The truth behind gas prices

I get sick of the MSM and their attitude behind gas prices.  They want to blame the War, they blame tensions with Iran, but truth is that the environmental movement and government regulation are the reason that gas prices are $3.00 now (higher is some areas) and they will continue to climb.

 

Now not completely blameless are paranoid commodities traders who panic every time someone sneezes in the middle east.  They are driving up prices around the world but that is a minor compared to what the environmental idiots, both in and out of government, have done for the last 31 years.

 

Most people don’t realize that we could probably import 25% more oil than we do today and it would have no effect on the price at the pump.  Many ask how can that be, and the truth is that we have not built a refinery in 31 years.  Think back to 1976, everyone was starting to build cars that use less gas, the environmental movement was just starting to use the scare tactics that they are so famous for today.

 

This Congress and this President need to get serious about this issue and we need to do away with 90% of the regulation involved in building refineries.  We need government to stop listening to the chicken little’s that are the environmental movement.  The sky is not falling, and these people have not been right about anything for the last 31 years.

 

After we solve the issue of refineries then we can argue about where we get oil from and why we should be doing more drilling off our shores and on our own soil but right now it doesn’t make any difference.

 

So the next time some idiot in a Prius cuts you off thank them for high gas prices because odds are they support environmental groups that are the main reason for why the price of gas is so high!

Are we really surprised?

The people are overwhelmingly in favor of abolishing the alternative minimum tax, yet never ones to care what the voters want the Democrats in congress have failed to pass legislation removing this tax from the books. 

 

Democrats in congress have also failed to renew legislation barring taxation of the Internet.  This should have been made permanent a long time ago but this congress is much more interested in investigating things than actually doing it’s job.

Mitt Flips Again

Check out this winning quote from Mitt Romney in 2005, courtesy of the New York Observer:

And it was Mr. Romney, making the very same calculation, who traveled the G.O.P. circuit this past winter and spring warning about the compromise legislation Mr. McCain had crafted to create a 13-year path to citizenship for undocumented workers. Of course, Mr. Romney simply called the plan “amnesty” for illegal immigrants, making sure to refer to the legislation as “McCain-Kennedy.”

What infuriated Mr. McCain may not have been Mr. Romney’s opportunism as much as his hypocrisy: As recently as 2005, before Mr. McCain got in his way and before he realized the value of immigration-bashing, Mr. Romney called Mr. McCain’s plan “reasonable” and made a point of correcting those who equated it with amnesty.

What’s changed in this race?

Ok so it’s been nearly two months since Fred Thompson officially entered the race for the Republican nomination and he has been wildly successful.  He raised a significant amount of money, much of it in the last month of the quarter, he’s not having to spend a great deal of money having most of what he’s raised still on hand.  It is also interesting to note that Romney has been forced to loan his campaign another $8 Million this quarter and he continues to spend nearly every dime he raises.

Rudy is being very patient, he is still the front runner in some polls although most national polls have Fred within the margin of error.  He seems to be losing ground in Iowa with Fred now running second and within 6-10 points of Romney there, Romney still holds tightly onto New Hampshire but Fred leads in South Carolina, Georgia, and many other southern states.

All of this brings me to my question, aside from Brownback getting out at what point do the rest of these candidates figure out that they have no chance, I like some of these guys, Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, even Huckabee is not too bad, but these guys are not getting anywhere and it’s time for the race for this nomination to begin and these guys need to get behind the top tier candidate that is most closely aligned with their beliefs, In Ron Paul’s case I guess he’ll have to support John Edwards. 

Now I have trouble including Romney and McCain in the top tier but Romney is leading in a few early states and McCain is at least running third in most national polls so it’s not too big a stretch.  Basically though it’s time for everyone else to bow out gracefully.  This race will come down to the two factions of the Republican Party, those that are conservatives and those that are country club Republicans.  Conservatives seem to have very few options when it comes to the top tier candidates, while those Republicans find distaste with the conservative majority seem to have many options.

What can’t be denied is the fact that when conservative Republicans articulate conservative principles they win every time, when they play to the middle and the left they lose. 

Removing Google AD’s in protest

Let me start by saying I am not a fan of Susan Collins, the sometimes Republican Senator from Maine, however her campaign recently had ads rejected by Google because of “copyright concerns”, but in truth because Collins’ ads were critical of moveon.org.

 

So I have decided to remove Google ads from Conservative Superiority and I sincerely hope other sites much larger than ours will follow suit.

Debate Mania

It was very clear that Fred Thompson came to the Michigan debate well prepared.  He comes away as the clear winner and did what needed to be done, let the lower tier candidates rip each other apart.

 

Watching Rudy and Romney challenging each others fiscal conservatism is like watching Hillary and Edwards argue who will cut taxes more, Rudy and Romney we’re perhaps the worst two on the stage last night at fiscal conservatism.  Romney increased spending a great deal as Governor and Rudy raised taxes and didn’t do much to reign in spending as Mayor.  I was actually funny to watch these two fight over something that neither of them are, fiscal conservatives.

 

So when do we start having standards in terms of who we see at these debates?  Seven or eight guys up there each trying for a 20 second sound bite that makes them sound good.  If we’re going to do these debates then fine get them down to two, three candidates max.  At this point these should be about Fred debating Rudy and if you want to include one of the second tier candidates, Romney or McCain then fine but the other four or five of these guys need to move on and get out of this race and support Fred or Rudy.

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