Gingrich: 'You Can't Put a Gun Rack on a Volt'
With unemployment and the economy improving, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has turned to attacking President Barack Obama on the price of gas.
At a campaign event in Suwanee, Georgia, the former House Speaker told supporters that he would bring back cheaper gas because "you can't put a gun rack on a Volt."
"There is no reason not to believe that we couldn't stabilize with American production by drowning demand in supply the old-fashioned, free market way," he explained. "There's not reason we couldn't have a stable price around $2 or $2.50 [per gallon]."
In an interview on Sunday, Fox News host Chris noted that if Gingrich attempted to increase oil production in the U.S., OPEC would decrease production to keep international energy prices high.
"You can't guarantee $2.50 a gallon," Wallace explained.
"You can't guarantee anything," Gingrich agreed. "But you can guarantee that under the Obama plan, there's going to be less American production, higher prices."
(ADDENDUM, Nicole:) Newt's argument highlights both the strength of the GOP's messaging and the failure of most Americans to understand basic economics. We could devastate every single ecologically-pristine area within the US for new oil sources and not one drop of it will necessarily go to the US. We have no nationalized oil company; that oil goes onto the open market, where the price will be determined by demand. And as Wallace points out --and for which Gingrich has no real answer-- OPEC will decrease the availability of petroleum to keep the prices high.
I'll bet someone in the Atlanta metro area has already made one for his/her Volt. And there will be dozens more made before you're forced to drop out due to public apathy and your Vegas sugar daddy putting all his money on black. Just go home and polish Calista's helmet, will ya?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Obviously some people haven't. BTW, who needs a gun rack for a handgun? Just saying.
Clearly Newt hasn't thought this one through.
Firstly, internal combustion engines will not work on the moon with its lack of an oxygen based atmosphere. Everyone living up there by the end of his second term, will have to be driving Volts to get around, right?
The same applies to firearms. They won't work on the moon. So gun racks would be kinda anachronistic. Instead, Moon People would trick out their Volts with batteries of phasers and a photon torpedo or two strapped to the roof.
Man, the moon sounds like it's gonna be a lot of fun, I can't wait 'til we're all living up there.
What a pile of crap.
What was the US number one manufactured export in 2011?
Refined petroleum products.
US refineries could *already* be "drowning demand in supply" but instead they are keeping domestic prices high by selling the excess - an enormous excess - abroad.
Gingrich is not only a lying pos politician trying to capitalize politically on the results of the oil companies' greed, but he's also carrying their water by covering up the fact that they are artificially keeping domestic prices high by selling their excess abroad.
And .. not to be outdone by the Republicans sucking up to Big Oil .. the Obama adminstration just approved a Shell oil Alaskan offshore drilling operation despite environmentalists pointing out that, once again, the proposal for cleanup in the event of a spill is inadequate.
So, Obama's doing just exactly what Gingrich claims he isn't.
Not that that's a good thing .. it isn't.
"Drill Baby Drill .. Frack Baby Frack" - Obama's SOTU
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
over the past month and a half. I guess saber rattling has it's rewards.
when Bush was pres they argued that there was not enough refining capacity because the damned environmentalists closed down too many refineries. Now we are exporting refined products. The Keystone XL pipeline is designed to ship crude to Gulf coast refineries for export.
For all their "Free Market" talk, none of these "oil-hawks" seem to understand basic economics: "Demand drives prices."
The only way to get prices down is to drive down "Demand", forcing providers to cut prices to attract sales. And the only way to do that is to DECREASE our need for oil by developing alternative energy.
Promoting "Green" energy not only reduces our demand for oil, which would bring prices down, but also creates jobs, and has a much more immediate effect on the economy.
The ONLY reason to oppose Green Energy and push for more drilling that increases our dependence on a fuel where OPEC controls prices, is because you are more concerned with Oil Company profits than you are about actually creating jobs and reducing the price of oil/gasoline.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
What I don't get most of all is once alternatives are built, they'll be around forever, so why are supposedly thinking people oppossed? Hey, the sun ain't going away.
As you say .. once it's built .. what's there to charge people for?
All that's left is routine maintenance .. no more coal or oil to extract, ship, sell ..
Awww !
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
and gun racks are not compatible and not having a gun rack means you aren't following the teachings of jesus.
..1) Nobody going on a hunting expedition is going to be driving a Volt.
People who drive a Volt tend to avoid killing animals for sport.
2) You can put a pistol in the glove compartment of a Volt.
So claiming a Volt is not a NRA-friendly vehicle is a specious argument.
Give it up, Newt.
Your ignorant cry to shit petroleum poison all over our country is not going to resurrect your now obsolete campaign.
When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in excess body fat & carrying a misspelled sign.
"How does having a gun rack on any vehicle bring the price of gas down?"!
w/o cash but with weaponry, I take it?
;)
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Newt obviously doesn't know how to innovate, because anyone with 2 brain cells could figure out a way to put a gun rack in a volt.
and put a gun rack in it. Not like I have a rifle to put on it, but just to prove a point...
It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
-George Carlin
The facts of geology don't care about market forces.
OPEC loved having George Bush in charge of the nation, meaning, they kept prices low even when a barrel of oil went up to $150 (which was $4 at the pump per gallon when it reached that price). It goes up to $112/barrel and the price is nearing $4/gallon under Obama. Those who control the oil control everything and the oil maggots don't want Obama to have a win either. OPEC is in lock-step with the right wing oil maggots of the US Congress and on Wall Street.
The price of a barrel is meaningless to consumers when the gas station next to an oil refinery, on top of an oil field, is approaching $5.
near $5. a gallon I was on fumes and pulled into the only station (luckily there was one) available. It was an oil companys (Exxon?) employees station. You had to have a company debit car (or whatever) to access the gas.
One nice fellow filled my tank for less than $10. I've forgotten what it was, but the price was well under a buck a gallon.
Herp derp. <_ > It's funny because he mentioned guns. That's so relatable!
I love his "oh snap" comeback that barely made sense. This whole campaign season is starting to make me ill. Especially since progressives seem to have little (positive) choice in the manner. Maybe I'll just take a break from politics for awhile, or lose my faith in humanity.
What was America's largest export last quarter? A**hole.
Remembering back to the last spike in oil prices, how much of this one is caused by speculation? Anyone got any figures?
I think I remember hearing that it was caused vastly by speculation. Not just a fraction. It was an overwhelmingly dominant statistic. The "it's going up because there's not enough oil production in the world" is complete bullshit.
what you're talking about. I do (it's an area of my expertise), and you are mostly wrong. Speculation was not the primary cause of the price rise. Production plateaued in 2006. It's gone up a tiny bit and then down and then up, but it's basically flat ever since. It will continue this plateau until about 2017 when it will go into a permanent and irrevocable decline. At first the decline will be 1 - 3%. After several years of that it will go into 5 - 7% decline per year. that will kick in around the early - mid 2020s. However, the amount of actually useful production will drop faster, as it will take more energy and resources to get that declining oil out of the ground. So, while the production amount will be declining at 6%, the actual available oil will decline far more rapidly. As it is, we are running at about 11 - 14x our energy invested for production/energy return (a barrel of oil brings 11 - 14 barrels out of the ground). The variance is due to difficulties in calculation and the fact that the oil producers are not very forthcoming on data. However, we do know that the Texas fields around 1900 - 1910 were running at over 100:1 ratio. So just draw a straight line between then and now, and you can see that we go under 1:1 sometime in the late 2020s. At that point there is no point in pulling the crap out of the ground. Whether that will happen in that way is uncertain, but all of this data does point at one conclusion: oil is a rapidly depleting resource, and if people expect industrial civilisation to continue much beyond the 21st century, they had better get on the stick and develop other energy sources...
It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
-George Carlin
"there's no tomorrow" video at cluborlav explains all this. maybe you saw it too?
I'm not saying you're wrong, but I was referring to a Goldman Sachs report in which they admitted. "For every million barrels of oil that are held by speculators, that results in an 8-10 cent rise in oil prices", as reported by Reuters.
They had said that for every gallon of gas at the pumps, 70-80 cents of what you're paying is the cause of speculation.
That, and one can see a correlation between deregulation of derivative trading and gas prices.
PS: Oh, you know what. What I had read may have been outdated. The report was in 2001.
how much of the consumer price is based on real supply-demand and how much is just based on, "hey let's cite some kind of "instability" in the middle east and raise gas prices so we can make money"?
Somewhere there's an investigation of one of the major players in the futures speculation market that shows them driving up the price to the point where the whole world economy tanks (recall that's what happened - the world economy was a house of cards waiting to come down, skyrocketing gasoline prices is what brought it down) .. but this major speculator was shorting the market.
Made money as the price skyrocketed (driven by the massive amounts of money they put in) and made money as it crashed ..
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
In a first, gas and other fuels are top U.S. export
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/ener...
Introducing: new for 2012 the Volt pick-up truck.
Yes, Newt is to stupid or desperate to notice that you can't put a gun-rack in a sedan.
And he wants to run the free world—into the ground.
Seems you can't take the irrelevant batshit crazy out of a GOP candidate either.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Hell, why not bring back 50-cent gas? That's how much it cost when I was a kid!
Fucking morons and their Pavlovian fantasies.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
I was pumping gas at 12 9/10 cents per gallon, was either '73 or '74
cost me like $3 to fill my tank...
Isn't it strange how whenever there's an election with a Democratic incumbent, the price of gas always skyrockets? I'm sure there's no correlation, it's just strange.
Btw, gas just hit th $4 mark at the casino, $4.20 (!!!!) for the good stuff. Of course, we're the highest gas in the continental US, but it always happens here first. Get ready 'Merica.
To be fair I think that maybe the U.S. could put demands on where the oil goes that comes form public lands. That, of course, will not change anything that OPEC does or does not change the fact that Nootoon is a lying piece of shit.
The US could nationalize 100% of all oil we produce and we still wouldn't be able to change the price of gasoline.
We'd still have to buy oil on the open market.
Back in the 70s oil well owners shut down their wells because the price for oil wasn't as high as they felt they should get. Once OPEC stepped in and the price skyrocketed, these same folks opened up the spigots.
For ever drop we produce, OPEC can easily cut their production by that same drop. The Saudis would be more than happy to ensure that their oil would last for an extra hundred years.
McCain knew the whereabouts of OBL, and he'd tell us if only we elected him.
.. really!
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
Well, I see he's wrapped up the redneck vote.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Romney supporters want to know ..
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
I wonder if you can mount a machine gun on top of a Volt? If you can the war hawks might go for it.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Sure you can. Is this not America?!
As I said on this article at Raw story: With a mounted mini-gun in the extra room under the hood we don't need no stinking gun rack you effeminate teabag fuck.
These are the same people who like to parrot the tired talking point that gas was under $2/gallon when Obama took office. While it has the dubious distinction of being technically true, it has something to do with oil trading at $50/barrel at the time, which also has something to do with the world economy imploding.
Verifiable facts and historical context mean nothing to the electorate the GOP is trying to court, so it should surprise nobody that none of the candidates bother with the damned things at all.
Dogs and Whistles
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
yeah, that's the ticket!
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
If you want to guarantee the price of gas, nationalize a few Oil Companies like Exxon, cause the (Not so) Free Market is raising the price for profits and speculation. Iran has now cut the supply to European Oil Companies and that will bring about higher prices real soon. BTW Newt, on your Moon Colony will you be burning gas in a vacuum?
Sell to the highest bidder; I prices in the U.S. dropped too low they would sell the fuel to foreign countries. They are already controlling U.S. fuel inventories to keep prices higher. High Inventories equal lower prices!
Donaldd
there is no easily accessible oil left in the USA. It's a lot cheaper to raise efficiency than to provide more oil. To insist on a non-viable solution when a viable solution exist is a sign of being a paid spokeperson for the oil companies.
I'd rather have a Glock in the glove compartment of my Volt. They'd never hear me coming.
Deluded ignorant rednecks who think there should be an eternal supply of cheap fuel for their big wheels, and a weasel politician that panders to their delusions to get their vote.
While what Nicole says is true but also to some degree irrelevant. oil that is produced domestically offsets imports whether or not some or all of those products are ultimately exported and in case you hadn't noticed the US has a persistent balance of payments problem. I give little weight to arguments about where products ultimately go. If other countries used the same argument you'd be up shit creek without a paddle. Unless of course you want to argue that it is up to those other countries to imperil their environments to supply the US with the vast array of resources you do not possess. I think there is a great deal of ignorance about this matter. When you crack a barrel of oil what you get depends on what is in that grade of oil and not what the local market requires. Be thankful this is so. If Europe wasn't exporting surplus gasoline to the US you'd be paying a he'll of a lot more than you do now. As the country that uses the most disproportionate percentage of the world's resources I don't think this is an argument you can make to the world with a straight face.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
because he isn't going anywhere. same with all the other republican candidates. one positive aspect of having no actual chance of winning in nov. is that you can make all kinds of outrageous claims and promises, knowing full well you'll never have to worry about being held to account for them. only the winners get held to account, and they won't be winners.
the same goes for right-wing talk radio: they never have to worry about their jobs being on the line, because spewing bullshit IS their job, and their (dying) audience loves it.
Silly Americans! Look at you, pathetically mewling about needing an economical way to get to your job in the city. I don't care what you need. What you'll GET is a transportation policy designed to be as expensive as possible! Fuel conservation is for girls. I don't care what you do for a living. All of our policy should be designed around the tiny fraction of the population who drive their vehicles off roads and with a shotgun for shooting varmints. If you don't fit this profile, you are not really a man and thus your opinion can be discounted. What are you mewling about now? SHUT UP! I say, SHUT UP!
If I've got a shotgun on a rack in my unlocked F150 (and shells in a box, say in a unlocked toolbox), and I run in to the Amoco station for $5 in gas and two cases of Natural Ice before rolling out to Critter Canyon for the day, and some other Bubba grabs the gun and ammo and blasts the store-owner, am I liable?
What if the truck was locked and Bubba smashed the window to gain access? What if my 10 year-old son Jethro was able to put the shells in the gun and blew his head off while I was in the store?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
your liable.
Shouldn't that be two 30 packs?
... are manipulated by the petroleum industry.
Methinks the current spike in prices is all about the industry's hope that the people will blame it on Obama, and that they are ratcheting up the price in order to get people to vote for one of the GOP clowns in November.
and why would big oil want to get rid of obama?
There are lots of cars you can't put a gun rack on. Including the Nissan Leaf, Honda Insight or Toyota Prius. Why not mention those too, Pig Newton? Oh! I get it! Because the Volt is manufactured by GM. I see what you're doing. You're attacking unions as well as President Obama with your bullshit. Pig Newton believes that all Americans are as stupid as FoxPropaganda viewers.
Maybe you can't put a gun rack on a Volt, but no worries Newt - you can still slap that traitorous dishrag your base calls a "Confederate flag" on the back and attach a pair of truck nuts. Gotta compensate for micropenis *somehow*, you betcha!
No Newt, you probably can't mount that RPG across the back window, BUT you can cram it up your 'a**' and launch.... Same effect...
You don't get to have it both ways. American engineering can't simultaneously be advanced enough to be on the verge of creating a moonbase, while also being so inept that it can't design, build, or modify a gunrack to fit on a Vot.
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