Reuters: Gasoline cost to jump $700 for average household

The average U.S. household will spend about $700 more for gasoline in 2011 than it spent last year, bringing total motor fuel expenses up 28 percent to $3,235, based on an annual pump price of $3.61 a gallon, the department's Energy Information Administration said.

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If the current increase in the price of crude oil and the price of gasoline at the American pump happened from 2001-2008, the media and the Left would have been pointing the finger at President Bush. However, since we have Carter II in the White House, with the United States facing increasing economic troubles, as well as new and expanding threats in the Middle East, the mainstream media does not make the connection between the failure of Obama to provide any foreign policy leadership or any leadership that would implement a comprehensive energy policy--a hallmark of his 2008 Presidential campaign.

What we are now facing is the spectre of $5.00/gallon gasoline and a double-hit against an already weakened economy. The time is now to hold accountable Barack Obama, to demand action by Congress to pass a 'Marshall Plan' for Energy Security. By replacing 30% of the OPEC crude with domestically-produced transportation fuel, the United States can create solid, good-paying jobs and break the grip of the OPEC cartel on the United States.

It is a sad fact that families and small business see rising fuel and food bills and the political leaders in this country, at both the federal and state levels, continue to stick their heads in the proverbial sand.

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AP: Pump prices on pace to top 2009 high by weekend

According the Associated Press report today our prices at the pump are going to pass those of 2009 by this weekend.

The cost of filling up the car is rising in the wake of soaring crude and by this weekend, pump prices will race past the highs for all of 2009.



Tracing the ascension of crude, up 14 percent since mid-December, energy prices across the board are catching up. On Tuesday, benchmark crude prices closed higher than they had on any day last year.

It's part economic and part meteorologic.


Vicious pockets of cold stretched from the Northeast to the South, where farmers in the Florida panhandle tried to save tomato and strawberry crops. Four deaths in Tennessee were blamed on low temperatures.

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Know Thy Enemy: Pro-Publica: "The Next Target: Natural Gas Development"

Just as I have predicted, once the environmental radicals finish off coal mining, which is the backbone of the American economy, providing cheap power and other essential elements for an economic recovery through development of new coal-based technologies and products, they will turn their green gaze to natural gas production and drilling to destory that industry, too.

I recommend reading this article to gain a complete understanding of how the mind of radical environmental are building the foundation to attack the natural gas industry and to try and eliminate or bankrupt another vital part of the energy solution for America's energy security.

Instead of an all-of-the-above solution to our energy problems, radical environmentalists take aim at any energy sector that does not comply with their move to completely destory the American economic power and to relegate the world's best overall standard of living to that of a banana republic third-world country.

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Pro-Publica: Natural Gas Drilling - What We Don’t Know
by Abrahm Lustgarten

It takes brute force to wrest natural gas from the earth. Millions of gallons of chemical-laden water mixed with sand -- under enough pressure to peel paint from a car -- are pumped into the ground, pulverizing a layer of rock that holds billions of small bubbles of gas.

The chemicals transform the fluid into a frictionless mass that works its way deep into the earth, prying open tiny cracks that can extend thousands of feet. The particles of sand or silicon wedge inside those cracks, holding the earth open just enough to allow the gas to slip by.

Gas drilling is often portrayed as the ultimate win-win in an era of hard choices: a new, 100-year supply of cleaner-burning fuel, a risk-free solution to the nation’s dependence on foreign energy. In the next 10 years, the United States will use the fracturing technology to drill hundreds of thousands of new wells astride cities, rivers and watersheds. Cash-strapped state governments are pining for the revenue and the much-needed jobs that drilling is expected to bring to poor, rural areas.

Drilling companies assert that the destructive forces unleashed by the fracturing process, including the sometimes toxic chemicals that keep the liquid flowing, remain safely sealed as much as a mile or more beneath the earth, far below drinking water sources and the rest of the natural environment.

For the complete article and Pro-Publica's year-long investigation (to understand the thinking of the radical environmentalists) click here:  Pro Publica.

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This is a sad commentary on the agenda of the radical environmentalists, but will provide insight to the thinking of those who determined to impose their radical agenda on America.

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