In hearing that Bush wants the ability to impose a minimum gas mileage on manufacturers of cars my first thought was please, please, please, don't let him do anything anymore. Everytime he does, we all pay!
Then I started researching this and found out just how much we are paying and why!
Bush's Bandaid: Bush called on Congress to give him the authority to set the standards for passenger cars sold in the United States as a means of reducing the nation's demand for gasoline and supposedy reducing the cost of gas. insert link here
Bush’s ruminations on “price gouging” are ludicrous. It was Bush who spearheaded this monstrous rip-off, now he’s pretending to defend the common man by playing “consumer-advocate.”
The actual cost at the pump is $12 per gallon. Think of it as the Bush Gas Tax, a boondoggle that quadruples the price of gas while killing 2,400 American servicemen and 100,000 Iraqis in the process. please look at this short explanation, it surprised me!
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While Bush is screwing around, Nigeria signed a deal giving China four oil drilling licences in exchange for a commitment to invest $4bn in infrastructure. Niger, called the biggest gas station on earth is important to China and the U.S. this makes things even worse for us. This is important to our costs, not the facade of concern for car gas mileage. Link
Bush is costing us a lot more than we realize: The plan to steal Iraq’s oil puts Bush’s farcical “on-air” burlesque into perspective. US foreign policy is driven by the oil industry, just as the decision to invade was made on the basis of peak oil, not WMD.
Now that gas is topping $3 per gallon, we should consider the heavy price the American people have paid to ensure that profits continue to soar for the oil giants.
In 2002, before the war, Saddam was producing 2.6 million barrels of oil per day even with the debilitating sanctions still in place. Currently, (given the success of Iraqi resistance attacks on pipelines) Iraqi oil production has dropped to a meager 1.1 million barrels per day.
In other words, Bush’s war has taken 1.5 million barrels a day “offline”; the precise amount the global market requires to reduce prices to the $45 per barrel range.
Consider this: the United States has spent roughly $300 billion on the war so far. At 1.1 million barrels per day (396 million barrels per year) we are currently spending $274 per barrel which translates into $12 per gallon at the pump.
Twelve dollars per gallon!!!
We have got to stop letting Bush lie to us and get away with it! We have to stop this idiot now!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
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