Four Dollar Gasoline? It's Made In The USA.

by Rense Johnson, Chairman, Citizens for Term Limits

Henry Payne, © Detroit News/Dist. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

The TV All Star Self-Promoting Horn Blowers in Congress are up to their old tricks before the cameras, as they chastise the oil companies for making a profit. One wonders how many actually believe the venom spewing from their lips. Democrat Maxine Waters wants to nationalize the oil industry. (When has the government ever run anything better than private industry?)

Nothing was said by those same television virtuosos about the abysmal record of Congresses past and present in closing off most of the U. S. to drilling. When have these people ever put the national interest ahead of their own political ambitions?

We know that our own government — presidents past and present — and Congress, have led us down the road to energy suicide Click here to read “Our nation’s leaders are taking us down the road to energy suicide”

Then in our article titled “Omnibus Spending Bill Forbids Domestic Oil Shale Development” was signed by President George W. Bush! Click here to read the article. Who is advising this guy???

But wouldn’t it also be interesting to learn the voting records of these Congressional Star Performers each and every time the subject of oil and gas drilling has come up, not just in ANWR, although ANWR exploration is also of critical importance but . . .

Also of vital importance are the offshore areas adjoining the U. S., and the millions of acres within the lower 48, rendered difficult or impossible to develop by past Congresses and our congressionally-created Bureaucrats, and where we find the current Congress sitting on its collective hands as members bellow at the oil companies for the TV cameras.

The byproducts of Four Dollar gasoline illustrate the law of unintended consequences comes into play. Airlines (not all but most) will be sticking passengers extra per bag luggage charges, while shipping charges by UPS and FedEx will of necessity be increased.

And if you will look at the chart at the top of this website, you will see that aggravating the energy problems we face, our fiat dollar (only of value because our government says it is) has recently been declining in value at the rate of six percent per year, making the cost of gasoline correspondingly more expensive.

But the story of Four Dollar Gasoline goes back even farther in our history to the saga of Hill Bonin, Atypical, told in the article titled “Our Nation’s Peril.” This article explains how Bonin and his opposite numbers in what was then the Seven Sisters were steering a course for energy freedom when the Jimmy Carter State Department sabotaged their effort. Click here to read the article.

*Time for change!*

*Congressional term limits to stop this madness!*

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