Hypocrisy May Cost You Tons At The Pump

hypocrisy is the act of saying not to do something, and then you yourself do that.

Example, careless wasteful democrats have for years bitched about the free market and big oil like Exxon Mobile. This bitching is a result from the gas prices that they deem to high. Two summers ago when gas prices hit $5.00 a gallon in some states all the democrats railed against oil companies.

So then they decide, oh well let's do the opposite of the free market, let's regulate the oil industry, let's reduce CO2. In their hellraising plot to cut CO2 they will in fact do to Americans exactly what they have been bitching about, all along.

This is an excerpt from the Heritage Foundation article today:

[ To meet the Obama administration’s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, some researchers say, Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $7 a gallon. To reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector 14 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, the cost of driving must simply increase, according to a forthcoming report by researchers at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. The 14 percent target was set in the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget for fiscal 2010.”

If you think it’s out of the question, it’s not. Members of Congress are working with oil companies now to levy a carbon fee on the transportation sector: “Key senators are weighing a request from Big Oil to levy a carbon fee on the industry rather than wrap it into a sweeping cap-and-trade system that covers most of the U.S. economy. If accepted, the approach — supported by ConocoPhillips, BP America and Exxon Mobil Corp. — could rearrange the politics of the Senate climate debate and potentially open up votes that may not be there otherwise.”]

Who's raising gas prices now?