Depression and gasoline could be 50 cents a gallon because so few will be able to afford a car and demand will go even lower.

I just paid $1.49 for gas last night. I thought to myself, "Enjoy it. Pretty soon the price will shoot up, then Chairman O will cap the price, then the supply will dry up, and then there will be no gas to put in my tank."

Is that what that chick meant when she said when O was installed she wouldn't have to worry about putting gas in her tank? There won't be gas to pump.

No prob.

I don't know a single conservative who opposes investing in the research and development of newer and cleaner energy sources than oil, gas, and coal. That being the case, shouldn't we still make the most of our oil, gas, and coal reserves until such a time comes that these newer and cleaner sources can be utilized to such a degree that we can phase out oil, gas, and coal? Is it not in our national interest to use our own oil, gas, and coal rather than buy oil and gas from half a world away, from countries that may or may not have the US's interests (or even survival) in mind?

Quite honestly, the best energy policy I heard during the last election cycle came in a "faux commercial" from the otherwise worthless Paris Hilton: invest in new energy while making the most of our domestic sources until the new sources become feasible.

Paris Hilton for Head of Dept. of Energy!

(Many jokes sure to follow involving "Paris Hilton" and "head"...)

As a person with what I consider to be conservative beliefs, Last year, when gas was at $4/gal. I cashed in my 401k, and purchased a used motorcycle. Let the gas go to $10, I don't care anymore. No offense to all of you who didn't see this coming, but, didn't you see this coming?

name - i've been telling my husband that i want to move back to our cabin - although we'd be 13 miles from town, most of our neighbors are horse people and there'd always be some form of transportation as mountain folk tend to draw together in tough times.

Name @ 8:39,
I'd like to have that debate with you over a bottle of your favorite adult beverage.

I see your point, but I think you focused too locally (the US). I believe the world will hit neutral economically while China and India start climbing again. I believe neutral economy means maybe 45 to 60 dollar per barrel oil. I think China and India will drive it back up to around 80 or so.

Add to that the artificial scarcity due to insufficient refinery capacity here with more and more insane fuel mixture rules and I think we've got very expensive gas here in the US even with a very down economy. Just sayin' ...

Eric, unless you're 65 yrs old or more. you're going to pay one hell of a tax and penalty on that 401K close out

When gas is $10:00 a gallon all those who voted for him will kick themselves in their rears for being fool by the smailes of a devil

"unicorn flatulence"! Thanks for the laugh! I read your blog for much needed levity (I live in Northern California and need somewhere to turn for all of the liberal wackiness I must endure!).

If not the market driving up the prices, I vote for higher taxes on gas to keep the price high enough to push the nation into and help pay for much more mass transit ...nothing like a good mass transit system to relax on while reading, sleeping, working, eating, conversing with fellow passengers, etc. (see Europe)

Of course I can see why people who want to live far away from "civilization" and seldom to travel outside their own state let alone country would disagree. Wish you could just have your own little country which you could fill with oil derricks, hummers, semiautomatic weapons, evangelical brand churches, buffalo wings and... did I leave any thing out? and live happily ever after.

jamesj; You are correct, however, the loss in the market has driven the value of my 401 to less than the penalty, so I'm not too upset.

Fez,
Have you bothered to notice the difference in size between the US and Europistan?

FEZ,
What will the public transportation use for fuel? Think about that for awhile.

Fez, if europe is such a wonderful place why don't you live there? Why make this country like Europe when there's already a Europe across the sea? We like our country like it is.

BO's Don't Drill Here, Anywhere, Anytime, Screw You policy should not come as a shock.
He's merely doing what's logical.

Which is, (1)Declare a mandate (ie, "I won"). And then (2) hamstring the country by chewing away at its wounded economy in order to insure that it can never come limping back.

I expect to hear BO at his first State of the Union address to say something like: "We Will Bury You!" to midwesterners clinging to their guns and bibles.

fez,they'res room for you in beloved euro. We can take up a collection for your ticket.
But why would you leave when "the one" is finally here?
Paris was spot on was'nt she?(her writers)

Well, if we're lucky, Obama will do so bad that republicans get back congress in 2010. Clinton had two years of democratic congress, and it sucked so bad that it was followed by 12 years of GOP rule.

Posted by: Fez at February 5, 2009 1:32 PM

If not the market driving up the prices, I vote for higher taxes on gas to keep the price high enough to push the nation into and help pay for much more mass transit ...nothing like a good mass transit system to relax on while reading, sleeping, working, eating, conversing with fellow passengers, etc. (see Europe)

So.. the fact that such a system does not exist, thus indicating that the majority of the people who constitute "the market" do not want or see a need for it, has no effect on your desire to force it onto them via manufactured economic hardship?

Of course I can see why people who want to live far away from "civilization"

If you consider mass transit systems "civilized" you have clearly never ridden on many.

...and seldom to travel outside their own state let alone country would disagree.

Have you ever considered that many of the people you deride for failing to travel outside their own state likely do so because of economic constraints, for instance supporting families?

It is awful kind of y'all to want to force those people to take their families around on public transport, rather than in their own vehicle, however I fail to see how doing so would encourage them to travel out of the state more.

Wish you could just have your own little country which you could fill with oil derricks, hummers, semiautomatic weapons, evangelical brand churches, buffalo wings and... did I leave any thing out? and live happily ever after.

Let's see, oil derricks would be what give you your electricity, and support the economy and community by providing jobs and tax revenues; oil companies also often provide plenty of benefits to workers and the community. The Hummer is an American-made and engineered car and one of the few domestic cars that is widely considered attractive and well-built - what is it that you have against the domestic auto industry, which also provides jobs?

If you think liking buffalo wings is a bad thing then you are a douchebag.

Semi-automatic weapons -- do you have a problem with citizens being able to defend themselves effectively against the possibility of armed robbery?

Evangelical churches -- no-one's forcing you to attend one. And most evangelical churches are far less evangelical - and place far less pressure on the surrounding community - than an average mosque.

Oh -- and rather than wanting to force everyone into Euro-style socialism that they don't want, did you ever just consider going to Europe?

Or would that be too much of an inconvenience for you, personally, and thus the mountain should come to Mohammad instead?