It would be nice if they cared......

Gas prices are going to $4.00 a gallon shortly. There is no question that at that level our economy starts to slowly grind to a halt. The last time oil and gas were at these levels the wailing and gnashing of teeth could be heard from Washington at all hours of the night. I remember when it was all because President Bush was in bed with oil companies. Yet after hurricane Katrina Bush released some of our oil reserves to try and help the average citizen.

Has anyone suggested that President Obama is getting rich from oil companies? Or that he should do something? How about letting our own oil companies go back to work? So far one permit has been granted to drill in the Gulf of Mexico. For now I will ignore the fact that his moratorium on drilling was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge because that's what his administration does to federal rulings anyway. No, we know he is not getting rich from the oil companies. But that's not the dirty secret here. They don't care. They might even be happy.

In 2009 Obama said he was "comfortable" with $4 a gallon gas he just wished it went up slower. Well isn't that an easy point of view if you don't ever pay for gas? He probably hasn't paid for a gallon of gas since he was at Harvard. For those of us in the real world who have to balance a family budget it matters a great deal. In the dream world of high speed rail and universal health care and mediocrity I'm sure expensive gas works well. In reality, it taxes every American. When Senator Obama began campaigning he said under his energy plan "prices would necessarily skyrocket". His words not mine.

Green energy sounds like a great idea in a classroom or a wine and cheese party in San Fransisco but in the real world we are not ready to switch. We have more natural gas than the rest of the world yet we don't want to switch all our federal vehicles to run on it. Why? We have had a Department of Energy for how many years and billions of dollars worth of our money? About 40 years and we are in the trillions and what has changed? Your tax dollars at work. But this isn't incompetence, it is celebreated. The only reason you won't see a public display of satisfaction from President Obama is that 2012 is right around the corner.

So, much like Kevin Bacon's character in Animal House "Stay calm, all is well."

Till next.....