The Palin/Bolling Proposal To Lower Gas Prices

Redstate:

Conservatives need to do a better job of explaining how they would lower gas prices. More drilling is a great piece of the pie, but there needs to be more. Governor Sarah Palin and Eric Bolling, Fox News host of of The Five, have put together a comprehensive plan to lower gas prices and they mapped out the details in the video below….

Gov. Palin and Bolling rolled out some excellent ideas to combat skyrocketing gas prices. When President Obama was sworn into office, gas was priced at $1.85 cents a gallon. Clearly, the President’s energy policy has been an abject failure with gas prices hovering close to $4.00 a gallon.

This show contains a comprehensive conservative means to lower gas prices. Conservatives need to make a strong case to the American people that the solution to high prices at the pump is a conservative solution. Get the government out of the business of hiking gas prices through wrong headed government policies. As usual, government has caused many of the problems leading to a massive hike in gas prices and President Obama has exacerbated the problem….

Another problem identified by Gov. Palin’s segment on the Fox broadcast is that there are large swaths of the United States off limits to drilling. Production is up on private and state properties, yet on federally controlled lands, production is not where it needs to be. Gov. Palin made the point that in Alaska is loaded with resources that are untapped.

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