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Nozzle Rage: Getting Hosed at the Gas Pump

July 10, 2008 gags

This is a humorous video from the Zucker brothers that about says it all. I think when Hollywood starts producing videos like this it could mean that $4.00 per gallon may have been the psychological breaking point for Americans.

Pass it on and spread the word. We as Americans need to take a stand and say “Enough is enough”! Drill here, Drill now!

Every American is getting hosed. Each time we fill up our cars, we are putting money into the hands of OPEC – the oil cartel led by Saudi Arabia.

The Saudis and the other countries that make up that monopoly control most of the world’s reserves. Most of them pay just a couple of bucks per barrel to get oil out of the ground.

Yet, OPEC is limiting production and encouraging speculation that is costing us and other consumers hundreds of billions of dollars every year. It amounts to the largest artificially engineered transfer of wealth in history. OPEC is waging economic warfare, and it is bleeding our country dry.

Worse still, some of the oil money the Saudis, Iranians, Venezuelans and other OPEC members get from us is being used to support terrorism. We are literally paying people to try to kill us.

This is clearly a ridiculous – and unsustainable – situation. If not corrected, we are going to bleed out as we underwrite our destruction.

Enter NozzleRage. NozzleRage is a video campaign designed, through viral YouTube and Internet distribution, to make clear what is happening to this country and its drivers. Its goal is to channel the fury most Americans feel into effective action.

The first of a series of 30-second NozzleRage videos features an OPEC gas pump ripping off and then attacking an ordinary American consumer. Conceived, directed and produced by the fabled Hollywood team of David and Jerry Zucker, it directs viewers to the www.NozzleRage.com website where they can register to view upcoming videos and find out what they can do to end our suicidal vulnerability to OPEC’s oil cartel.

Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin

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What do the Democratic-led Congress and OPEC Have in Common?

July 6, 2008 gags

Yes… Americans are finally starting to connect the dots.

This sums it up pretty well.

Congress = OPEC?

What do the Democratic-led Congress and OPEC have in common? Both sit on vast amounts of oil, and are content to leave it in the ground and let prices soar. Fortunately, Americans are catching on.

New polls show that Americans, far from thinking that we can do nothing, want Congress to drill, and drill some more if necessary, to break the energy crisis.

A Pew Research poll out Wednesday found that 47% say exploring and drilling for more oil and building new power plants should be the top priority for U.S. energy policy, up from 35% in February. And 50% now say they favor drilling in ANWR, up from 42%.

That follows a Rasmussen poll in June showing that 67% of Americans support drilling for more oil, and 64% think it will help bring down the price of energy.

President Bush understands this shift.

“We can help alleviate shortages by drilling for oil and gas in our own country, something I’ve been advocating ever since I’ve been the president,” he said Wednesday. “I’ve been reminding our people that we can do so in environmentally friendly ways. And yet the Congress, the Democratically controlled Congress, now has refused to budge. It makes no sense.”

He’s dead right. In fact, Democrats in Congress for nearly two decades have rejected drilling for more oil, building more refineries or developing more nuclear power. Since 1990, there have been 46 attempts to boost America’s energy supplies. Only Democratic opposition keeps us from having more.

Alaska’s National Wildlife Reserve, for instance, holds 10 billion barrels of oil, enough for 1.5 million barrels of oil a day. That would be a 20% increase in current U.S. oil production. Slam dunk, right?

No. President Clinton refused to OK development of ANWR back in 1995. When President Bush brought it up again in 2002, he couldn’t get Democrats to support it. So no oil.

Likewise, Democrats have refused to drill for our Outer Continental Shelf oil resources, an estimated 89 billion barrels of crude. Nor do they want to disturb the 1 trillion barrels of oil locked underground in shale deposits stretching across the Rocky Mountains.

It isn’t just Congress. In his bid to win the presidency, Barack Obama has flip-flopped on many things, but he stands squarely with Congress’ naysaying Democrats in rejecting more drilling.

Democrats have failed to live up to their promises, and now we hope the American people hold them accountable.

It was January 2007 that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made her now-infamous “Energy Independence Day” pledge. In it, she vowed to “truly declare our energy independence” by July 4, 2007.

Yet here it is a year later, and, as the Business & Media Institute notes, the price of gasoline has skyrocketed 85% to $4.09 a gallon.

You start to understand that this has been the intent all along. Democrats hate the very stuff — oil — that makes our economy and way of life possible. By doing nothing, they know prices will soar.

Just like Saudi King Abdullah, OPEC’s de facto leader, who this week said Americans must “adapt to” high oil prices, Democrats want you to embrace higher prices — and lower standards of living.

That’s why Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can call coal and oil a “sickness.” He actually believes it, and thinks your suffering from higher prices is therefore noble. It purges the disease — oil.

Americans today face spiraling costs for food and gasoline thanks to the Democrats’ ideological nearsightedness. Higher energy costs are feeding into higher prices for everything, especially food.

Americans have to let politicians know they can’t get away with ruining our economy, and that Congress’ inaction is intolerable.

If you’d like more energy to fuel our economy and lower prices, we have a suggestion: Call your congressperson and tell him or her you want more energy — or you might vote for someone else. It might be the best expenditure of energy you make this year.

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The Oil Jihad Continues: OPEC President Predicts the Price of Oil Will Climb to $170 a Barrel before the End of the Year

June 30, 2008 gags

The major fact is that the world runs on oil and OPEC knows it. OPEC keeps the price of oil rising and the world goes out of kilter like a spinning top that when you touch it as it spins begins to wobble crazily.

Throw together corrupt politicians and a constant supply of Global warming hysteria and the result is wrecked economies. The sad fact is that members of Congress have helped engineer this so that we would be dependent on OPEC for our energy needs. It is a problem borne solely of US political greed and corruption! We need to vote out all the incumbent bozos before we are forced into the second American Revolution!

OPEC President Chakib Khelil predicted that the price of oil will climb to $170 a barrel before the end of the year, citing the dollar’s decline and political conflicts.

“Oil prices are expected to reach $170 as demand for fuel is growing in the U.S. during the summer period and the dollar continues to weaken against the euro,” Khelil said today in a telephone interview. The leader of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries also serves as Algeria’s oil minister.

Political pressure on Iran and the depreciation of the U.S. currency have caused a surge in oil prices, Khelil said. New York- traded crude has more than doubled in a year and touched a record $142.99 a barrel yesterday on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

OPEC ministers generally say that oil output is sufficient, even as Saudi Arabia, the biggest producer, pledged to pump an extra 200,000 barrels a day next month to calm the market. “The market is completely supplied,” Venezuelan Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez said yesterday. Libya announced possible production cuts, calling the market oversupplied.

The rising cost of crude is not linked to supply, Khelil said today. “There is more than enough oil in the market to meet the international demand,” added the OPEC president, who will take part June 30 in an international energy forum in Madrid.

Prices, which are up 38 percent this quarter, are heading for the biggest quarterly gain since the first three months of 1999, when oil traded between $11 and $17.

Declining Dollar

“The decisions made by the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank helped the devaluation of the dollar, which pushed up oil prices,” Khelil said.

Oil may extend gains if the ECB boosts rates on July 3, further weakening the U.S. currency. The dollar has declined 15 percent against the euro in 12 months.

ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet reiterated June 25 that policy makers may increase the main refinancing rate by a quarter-percentage point next month to contain inflation. The Federal Reserve left the benchmark U.S. rate at 2 percent on June 25. On Sept. 18 the Fed began cutting rates to bolster an economy already reeling from the credit crisis.

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Ponderisms: Part Two

June 28, 2008 gags

Here is another list of things to ponder if you’re tired of wondering why the greatest country in the world is dependant on dictators and people that hate us for our energy needs.

Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?

Why are they called apartments, when they’re all stuck together?

Why are they called buildings, when they’re already finished? Shouldn’t they be called “builts”?

When you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn?

Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?

Why do they call it the Department of Interior when they are in charge of everything outdoors?

Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?

Why do they sterilize the needles for lethal injections?

How did a fool and his money get together in the first place?

Could someone ever get addicted to counseling? If so, how could you treat them?

How does a shelf salesman keep his store from looking empty?

If the plural of tooth is “teeth,” why isn’t the plural of booth “beeth”?

How many people thought of the Post-It note before it was invented but just didn’t have anything to jot it down on?

Why is it, whether you sit up or sit down, the result is the same?

Would a fly without wings be called a walk?

When an agnostic dies, does he go to the “great perhaps”?

Why are there interstates in Hawaii?

When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?

Why do croutons come in airtight packages when it’s just stale bread to begin with?

If a firefighter fights fire and a crime fighter fights crime, what does a freedom fighter fight?

Does fuzzy logic tickle?

Why do we recite at a play and play at a recital?

Why do we wait until a pig is dead to “cure” it?

Why do women wear evening gowns to nightclubs? Shouldn’t they be wearing nightgowns?

Why don’t they call moustaches “mouthbrows”?

Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a race car is not called a racist?

Why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up a project, I end it?

Why isn’t “phonetic” spelled the way it sounds?

Why do “fat chance” and “slim chance” mean the same thing?

Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

Why do you need a driver’s license to buy liquor when you can’t drink and drive?

Do you need a silencer if you are going to shoot a mime?

When they ship Styrofoam, what do they pack it in?

Is it possible to be totally partial?

Shouldn’t there be a shorter word for “monosyllabic”?

What’s another word for “thesaurus”?

Why do skydivers wear helmets?

Why do we put suits in a garment bag and garments in a suitcase?

If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?

If the funeral procession is at night, do folks drive with their headlights off?

Why does your nose run and your feet smell?

What’s the speed of dark?

Why is it that when you transport something by car, it’s called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it’s called cargo?

Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

Where do forest rangers go to “get away from it all”?

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Confidence in Congress at an All Time Low

June 21, 2008 gags

Confidence in Congress is the lowest in US history, yet the Democrats are confident the America people will give them a majority in both the House and the Senate in November. What’s wrong with this picture?

The more Congressional Democrats oppose drilling in our country, the lower their poll numbers go.

Confidence in Congress: Lowest Ever for Any U.S. Institution

Gallup’s annual update on confidence in institutions finds just 12% of Americans expressing confidence in Congress, the lowest of the 16 institutions tested this year, and the worst rating Gallup has measured for any institution in the 35-year history of this question.

We have the best politicians money can buy. ~ Mark Twain