Friday, February 24, 2012

Pond Scum

Pond Scum
TV and radio personality, Dom Imus has a favorite slur.  He often calls those people he doesn't like "pond scum."  (If you have ever watched or heard Imus, he likes very few people.)  Recently the price of gasoline in the U.S. is sky-rocketing ... which presents a headwind for Barack Obama's re-election in the fall.  But President Obama is not fazed.  He is now pontificating about turning this sow's ear into a silk purse ... he feels that algae (pond scum) will be America's next source of renewable energy (@ $26 per gallon).  For those who don't understand politics, The Barry's new pronouncement is a way of changing the subject and showing future voters that he "feels their pain" (and shame on Republicans for now licking their lips over high gasoline prices.)

Charles Krauthammer, a syndicated columnist and Fox New commentator, has his own mocking assessment of this new energy initiative on Obama's part ... see: Fox News Report.   I anxiously await Don Imus's next assessment of Obama.
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4 comments:

DEN said...

Don Imus is so 10 years ago. Who gives a crap what he thinks?

4:13 PM
George W. Potts said...

The question was rhetorical ...

6:20 AM
DEN said...

So was mine.
BTW, were you aware that the US is exporting surplus gasoline as we speak? There is no reason for high prices at the pump beyond the greed of the petroleum industry refiners. All the blather about unapproved pipelines and reserves is GOP mythology that will soon run out of gas.

1:07 PM
George W. Potts said...

Yes, I was of aware of that fact. However, why do you think that U.S. refiners can only sell their product to U.S. customers? What if they can get a higher price in Mexico ... or Canada? Must they sell it (and who says it is surplus anyway?) only to U.S. costomers out of patriotism? And how do you know we are not also importing gasoline from foreign refiners who are selling it cheaper than we can produce it? The answer to all these questions is that true capitalistic economics creates fungible transfers.

All this has only a strained and remote relation to the actual price of gasoline at the pump ... even though I know you think that Dick Chaney is causing this all to happen. After all isn't this what Obama is effectively saying?

2:48 AM

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