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4 dollar a gallon gas prices are here
Why is the media ignoring the gas prices which are now touching 4 dollars a gallon? Remember all those people who were “outraged,” even if it was just astroturf, phony and manufactured outrage at 4 dollar a gallon gas when it happened under Bush? Why don’t they seem outraged now? Why was it okay to be outraged, and attacked by the media when it was Bush, but now, not a word? Oh yeah! The left’s monopoly on hypocrisy and phoniness strikes again!
You see in my world, which would be completely foreign to leftists (reality usually is) 4 bucks a gallon was not okay when Bush was president, and it’s not okay with Obama as president. In my world, there aren’t two sets of standards, there’s only one.
Americans are feeling the pain at the pump. In Hawaii, the sting just got a little worse.
The state reached the dubious milestone Monday of being the first in recent years where the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline has reached $4, according to AAA’s Daily Fuel Report.
The Aloha State’s average of $4 per gallon is the highest in the nation, beating California’s average of $3.96. Alaska has the third highest average price at $3.90.
“Of course I’m not happy about it at all, but no one is,” said Irma Lai, who was filling up her small SUV at a Big Island gas station that was charging $4.22 a gallon. “What the hell can I do? I have to drive. I can’t walk everywhere. I use a cane.” Read more
I filled up a couple of days ago in Mound at 3.59 per gallon.
With that in mind, if you have a boat here on Lake Minnetonka and you fill up your tanks at a marina, you can add about 2 bucks per gallon, so at this point, marine fuel would probably be close to 5 and a half bucks per gallon. It’s going to be an expensive summer out on the water.
Critics Question Obama’s Priorities in Time of Crises
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President Obama gestures during a speech in Arlington, Va., March 14.
A conflict approaching civil war in Libya. An end-times tsunami in Japan. A Congress that can’t reach a budget.
And … gender inequality?
The topic of President Obama’s weekend radio address has raised some eyebrows, as Obama has
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Aides: Obama in Weaker Spot Heading Into 2012
Donors Told Obama in Weaker Position Heading Into 2012
Published March 14, 2011
| The Wall Street Journal
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In this Jan. 21, 2009
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Bachmann Flubs Revolutionary War Geography in NH
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota stood before New Hampshire Republicans with a tea bag clutched in her hand Saturday, but her grasp on Revolutionary War geography wasn’t quite as tight.
Before headlining a GOP fundraiser, the possible presidential hopeful told a group of students and conservative activists in Manchester, “You’re the state where the shot was heard around the world in Lexington and Concord.”
But those first shots of the Revolutionary War
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Minn. Teachers Rally With Wis. Protesters
About 150 Minnesota teachers were among the thousands of people who converged on Wisconsin’s capital city for another day of protests.
Local teachers say they’re afraid the state’s plan to strip collective bargaining rights from public employees could be replicated elsewhere.
“We think it can happen in Minnesota and it’s happening a little different,” said Tom Dooher, president of the state’s teachers union. “It’s masquerading as a part of education reform.”
The contract for
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Former President Clinton: “Drilling delays are ridiculous”
Even President Clinton who has always stuck me as someone who puts reality ahead of ideology can’t figure out why the Obama administration keeps delaying the issuance of drilling permits and the never-ending appeals to halt drilling and exploration. Oh yeah, that’s right. It’s big oil’s fault! That guy (Obama) is an unbelievable assclown.
Former President Bill Clinton said Friday that delays in offshore oil and gas drilling permits are “ridiculous” at a time when the economy is still rebuilding, according to attendees at the IHS CERAWeek conference.
Clinton spoke on a panel with former President George W. Bush that was closed to the media. Video of their moderated talk with IHS CERA Chairman Daniel Yergin was also prohibited.
But according to multiple people in the room, Clinton, surprisingly, agreed with Bush on many oil and gas issues, including criticism of delays in permitting offshore since last year’s Gulf of Mexico spill.
“Bush said all the things you’d expect him to say” on oil and gas issues, said Jim Noe, senior vice president at Hercules Offshore and executive director of the pro-drilling Shallow Water Energy Security Coalition. But Clinton added, “You’d be surprised to know that I agree with all that,” according to Noe and others in the room.
Clinton said there are “ridiculous delays in permitting when our economy doesn’t need it,” according to Noe and others.
“That was the most surprising thing they said,” Noe said.
The two former presidents both generally agreed on the need to get offshore drilling workers back on the job.
Clinton and Bush also agreed on the need for more domestic shale gas production, with Clinton noting that it has been done safely for years in his home state of Arkansas. Read More
The very same things that I’ve been advocating. The very same. Even on nuclear energy, President Clinton says, “proceed (with caution’). It seems like everybody except the Obama progressive ideologues get it. So, are any of you “Hopey Changey” folks thinking that maybe your boy is a wee bit too much the ideologue and a wee too little the realist? He’s a bad president that needs to go. Get over it, swallow your pride, and do what’s right for the country in 2012. Vote for the other guy.