Obama: Why Not a Task Force for Orange Juice Prices?
President Obama, the Talker-in-Chief, yesterday announced yet another task force to study the rise in oil prices. This announcement came after he had just flown across the country in Air Force One to California to visit all his liberal buddies. Did you know that a Boeing 747 burns 5 gallons of jet fuel per mile? So Obama's little junket to California burned about 30,000 gallons of jet fuel. He should have taken a Chevy Volt for a ride.
Since there is no more office space available for an Oil Task Force Czar maybe the president should look in the mirror. He will not only see himself but also Ben Bernanke who has killed the value of the dollar with his low interest rates and printing presses. The price of crude is pegged to the falling value of the dollar.
Other causes of high oil prices are a total lack of an energy policy since the Carter years, our refusal to drill for our own oil, the oil speculators who do not have to take delivery of oil, and the evil oil companies being forced to drill for oil everywhere but the USA.
The evil oil companies make about eight cents (32 cents per gallon) for every dollar of gas that is sold . The benevolent federal government collects 18 cents per gallon and the average state tax on a gallon of gas is 22 cents So taxes on a gallon of gas are higher than the oil companies' profits - what a surprise. Who is bending over whom, Mr. President?
I just filled up my 10 year old Toyota Highlander. Last week it took $60.00 to fill it up This week $65.00 for the same 15 gallons. I then went to the grocery store and noticed that Tropicana Orange Juice was on sale for $5.00 for two "half gallons" (this oj is now sold in 59 ounce "half gallons"). Mr. President, a gallon of oj is $1.00 more than a gallon of gas. I think it takes a lot more effort, risk, and technology to produce a gallon of gasoline than it does a gallon of orange juice. So do we need a Task Force on Orange Juice Prices?
While you are at it, how about task forces for:
Unemployment
Food and Commodity Prices
Deficits
Spending
Taxes
Libya
Barack Obama, the ex-Senator from Illinois, was the perfect Senator...all talk, no action. He now is the president and still talks and talks and talks and talks. Enough already.
The crack team at the Department of Energy should chair the task force. They have nothing else to do.
Since there is no more office space available for an Oil Task Force Czar maybe the president should look in the mirror. He will not only see himself but also Ben Bernanke who has killed the value of the dollar with his low interest rates and printing presses. The price of crude is pegged to the falling value of the dollar.
Other causes of high oil prices are a total lack of an energy policy since the Carter years, our refusal to drill for our own oil, the oil speculators who do not have to take delivery of oil, and the evil oil companies being forced to drill for oil everywhere but the USA.
The evil oil companies make about eight cents (32 cents per gallon) for every dollar of gas that is sold . The benevolent federal government collects 18 cents per gallon and the average state tax on a gallon of gas is 22 cents So taxes on a gallon of gas are higher than the oil companies' profits - what a surprise. Who is bending over whom, Mr. President?
I just filled up my 10 year old Toyota Highlander. Last week it took $60.00 to fill it up This week $65.00 for the same 15 gallons. I then went to the grocery store and noticed that Tropicana Orange Juice was on sale for $5.00 for two "half gallons" (this oj is now sold in 59 ounce "half gallons"). Mr. President, a gallon of oj is $1.00 more than a gallon of gas. I think it takes a lot more effort, risk, and technology to produce a gallon of gasoline than it does a gallon of orange juice. So do we need a Task Force on Orange Juice Prices?
While you are at it, how about task forces for:
Unemployment
Food and Commodity Prices
Deficits
Spending
Taxes
Libya
Barack Obama, the ex-Senator from Illinois, was the perfect Senator...all talk, no action. He now is the president and still talks and talks and talks and talks. Enough already.
The crack team at the Department of Energy should chair the task force. They have nothing else to do.
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