Skip's Sauntering Snippets Podcast

Skip’s Sauntering Snippets# 6-Gas Prices, Shortages, and what’s the Obama/Biden End Game?

Why is gasoline so high? Who is doing the manipulations behind the scenes and then decrying there’s nothing they can do? What IS the end game that they are trying for? Hint: The Obama retreads that now staff President Asterisk’s Administration knew what was to happen even as Biden was campaigning from his basement. Yep, … Read more

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Maggie Pretends to Buck Her Party with Gas Tax Holiday but Hassan Votes with Biden Almost 98% Of the Time

Maggie Hassan has new ads fouling up my television viewing experience. In them, she claims to be bucking her party by trying to push a federal gas tax holiday (with no chance of passing) because gas prices are too damn high.

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One Minute Read: Responding to People who Blame Putin for High Gas Prices in America.

If you search Putin and Gas prices on GraniteGrok.com, you will find dozens of pieces on our pages about Joe, motor fuel, and its connection to that thing in Ukraine. But Sometimes you want to dispatch the trolls quickly, so I thought I’d boil it down.

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Forget the Gas Tax Holiday, NH – Just End the Gas Tax: You Won’t Get a Better Chance than This

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu says he’d sign off on a gas tax holiday in the Granite State for anyone, not just residents. This is in response to a bill in the legislature that would only give the tax break to actual residents.

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Kool Aid Drinking Congresscritter says Blaming Biden for High Gas Prices is Un-American

Washington State Democrat Rep. Kim Schrier (D-Wash) shared some “thoughts” about the current man-caused disaster on motor fuel prices. But they’re not original thoughts.

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Who Knew: Foreign Oil Doesn’t Emit Greenhouse Gasses!

DC Circus’ ring leader, Slo Joe Biden, has quite a problem on his hands. He kneecapped the domestic fossil fuel industry while Democrats in Congress told Oil CEOs to commit to annual production cuts.

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Poll Results: Joe’s “Leadership” Will Push Gas Prices Over $8.00/Gallon

Gas Can Joe has the entire media industrial complex (MIC) blaming everything but him for his Gas Price Hockey stick (the Inflation hockey stick is not his fault either).

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Joe “Pass the Buck” Biden’s Gas Price Lie Just Took Another Left Turn

I don’t mean to keep kicking the same Donkey, but it’s not dead yet, and they keep making it easy. Gas prices suck. Biden is blaming Putin. But we know that stinks worse than a dead rat under the front porch in July. And it’s about to stink a good bit more.

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Buying Foreign Oil Also Keeps US Dollars Away from People Who Disagree with Democrats

America has a lot of oil and gas. So much, in fact, that we don’t need to import it. But that’s what Democrats like. Foreign oil keeps more US dollars out of the hands of people who disagree with them politically.

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Just How Expensive Will a Gallon of Joe’s Gasoline Get?

With Joe adding new records to his resume every day, we feel obligated to ask. The US just experienced the highest price for a gallon of gasoline ever on its way to the “highest ever” again, maybe every day, and for how long?

Proof: When Gas Prices Started Upward …

The price of gas is no longer a function of the free marketplace – it is now firmly controlled by politics.  Democrat Politics, if you need or want clarification.

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Joe Biden’s America Is Buying Three Times as Much Oil from Russia and At Higher Prices

Remember when oil was cheap, and so was motor fuel? Nations that hate us were no longer raking in US petrol dollars. America was a net exporter of oil and gas. Lots of jobs and the incomes that came with them. Not since Joe Biden took over.

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The Despicable Lie Democrats Can’t Stop Repeating

Let’s face it.  The human species is a deceptive lot – at least more deceptive than any other species you can think of. We’re all capable of bending the truth under the right circumstances.

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A Quick Look at The Democrats “Inflation” Hockey Stick Problem

You’d have to be rich or an elected Democrat to not notice with a nod to the possibility you – as a Democrat – are not permitted to remark if you had. Things got a lot more expensive very quickly. We have an inflationary hockey stick, and the trend does not appear to be slowing … Read more

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The Democrats are rejoicing in this misery

The loudest socialist mouthpiece in the House is AOC. She is cheering the news of plummeting oil futures. Monday oil futures went below zero. That means oil producers are paying processors to take the oil. Demand worldwide has plunged in response to the coronavirus.

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Another Nail in the TCI Coffin: Report Says Gas Tax Hike Could Be 53% Higher Than Advertised

There are plenty of reasons to prevent elected officials from handing off taxing powers to unelected bureaucrats. But that’s what the Proposed Transportation Climate Initiative does. A Tax on motor fuels whose estimated hike, according to new research will be much higher than advertised.

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Russia Tells OPEC and its Production Cuts to Piss Off – Oil Prices Plunge 30%

Russia has (apparently) grown weary of the US controlling the global oil and gas trade. Growing its market share and using its newfound energy independence as geopolitical leverage. All the fracking! Moving in on Europe. Into Russia’s backyard. Well, Putin has had enough.

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Democrat Gov. Lied About Gas Taxes – Diverts them to Pet Priority

Anyone who tells you that this or that tax will be dedicated to some specific purpose is lying to you. They know, as well as anyone that the legislature that proposes the taking or some future cabal of elected highway robbers, will use the money for whatever pleases them.

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Now Virginia (Yes Virginia) Is Giving the TCI Gas-Tax the Side – Eye

The Transportation Climate Initiative is like a pretty girl who suddenly can’t get a date. Or a pretty boy, or boy-girl, or girl boy, genderless penguin, Trans-Whale Horseshoe crab, or whatever. Sold as the darling of the ball TCI finds itself facing rejected yet again.

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Bill Would Create a NH Climate Division with the Power to Set a Tax on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

NH House Bill 1664, “gives the department of environmental services (NHDES) the authority to establish a climate action plan, an office of the environmental advocate, and an oversight commission on environmental services.”