Wednesday, July 16, 2008

How much have the Democrats cost you at the pump?

Senator Chuck Schumer claims that coercing Saudi Arabia to increase oil production by 1 million barrels a day would drop the per barrel price by $25, saving Americans 62 cent per gallon at the gas pump.

Yet, somehow, that same amount of oil coming from Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would only ease oil prices by a penny according to Schumer.

(Snip) Schumer's daily magic number of 1 million barrels is the exact increase experts believe we would today be pumping through the Alaska pipeline had Bill Clinton not vetoed ANWR drilling back in 1995...

[62 cents off from ANWR + the 75 cents in tax (total, CA) = $1.41 less. But not with this bunch in congress. Too bad we couldn't just vote for somebody else in November...]

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