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Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Kevin Dayhoff - Soundtrack: TOM RAUM, Associated Press: Higher Gas Prices Clou...
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Monday, March 12, 2012
Washington Post: As gasoline prices rise, Obama's ratings fall
Monday, March 12, 2012 12:15:18 AM |
NEWS ALERT | ||
As gasoline prices rise, Obama's ratings fallDisapproval of President Obama's handling of the economy is heading higher — alongside gasoline prices — as a record number of Americans now give the president "strongly" negative reviews on the 2012 presidential campaign's most important issue, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Increasingly pessimistic views of Obama's performance on the economy — and on the federal budget deficit — come despite a steadily brightening employment picture and other signs of economic improvement, and they highlight the political sensitivity of rising gas prices. Read more at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ Or visit washingtonpost.com. |
Thursday, March 08, 2012
CNSNews: Obama Supported Higher Gas Prices in 2008, but Now? ‘I Want to Get Gas Prices Lower’
Sunday, March 04, 2012
CNS News Elizabeth Harrington: Boehner - Obama Wants Lower Gas Prices, ‘At Least For Election Day’
Sunday, February 26, 2012
TOM RAUM, Associated Press: Higher Gas Prices Cloud Obama's Re-Election Hopes
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Westminster Maryland Online: Community Reporter Editorial from January 25, 1974...
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Monday, October 17, 2011
Washington Post: O’Malley urges lawmakers to consider 15-cent gas-tax hike
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Speaker of the House Boehner: White House to Taxpayers - Sorry About All This, But We Need You to Send Us More Money
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
20080507 This week in The Tentacle
This week in The Tentacle
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Pandering of Tulipomaniac Proportions
Kevin E. Dayhoff
In last week’s episode of “Democolypse Now,” the continuing saga of the deconstruction of
To be fair, the idea was first floated by the presumptive Republican candidate, Sen. John McCain, who has otherwise never been mistaken for an economist.
In a breath of fresh air, Sen. Barack Obama does not support the “Clinton-McCain Gas Tax
(Of course, it is not fully known as to how his now-former pastor, the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, feels about the gas tax holiday idea. As an aside, please, never hold me responsible for some of the insufferable sermons I have endured from liberal pastors in my past.)
Read the rest of the column here: Pandering of Tulipomaniac Proportions
Tom McLaughlin
I am confused about Black America. What is the message Barack Obama and his supporters are sending?
Improving The Chesapeake – Part 2
Farrell Keough
Yesterday we explored the health of the
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Improving The Chesapeake – Part 1
Farrell Keough
We are facing yet another crisis. The
Derek Shackelford
This last week of the primary presidential election season has not been about politics. It has more exemplified a mini-drama series.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Even when you know you're right…
Richard B. Weldon Jr.
...you might still be wrong. Seems obvious, right? So obvious that it shouldn't have to be said. Unfortunately, in spite of the clear nature of the conclusion, the business of politics is about absolutes.
Our 10 Most Dangerous Concepts
Steven R. Berryman
It has been said many times over the last week that before we can solve a problem, we first must be able to identify it; and thus get our arms around it. In many instances, by the simple act of stating the outline correctly, one can be drawn to solutions.
Friday, May 2, 2008
Roy Meachum
"The Color Purple" musical arrived on
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Tony Soltero
Nearly 30 years ago, as oil prices soared and waiting lines at gas stations overflowed, President Jimmy Carter laid out a proposal to deal with it. The following is from a speech he delivered in the summer of 1979:
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Kevin E. Dayhoff
The discussion and debate over speed and red light cameras continues to reverberate. It is one of a number of headaches lingering in the aftermath of the recent and unusual session of the Maryland General Assembly.
Tom McLaughlin
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Roy Meachum
When the county commissioners overwhelmingly rejected the notion of adopting English as
Nick Diaz
I’m an ardent admirer of the
Monday, April 28, 2008
General Assembly Journal 2008 – Volume 11
Richard B. Weldon Jr.
Any General Assembly wrap-up would be incomplete without a scorecard of the work of the Frederick County Delegation. Normally, this column avoids conflict with other delegation members, and focuses on the back-and-forth with the county. Not this time, kiddies! Ahead: some serious onion peeling!
Steven R. Berryman
Congratulations for being smart enough to be in the
Friday, June 01, 2007
20070531 This cartoon is for Mr. and Mrs. Smurf
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
20070528 Wall Street Journal: Raise gas prices commit a felony
REVIEW & OUTLOOK
Pains at the Pump
Raise gas prices, commit a felony.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010132
Monday, May 28, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT
It's Memorial Day weekend and the start of the summer driving season, so naturally it's time for Congress to grandstand against $3-a-gallon gasoline. And right on cue, the House passed legislation last week to criminalize gasoline "price gouging," whatever that is. Perhaps this is all designed to distract the public from Congress's own role in raising gas prices.
Under the anti-gouging law, service station owners could face up to 10 years in prison if they dare to raise their prices too much when supplies are low. Representative Bart Stupak, the
The inconvenient fact is that there's no evidence of price rigging by Big Oil or the tens of thousands of independent service station owners across
Read the entire editorial here: Raise gas prices and go to jail
For more information go here: 20070523 Congressman Roscoe Bartlett Votes No on “Feel Good, But Counterproductive” Price Gouging Bill
Or Energy Independence or Energy Gasoline
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Friday, May 25, 2007
20070523 Congressman Roscoe Bartlett Votes No on “Feel Good, But Counterproductive” Price Gouging Bill
May 23, 2007
“Congress can’t suspend the economic laws of supply and demand,” said Congressman Bartlett. “This well-intentioned, but destructive bill, would take us back to the future of the 1970’s policies of Jimmy Carter that led to gasoline shortages, gas lines and rationing.”
The Federal Trade Commission found no evidence of price gouging from investigations after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Nowhere in H.R. 1252 are key terms such as “unconscionably excessive,” “unfair advantage,” “unreasonably,” “reasonably foreseeable,” “grossly exceeds,” “reasonably reflected,” “substantially attributable,” or “usual seasonal demand variations” defined explicitly. They are marked for emphasis in red italics.
H.R. 1252 would make it a federal crime for any person to sell, at wholesale or at retail in an area and during a period of an energy emergency, gasoline or any other petroleum distillate covered by a presidential proclamation at a price that is “unconscionably excessive” and indicates the seller is “taking unfair advantage of the circumstances related to an energy emergency to increase prices unreasonably.”
The bill would authorize the President to issue an unlimited number of 30-day energy emergency proclamations (one at a time) for any area within the jurisdiction of the
In determining whether such a violation has occurred, the following factors would have to be considered:
whether the amount charged by a person for the applicable product at a given location in a proclamation-covered area:
“grossly exceeds the average price at which the applicable gasoline or other
petroleum distillate was offered for sale by that person during the 30 days prior
to such proclamation;
“grossly exceeds the price at which the same or similar gasoline or other
petroleum distillate was readily obtainable in the same area from other
competing sellers during the same period;
“reasonably reflected additional costs, not within the control of that person,
that were paid, incurred, or reasonably anticipated by that person, or reflected
additional risks taken by that person to produce, distribute, obtain, or sell
such product under the circumstances; and
“was substantially attributable to local, regional, national, or international
market conditions; and
whether the quantity of the applicable product the person produced, distributed, or sold in a proclamation-covered area during a 30-day period following the issuance of such proclamation increased over the quantity that that person produced, distributed, or sold during the 30 days prior to such proclamation, taking into account “usual seasonal demand variations.”
H.R. 1252 would also make it a federal crime for any person to report to a federal agency information related to the wholesale price of gasoline or other petroleum distillates “with actual knowledge or knowledge fairly implied on the basis of objective circumstances” that such information is false or misleading.
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
20070522 Governor O’Malley Calls for Inquiry Into Gasoline Prices
Governor O’Malley Calls for Inquiry Into Gasoline Prices
May 22, 2007
Press Release - Office of the Governor
Governor O'Malley Calls for National, Bi-Partisan Inquiry Into Gasoline Prices
Letter Asks for Investigation Into Rising Prices
“It is difficult to understand how oil companies can be making record profits each quarter without making capital investments in refineries that would address refinery issues,” wrote the Governors. “Families and businesses across the nation are straining under these uncontrollable prices.”
The letter was directed to the Sen. Harry Reid - Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell - Senate Minority Leader, Speaker Nancy Pelosi - Speaker of the House, and John Boehner - House Minority Leader.
[ View a copy of the signed letter ]
May 22, 2007