House of Eratosthenes

Update: Michael O’Hare, in one of the private groups over on the Hello Kitty of Blogging, threw together a nice little list of one-liners with an interesting point on the end:

Obama Admin is
1. obstructing exploration.
2. Obstructing drilling.
3. Denying oil drilling permits
4. Applying tough EPA regulations on the oil industry
5. Obstructing Canadian Shale Oil pipeline
6. Printing more money
7. Messing up the Middle East Policy
But MSM says its oil speculators.

There’s another item that needs to go on though. And this item is part of an issue that is bigger than the gas industry or the oil industry.

Think back: When a commodity — any commodity — begins to increase in price, and the commodity is a staple of life, or could be thought of as a staple of life, particularly for the indigent and the rustically-living…how do democrats go about bringing the price of that commodity under control?

Think of health care and rent and retail gasoline…and breakfast cereals…and automobiles…

There ya go. Hearings. They investigate. Investigate and regulate. They shove their fat putrid faces into the teevee cameras, jam that index finger straight up into the air, stand on a soapbox and make solemn vows “to get to the bottom of this” by golly. And then they start sniffing under the skirts. Hold circus sideshows. Then they put a bunch of requirements on the books that the “corporations” open their doors to “regulators” and boy oh boy, they’d better not even think of shredding anything!

Which creates what those corporations call a “cost of compliance.” Which is then passed on to the consumer.

Actually the whole thing is bigger than the petroleum industry. The democrat party actually makes use of a very narrow selection of tools for bringing prices of things down. They provide cosmetic and substantial hostility to the process of bringing the whatever-it-is to market…increasing regulation…fighting the production of the raw materials. Along the way, they make some friends, and it seems only natural that their friends should be given control of the distribution of the whatever-it-is. Control of distribution, and monopolistic marketing power — usually, to the overseas producers of the commodity in question, in this case Brazil.

Don’t forget the labor. It has to be unionized. Naturally…these things do not bring the price of the widget down, they shove the price up skyward. It’s very predictable. I’d be disappointed in an eighth-grade graduate who couldn’t predict it. But they don’t get caught at it, because by this time the emotions are running high and too many people have stopped paying attention.

The democrat party doesn’t make things more affordable. It isn’t supposed to. I don’t understand why people think that is within its function or its intent.

Update: Back to the subject at hand…more visual evidence of the “sticky note campaign” in action from the fine food stores in Georgia, thanks to Melissa…

Join the campaign here, and help support it here.

There ya go. Hearings. They investigate. Investigate and regulate. They shove their fat putrid faces into the teevee cameras, jam that index finger straight up into the air, stand on a soapbox and make solemn vows “to get to the bottom of this” by golly.

And I notice they never seem to find anything. I always wonder if because there really is nothing there, or if the entire thing is just a wink-and-nod agreement between Democrats and oil company executives who really do have something to hide. I also recall we went through this charade at least as recently as 2008, the last time gas got completely ridiculous.
- cylarz | 04/27/2011 @ 00:49
I got the invite tonight. Tomorrow, I’m buying post-its!
- Kini | 04/28/2011 @ 00:15
Vistaprint (no affiliation) will create pre-printed post-its for cheap.

5 pads ordered and on the way. Muh-hahahaha!
- HoundOfDoom | 04/29/2011 @ 14:47
I had to bite my tongue today to avoid saying “how’s that hope n change working out for you” to someone I saw in a parking lot today.

I was out in Roseville, walking across a parking lot of one of the shopping centers. As I was headed back to my car, an SUV wheeled in to a nearby parking space, and a middle-aged white woman got out of the vehicle. On the back bumper were two stickers:

“Obama 08” on the left side of the bumper.
“We Did It!” on the right, with the picture of His Holiness over the words.

Had. To. Bite. My. Frigging. Tongue. Because I wanted not merely to ask the infamous question, but maybe lay into her with a nice long tirade about how the man hasn’t made a dent in the issues surrounding gas prices, inflation, unemployment, housing markets, energy independence, foreign relations, or a dozen other topics over the past two years…despite having a compliant Congress and the media bending over backwards for him.
- cylarz | 04/29/2011 @ 16:37

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