[Vision2020] Obama Sets Gas Prices? Just Another G.O.P. Myth

[Donovan Arnold]

I like your wife's car, Tom. My Hyundai, I bought for only $3500 w/ only 30,000 miles on it. It gets over 28-35 MPG. I don't see the point in spending $20,000 more for a car hybrid to save $10,000 in gas over the life of the car and another $4K in interest on the loan. I just buy with cash a quality used car with good gas mileage and low miles. In order for the average person to use less gas, cars with high MPG need to also be inexpensive, like they are in Europe. Cars today can be, and should be engineered to get 50-100 MPG. 
 
Donovan Arnold

From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
To: lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> 
Cc: "vision2020 at moscow.com" <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Obama Sets Gas Prices? Just Another G.O.P. Myth

My wife drives an American-made 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid (Consumer Reports' 2010 Car of the Year) totally electric at speeds below 45 mph, that gets approximately 43 mpg.

Here it is in San Francisco . . .




Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"If not us, who?
If not now, when?"

- Unknown



On Mar 18, 2012, at 13:40, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:

> They have been able to make cars that get 55 miles per gallon for a long time. My wife gets 50 on her GEO Metro, which is not made anymore.
> Roger
> -----Original message-----
> From: Art Deco art.deco.studios at gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 08:45:26 -0700
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Obama Sets Gas Prices? Just Another G.O.P. Myth
> 
>> March 17, 2012*
>> Obama Sets Gas Prices? Just Another G.O.P. Myth*
>> By ROBERT B. SEMPLE Jr.
>> 
>> Jeff Bingaman, chairman of the Senate energy committee, complained the
>> other day of “widespread misunderstanding” about rising oil prices. He was
>> being senatorially polite.
>> 
>> The issue of gas prices has not only been misunderstood but thoroughly
>> distorted by relentless ideological spin from industry and its political
>> allies, mainly Republican. Hardly a day goes by that some industry
>> cheerleader somewhere — be it Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana or Senator
>> James Inhofe of Oklahoma — does not flay President Obama for driving up oil
>> prices by denying the industry access to oil and gas deposits and imposing
>> ruinous environmental rules. Senator John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican,
>> said last week that Mr. Obama should be held “fully responsible for what
>> the American public is paying for gasoline.”
>> 
>> If only the president had the power to give us $2.50-a-gallon gasoline, as
>> Newt Gingrich promised to do if he got to the White House. It is ridiculous
>> to think that a president can.
>> 
>> One can sympathize with consumers feeling the pain of higher gas prices.
>> But the fundamental truth is that those prices are tied to the price of
>> oil, set by world markets. There are peaks and valleys, but their causes —
>> a worldwide recession, an embargo or conflict in the Middle East — are
>> beyond the control of any one country. As the chart below shows, gasoline
>> prices rise and fall in the same pattern throughout the world. Americans
>> historically pay much less at the pump because they pay lower taxes; when
>> the price of a gallon spikes at $3.70 in the United States, it is closer to
>> $8 in, say, Germany.
>> 
>> Because oil is a global commodity, increasing domestic production will do
>> very little to bring down retail prices, although it does help narrow the
>> trade defici


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