Obama On Petroleum: The US Needs To Experience MASSIVE Gas Hikes

And that, of course, is coming because of current events.

Hayley Barbour states the obvious when he says:

WASHINGTON – Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a potential presidential contender, accused the Obama administration Wednesday of favoring a run-up in gas prices to prod consumers to buy more fuel-efficient cars.

Barbour cited 2008 comments from Steven Chu, now President Barack Obama's energy secretary, that a gradual increase in gasoline taxes could coax consumers into dumping their gas-guzzlers and finding homes closer to where they work. Chu, then a Nobel Prize-winning professor, argued that higher costs per gallon could force investments in alternative fuels and spur cleaner energy sources.

"This administration's policies have been designed to drive up the cost of energy in the name of reducing pollution, in the name of making very expensive alternative fuels more economically competitive," Barbour said during a U.S. Chamber of Commerce breakfast across the street from the White House.

Do not, I submit, count on Mr Obama to stop or curtail delayable petroleum sourcing.

Do not expect Mr Obama to attempt to ameliorate the coming petroleum issue because he would acquire what he wants: a forced oil crisis. In keeping with his philosophy.

Let me state this now: ethanol production via corn simply deprives the United States and the rest of the world of corn. There are people starving in various nations around the world because US corn production is diverted to ethanol. Thank you, Mr Obama, for killing people globally. And, by the way, ethanol is less energy efficient than gasoline and provides less energy in combustion and less mileage per gallon. What? No one tells you that?

Additionally, for those not so informed, Mr Obama would rather this nation be smacked down with a transportation crisis than to resolve it with available domestic resources.

Highly refined gasoline is only a portion of the petroleum issue. Of greater concern is the availability of diesel -- not quite so highly refined -- but, like forms of unleaded gasoline, forced to conform to any number of localized state boutique forms. When you pour gas or diesel from a pump, you have no idea what the local laws may be regarding your fuel content.

Your car runs, likely, on gasoline.

You have to realize that bulk global transport runs, instead, on diesel.

The smaller transport trucks that deliver goods or packages to your local areas and home run on diesel. Mitsubishi, Funo, Isuzu to name a few. UPS and FedEx run diesel vehicles and hybrids.

From there, larger trucks run America: Kenworth, Peterbilt, Western Star, Freightliner, Volvo, Mack.

Further, there are two dominant locomotive builders in the United States: GE (General Electric) and EMD (Electro Motive Diesel). Trains move the greatest amount of bulk commodities around this nation on the thinnest of rails because of such a low friction point on said rails. Locomotives are diesel/electric hybrids. The diesel engine runs a generator which, in turn, drives the traction motors on each locomotive axle.

Then, overall, the bulk of current ships run on hybrid diesel/electric propulsion systems, much like locomotives. Diesel engines power and create electrical generation that, in turn, propels the shafts of ships.

If Mr Obama wants to shut off oil, he wants to shut off progress and, moreover, current existence. He wants to BREAK you on behalf of his AGENDA.

Be warned, dear readers.

As Rahm Emanual said: "You never let a serious crisis go to waste."

BZ