“Letting the cat out of the bag is a whole lot easier than getting it back in” – an Old Country Saying

Hillary Clinton told the American people that if you vote for her the price of gasoline would go down because she is going to scare the oil exporting countries into producing more oil and dropping their price.

Why is it so hard for the political establishment to come clean with the American people?

Silly question.

What would you do if you knew for absolutely, positively, without question sure that the world was entering a period of permanent decline in energy availability? What would happen if EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE was also sure? Wouldn’t you/they behave differently? Maybe… very differently? It’s impossible to know what that means exactly, but it means something, and politicians are in the business of getting elected, not forecasting or predicting future events, especially if that future is not what the electorate wants to hear.

So they lie to us.

In mathematics the transitive property states: if a = b and b = c then a = c

So if politicians lie to us to get elected, and we in turn elect them, then it seems reasonable that they would continue to lie to us after their election. But claiming that as President, Hillary would have the power to lower gasoline prices boggles the mind (I read the U.S. Constitution in its entirety, nothing there about gasoline price powers). Now if as President, Clinton would double the price of gasoline by raising sales and use taxes on the commodity this would drive demand for gasoline down and hence the demand and price for crude oil (Contrary to popular belief gasoline and crude oil are not one and the same). If Clinton had the power to arbitrarily lower gasoline prices, wouldn’t that increase demand for gasoline? Hillary Clinton attended the best universities, so I am going to take a leap here and assume that she has some knowledge of basic economic principals, and that she knows full well that her claim is an out right lie… but I am going to bet that the tactic works, that this will bring more of the electorate to her camp, and furthering the belief that lying is an effective campaign and political strategy for those seeking office.

By the way, our political establishment assures us that everything is peachy concerning our energy. Should we believe them?

Yours for living in interesting times,


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