Quote Originally Posted by JaggedEdge
How did our demand fall at the exact same time Congress allowed us to drill offshore? Did people suddenly stop driving and stop turning on their heaters? Where the hell did you hear that at?
Yes, they did. Where were you when gas prices shot up to over $4 in my area? During that whole time gas rose to ridiculous prices AMerican stopped consuming as much gas. We found way to conserve when using gas, and our consumption dropped. Thats one of the reason Elkhart IN is in such a hard time right now. Their whole industry was in RV's, and since people stopped driving, no one is buying those RV's. It was also all over the news.
epxroot Reviewed by epxroot on . I love how the budget deficit has nothing to do with Obama... I was looking at the new whitehouse.gov site and found Obama's blog, this was the most recent post. OBAMA: Of course I do, Ed, which is why we're doing everything we can to reduce that deficit. Look, if this were easy, then, you know, we would have already had it done, and the budget would have been voted on, and everybody could go home. This is hard. Really, if you were that worried about the deficit you wouldn't have doubled it in your first fucking month, on top of that, your only Rating: 5