IT'S HARD OUT HERE FOR A PUMP
April 26, 2006
Ann Coulter
I would be more interested in what the Democrats had to say about high gas prices if these were not the same people who refused to let us drill for oil in Alaska, imposed massive restrictions on building new refineries, and who shut down the development of nuclear power in this country decades ago.
But it's too much having to watch Democrats wail about the awful calamity to poor working families of having to pay high gas prices.
Imposing punitive taxation on gasoline to force people to ride bicycles has been one of the left's main policy goals for years.
For decades Democrats have been trying to raise the price of gasoline so that the working class will stop their infernal car-driving and start riding on buses where they belong, while liberals ride in Gulfstream jets.
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5 comments:
I guess you arent familiar with the Vast Left Schwinn conspiracy.
The vile Ann Coulter says we should leave gas prices to the free market. There is no free market in the oil industry because there is no competition.
Question: if the oil companies are merely passing along their cost increases, why are their profits up so dramatically?
Look Cheap? Thats not her goal?
Glad to see somebody talk about capturing cost externalities because when I bring it up here it constitutes absurdity because after all my goal in life is to punish companies that profit.
We have the technology to reduce gas consumpion very simply by raising CAFE standards. We can talk about ANWR and supply all day but again I say that increasing supply does not transition infrastructure, does not reduce dependence on foreign governments, does not address pollution and climate change. All it addresses is SUPPLY.
CAFE standrds would decrease consumption. ANWR would make the Japanese happy, the ones who will buy it. There is no law that requires ANWR oil to go to Americans.
Hagmeat's ignorant rants are designed to make people angry, not provide actual policy analysis. We don't have to be pathetic enough to resort to "The War On Bicycles" to respond to facts as they do. Show me where increasing fuel economy is a losing proposition for anyone but Exxon, Ann.
Gary Buell-
If left to the free market, would they be allowed to drill in so many federal lands? Can I go pillage open public spaces? Free market people would be better served to take their flagrant subsidization out of the mix. Also, their models do not capture costs, just like when you build a house you do not consider that it will eventually cost money to tear it down and dispose of it. Oil is not a free market matter because the costs are absorbed partly by society with no reimbursement.
Plus OUR paid military provides their security on our dime as well, ostensibly for "stability".
Lily --- hate to go off-topic here ... but why don't you come down to the city this weekend and we can go see benjamin's band. all my friends have this weird notion that 'night time is for sleeping' and 'you don't leave a six-month-old baby alone while you go to east village bars at 1AM. what's up with that?
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