Bachmann Pledges Gas Will Be Less Than $2 a Gallon

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Bachmann Pledges Gas Will Be Less Than $2 a Gallon

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/274897/bachmann-pledges-gas-will-be-less-2-gallon-katrina-trinko

By Katrina Trinko

At a town hall meeting in Greenville, S.C., today, Michele Bachmann said if she became president gas prices would fall dramatically.

“Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 per gallon again. That will happen,” Bachmann said, according to The Hill.

Gas is currently averaging $3.58 a gallon, according to AAA.

[jwhitesj]

1. Wow!!!!

I can't believe anyone would actually say that.

[TroglodyteScholar]

7. I can't believe anyone would buy it! n/t

[rsmith6621]

2. AGAIN....WHAT IS SHE SMOKIN

[sakabatou]

3. Wasn't this posted already?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4964314&mesg_id=4964314

[Amerigo Vespucci]

9. And my usual response, who gives a fuck?

I did a search on the subject line

It didn't come up

The only place where dupes are prohibited are Political Videos and LBN

If I had a PENNY for every time someone posted a dupe of something I posted first I'd be living under a motherfucking palm tree in the South Pacific.

The main difference is that I don't fuck with the people who dupe my threads by posting "Wasn't this posted already?"

Goodbye. Thanks again, Skinner / EarlG / Elad for the ignore list.

[sakabatou]

13. Yeesh, no need to be so harsh.

[Auggie]

11. Yes, but it's so telling what a fraud she is it's okay with me if it's posted a hundred times. n/t

[BulletproofLandshark]

4. Shades of * promising to jawbone OPEC.

That worked pretty well.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Why, how nice. And how, exactly, does she propose to control

an international market for a product with international demand, with prices strongly influenced by speculators - especially when Bachmann is certainly against any regulation of commodities speculators? Drill for oil in Alaska and offshore? Sure, except that that oil won't be available for years; it will be sold in the international market because the oil and the oil companies do not "belong" to the United States; and there isn't really that much oil in Alaska - not nearly enough to have a significant effect on oil prices.

But Michele continues to look at the world through rose-colored intestines.

[nevergiveup]

6. Does this mean Gov. Parry will be promising $1.50 gas?

This could get good.

[Obamanaut]

8. Gas prices should stay where they are. In the long term the higher prices

will reduce consumption, and perhaps fewer people will purchase gas guzzler vehicles.

[taterguy]

10. Funny. The distance from my job to my house stays the same no matter what gas costs

:eyes:

[Obamanaut]

24. As much as you flaunt your bicycle use, what does that matter? Example ->

1. The smug satisfaction of being a sanctimonious prick that rides a bicycle . . .Priceless.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=554632#554915

[taterguy]

25. My position has evolved

[Obamanaut]

26. Or you got caught. nt

[taterguy]

27. Right. I completely forgot that sometimes people pay attention to what I post

As if.

[applegrove]

12. Her lies are so cruel. Think of all the people trying to make ends meet who will

fall for this and vote for her.

[abq e streeter]

14. Actually, I'm enough of a tinfoil hat guy to think....hmm, could happen for this reason:

It's ultimately to the oil companies advantage to convince the American public that repubs are better for the economy, and I wouldn't put it past them to take a short term loss by lowering gas prices upon the election, or appointment, of a right wing president. "See America? The repubs lowered gas prices! They're the ones on the side of the workin' man and woman". Then prices gradually creep back up, but in the mean time, corporate America reaps windfalls from general right wing economic policies and the temporary lowering of prices is just a good, cynical, long term investment.
I don't particularly believe this is anything but letting my tin foil hat side run wild a little, but I trust these bastards so little, that I put nothing , including a scenario like this, past them, if they thought it would ultimately enrich them even more than now.
I assume that most people, if not virtually everyone, reading this are thinking "that's ridiculous" and 99% of me would agree with you. Again, just speculating on an admittedly pretty far out and unlikely scenario, but there's 1% of me that just wouldn't put this kind of thing past them.

[bhikkhu]

31. Most oil supply comes from nationalized operations

What we do or don't do here has little effect on world oil prices, except in the same way as Libya going offline bumped prices a bit.

If we conserved quite a bit, then there'd be less demand and prices might ease for a little while. If we drilled all-out everywhere we had, then supply would be up a bit (for a little while anyway) and prices might ease for a little while.

One of the main problems is that the rest of the world is willing and able to pay $80 a barrel, and very capable of soaking up any new supply that comes online.

To get back to $2 gas, we'd have to be insulated from the global markets, such as nationalizing the domestic oil industry, and heavily subsidizing the offshore purchasing we'd have to do to gain enough supply...basically, a "Big Government" program that only a few small-scale economies have been able to do.

[BREMPRO]

15. fantasy land... keep up the empty promises - some will fall 4 it

but not enough of a density of morans in the country to fall for that market impossibility. with cowboy Perry riding into town she's sounding desperate now...

[malaise]

16. So who's unreccing this post

Bachmann is an idiot.

[Drahthaardogs]

17. Will she use her Jedi mind powers to control OPEC?

These aren't the oil prices you're looking for. They need to be lower. Now move along!

[Shagbark Hickory]

18. I wish our candidate was talking about gas prices. They're killing working people.

But I guess the deficit was a big emergency.

[elleng]

19. Right, and pigs will fly.

[elehhhhna]

20. Is she also offering a chicken in every pot?

[BadgerKid]

21. B...b...but think of the oil companies!!!

:sarcasm:

[provis99]

22. and 40 acres and a mule, too!

Plus all the free corn dogs you can stuff!

[Arkana]

23. Oh, danger.

Big time danger.

This will never, ever happen no matter who is President and she looks like an even bigger buffoon for saying it. So much for that better handling she was supposed to be getting.

[Rincewind]

28. Federal gas tax

is 18.4 cents per gallon ( just looked it up) add to that, state taxes, local taxes and sales tax. Oil companies don't refine oil for free, I don't know how much they charge. Add transportation costs, and overhead and profit for the gas stations. There are 42 gallons of oil in a barrel, they can get 44 gallons of product because of the other chemicals they add. Upshot: gas can only go down to $2 a gallon if the price of oil drops to $40 a barrel, and probably less. In other words, $2 a gallon gas is long gone, and it ain't coming back no matter who is president.

[bhikkhu]

29. She's going to hijack the global oil market, and....what?

All I can think is that her magic sky daddy told her so...

[Historic NY]

30. So she is in on the price fixing.

[Zywiec]

32. kick

[DU GrovelBot]

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