Recently I told you liberals were happy with $4.00 gasoline. Here is another liberal Thomas Friedman. He says we need high gasoline prices to continue working on alternative energy!

Poor P. Diddy. He is upset about paying 250,000 a month in fuel for his private jet and says the next president needs to bring gas back down.

The IEA says that supply and demand is responsible for oil prices, not speculation. Wow…genius!

A computer glitch sold gas for 1.40 instead of 4.10 for three hours in Cincinnati. You guessed it, a major traffic jam followed.

Government school children in DC may have to walk miles to school because of high gas prices.

Dick Morris says gas prices are the hot button issue in this election. Maybe, but the most important issue is the war against Islamic terrorism.

American Solutions petition to drill oil

Are you tired of paying $4.00 for a gallon of gas while congress points fingers at each other instead of working on a solution? I am and that is why I have signed Newt Gingrich’s Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less petition on the American Solutions website. I ask you to join more than 1 million Americans and sign it as well. Send a clear message to Congress that America wants to drill our own oil supply.

Liberal New York Times celebrates $4.00 gas and death to the SUV!!!

I told you liberals are happy with $4.00 gas prices! No, you will never here a liberal politician say it. No, they will say things like we need to conserve fuel, lessen our dependency on oil by finding alternative fuel sources, but here is a piece from the New York Times that confirms my assumptions that liberals are happy with $4.00 gas because of “global warming.”

The New York Times says $4.00 gas is good for the global warmers because the SUV era is coming to an end.

“It’s hard to convince most Americans that there is a silver lining to $4-a-gallon gasoline. But General Motors provided a nugget of good news when it announced that it would shutter much of its production of pickups and sport utility vehicles…”

“A nugget of good news?” Do these liberals ever take into consideration how many jobs were lost at GM in this “nugget of good news?” Of course that doesn’t matter, after all we are trying to save a world from the gas guzzling SUV that is causing “global warming.”

The Times goes on to tell us higher gas prices can take as much of 15% of the income from rural families where pickup trucks are a necessity more than a way of life. It also tells us higher gas prices is the cause of rising food prices and hurting the economy but then in the very next paragraph:

“Still Americans’ response to rising gasoline prices makes an excellent case for a gas tax. It proves that drivers will change their behavior in response to high fuel prices. And even if Detroit doesn’t buy global warming, drivers can help persuade it to embrace fuel efficiency. They don’t even have to know that the Honda Civic emits less than half the 13 tons of greenhouse gases spewed by the Ford F-150.”

Finally…a liberal proves my theory taxes are used to influence behavior. Now doesn’t that sound like freedom?

More importantly though, this liberal is basically saying the hell with the economy, the hell with rising food prices; we need higher fuel prices to prevent “global warming.”

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We sit on an estimated 5.6 to 16 billion barrels of oil in ANWR and an estimated 60 trillion untapped cubic feet of natural gas off our coastlines. Yet we pay $4.00 gas and do nothing. Columnist Daniel Henninger wonders how long the US can remain a “serious country.” Excellent read.

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It’s about time somebody said it. If you helped elect congress they rewarded you with $4.00 a gallon gas.

Republicans are blaming the Democrat-led Congress for $4 a gallon gas…right, cause gas prices were not rising the whole time they led Congress…Democrats blame President Bush….Instead of blame how about a solution. Like Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less.

It's back: The Big T Idiot of the Week

I can’t think of a better story than this one to bring back the idiot of the week segment on the blog.

This week’s idiot is a 64 year-old-woman from Danville, Calif. This lady wakes up one morning and decides she has had enough of these high gas prices, and she is going to do something about it.

Her solution? She grabs some fireplace logs and some matches, marches down to her local Arco and Chevron gas stations and starts a fire. And then for reasons unknown goes over to the local Starbucks and starts a blaze there also.

Does this woman actually believe gas stations have any control over the price of gas? Does she honestly think starting a fire on private property and burning up a gas station is going to help lower the price of gas?

If this woman had any sense of economics she would understand that gas prices are up because production is not meeting the high demand for gas. In other words there is a gas shortage. If you burn down a gas station and they lose all their gas then there is even more of a shortage.

And why the hell a Starbucks? What does coffee have to do with gas?

Anyways the woman is in jail and her bail is posted at $810,000. She is The Big T Idiot of the Week.

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This is a must read column from George Will. He says we are paying the gas prices we deserve because we refuse to increase our own oil production while demanding foreign countries to increase theirs. He is right folks!

If you run out of gas in Atlanta the taxpayers will give you a couple gallons to get you on your way.