This one has been around for quite some time, but that doesn’t make it any less funny. Basically, they’ve set up a fake newscast to air at a pump at this gas station – add in a hidden camera and let the hilarity ensue.
Tag: Gas
Tax Cheat Tim Geithner Attacks Oil, Gas Companies for ‘Global Warming’
The Tax Cheat believes in Global Warming. Go figure.
U.S. oil and natural gas producing companies should not receive federal subsidies in the form of tax breaks because their businesses contribute to global warming, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress on Wednesday.
It was one of the sharpest attacks yet on the oil and gas industry by a top Obama administration official, reinforcing the White House stance that new U.S. energy policy will focus on promoting renewable energy sources like wind and solar power and rely less on traditional fossil fuels like oil as America tackles climate change.
“We don’t believe it makes sense to significantly subsidize the production and use of sources of energy (like oil and gas) that are dramatically going to add to our climate change (problem). We don’t think that’s good economic policy and we think changing those incentives is good for the country,” Geithner told the Senate Finance Committee at a hearing on the White House’s proposed budget for the 2010 spending year.
Asshat Of The Day: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood
Obama’s Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is the recipient of our prestigious Asshat Of The Day award for wanting to tax motorists based on how many miles they drive.
It seems like this administration is trying everything they can to destroy this country. They are absolutely begging for a revolution!
Obama’s Transportation Secretary Eyes Mileage Tax on American Motorists
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he wants to consider taxing motorists based on how many miles they drive rather than how much gasoline they burn — an idea that has angered drivers in some states where it has been proposed.
Gasoline taxes that for nearly half a century have paid for the federal share of highway and bridge construction can no longer be counted on to raise enough money to keep the nation’s transportation system moving, LaHood said in an interview with The Associated Press.
“We should look at the vehicular miles program where people are actually clocked on the number of miles that they traveled,” the former Illinois Republican lawmaker said.
The Gas Tax: Asshole Editorial of the Day
I’m sorry but articles like this piss me off.
Reason 1,000,000,001 why newspaper reader ship is declining. This idiot from The New York Times has a brilliant plan to burden taxpayers and businesses with a tax on gas to help support the big three auto companies in order to help them create a product that most people don’t want. Using this logic, couldn’t they solve obesity by taxing food to the point where most people would be forced to eat less?
President-elect Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress seem to have a clear vision of the auto industry they think the country needs. It must be financially self-sufficient. It also must be capable of producing highly fuel-efficient, next-generation vehicles that can help the nation cope with climate change and finite supplies of oil.
Yet for all the conditions attached to it, the multibillion-dollar aid package for Detroit’s carmakers approved by the White House (with Mr. Obama’s support) fails to address one crucial question: Who will buy all the fuel-efficient cars that Detroit carmakers are supposed to make?
The danger is that too few will, especially if gasoline prices remain low. Therefore, it might be time for the president-elect and Congress to think seriously about imposing a gas tax or similar levy to keep gas prices up after the economy recovers from recession.
Americans did not buy enormous gas guzzlers just because Detroit marketed them relentlessly. They bought them because they wanted big cars — and because gas was cheap. If gas stays cheap, Americans would be less inclined to squeeze their families into a lithe fuel-efficient alternative.
Happy American Energy Freedom Day
Today is the day that the bans on oil shale and offshore drilling for oil and natural gas in America have expired. We can now be free from hostile nations that supply us with oil. Just think about it… right off our shores there are reserves estimated to hold over 20 billion barrels of oil and 97 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. And in the west, oil shale is estimated to be between 800 billion and 2 trillion barrels of oil. That is more than three times the proven oil reserves in Saudi Arabia alone.
Americans are now free to pursue vast amounts of our own energy. That’s right; we are finally on our way to developing energy in America for Americans.
Today is truly a great day for all Americans!
God bless America.
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