{"id":21127,"date":"2011-03-04T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T18:02:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-04-30T15:17:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T19:17:35","slug":"obama_wants_higher_gas_prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/03\/04\/obama_wants_higher_gas_prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Wants Higher Gas Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: As we pointed out yesterday, 15 stories, negative stories blaming Bush for the gasoline price rise in 2007 and 2008. One story on Obama for every 15 Bush stories.So the question becomes: Will the media ignoring the rise in gas prices be able to keep that from becoming a major factor in people\u2019s minds over the economy and Obama\u2019s role in it? Remember, now, everything is focused on the reelection in 2012. The regime is looking at 8% unemployment. That\u2019s what they\u2019re going to get if they could do it. If they can get there by manipulation they will, but that 8% unemployment number is the number they think takes the economy as a negative out of play. It either makes it neutral or a positive. But on the other side you got these rising gas prices. They know their buddies in the media are not gonna harp on that, but rising gas prices are real, nevertheless.\"\"Whether the media is telling us every day how high it\u2019s going, and whether the media does stories on the pain and suffering, or not, remember during the Bush years we got all kinds of stories about the pain and suffering and people couldn\u2019t go visit family and single parents couldn\u2019t see their kids (or divorced parents), because of the high price of gas. We heard about all the ancillary effects of the leisure industry, all of the destruction brought about by rising gas prices. We\u2019re not gonna get that with Obama in the White House, but will it matter? ‘Cause the public\u2019s gonna feel it. There\u2019s no way you can it will \u2019em it\u2019s not happening. You can ignore that it\u2019s happening if you\u2019re the media, but there\u2019s no way you can tell people it isn\u2019t happening.<\/p>\n

Because $4 was the tipping point. At $4 a gallon, people went nuts — and, by the way, in order to get $4 a gallon, the oil price was around $147 a barrel. We\u2019re nowhere near that price now and we\u2019re still over four bucks in parts of the country, such as in Malibu. In other parts of the country, the average I think here is that the gas price, gasoline price went up (national average) a nickel a gallon in the past 24 hours. Now, at this rate, if it continues, the national average price for regular unleaded gasoline will be $4 a gallon in 11 days, and I wonder if this rate of increase pleases the president.<\/p>\n

Remember, the president is on record as saying he didn\u2019t mind $4 a gallon. He was a little disturbed about how quickly it got there. But for the regime, four bucks or higher, that\u2019s exactly what they want! They hate oil, they hate anything to do with it, and there\u2019s their Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf — all these electric cars that nobody is buying. We got the numbers in on that and even Dale Earnhardt Jr. has now joined the crusade of bashing the technology of the Chevy Volt. Yeah. Dale Earnhardt Jr.<\/p>\n

He said it nicely but he still said it. He said, ‘The technology still isn\u2019t there.\u2019 The number 8% is important unemployment because no president has ever been reelected with the unemployment rate over 8% except FDR. He\u2019s the one exception. So we know what the magic number is for the unemployment rate. We need to find out what the magic number is for the gasoline price and the reelection tipping point there. And, remember, as we get the sales figures on the Volt (and it\u2019s like in the 200s) and the Nissan Leaf, even with these rising gasoline prices, SUVs and truck sales are still going through the roof. People want their SUVs and their trucks for whatever standard, traditional, American reasons.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: It\u2019s interesting, folks. For the record YouTube-Google seems to have scrubbed that clip of Obama saying he doesn\u2019t mind gas prices going up to four bucks; he just doesn\u2019t want them to go up too quickly. You can\u2019t find that. However, I think I\u2019ve got a link for it here at CNBC. I\u2019ll have to send this up to Cookie and see if that\u2019s what this link actually is. It was a question from John Harwood at CNBC: ‘So could the high oil price help us?\u2019 and Obama said, ‘Well, I think that I would have preferred a gradual adjustment, a gradual increase.\u2019 So his preference (whether you can find it on YouTube-Google or not) for higher oil prices has come to pass.<\/p>\n

\"\"Don\u2019t doubt me on this, folks. He has wanted this. And if you doubt me, if you do — and we know here (there\u2019s evidence galore in recent months) that this program\u2019s audience is populated with an increasing number of Democrats and leftists. If you\u2019re gonna doubt me simply because you\u2019ve been told I lie — you know, you\u2019re listening here for the first or second time and you\u2019ve already got me figured out. You\u2019ve been told that everything here is a lie and it\u2019s all made up and all that. If you\u2019re gonna doubt me when I claim that Obama\u2019s very happy with rising oil and energy prices, then simply examine what he said.<\/p>\n

What is it that he wants? What is his nirvana? Green energy! He hates the coal business. He\u2019s told the people in the coal-fired electrical plant business, electricity generation plant (summarized), ‘Go ahead and do it but I\u2019m gonna put you out of business. You\u2019re not gotta be able to afford the taxes I\u2019m gonna charge you. I mean, you can do it, I\u2019m not gonna shut down the business but you\u2019re gonna go broke doing it.\u2019 He knows. He can look at sales figures. The number of Volts sold to date: 281. The number of Nissan Leafs sold: 67. His dream is a million, and he\u2019s only gonna be able to do that by subsidizing the sale.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s gonna be paying people, essentially, to buy these cars. That means what? It means they don\u2019t want them. But that doesn\u2019t matter to him. Obama doesn\u2019t care whether you want one of these cars or not. He doesn\u2019t care whether you like petroleum-based energy production or not. He doesn\u2019t, and that\u2019s it — and for whatever policy or wacko leftist reason, he wants to push this green stuff, and he knows he\u2019s not gonna get it done if he waits around for you to want it. The only way it\u2019s gonna happen is if you are forced there: Ergo, rising gasoline prices, higher oil prices, all that, ‘Why, made to order!\u2019 Necessity, requiring somebody to go cheap, is much better than wanting them to do something they don\u2019t want to do. So it\u2019s all working out for him.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here it is, from June the 10th of 2008 — CNBC\u2019s Your Money, Your Vote — the chief Washington shill, John Harwood. Yes, I said ‘shill.\u2019 This guy supposedly works in the media but wait until you hear the question. He\u2019s interviewing Senator ‘Barack-ay\u2019 Obama (as pronounced by Khadafy), and the chief Washington shill for CNBC, John Harwood, said to Obama, ‘Could the high prices help us?\u2019 President Bush, could the low unemployment numbers help us? What is this, ‘Senator Obama, could the high prices,\u2019 oil, gasoline, could the high prices ‘help us?\u2019 What the hell is that? It\u2019s a shill. And here\u2019s what Bamster had to say.<\/p>\n

<\/a>OBAMA: I think that I would have preferred a gradual adjustment. The fact that, ehh, this is such a shock t\u2019American pocketbooks is not a good thing. Uh, but if we take some steps right now t\u2019, uh, help people make the adjustment — first of all by putting more money into their pockets, but also by encouraging the market to adapt to these new circumstances more quickly, particularly US automakers.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘I would have preferred a graaaadual increase in prices. I don\u2019t mind the high price, John, Mr. Harwood. I don\u2019t mind the high price at all. I just think we got there a little bit too quickly. But it actually could help us move into this worthless green technology area, which is nothing more than a slush fund money laundering operation for me.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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