What is Obama's energy plan? Doesn't he know raising taxes on oil companies will raise prices at the pump?

Additional costs get transferred to the consumer. Cutting government taxes will decrease prices.What is Obama's energy plan? Doesn't he know raising taxes on oil companies will raise prices at the pump?
YES!!! He knows it, but he hates the American people and doesn't care about them.What is Obama's energy plan? Doesn't he know raising taxes on oil companies will raise prices at the pump?
He does know this. His opinion is that we need to suck it up and use less. Which for gasoline might be alright, but he fails to see that people are not going to be able to afford to heat their homes this winter now, push those prices any higher and you are going to have an actual death count among the elderly and the population on the lowest income rung. LIHEAP doesn't even begin until November, and at current levels only covers the cost of heating oil for one month.
Of course he knows that raising taxes is going to raise prices at the pump. But don't get too angry. Even if he lowers taxes, the price of gas at the pump is going to continue to increase--oil is a limited resource and we are literally running out. At our current consumption rate, we could use all of the earth's available oil in 15 or 20 years. Yes, that means in YOUR life time. No oil not only means no gas, but it also means no plastics. Can you imagine life with NO plastic?





Something must be done and other energy sources must be found NOW. The reason Bush never really did anything is because he has a financial stake in the oil business.
You guys kill me with your fortune-teller predictions. Oil companies are already robbing you blind at the pump and you don't have the sense to realize it. When you go shell out $4.00 plus per gallon at the pumps, then get in the car, turn on the radio and hear about the tens of billions Exxon reported in pure profit last quarter.. does that tell you something? Why do you defend the oil companies while they rob you blind? Does your daddy own an oil company? Are the oil companies doing anything good for you? Are they ';giving back'; as the trickle-down economics theory said they would. Hell no! They are paying their execs bonuses in the hundreds of millions and most of us (not counting you super-rich kids) are struggling just to get to work and back). If a Republican mugged you on the street at gun-point, what would you say? ';Oh, he's a Republican so he's entitled to my money?'; Or how about, ';Oh, it was my fault for having such a big wallet in the first place?';
True...he is talking to people who don't know what the end result will be. They just like hearing that oil companies are going to suffer. They need to ask why their party is keeping the energy crisis going by preventing drilling here in the USA. They need to check behind the words.
Obama doesn't have an energy plan
Of course he does but he just doesn't care.
Good! Let's hope he does increase taxes. Less people driving, less pollution, less chance we'll all burn to a crisp within a century on a half-dead planet.