Florida Congressman Allen West Blames Obama For $70 Hummer H3 Fill-Up
Published: February 24th, 2012
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Florida Congressman Allen West is blaming President Barack Obama for paying $70 every time he wants to fill up his Hummer H3. Not surprisingly, media outlets, as well as commenters on West’s Facebook page, are up in arms.
The Hummer name undoubtedly carries negative connotations when it comes to fuel economy, but in the grand scheme of things, the H3 is quite mild, with its roots in the fairly light-duty Chevrolet Colorado/GMC Canyon twins. The DOE’s own fuel economy site lists West’s 2008 H3 as getting between 14 and 15 mpg combined – hardly impressive for a small SUV.
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another good reason to take over all the middle east oil fields - where's rumsfeld and chaney?
It may surprise you to learn that refined fuel (gasoline, diesel and jet-a) were the largest US exports (by value) in 2011. We import the crude, refine it, and ship it out. So the normal countervalence to raising prices (increased production) doesn't apply. The US energy refiners make more money selling it abroad. And then gouge the local market because, well, they can. In an auto-based society, you either pay up, or you walk.
There's really no arguing with libs on this topic. We are dealing with generations of people brainwashed by college professors to believe that fossil fuels are a rapidly dwindling, FINITE resource, whose use makes America evil and corrupt and the sooner we switch to alternative fuels that the market doesn't want, have never been proven, and exist in their infancy at best, the better--completely ignoring vast America's natural gas, coal, and even crude resources which we don't want to tap because some unwashed minority doesn't want us to destroy some unspoiled wilderness or kill off an endangered sand cockroach. The ugly truth is that Western countries, poisoned by their own socialist idiocy will drive their own gas prices up through their misguided left wing green lunacy while emerging nations like China will meet the need we have left a gaping hole in the market for and prosper, because they will be growing stronger while we sit around recycling and occupying like the privileged idiots we are.
Republicans on gas prices when they hit $4.00 under Bush in 2008: "It's not the president's fault." Republicans on gas prices in 2012: "It's all Obama's fault!"