It is true that the poor are the one’s suffering at the hands of the Democrats and until they force them to CHANGE than they will have no HOPE and yes it’s political….Drill Here and Drill Now!!!

Good luck with your protest!

I’d say that they’re engineering this thing to boost inflation and temporarily decimate the economy so that The Obamessiah can come in and save the day by caving on yet another portion of the Leftist agenda. He’ll swoop in, decide that the “energy crisis” is bad enough to promote more drilling, the oil prices plummet, and the economy begins a rebound.

But I seriously doubt that they’re intelligent enough to pull off such a strategy.

Even some conservatives don’t realize how high energy prices are pummeling others. For example, I work with a senior engineer (PhD EEE from MIT… and a conservative) who opined that he thought energy prices should go up to induce people to consume less. WTH?

I told him about my sister and her family, who farm in Minnesota. The are extremely thrifty (she is a Lutheran minister) and simply MUST spend money on fuel as it is an essential part of both their careers (she travels to see the sick and indigent… he must run tractors and equipment everyday). They are currently on the verge of bankruptcy. I wouldn’t say that they’re poor, but that they have certain needs that can’t go unfilled.

You see, my coworker had forgotten the the vast majority of this country doesn’t have mass transit. He had forgotten that most of the country doesn’t have six figure incomes. I pointed out that this was extremely elitist thinking and how disappointed I was at his lack of logic behind his thinking (painful for engineers to hear). He finally accepted that he hadn’t thought it through and that he would sign Newt’s petition.

Awesome post!

Great job on explaining the impact of higher energy on the poor. And recommended.

Let’s not say “Washington” or “Congress” is playing politics on the energy issue or waging war on the poor.

No.

For 30 years it is DEMOCRATS that have made sue this country has committed self-suicide that the USSR, UBL or Iran would have paid us to do in restricting energy choices and essentially favoring de-industrialization.

The DEMOCRATS have waged war on the poor for 40+ years.

It has been Democrats, whether Carter or Clinton, Tip O’Neill or Reid or, when Dems were in the minority ot was senate dem filibusters that prevented all Repub presidents since 1980 from expanding energy choices.

SUV sales go in the tank
Jennifer McKee, Missoulian, June 11, 2008

Many buyers are trying to trade in their SUVs on smaller cars, said Brook Smith, a sales associate at University Motors in Missoula, but they are in for a big surprise. “They’re selling at 50% of book value,” he said, which means a 2007 Cadillac Escalade someone paid $30,000 for last year fetches just $15,000…

Greg Gustafson at Billings’ Prestige Toyota say his lot is getting so many “big old SUVs,” they’re not even trying to sell them as used cars; those “great big tanks,” he said, go right to the auto auction.

Selling them can be tough, said University of Montana economist Tom Power. “It takes time to do and you don’t really get rid of them,” he said. “The 5-year-old gas hogs just get passed down to lower-income households. They don’t disappear. The burden of operating them gets shifted to people who can least afford them.”