Posted by
Dave Perkins on Sunday, October 26, 2008 11:22:36 AM
Well, it's front page news when gasoline prices hit highs....
But now
gasoline prices are lower than a year ago. First time for that since the Democrat congress was sworn in. And no swarms of reporters are besieging the stations reporting each penny of change....
Remember, Obama said he wasn't troubled by the $4 per gallon prices, only bothered that the increase had come so quickly. He seems to want his consumers to slowly increase their economic pain, like frogs in a slow-heated pot, and thus they would not notice they were being cooked and served by liberal energy policy.
Remember, Pelosi is (undoubtedly many Dems are) financially vested in the success of alternative energy programs, which rely on high gasoline prices to force consumers to try something else out of desperation. Pelosi is a stockholder in the T. Boone Pickens companies that are trying to force us to use windmills for electricity. And never mind how much money Algore is going to make in the switch to green energy.
The entire basis for that 'force', the compulsion of the consumer to switch, disappears when gasoline prices drop far and fast as they recently have.
Dems are enjoying the economic disaster of the past couple of months. It's polling as part of the reason voters want Obama. But it also is reducing demand for gas, thus crashing the prices right when they were gaining momentum from those prices in the greenie movement.
conflicted emotions doubtless abound on the left. :-)