I’m sure no one needs me to be telling them that today we’re all paying roughly $2 more per gallon of gas than we were paying on that fateful day when Barry "Almighty" first put his hand on the Bible back on January, 2009. That’s $2 per gallon that we could now be spending on any number of other, more important things. And let’s not forget how it is that this additional $2 per gallon affects everything that has to be transported from where it is made or grown, to where it is sold.
So it is then that as we approach this Independence Day weekend we won't be seeing any relief from the high gas prices. Although prices retreated by a fraction of a cent at the beginning of the week, AAA predicts holiday travelers will pay the most at the pump since 2008. And I feel confident in saying that if there were a Republican in the White House we’d be hearing about this very fact 24/7 from our state-controlled media.
In its monthly gas price report which was released earlier this week on 30 June, AAA said, "With Independence Day only a few days away, today's national average price of gas is $3.68 per gallon. This average is considerably more expensive than recent years for the holiday. The national average on July 4 in previous years was: $3.48 (2013); $3.34 (2012); $3.57 (2011); $2.74 (2010); $2.62 (2009); and $4.10 (2008)."
The still high gas prices would extend the record number of days the national average for gasoline has remained above $3-a-gallon. Unless prices drop nearly 70 cents a gallon, July 4th will be the 1,290th day above that mark. USA Today reported in September 2013 that, for the first time ever, gas prices had been higher than $3 a gallon for 1,000 consecutive days - beginning Dec. 23, 2010, through Sept. 17, 2013. That streak of three-and-a-half years has not been broken.
Now I suppose one could argue that there are any number of factors that can be said to be responsible for the higher prices, one of which, of course, is the continuing "market fear about Iraq," which is said to have kept prices from declining in June. But what’s going on in Iraq is far from being the only factor. One could argue that the primary reason we are made to continue paying high gas prices is pretty much a self-inflicted one.
And the fact is that these incredibly high prices could so easily be brought down to far more reasonable levels. Maybe not over night, but definitely over the span of a few months. The primary reason for our high gas prices comes down to one man’s war against all fossil fuels. Because here in this country we sit atop more energy reserves than can be found in all of the Middle East and yet we are made to leave them completely untouched.
But if Barry were to do nothing more than to announce the building of the Keystone XL pipeline as well as the opening up of vast areas of federal lands to oil exploration the price of oil would drop, and pretty quickly. And add to that if we were to increase our refining capability here at home, that too would deal a blow to those on whom we have become far too dependent upon in meeting our energy needs. We have not been built a new refinery in this country in over 30 years.
But as we all know Barry has made it quite clear, time and time again, that he has absolutely no intention of doing anything that even might result in lowering the price that Americans are now forced to pay for the energy that they use. He would much rather preach the nonsense that is ‘climate change’ than do anything that would solve a real and growing problem for millions of cash-strapped Americans. And his motivation for doing so is based on nothing more than politics.
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