I was using Energy as a ‘put your own word here’. Coal, Gas, Electricity, etc…

Its all part of it for sure.

Gogle/Yahoo: Layoffs 2011 or 2012
This time around the energy prices are going to hurt that much more.

Natural gas is at a historical low level, under 3 dollars per millioon BTU.

Clint: You are correct. Obama promised he would redistribute our wealth and create higher gas and electric bills. The fools who voted for him did not understand plain english he spoke. America is headed to total failure and will become another Greece. Obama is killing off what others died trying.

But Clint, the article listed three reasons why the price of gas is up. I did not see any mention of Obama and his energy policies. You need to get back in line before you are reported.

Four years ago the media was all over the President when gas prices spiked. Now that we have just been through last year with the highest anual average gas price and started this year with even higher prices we do not hear anything from the media abut the President being at fault.

Even more important, higher energy prices will cause FOOD prices to go up.

Bin Laden and his friends thank you, Øbowmao, for further destroying America.

No one is paying $6 for gas in America. Just another made up story to take attention away from the truth leaking out.

The next election is shaping up to be as big of a sham as the last. Do you know why Sarah Palin’s bus tour was really canceled? Do you know why she stayed 30 miles away from the second debate and chose the death of Steve Jobs to announce that she’s not running? Know what leaked out? Sarah Palin and Cain aren’t in the race for the same reason, the truth leaked out.

http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com

Barry needs to have other types of energy so he can bring his buddies and donors “green” technology. Does anyone realize that “big oil” pays 40% in taxes? The Government makes 6 times the money that the “big oil” companies make because of taxes. Let me ask you, what company paid 40% tax on 7 billion in profit and what company paid NO TAXES on 142 BILLION??
Answer, ALL OIL COMPANIES paid and GE paid NOTHING

Clint, you can’t reason with the unreasonable. Global economics, domestic economics, finite resources crucial to the way the world works…all these factors will not meet intelligent argument so long as Matt Drudge posts it. All Drudge’s minions know how to do is blame Obama. Tell them we have the most inexpensive energy in the developed world and they will argue that it is Obama’s fault that we are not making as much money as we should for it and then blame Obama that it is too expensive. Arguing things of this nature with these people will lower your IQ.

Gas prices would not be that bad, if Americans bothered to read their income tax law.
GOOGLE EXCLUDED INCOME

Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

EVIL OBAMA WANT ALL OF YOU TO WALK

Very soon there will be Gas Stamps for Blacks and Tans so they will not suffer over gas prices.

WILL GAS STATIONS START TO FLY RED OR GREEN FLAGS

Red means they don’t have any gas for sale and green means they have gas. Yellow flags mean 4 gallon limit.

There is just one good thing about $5 or $6 a gallon gas. The higher that price goes, the better the odds that the Kenyan traitor gets tossed out of The White House come November. It’s probably the best indicator at the moment. Congress has done anything to charge him with crimes. SCOTUS hasn’t stepped up. DOJ is on his knees, with his head in the crotch.

It’s better than making a donation to any political campaign. Every time I pay for gas nowadays, I tell myself this should take out the #1 enemy within the country.

Thank gawd gas prices are so high. Being such a great indicator of how well our economy is doing. Unfortunately, the “recovering” economy has not put any extra dollars into my pocket to pay for the high gas prices.

I’ve got to go back to school because I don’t see how high gas prices means a great economy. Seems counter-intuitive to me

We are producing more gas now than ever. The problem is that Obama and the regime taxes theoil companies for any gas they sell in the US over a certain amount.

See this article, “Saudi Arabia Will Not Let Oil Go Above $100; Prince”
http://www.cnbc.com/id/46285933

There are solutions to high gas prices. Visit http://www.byronwine.com

Actually he said, “energy prices”. Pay closer attention.

Let’s not nitpick. Since Obama and the other Marxists in our government when Obama was a senator blamed Bush for cronyism and raising the prices to benefit his friends in the oil industry instead of the truth that the same situation of unrest in the middle east, Iraq and Iran, caused the problem. When does Obama, the Marxist in Chief start getting the blame – the question is rhetorical, I already know the answer. When the state run Media of NBC. CBS and ABC start telling the truth. The unrest in the middle east can be laid squarely at the feet of B. Hussein Obama, the community organizer extraordinaire who instigated the Arab Spring in Egypt which by the way is now controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood which was Obama’s ultimate goal.. His purpose is to destroy America and our way of life. If we are dependent upon the government for everything he can be dictator for life, another goal of his. This guy could have taught Hitler who was a novice in comparison to the current occupant of the White House.

Only a Republican would worry about such minor details as “TRUTH” and “FACTS” to make a point. Liberals just make Sh1t up at will.

It was Obama’s Secretary of Energy Steven Chu that said they wanted gas prices to resemble those in Europe, which at the time was $8-10 a gallon.

His energy secretary, Steven Chu, DID say exactly that. He wants gas prices at European levels, which are right now at 9.00 a gallon. This man is in charge of regulatory policy and his views are obviously shared by Obama, otherwise he would not have assigned him to that position. Open your eyes for Gods’ sake. You, and those like you who refuse to see what is happening right before your eyes will be the death of this nation. I found the story on the left leaning site the Politico.

In another interview around the same time he stated that gas prices need to increase but not at the right they have been.

If you recall during his primary race when gas soared in July he also said”I dont mind that gas prices went up so high,,,,,I just don’t like that they went up so fast”
Obama is diggin this……they are gonna bring it down

What do you think produces electric. Oil. The same thing that produces gas. This is not rocket science.

Think though. Just which aircraft runs on something other gas, I am thinking fighter aircraft. Also, military jeeps, trucks, APCs, refrig. vans, all the equipment that would be necessary to defend ourselvs in a combat situation. Add to that how much fueld 0 burns each month just flitting around the country. AND, HE WON’T DRILL ANYWHERE.

Welcome to Obamaville.

True, but Gas is a part of it, and what difference does it make in any case? All energy is essential, and paying more for any of it affects the way of life and freedom of every American. Which is exactly what this dude is all about.

Anyone with a brain would say that “energy prices will necessarily skyrocket”.
Developing nations are gobbling up more oil than before, the world population is growing, Indians are buying cars…

Oil, gas, any kind of energy, will of course rise due to simple supply and demand, regardless of who the president happens to be. At least he didn’t lie and claim he could control it.

You miss the point Blue… what the President did was explicitly state on many occasions that Evil Republicans (Bush) controlled prices to enrich their Oil buddies… It was a common line in the media and from the left that has magically ceased now that Obama is in office. Coincidence? Classic Obama politics: act like the other guys control the prices when they have the power but now that he is in charge… somehow he is powerless (more excuses). Obama is just another politician and because of the environmental extremists in his camp is spending Billions as a Venture Capitalist to enrich his Green Energy buddies while at the same time stifling domestic energy. He: Rejected XL pipeline, impeded drilling in the gulf and on the coasts, all but killed drilling in ANWAR, and decreased by 75% the amount of Federal land available for Shale Oil development. He has also massively increased regulations on coal power – the inexpensive and primary energy source in this country. Now with gas prices skyrocketing again all should recognize the politically effective but disingenuous pack of lies this president espoused in the last campaign.

You are aware those station owners with middle eastern accents don’t pay income taxes to the US. They are taxfree for 7 years. Then they sell the station to a relative and are good for another 7.

If I run short and have to buy enough to get to an American station, it is $1 worth. It does tick them off.

Drill where? Alaska? There’s only enough oil in Alaska to keep up our habits for a year. Gulf of Mexico/Florida. We see how well that worked out with BP.

Oil drilling has quadrupled under Obama. No need to let facts get in the way, though.

@tiredofrepublicans – If you define “a year” as 365 days times 300, then you’d be right. There is an estimated 300 years of oil in Alaska alone.

@Damon F. – US oil drilling has not increased by a factor of 4 under Obama. Offshore drilling may have, but then the question is, who is doing the drilling? US rigs? No. Brazillian and Chinese? Yep.

As Boone Pickins said, “drill here, drill now, drill everywhere’. He pushed for natural gas and got handouts for that as well.

Better check the link offered in the story. There are 2 stations charging what the story said they were. Does no one follow the links for evidence?

@ landowner

I’m sure people are charging $6.00 for gas, I didn’t read the story, but I was disputing it. I just thought a picture of a gas pump w/ $3.74 was funny for an article talking about $6.00 gas.

@landowner

Do you live in Florida? I do. There are two asshats near Orlando International that are routinely $2+ over whatever the actual price of gas is at the time, and I believe they have a hand in the Lake Buena Vista station. They have been protested against to the point legislative action has been considered for price gouging.

This same story has been used for years about these same stations. Don’t get me wrong, I hate high gas prices, but jesus this is lazy reporting.

There is one link in the story … goes to gasbuddy.com. That link shows that, of the highest prices in the entire state of Florida, there are three stations above $5/gl., 10 or so in the $4+/gl. range, and the rest are below $4/gl. Followed the link (singular). Just because 3 stations in the entire state of Florida are charging above $5/gl. doesn’t make it an across-the-board deal. And don’t get me wrong, I think we’ll all be paying, or close thereto, by summer. And insofar as stock pictures that the media uses, they should check the pictures more closely before they utilize them, because usually they use them to make their point.

The only thing worse than racism is accusations of racism based on no evidence. Isn’t basing a charge of racism solely on someone’s political leanings a great example of the same prejudice that fuels actual racism?

Be careful: Hating someone inevitably turns you into that which you hate.

Hi nut! New nick name same old B S on your site! You make the REAL whistle-blowers look insane!

Thanks for sending the hits … from a mental deficient room temperature IQ, low grade moron as you, I can only expect more. BDDD, 3 d’s for being extra degenerate.

B. Hussein is not only a joke, he is a threat to the security of this nationi AND my family! He has purposely done away with any programs that wold actually produce jobs, as in the pipeline and oil drillng, while EXPORTING more gasoline than EVER! And yet, we have cBS and the other state-run media trotting out BS like this blaming the gasoline price gouging on their own pathetic lies! Unemployment has NOT gone down, but cBS is actually tyring to tie gas prices to it?! WTH?!! The American voter is NOT as ignorant as the state-run media thinks they are and this will all end come November. But by then, it may be too late. The Donks are DOOMED.

correct, if you are to get ensnared by these cretins as a tourist near MCO, go into the bathroom and take a dump on the floor or in the toilet tank…if they store cleaning supplies like many do in the bathroom, urinate all over them…I did that at a Chevron Station in GA on 95 that was 1.20 higher in a location htat was at least 10 miles from another exit, after buying 2 gallons to get me somewhere else…makes you feel better

Yes, you are correct. Those two are notorious for charging way more than average for this area.

Gas prices are double what they were when 0 took office. That qualifies as skyrocketing.

File photo. You’re probably one of those people who think fast food burgers should look exactly like they do on the menu pictures, or think the models in Maxim/FHM aren’t airbrushed and photoshopped.
Had the story claimed the photo as evidence to back up their story, then I would take issue with it’s use, but it’s rather clear that whoever formatted this story for web publication said something like “A story about gas prices. I better google a pic of a gas pump so casual readers will know this is a story about gas prices.”
It’s really no different than the evening news reporting a shooting with a box in the upper corner showing the silhouette of a Glock handgun…should you cry media bias if that shooting was perpetrated with a Colt instead of a Glock?

None of the republicans running will be able to defeat president Obama.
The GOP is more corrupt than people know.
“Big govt intruding into our lives?” – hard to beat the vaginal ultrasounds MANDATED in Virginia. The definition of rape is “penetration without consent”, so in effect, the State govt of V would be raping women.
Romney flip flops every day and can’t be believed.
Santorum wants to merge church and state.
Gingrich is only in it because Adelson keeps throwing money at him to keep Santorum from gaining even more on Romney.
And Ron Paul hasn’t a chance because he’s too radical.
They’ve taken they’re gloves off, and they’re making a hell of a mess of themselves.
Not only is it entertaining, but we’re seeing how evil they really are, and how THEY will push big govt right up all our ***es.
You pick – either you can have Obama redistributing the wealth to average Americans, who drive the economy, OR you can have a republican redistributing the wealth to corporations that are already wealthy, and don’t drive the economy.
It’s not rocket science.

Hope all americans feel the same and can see the total destruction of our country and our freedoms if this marxist gets in again.

Blue … a fetus is a person.. sorry you think the possibility that a woman would decide not to kill her child.. is evil. Liberalism .. a mental illness. and sick sick sick. Santorum is right, the left’s policies are satanic.

The pipeline hasn’t been killed, just delayed.

Zach you are correct about obama being satan

lol. moron.

Yeah well, I’m in California and today paid $4.21 gal.

I did.

Sincerely,
Homeless

Until the booze, drugs, fast food and name brand sneakers get in short supply NOTHING will change.

E-B-T! “Rome is the mob. The mob is Rome.”

Into something Sexier?

What misguided policies exactly? Oil prices are no higher than they were in 2008. These gas prices are a result of a recovering economy.

You idiots have no clue how this works. It is oil speculators and Big Oil sending prices through the roof with the over paranoid Fox news contributing with hand wringing over Iran. It is causing a non-issue event to be able to drive the prices. Do a little research and look at the recent speculator activity. We get over half of our oil from this continent and the real price should be about $75/b. Speculators are making a killing off of us. Historically, financial speculators accounted for about 30 percent of oil trading in commodity markets, while producers and end users made up about 70 percent. Today it’s almost the reverse.

@oun temora The policy of not increasing the supply of crude oil. See, even in your own tofu-eating, tree-hugging, and head-in-the-sand world, two principles govern the world: supply and demand. Because the supply of crude oil is low, the demand, according to 260+ years of economic theory, will rise, as will prices. This is not Fox News, this is not the “crazy, Christian Right,” these are facts, irrefutable facts. Had you taken the time to put down “The Audacity of Hope” and pick up an “Econ 101″ book, you would have the cognitive ability to comprehend.

There is no lack of oil. Tankers sit in the water waiting to unload to overstuffed storage facilities. Refineries shutdown to become storage facilities. Do you folks not read? We are net exporters of gas, sheesh it’s been all over the news. Open up another pipline, drill baby wahtever. Till you get the gamblers…I mean speculators out of it this is where we are.

You’re all missing the point. If you print $2 trillion in “liquidity” you wind up devaluing the dollar and inflating the price of oil (which is priced in dollars). And because the fed has now become the largest buyer of treasuries due to an inability to address unsustainable spending levels, we can now expect oil prices to rise indefinitely. Wake up, this is what the erosion of your purchasing power looks like.

Which policies? I guess he could force high gas mileage requirements so less gasoline is purchased.

He does want to make us look like Europe. How is that Euro thing and the EU doing? Not so good? Greece? Looking like it needs a bailout?

This guy is a muslim shill that has no love for the US of A

Oun Temora: How about killing the pipeline deal and the kowtowing he does to the environmental wacko’s and the EPA? Just 2 right off the top of my head. Yes, the pipeline deal doesn’t mean we would see lower prices because they would sell the oil at a higher price on the open market but that is a policy issue and one of his to fix.

Americans are using less fuel than ever and we have a stockpile yet prices are climbing. We are outside of normal market conditions here and the rule of supply and demand as it applies to the US is broken. We have one of the largest oil deposits in the world and we sit on it while making the OPEC cartel billions.

What can a president, any president, do about gasoline prices?
Quite a bit actually.
The Obama administration has choked off deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The Obama administration, and previous ones, have choked off shallow water drilling too. The Obama administration nixed the Keystone pipeline and has done nothing to open up America’s huge oil resources in ANWR. Do those policies immediately affect short term oil prices in a global oil market? Not much but, at the margins, they certainly can make a difference. And in the long term, they can make a big difference.
More immediately, the White House can issue executive orders suspending or abolishing the ridiculous requirements for refiners to constantly retool and re-retool, at great expense, to make different recipes of gasoline depending on the state and the season. All that expense adds to the numbers at the pump too.
“Drill baby drill” may sound simplistic, but the prospect of significantly increased amounts of crude coming to market soon or eventually can bring down prices overall. The fact that there’s no comprehensive committment to increasing America’s domestic oil production means there’s not expectation that there will be much more oil coming from the U.S. …which is part of the market process that pushes prices higher. Making such a committment would make a big difference and could do a lot to cool down a hot global oil market.
Blaming speculators for the market’s direction is just silly. Speculators buy into commodities they EXPECT will go up in price. They’re like the stock market, responding to market forces already in play. No speculator has the market moving power of hundreds of millions of consumers around the world gassing up their cars. …or of a few Middle East kleptocrats with their hands on the shutoff valve.

I am trying to get informed, please inform.

tempora — read at financialsense.com; lots of perspectives there that you won’t get here, and it’s not about party politics. Puplava has excellent interviews and guest editorialists, all qualified in their fields. There is way too much to discuss in these noisy forums

Keystone may have a small impact, sure, but the cost of producing oil from oil sands is such that the prices of oil will always be this high. Plus, I don’t think the other big oil producers will let the oil prices drop—Saudi Arabia, Iran, Nigeria—you get the picture.

@oun Keystone would enable oil to be purchased in US Dollars to people that would willing accept US Dollars – instead of people that would want to be converting them into Euros.
Regardless of the high price of retrieving oil from oil sands, it would still provide an alternative source for oil which would indeed put downward pressure on oil prices globally.
Producing oil closer to home would reduce the need to maintain good relationships with places like the Saudi Arabia and Nigeria, etc.
We saw in December, when it seemed imminent that the pipeline would be approved, that gas prices dropped but as soon as the pipeline was nixed, gas prices started rising again. We have just experienced the impact of even the speculation of the pipeline on the price of, if not oil, the end product.

You could cook dinner over an open fire, and it would be cheaper than buying a stove and installing it in your kitchen, but you still have a stove in your kitchen, right? Just because one option is cheaper, doesn’t always make it the best option.

Well, Bush was trying to get oil prices lower—securing the middle east supply. It didn’t work out though.

Was supposed to go to the Bakkan and work. That area was paying huge..would have solved soo many different problems in this country. But now, here I sit..STILL unemployed. I’ve lost everything..houses, cars, you name it. This country is going to hell. If obama or romney get elected..I’m seriously considering leaving the country. I can’t take much more.

Bwahaha!!! Your comment sounds like a copy and paste job from Bill O’Reilly himself.

Actually, the weak economy has reduced demand for gasoline that we are now exporting refined gasoline, because we have a surplus of it. But yes indeed, we need to get rid of the idiot in the White House, as well as a large number of the idiots that put him there.