$2 a gallon gas. REALLY???

I got a call from my (major oil company name omitted here) representative, who is a die hard right wing republican, and he said if she is elected we are DOOMED!!!!! Either way we are DOOMED!!!

Andy, I am sure that she would be impeached the second she recommended government subsidize on fuel (even if it would make sense). I am in the oil business, and I talk to people with one of the major oil companies every day. They know the only way gas will get back to $2 is if the economy goes in the tank again. The BRIC countries are struggling, but they are still producing, so are we. Supply isn't going up, and and our demand isn't going down. We would have to remove every drop of oil from our land to just feed our own needs if we were cut off from the rest of the world, which makes this a national security issue. I have no idea why republicans are so against alternative energies, but they are the only way we are going to be able to grow in this new economy. The more energy you are replace with renewable energy, the less dependent you are on someone else.

Andy, you contradicted yourself so many times in this post I don't know where to start. First off, you just said that "there is never a time when subsidies makes sense. It's always poor paying for the rich", I think you have that mixed up, but there is one perfect example of what you are saying, and that was $99,000 SUV tax break. That was a tax break in that Bush pushed through congress to extend the amount of money that a business could write off on their taxes on a "truck" for their job. It was also known as the "Hummer tax break" because of the number of people who purchased Hummers because of it. However, you proved my point that her base wouldn't support the subsidy. I work with many alternative energy companies, and I can tell you that there are many companies that are turning to alternative energy to cut their operating cost, and it is working. The largest source of welfare was hedge funds, but Obama is working on taking care of that, although republicans are fighting tooth and nail ( I wonder where they are going to look for money in the next election?). Hedge fund managers have tax breaks that alternative energy companies only dream of. How would you like to make $3 BILLION dollars in one year, and pay less in taxes than your door man? I find it funny how you think that subsidies are so bad, but if it makes YOU money than it is fine. You get on here and preach about what you believe in, yet go to work everyday doing the opposite.

I highly doubt she would be impeached. We subsidize a number of things. There is no reason this would be different. Further, they have already tried to subsidize housing once. So this would be nothing special. No, there is never a time when subsidies makes sense. It's always poor paying for the rich. Because alternative energies don't work. There is not a single alternative energy that replaces oil. And none that come even close to be viable. We've dumped billions into alternative energy, and the result has only been to increase the cost of conventional energy. Further, the biggest source of corporate welfare is alternative energy funding. I worked for a company that made electrical systems for hybrid buses. The CEO of the company told us at a company meeting that the reason we were not developing a new system was because we were waiting for a government grant to fund the project. This was a $100 Million dollar company. Let me explain to you what that means. We had the money to develop this new product. We were purposefully not making this product so that we could get the government to pay us to make a product we were going to sell. Now you could say "evil CEO" or "greedy company" blaw blaw blaw. But the fact is, any of us in the same situation would do the same thing. Government is going to pay us to make a product we are then going to charge them to buy, why not? It's corporate welfare, under the guise of 'alternative energy'.

You are correct that all politicians lie. You make some good points about Obama, but I think there are less illegals because it isn't as easy to get to the boarder (the border cities in Mexico are worse than Iraq during the war), and there are less jobs for them here. We as a country are making more progress in rights for LGBT's than past administrations have, but still there is a lot to do. The economy isn't any better for the normal US citizen, but the economy is much more stable than when he took office. Corporate America is doing better than they EVER have, with almost 2 1/2 TRILLION dollars in profits that they have made off of us poor people. Hopefully the people of this country will wake up to the fact that this country is no longer the United States of America, it is the United States of CORPORATE America!!!!!

So what you're saying is that you DO believe that Michelle Bachmann can lower oil prices. Thank you for clearing that up.

Taskr, I DO blame Bush for the high oil prices, and his policies (or lack of policies). Bush didn't think that the oil prices had anything to do with the economy, and he didn't want the government to step in (by the way, do you want to know how many speeches he has given to oil companies since leaving office?). Clinton was correct in focusing on the effect of oil price on the consumer, and he was tough on the oil companies. Obama hasn't done this, and he should focus on this much more. It is a FACT that when oil prices go down, consumer spending goes up. Want to grow the economy? Lower oil prices!!!

Taskr, like I said in my post, if she destroyed the economy she could do that. I believe that if you were to keep gas prices around $2.50 you would see a dramatic change in the economy. But, you would have to cut the taxes on gas, and you would have to create an oil company of America that will drill for oil no matter what the price is, keep the oil here, have it's own refineries, and drill EVERYWHERE!!!! All of the middle eastern countries do it, why shouldn't we? The problem for any politician is that the oil companies would fight this idea, and so would MOST republicans. Bachmann doesn't have the ability to deal with such backlash from her own party. But, it would solve this problem, for a while.

We all know she lied, but you aren't hearing many people calling her out on it. Here is the problem with off shore drilling: No one wants it off their shore!!!! Even republican states like Florida, and Ohio have had their republican governors oppose it. There are millions of gallons of oil off the shores of this country and it is the most profitable way to drill, but states won't allow for drilling there. The other problem is that there is no way that you can guarantee that oil will stay in the US, right now EXPORT oil and IMPORT oil!!! There is no magic bullet, the only thing I can tell you is that we are going to have to find a combination of oil and alternative energies until we find another source of energy. But, lying to people about this problem isn't going to help anyone!!!!

I know lying will not fix a problem unfortanitly all politicians i have ever seen lie. No matter deomocrat or republican.