Will President Obama do something about high gas prices? No, argued Deputy White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest today. Earnest insisted that there was no “short term solution” for cheaper gas, other than the president’s payroll tax cut and refused to discuss releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves.
“If there was a magic wand you could wave, one of the presidents would have waved it,” said Earnest arguing that high gas prices were not a new problem. “Anyone who says that they can wave a wand or plant the magic beans to lead to a reduction in oil prices is just not telling the truth,” he added.
Mark Levin – Mr. President, you may not know this. You may not understand this, because you’ve never actually taken the time to understand how this works.
But, yes, you have to drill to get oil, to get natural gas. You have to drill. You see, Mr. President, when that fleet of cars drives up to the local gas stations… and they fuel those cars, at our expense of course, the fuel isn’t actually in those pumps to begin with, Mr. President.
You have to drill to get that stuff.
That’s right! You have to get drill to get gasoline for your car! So a policy that says ‘drill’, number one, ‘drill’ number two, and ‘drill’ number three, is actually the only way to get gasoline, isn’t it? Is there some other way to get gasoline, other than drilling?
Is there some other way to get home heating oil, other than drilling?
…So the president, on the one side of his considerable mouth mocks the Republicans for trying to drill, and on the other side of his mouth, mocks drilling! So, ladies and gentlemen, if we don’t drill, we don’t get oil!
If we don’t drill, we don’t get gas! Somebody’s got to drill!
And there was Hillary Rotten Clinton, her Thighness, yesterday all excited about a deal with the Mexican government to drill in the Gulf in areas that are said to be shared… I could’ve sworn I heard Hillary Clinton talk about drilling! And we give millions, if not billions, to the Brazilians to do what? To drill!
And what are they doing in the Middle East? These massive ships that the oil companies have to have, that bring fuel back. Where do they get that? Oh, they drill? Yes, they drill!
So he mocks drilling and doesn’t realize he sounds like idiot!
No, here’s where we’re going to get it: from the sun! Really? Solar. And wind! Now he’s been president for three years, had complete control of the government for two years, and what did we get from this wind and solar? We got crony capitalism; campaign bundlers who made a fortune and then broke the companies; companies that can’t work and don’t work because a top-down, government mastermind like Obama can’t — just because he has the law and our money behind him — do whatever he wants to do, against the laws of nature and physics, until we are able to develop it over the course of time. Until it’s profitable, until it makes sense.
We call that whole process, “capitalism.”