The US Northeast is so short on heating oil that the fuel used to power home furnaces is being rationed even before the start of winter.
Some wholesalers in Connecticut are putting retailers on allocation, meaning they can only get a limited amount of fuel based on availability, according to Chris Herb, president of the Connecticut Energy Marketers Association, which represents around 600 family-owned retailers in the state. These retailers must in turn ration their customers.
No matter how hard the Obama administration tries to cram these lemons down our throats, America doesn’t want them. Not even if gas goes to $10 a gallon.
The headline on a recent Gallup poll cracked us up: “Electric Cars Not an Attractive Option to Many Americans.”
It might just as well have read “Americans Don’t Like Getting Poked In the Eyes With Sharp Sticks” or maybe “Americans Like Pounding Their Heads Against the Wall Because It Feels So Good When They Stop.”
The bottom line: No matter how hard the Obama administration tries to cram these lemons down our throats, America doesn’t want them. Not even if gas goes to $10 a gallon.
We're willing to bet the immense IHTM fortune that this is the only electric car Barack Obama will ever drive
Gallup has the details:
Americans are less likely to say they would buy an electric car than they are to say they would buy a more fuel-efficient one if gas prices rise to the $5-per-gallon range. Just 12% say at that price, they would be willing to buy such a car that they could drive only a limited number of miles at one time. Another 10% would make such a purchase if gas prices are in the $6- to $7.99-per-gallon range and another 9% if gas prices reach $8 to $10 per gallon. Still, 57% say they would not buy such an electric car no matter the price of gas.
High-income Americans are about twice as likely as those with low incomes to say they would purchase an electric car if gas prices rose to the $5 range. Otherwise, no matter whether respondents view higher prices as temporary or permanent, or the degree of financial hardship high gas prices are causing them, electric cars are equally unpopular as a response to high gas prices.
Who cares? Certainly not an administration committed to destroying the oil industry. Not an administration that believes in the religion of global warming. Not an administration that’s committed to “fundamentally changing America.”
And therein lies the rub. You can fundamentally change America all day long, but you can’t change market forces.
Obama’s entire motorcade in London had to pull into a BP gas station and fill ‘er up. And from what we hear, they didn’t spill a drop.
The President of the United States, the most powerful man in the world next to Chinese President Hu Jintao, got a little low on gas Thursday in London. His entire motorcade had to pull into a gas station (excuse us: petrol station) and fill ‘er up.
They stopped at a BP station. And from what we hear, they didn’t spill a drop.
The President's version of the American Dream: Filling your tank with gas that costs $8.40 per gallon
This is London tops off your tank with the details:
Workers at a garage in Pimlico today told of their astonishment after Barack Obama’s car and the presidential entourage pulled up for refuelling.
The armoured limousine, nicknamed “The Beast”, arrived with six other vehicles and police escort at a BP petrol station on Vauxhall Bridge Road during the president’s state visit to London.
Onlookers said the cars took up the entire forecourt when they arrived yesterday at around 3pm.
They also told how the Cadillac – which is fitted with bullet-proof glass and has an armoured body, its own oxygen supply and even samples of the President’s blood – took up a bay and a half while Mr Obama’s driver filled it up with £50 worth of unleaded.
Workers at the station, who at first did not realise who the car belonged to, said the presidential entourage spent £350 in total between seven cars at the station, where a litre of unleaded costs 136.9p.
Look for President Obama to use this event to claim he’s now an expert on the oil industry.
Considering the price of gas you might assume that an Obama gas station is a protest against the President’s energy policies. But, no, the guy who owns the station means it as a tribute to the President.
Considering the price of gas you might assume that an Obama gas station is a protest against the President’s energy policies (or anti-energy policies, if you prefer).
But, no, the guy who owns the station means it as a tribute to the President.
Obama Gas, which is totally unrelated to Biden Gasbag
Live5News.com fills your tank with the facts:
A gas station on Columbia’s North Main Street has been renamed and redecorated after President Obama.
Two gas stations sit at the corner of Columbia’s North Main Street and Prescott Road, the El Cheapo and another station with a new name — Obama.
“I see more people come in excited with the name,” said owner Sam Alhanik, who got the idea from a friend who created an Obama Gas Station in Michigan.
Alhanik has only owned this station for two months. Although born in Yemen, he says he supports America’s president. “It’s the first president of black people,” he said. “It’s our president. We like him.”
He says he’s seen a boom in business since changing the name, one that has sparked quite the competition with the station across the street. Before our interview, the price at the Obama station was $3.59 for a gallon of regular. The price at El Cheapo $3.54.
When we mentioned the difference during our interview, Alhanik’s cousin lowered the price to $3.53. Just seconds later, the price at the El Cheapo fell too.
“That’s the business,” said Alhanik. “I don’t want to lose everything. It’s a competition.”
Alhanik sells a product that this President abhors. He makes a couple cents per gallon while the government makes far more. If he sells too many gallons the President will call him rich, confiscate what he’s earned and redistribute it to others.
There was a time when Presidents had power. And when gas at $2.50 a gallon and unemployment at the unheard of level of five percent, it was most assuredly George W. Bush’s fault.
There was a time just a few short years ago when Presidents had power. When Presidents were men of responsibility. And when gas at $2.50 a gallon and unemployment at the unheard of level of five percent, it was most assuredly George W. Bush’s fault.
The god who walks among men cannot control oil prices
Regretfully those days are long gone. And in the new America not even the smartest, coolest or most able President ever can be expected to do a thing about the cost of gas approaching (and no doubt surpassing) four dollars a gallon.
Fox reports. We deride:
“I’m just going to be honest with you. There’s not much we can do next week or two weeks from now,” the president told workers at a wind turbine plant. It’s a theme Obama’s struck before as he tries to show voters he’s attuned to a top economic concern with gas prices pushing toward $4 a gallon.
But just in case Obama decides that he wants to try and do something about skyrocketing energy costs we suggest he look into the following solutions.
1. Lower taxes on gas.
2. Increase fuel efficiency by getting the ethanol out of our gas tanks.
3. Drill here, drill now, pay less.
4. Adopt economic policies that strengthen the dollar.
5. Restrict the First Lady to 12 vacations a year.
He wants to know why gas costs so much, and he wants to make sure no funny stuff is going on with the markets.
Challenging times demand timely challenges. And just as JFK once spurred the country to greatness with words of leadership, wisdom and inspiration -so now has BO laid forth his challenge to this nation of ours. But instead of merely landing a man on the moon and returning him safely Obama has given the country a far more exacting mandate. He wants to know why gas costs so much, and he wants to make sure no funny stuff is going on with the markets.
If you think gas prices are high now, wait 'til you see where Obama's policies take them in the future
Marketwatch has the score:
President Barack Obama ordered a probe into potential gasoline price-gouging on Friday and said the government is watching for manipulation in oil markets.
Speaking at a White House press conference, Obama said he’s asked his attorney general and U.S. government agencies to work with state attorneys general to monitor for gasoline-price gouging, “to make sure that nobody is taking advantage of working families at the pump.”
As good American subjects, we here at IHateTheMedia.com have heard the President’s call and will answer.
Dear Mr. Obama:
Gas prices are high for a number of reasons. Here are some of the biggies:
1. You’ve decreased supply by banning drilling in the Gulf and ANWR. There has been no such similar decrease in demand. Scarcity of the resource has increased its value.
2. Congress has mandated the combining of gasoline with ethanol. This ethanol has led to food shortages across the world. These food shortages have resulted in the destabilization of oil producing nations. Speculation on the further scarcity of oil, due to regional difficulties, has greatly increased the price of gasoline.
3. The government taxes the hell out of it.
4. Your economic policies have destroyed the value of the dollar. As a consequence it takes more of them to buy every barrel of oil.
With warmest personal regards,
The Guys at IHateTheMedia.com
P.S.: Please say hi to Barney Frank and tell her we really think she’s a swell gal.
Alternate energy: Power the homes of several average American families for a year with the fat sucked out of Michael Moore's wattle.
For some reason, we’re on corpulent corporate bashing Michael Moore’s email list.
Yesterday we got an email from our pal Mike that proved he’s as good an economist as he is a film maker.
He presents a 9-point plan to revitalize America. It involves mass construction projects including bullet trains, light rail systems, fleets of electric cars, windmills and solar panels, and hybrid cars and busses.
But how, you may ask, can we possibly afford all this? Well, Michael has the answer to that, too.
“To help pay for this, impose a two-dollar tax on every gallon of gasoline. This will get people to switch to more energy saving cars or to use the new rail lines and rail cars the former autoworkers have built for them.”
Yes, $2 per gallon. Overnight. Bang. The price goes up more than 50% overnight.
We have a better idea. Enforced liposuction on all obese film makers. Burn it like they used to burn whale oil back in the 1800s. We’d cut our foreign energy dependence overnight.
If New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has his way, gas taxes will go up. Way up. He wants to slap an additional $2.40 per gallon in taxes on top of the 18.4¢ you already pay.
“Today’s financial crisis is Obama’s 9/11,” Friedman wrote. “The public is ready to be mobilized. Obama is coming in with enormous popularity. This is his window of opportunity to impose a gas tax. And he could make it painless: offset the gas tax by lowering payroll taxes, or phase it in over two years at 10 cents a month.”
Do the math. 10 cents a month for two years. That’s an additional $2.40 per gallon.
Of course, that probably won’t bother Friedman. He married into a very wealthy family, reportedly lives in an 11,000 sq ft mansion on a lovely 7-1/2 acre estate in Bethesda, Maryland that’s valued at nearly $10,000,000.
