Gingrich: Talkin' TWO DOLLAR Gasoline

Newt Gingrich spoke at a Los Angeles fundraiser yesterday, where the focus was 'bringing down the price of gas', always
a lively topic out there in ten-lane-freeway land.

Key to the market-based Gingrich energy strategy would be accelerated domestic oil exploration: 'We know how to get gasoline prices back down: produce more gas' said the Former House Speaker. 

'Join us in a campaign to drill here, drill now, pay less and let’s get back to $2 a gallon gasoline with Gingrich, not $5 a gallon gasoline with Obama.'

Typically, the ideas Newt puts-forth are simple 

and straightforward... just common-sense, really:

Gingrich Energy Plan

1. Remove bureaucratic and legal obstacles to responsible oil and natural gas development in the United States, offshore and on land.
2. End the ban on oil shale development in the American West, where we have three times the amount of oil as Saudi Arabia.
3. Give coastal states federal royalty revenue sharing to give them an incentive to allow offshore development.
4. Reduce frivolous lawsuits that hold up energy production by enacting loser pays laws to force the losers in an environmental lawsuit to pay all legal costs for the other side.
5. Finance cleaner energy research and projects with new oil and gas royalties.
6. Replace the Environmental Protection Agency, which has become a job-killing regulatory engine of higher energy prices, with an Environmental Solutions Agency that would use incentives and work cooperatively with local government and industry to achieve better environmental outcomes while considering the impact of federal environmental policies on job creation and the cost of energy.

Sadly, the warped 'progressive' movement has beaten our oil industry to the ground at every opportunity for over three years now... and for what? Four-to-five dollar a gallon gas still hasn't got anybody buying Chevy Volts, you idiots... they're just spending less money everywhere else in the economy while they rumble
-and grumble- down the road in their V-8 Grand Cherokee.

In LA yesterday Newt also repeated his previously-stated intention to dismantle the EPA and replace it with a structure that actually takes into account the interests US industry, energy producers, and consumers (for a change)... more of that 'common sense' we were just talking about, and how refreshing indeed it would be to have a president who knows what country he's supposed to be helping.

So,  the average US motorist drives about 15,000 miles a year, and the national average gas price right now is $4.09. If your car gets 20 mpg, that's over $3000 annual fuel cost.

That means that a fulfillment of Gingrich's $2.00 gasoline pledge would save the average driver an easy $1500/year ($125/mo CASH in your pocket every month). Hey, do your own math at over $2.00 savings per gallon... for some of you lead-foots this will amount to a small fortune. Ya think that kind of (ongoing) savings might help the country's crippled economy?

Note that this (free) improvement in ALL our standards-of-living will be provided courtesy of the American free-market capitalist system (not still-more gub'ment cheese), as the supply side of the US energy industry is revitalized with an energy program that strengthens and enriches this country... not constrains and impoverishes, as the lunatic Obama regime has done
-and is doing- to us.

It can happen again...

Meanwhile out there at the front, it's still Newt Gingrich
-not Ricky 19-Point-Shellacking Santorum- 

who's got Mittens and BHO looking over their shoulder...

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