President Obama Stumps for New Car Purchases

President Obama, speaking at an energy event in Fairless Hills, PA on Wednesday, suggested Americans should buy smaller more efficient cars.  A gentleman asking about $3.70 per gallon gas prices was told by the President laughingly, “If you’re complaining about the price of gas and you’re only getting 8 miles a gallon, you know, you might want to think about a trade-in.”

While speaking paternally to a citizen about the price of gas, he went on the say, “There is no magic formula to driving gas prices down.” While there may not be a magic formula to bring down gas prices, this administration has taken many actions which increase gas prices:

• In 2009, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar cancelled 77 oil and gas drilling leases in Utah;
• The EPA released new rules mandating the use of 36 billion gallons worth of renewable fuels, think ethanol, by 2020;
• Interior Secretary Salazar announces new rules making it very difficult to develop energy resources on federal lands;
• Last summer, in a knee jerk reaction to the BP oil spill, the President imposed two bans on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico; those bans were later lifted, by court order, but no new drilling permits will be issued. This will cut domestic off shore oil production by 13% this year;
• The EPA has announced new “global warming” regulations for oil refineries
• The EPA is slowing a pipeline that would expand U.S. access to Canadian oil.

All of the above activities will raise gas prices at the pump by either:  (A) decreasing domestic energy supplies, or (B) increasing the cost with additional regulation.  Either way the American motorist pays the bill for President Obama’s illogical, unwise decisions to force Americans to reduce their standard of living.

To further emphasize that he just doesn’t get it and/or just doesn’t care, the President said “Gas prices are still going to fluctuate until we can start making these broader changes and that’s going to take a couple of years to have serious effect.” So in a couple of years, coincidentally after the 2012 election, the Obama “change we can believe in” will finally take effect.

The Constitution Party platform calls for abolition of the Department of Energy and the immediate implementation of “free market “energy solutions. (Click here for full platform wording)

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution , nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people “ (Amendment X).