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JB>> James Dobson, accuses the likely Democratic
JB>> presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and pushing a
JB>> "fruitcake interpretation" of the Constitution.
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TR> Welcome to AnnCoulter.com
TR> YOU CAN'T FUEL ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME
TR> June 25, 2008
Yet the Coulterites will try.
TR> Liberals dismiss studies that show a link between abortion
There are maybe a hundred million liberals in this country,
ranging from extreme to most who are moderate.
TR> For the same reason, no one should believe the Democrats'
TR> "energy" policies.
Esp since there are probably two dozen such, which is two dozen
more than the current administration has. Ok, bleeding the
country may qualify as a policy.
TR> Democrats couldn't care less about high gas prices. The
Even coulter should be able to figure out, every dollar that
goes to the oil companies goes against the liberals.
TR> consistent policy of the Democratic Party, going back at
TR> least to Jimmy Carter, has been to jack up gas prices so we
TR> can all start pedaling around on tricycles.
Uh... yet gas prices were lower under Clinton. Went from
$1.44/gal avg to around $4/gal under Bush. Hmmm... Coulter can't
do math, that explains a lot.
TR> Environmentalists are constantly clamoring for higher gas
TR> taxes as the cure-all to their insane global warming
TR> theory. Clinton proposed a 26-cent tax on gas.
A 26cent tax on gas would add 26 cents to the price of a gallon.
Under Bush the price has had 260 cents added to the price.
TR> John Kerry said it should be 50 cents. Gore endorsed the
TR> Malthusian proposal of Paul and Anne Ehrlich in "The
TR> Population Explosion" that gas taxes be raised gradually to
TR> match prices in Europe and Japan.
Apparently Coulter does not know that "Malthusian" means.
TR> The result is consumers now pay about 46 cents per gallon
TR> in gasoline taxes.
Gee... 46 cents per gallon. Not only can't Coulter do math, she
can't tell the truth also. The *FEDERAL* tax on gas is still
just 18.4 cents per gallon. The rest is state which the feds
don't control. And those taxes pay for the roads without which
the oil companies don't sell gas.
TR> That's not including taxes paid directly to the government
TR> by the oil companies and passed onto consumers. As the
TR> inestimable economist John Lott has pointed out, in the
TR> past 25 years oil companies have paid more than three times
TR> in taxes what they have made in profits.
John Lott is not only dishonest, but probably gullible also. I
don't see where Coulter explains whether those taxes were at the
retail sales level or on the entire operation. Since much of the
oil companies business is transacted outside the US it is not
taxed by the US. Now, maybe he is counting what they pay in
Europe, and the Middle East. How much just in the US?
Note also, that covers the time before the recent jump in
prices. With taxes not matching the increase in prices the
profit margin goes up drastically. BTW, shouldn't Lott also
calculate in the subsidies?
TR> B. Hussein Obama's response to soaring gas prices is to
TR> have the oil companies collect even more money from us at
TR> the pump, proposing a "windfall profits tax" on oil
TR> companies. "Corporate taxes" sound like taxes on rich
TR> people, but all they do is force corporations to collect
TR> taxes on behalf of the government.
Bigot Coulter forgets, the oil companies charge all the market
can bear. Which means they will *NOT* spare the public a price
increase just because they don't pay more in taxes.
You will pay the same either way.
TR> Democrats have worked hard to ensure that Americans pay as
TR> much for gas as Europeans do. After a quarter-century of
Still paying much less, and more and more of that increase is
going into the oil companies' pockets.
TR> gas tax hikes, a ban on drilling for oil and a complete
Yet they keep on drilling. Ok, not as much as they would if they
could get away with charging just as much. But as much as the
market can sustain.
TR> destruction of the nuclear power industry in America, I
France produces about 70% of their electricity from nuclear
power. The US produces nearly 20% of our electricity from
nuclear power. Sounds like France is doing much more, doesn't
it.
In the real world, that 20% the US produces equals more than the
entire French electricical production from all sources. There
are only three countries in the world that produce more total
electricity than the US does from nuclear alone, China, Japan
and Russia. And none of them come close to matching the US in
Nuclear production.
The US has neary 25% of all the electricity generating nuclear
reactors in the world, and nearly twice the total of France,
the second place holder.
TR> guess liberals can declare: Mission accomplished!
Bush already has. His sign on the Abraham Lincoln referred to
the suppression of dissent in America far more than anything in
Iraq.
TR> In response to skyrocketing gas prices, liberals say,
TR> practically in unison, "We can't drill our way out of this
TR> crisis."
Which is true.
TR> What does that mean? This is like telling a starving man,
TR> "You can't eat your way out of being hungry!"
If he had food he wouldn't be starving. You can't plant an apple
orchard to deal with hunger today.
TR> "You can't water your way out of drought!"
That happens to be absolutely true. If you have enough water you
don't have a drought.
TR> "You can't sleep your way out of tiredness!"
Coulter slept through logic class.
TR> "You can't drink yourself out of dehydration!"
If you have water to drink you have no problem.
TR> Seriously, what does it mean? Finding more oil isn't going
TR> to increase the supply of oil?
Not for 5 or 10 or 20 years. And the problem is not a shortage
of oil, but the price of oil. And the oil companies do *NOT*
want cheap oil.
TR> It is the typical Democratic strategy to babble meaningless
TR> slogans, as if they have a plan. Their plan is: the
TR> permanent twilight of the human race.
The republican plan is re-colonization of the Middle East, and
enslavement of the American people.
TR> It's the only solution they can think of to deal with the
TR> beastly traffic on the LIE (Long Island Expressway).
No one cares about the Long Island Expressway. Outside of the
relatively few people who drive it.
Oh, and the answer to that is mass transit.
TR> How do liberals propose we acquire the energy required for
TR> the economic activity and production that results in light
TR> appearing when they flick a switch? The larger enterprise
TR> involved in producing that little miracle eludes them.
Some of us actually know how it works. Unlike McCain who wants
to get into redesigning the electricity distribution system. As
if he had any knowledge of it. Or as if the utilities don't care
about distributing electricity.
TR> Liberals complain that -- as B. Hussein Obama put it --
So says bigot Coulter.
TR> there's "no way that allowing offshore drilling would lower
TR> gas prices right now. At best you are looking at five years
TR> or more down the road."
Yep, or 10 or 20.
TR> This is as opposed to airplanes that run on woodchips,
TR> which should be up and running any moment now.
Which has what to do with the fact that America is going broke
over oil today... not 20 years from now.
TR> Moreover, what was going on five years ago? Why didn't
TR> anyone propose drilling back then?
Well, let's see... 5 years ago? The Shrub was president, the
republicans controlled the congress, and the supreme court. The
republicans controlled the entire US government. What was going
on 5 years ago? Oh, yeah, the republicans were pushing up the
price of oil.
...
TR> But of course we do pay people to anticipate national
TR> problems and propose solutions. Some of them -- we'll call
TR> them Republicans -- did anticipate high gas prices and
TR> propose solutions.
Their solution was to *CAUSE* high gas prices.
TR> Six long years ago President Bush had the foresight to
TR> demand that Congress allow drilling in a minuscule portion
TR> of the Alaska's barren, uninhabitable Arctic National
TR> Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). In 2002, Bush, Tom DeLay and the
TR> entire Republican Party were screaming from the rooftops:
TR> Drill! Drill! Drill!
The republicans controlled the entire US government, the
democrats had no power to stop them.
TR> We'd be gushing oil now -- except the Democrats stopped us
TR> from drilling.
No, the democrats had no control of any branch of the US govt 5
years ago. And we would not be gushing oil, we would be just
beginning to draw any, if the oil companies saw fit to do so.
TR> Drilling on only 0.01 percent of ANWR's 19 million acres
TR> was projected to produce about 10 billion barrels of oil.
TR> From all domestic sources combined, we currently produce
TR> about 1.8 billion barrels of oil per year. To a layperson
TR> like myself, 10 billion barrels seems like a lot of oil.
Yeah, it does, it's about 5 years worth of production, *IF* you
can produce it and transport it in that short a period of time.
If not, it's just another oil company profit center.
TR> The other party -- plus John McCain -- ferociously opposed
TR> drilling in ANWR, drilling offshore or drilling anyplace
TR> else. Instead of Drill! Drill! Drill!, their motto could
TR> be: Kill! Kill! Kill!
What part of "the republicans controlled the entire US
government" doesn't she get?
TR> They refuse to believe our abortion studies? I refuse to
TR> believe they care about Americans having to pay high gas
TR> prices.
Does Coulter believe abortion is the cause of high gas prices?
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