Thoughts of Obama From Bama

Week 111: “Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea”

I pulled into the regular pump
I was feelin quite at ease
I rolled down my window and told the man, fifty cents worth please
Then out jumped my partner with his trusty pellet gun
He said, boy this is a holdup, keep a pumpin and don't run

And now I wish I was somewhere other than here
Down in some honky tonk, sippin on a beer
Yes I wish I was somewhere other than here
Because that great fillin station holdup
Cost me two good years
“The Great Filling Station Hold Up”, Jimmy Buffett

Sure enough about the only subject most frequently discussed in this country besides the weather is the price of a gallon of gasoline. Comparisons to their last fill up; the stations with the best deals; the dirty rotten SOB’s that are steeling us blind; folks proudly bragging about driving an extra twenty miles to save 3 cents a gallon; and of course assigning blame for those responsible for unjustifiably jackn up prices.

Targets of our pump priming rage include Middle Eastern oil producing countries; OPEC; commodities speculators; and as the Obama Administration describes them as evil, corrupt, earth hating, anti-green, murderous, thieving, self serving, greedy Oil Companies that actually have the audacity to attempt making a profit on their goods and services. All the typical suspects that certainly do have a major influence on the cost of crude but not the price manipulating scoundrels currently driving gas and oil prices to possibly unprecedented and record breaking levels.

That most dubious honor seems to be reserved for none other than our “Global Price Manipulator Just Can’t Wait for $7 Dollars a Gallon – in – Chief” the President of these here United States hiself, Barack Husain Obama. The man advocating an anti-oil/gas energy policy that if successfully implemented will surely bring this country to its knees with the speed, clarity of intent, and enthusiasm so publically demonstrated by our old friend White House Intern Monica Lewinski.

Perhaps a brief review of the current status of this most volatile of global commodity markets will serve as a logical starting point for our little expose on Obama’s hostile takeover of the worldwide energy industry:

• Gas prices have done exploded by over 21% since the protests in Libya began with the national average for a gallon of gas at $3.43
• Since the initiation of political protest in Egypt, the subsequent domino effect and even plans for marches in Saudi Arabia the cost of a barrel of oil has increased from the high $70’s to north of $100 per barrel this week
• Many industry experts including T Boone Pickens and Eric Bolling predict $140-$150 a barrel by the end of summer if increases in demand are realized as currently projected
• Prices this high for a barrel of crude will equate to $5 - $7 a gallon at the pump and millions of really agitated pilgrims who aren’t gonna take to kindly to shelling out more than $200 every time they top off a tank.

President Obama is hell bent on creating an environment that supports high gas prices convinced this is the only path to big oil’s ultimate demise and the public’s acceptance of his bark eating tree humping eco extremist compadres wild eyed dreams of a totally green, recyclable, UN governed global village. In his own words during a 2008 interview Candidate Obama stated he didn’t mind high gas prices, but would prefer a “gradual adjustment”.

Current events in the Middle East sure enough have accelerated his fanatical eco green dreams of an oil and carbon free energy infrastructure replaced by US Government subsidized clean energy technology that is ten times less efficient and 50% more expensive than existing sources. Good news for Al “Midnight Massage Boy” Gore and all his insider carbon trading comrades but nothing but more heart ache and financial calamity for all of us poor dumb pilgrims paying the tab for this insanity.

We openly and without shame acknowledge the conspiracy theory overtones of our accusations about the Obama Administration’s Socialist conversion and illegal price fixing of the global oil and gas markets. However, truth be told, evidence supporting our claim is more abundant than white on rice.

Consider the following:

1. TAPS - the largest pipeline in America— is currently not using two-third of its capacity. Alaska could send 1.4 million barrels more per day to the lower forty-eight. Unfortunately, Uncle Sammy owns most of the land and all of the offshore waters, and it won’t permit development of new resources.
2. For example, the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska has millions of barrels that the Obama administration is prohibiting drilling. No coherent explanation for this decision has been forthcoming
3. ANWR, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, has at least 10.4 billion barrels of oil but domestic exploration is currently considered a crime against nature by the eco head cases. It just don’t make no never mind what so ever to these boneheads that 95% of ANWR is a frozen tundra and the only life that can be found in this frozen wasteland is half frozen bark eating tree humping eco extremist and Sarah Palin filming an episode of her realty TV show
4. After the BP disaster in the Gulf the Obamanites didn’t waste anytime exploiting the crisis to further advance their extreme green agenda by imposing an illegal moratorium on drilling that for all practical purposes is still in effect today in defiance of a Federal Judge’s orders costing literally tens of thousands of jobs.
5. The economic and energy wizards in the Obama Administration have blocked the exploration for and production of shale oil in the Rockies and all over the Western US even as we sit atop enough shale oil reserves to meet all of our domestic oil needs for the next 100 years. Anyone opposed to pursuing this opportunity should be tried for treason.

Sure enough don’t know if President Obama’s failure to put us on the road to energy independence and obvious aggressive opposition to achieving this objective raises to level of a treasonous offense or not. Considering the National Security implications it damn sure ought too.

If not treason definitely impeachable. With already having committed one such offense, taking a justifiable what for tongue lashing from the President of France for his grand Socialist transformation plans and record breaking expenditures of others people’s money, a genuine, bonified, impeachable offense, it may just be high time for the GOP controlled House to be assembling a Prosecution team to put our “Marxist-in-Chief” on trial for high crimes and misdemeanors in conflict with the Constitution of the United States of America.

Impeachment of our 44th President. The one topic that might just surpass the weather, the price of a gallon of gas, and Charlie Sheen’s crazy ass behavior as the most frequently discussed topic in corporate break rooms, social network sites and the bars/pubs so generously sprinkled all across this great nation.

I am, “American by Birth and Southern by the Grace of God”

Ron W. Garikes