Democrats LOVE High Gas Prices

Okay, so it's been ages since I've blogged here. I've been busy with work, training, and moving my familay to another county... Ventura. Now I'm back. And blogging.

Well, kiddies, in case you think otherwise, don't be fooled by the recent dog-and-pony show featuring Senator Dianne Feinstein and other useless Democrats as they "grill" Big Oil executives over the recent explosion in fuel prices. It's all a media circus and nothing more, designed to make the proles feel as if their feel-good nice-guy liberal Democrat representatives are "doing something", like getting tough with Big Oil.

Riiiiiiiiiiight.

The fact is, Liberal Democrats, who've sold their souls to the Environmental Lobby, LOVE the massive increase in fuel costs over the past year. They couldn't be happier, no matter how dour they look on the Idiot Box. Here's why:

1. TAXES... 80 cents per gallon here in the Golden State. That's EVERYBODY who drives, paying an extra 10 to 20 bucks a week in TAXES. All that wonderful extra money is flowing into Gub-Mint coffers, where, even though it's supposed to be a 'road use' tax, it winds up being tossed into the general kitty and used for just about everything else. Here in California, it's especially bad, because gasoline taxes are used to subsidize Public Transportation in the cities, where rider fares aren't high enough to make these services pay for themselves. If we want a freeway renovation or expansion, the taxpayers get suckered into paying for it through bond initiatives... the kind which have sent California's State Credit Rating into the cellar. Oh, yeah, we can borrow money alright... at interest rates which constitute legalized theft.

If you still don't think the Gub-Mint is tickled pink about the increased revenue, just turn on the Media Wayback Machine and review recent comments by Presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Both of them proposed giving Joe Consumer a "gas tax vacation" during the summer. But, while we'd think that would mean a temporary suspension of the sales taxes, nooooooooooooo... they're proposing the Oil Companies pay the taxes FOR the consumer. Ain't that great? It's okay to blather on about "corporate greed" as exemplified by Big Oil, but not a whisper is made by either of them about BIG GUB-MINT GREED... not when it means taxing petroleum at 20 percent!

2. The push towards a Socialist Utopia

Democrats have been beholden to environmental interests since the 1960's. Now, with all the news reports coming out of people cutting back their travel because of high gas prices, and even switching over to Public Transportation, the Liberal Socialists are high-fiving even as I write this. So what if gasoline goes up to 4, 5 or even 10 bucks a gallon? They pay that in Europe. With the fuel price explosion, the United States is moving one step closer to being just like Socialist Western Europe... the dream of all liberal political activists.

3. The Global Warming Boondoggle

Algore's "Earth in the Balance", considered holy scripture by the Environmentalist Movement, calls the internal combustion engine a greater threat to the planet than global nuclear war. Imagine all those poor polar bears floating around on miniature ice floes while the rest of us roast in the 1/2-degree-hotter global climate. Just brings tears to your eyes, doesn't it?

Gas prices are a WONDERFUL tool for reducing this ominous threat and getting more people on the buh-uh-uh-uh-us where they belong. We're one step closer to getting rid of our cars, and living in sustainable 'hives', where we can be watched and controlled by smart, environmentally-sensitive folks, who know what's best for all of us. And the polar bears will be eternally grateful!

And here's the icing on the cake: the Democrats can get away with blaming the entire gas price issue on Big Oil and the Bush Administration, in hopes that the public will ignore the fact that they have NOTHING resembling a comprehensive energy independence strategy... they just keep mealymouthing the same old pap about "green' technologies, solar panels, and windmills (I'll get into their lame lack of a REAL energy policy in another post).

The REAL goal isn't energy independence, anyway. It's about the nationalization of all American corporations, period.