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March 17, 2012 03:51 PM UTC

Does Cory Gardner Want to Raise your Gas Prices?

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  • by: ClubTwitty

SUNDAY POLS UPDATE: here’s Rep. Cory Gardner’s full Weekly Republican Address:



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Cory Gardner is doing the bidding of his constituents.  No, not the taxpayers and consumers that populate his district–his real constituents: Big Oil.  From The Hill:

“People in my district and around the country are fed up with the way the president is handling this issue, and rightfully so. The most forceful thing the president has done about high gas prices is try to explain that he’s against them. Americans are right to expect more from their leaders,” the Colorado Republican said.

Apparently, people should expect more from folks like Mr. Gardner in helping Big Oil take more hard-earned cash from Coloradans’ pockets as prices go up.  

Or as Mr. Gardner’s cash constituents like to phrase it ‘stabilize.’  That’s because with completion of the Keystone, Coloradans will likely see gas prices increase.  That’s good for Mr. Gardner’s funders, but bad for the people that live in Colorado’s 4th.

Mr. Gardner’s not alone pimping for Big Oil and the Canadians, of course.  It is, rather, de rigueur for these day’s GOP candidates.  My congressman, Scott Tipton, is up to much the same.  Rep. Gardner, however, probably knows better.  

One industry source (Colorado Energy News–“The business, technology and politics of Colorado’s energy industry”) puts it this way:



Keystone Pipeline Could Raise – Not Lower –

Gas Prices in Colorado and Wyoming

TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s Keystone XL oil pipeline, a project backers … say will create cheaper U.S. gasoline, instead risks raising prices as much as 20 cents a gallon in the Midwest, Great Plains and Rocky Mountains.

The line would create a new way to carry Canadian imports outside the Midwest and reduce an oil surplus that’s depressing prices in the central U.S. …

“The Canadian plan was to use their market power to raise prices in the United States (UNG) and get more money from consumers,” Philip Verleger, founder of Colorado-based energy consulting firm PK Verleger LLC, said in an interview.

This article is based on a report from that notorious left-wing rag the Bloomberg Business Report:

Producers including Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), Suncor Energy Inc. (SU) and Cenovus Energy Inc. (CVE) may reap as much as $4 billion more in annual revenue if prices rise as expected following the construction of the 1,661-mile (2,673-kilometer) Keystone XL conduit, the 2010 report says.

And that…

Keystone XL might lower the average cost of gasoline across the U.S. by up to 4 cents a gallon, Ray Perryman, a consultant hired by TransCanada to assess the economic impact of the project, said in an e-mail.

The net impact of Keystone XL on gasoline prices would be minimal, said Perryman, whose research has been cited by TransCanada to back up claims on potential job growth and market impacts from the pipeline.

Consumers in Colorado and Wyoming currently pay less for gasoline than anywhere in the nation because of the supply glut in the Rocky Mountains caused by stranded Canadian imports and growing oil production from onshore fields.

So when Reps. Garder or Tipton are stumping about promising economic gain from doing Big Oil’s bidding…the Colorado observer might ask: who’s gain?  Because it is unlikely to be the Colorado consumer.  

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10 thoughts on “Does Cory Gardner Want to Raise your Gas Prices?”

  2. Drilling more will lower prices.

    Been drilling more while prices have gone up so…not

    Keystone will lower prices

    See above

    The President controls gas prices

    See what everyone on Fox was saying during the Cheney/GW administration

    Obama is devoted to blocking oil and gas

    More drilling now than at any time in last 8 years

    And that’s just energy related lies.

    If you keep running into people with unnaturally long noses and flaming pants, don’t panic.  Just Republican pols. No silver bullets or  stakes or anything required to protect yourselves from them. Just vote against every single one of them and they’ll stop being a problem for a while.

    1. Been willing to MSU. It seems to be a competition nowadays though. They have created a little glass to look through. It helps them deny reality….or…they are really convinced that we are all THAT stupid.

      1. The scary part is not the lying, it’s the fact that the press lets them lie and sometimes helps them lie. One of the only refutations of the GOP’s attack on Obama over energy prices was here, and one post by Allison Sherry on the Denver Post blog. It’s not enough. The wingers are yelling louder.

        1. So who benefits ….. well the refiners do when no more capacity is turned up and the liberals do when gas goes to $5.

          Theses nothing wrong with $5 gas per se, it’s just when people’s incomes have grown by 0.08% in the last 3 years … Well that’s a problem.

          Very likely to get out from under Obamas failed fiscal policies we’ll need to use some massive inflationary policies to right the ship ……. the question is how to we keep in some manner people’s purchasing power inline with the needed inflation?

          1. abandoning its mission at every step…

            EPA Puts Greenhouse Gas Rules for Oil Refineries on Backburner

            ‘There are no current rules under development on that issue,’ EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson tells Congress.

            Election-year politics, $4-a-gallon gasoline and an anti-regulatory fervor on Capitol Hill have aligned to thwart EPA’s vow to issue final carbon emissions standards for oil refineries this year.

            Changing course puts the Environmental Protection Agency woefully behind schedule on curbing planet-warming gases from a major polluter.

            The pullback on refineries-combined with an earlier and separate delay on regulating greenhouse gases from fossil fuel power plants-means EPA has yet to control emissions from a pair of sizable industrial sources. Together, refineries and power plants account for nearly 40 percent of greenhouse-gas pollution nationwide.

            http://insideclimatenews.org/n…

          2. Maybe when you’re old enough to drive you’ll notice that gas at the pump doesn’t cost $5 no matter how many times you quote that figure. Here in metro Denver it still costs considerably less than $4 but never mind.  

            And no matter how many times you get the talking point in your in box, no president running for reelection wants to see the price at the pump sky rocket.  It’s very bad for the sitting president’s popularity.  Obama can’t very well  be an evil manipulative genius and a total moron at the same time. That’s what he’d have to be to be plotting to raise prices for voters right now.  

            And even conservative economists can explain to you why things like the amount companies are willing to invest in modernizing and building new refineries as well as the price of oil and gas at the pump are affected by factors over which the President has little control regardless of what you mistakenly believe his devious policies to be.  

            Among the many stupid things you would have us believe, taking your energy rants as a whole, the ideas that oil drilled here is somehow going to be sold in America to Americans at a special price, will become cheaper if we drill more in spite of the fact that we already are drilling more and it’s not cheaper and that Keystone would lower rather than raise prices for us are the ones you might most easily correct by asking the first respectable conservative economist you bother to ask.  

          3. word of the above bullshit that means a thing…nothing …zilch. It is a bunch of mindless brain ooze pumped out by a fuckhead that is too stupid to realize or care about the fact that his unceasing idiocy continues to push more and more thinking humans away from his pathetic point of view. Keep writing your crap, Libby. You are helping to re-elect Barack Obama.  

        2. The press apparenty finds it just too complicated to do anything more than the he said/she said thing as if facts don’t enter into anything anymore.  As if it’s all just equally valid opinion.  

          It would really be nice if we still had an MSM willing to do more than parrot and treat everything everyone says as if facts don’t have anything to do with the legitimacy of any statement anyone wants to make. What the hell do they teach in journalism anymore?  

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