The average family is paying over $300 per year, per car, due to the reduction in road repair and maintenance. Wear and tear on the car, lower gas mileage due to poor road conditions, lost time and gas due to delays and detours.
THAT is downshifting.

The poor will get hurt the most. Democrats are stupid. Cut spending instead or is that unacceptable to the ignorant Campbell.

Why, in times like these, w/unemployment, the economy and the debts our children are facing (I'm in my mid-seventies...I don't worry like my kids do) do we always have to find it necessary to even bring up the subject of TAXES?
WE ARE BROKE!! I am not limiting that comment to government; families top the list.
Please. What part of "NO" can't you figure out? Enough is enough!

Agreed- this is the wrong time to be increasing fuel prices! Speaking of crushing gasoline prices taking a toll on working families (and for that matter home heating oil prices), let’s not forget a bipartisan group of 53 United States Senators wrote a letter to Mr. Obama last month urging him to approve the Keystone XL pipeline without further delays. Note: Sen. Shaheen did not sign this letter. A new route through Nebraska that avoids environmentally sensitive areas is now approved by state officials. This project will create 20,000 new jobs and put downward pressure on what we pay at the pump. $4.00 - $5.00 for a gallon of regular gasoline is NOT acceptable. This pipeline is urgently needed - in fact construction should have started years ago! Millions depend on an vehicle in their daily lives and these ridiculous prices we have been paying without end over the last four years are damaging the chance for any economic recovery. Enough of the green energy taxpayer funded bailout boondoggles (too many to list here). Unemployment is too high and our economy is shrinking. Bottom line is the people need cheaper fuel NOW! Let’s get this country moving again!

Which brings up yet another point. We are in need of fuel: fuel for heating, fuel for traveling, fuel for cooking. And yet, these yahoos look at all this green-energy stuff like it's going to go on-line overnight! The solar-panel industry was a drag, not to mention a bankrupting embarrassment, not to mention the associated batteries.
So, the Keystone pipeline project has a "Go!" all the way up to the White House where it's stalled. and will probably stay stalled.
It's all part of the 'agenda' to take this once great-nation down. No drilling, no fracking....no fuel.
All from a guy who's only claim to fame is his involvement in "Community Action". What a resume'!
Beyond that? Forget it: the records are SEALED!

"I remember that Obama reacted negatively to my suggestion that it was wrong to ever expect a Communist revolution in the U.S. given the experience of Western Europe. I definitely remember him taking about the need to prepare ourselves and the people for the coming Communist revolution. I remember that he was particularly good at arguing the perspective of Frantz Fanon’s anti-colonial revolutionary thought."

To "Really":
You are INCORRECT:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100215063533AA0mvc5
Go to "coldfuse"; he's obviously done some research.
Eisenhower went to West Point and then to various war colleges. "Ike", like many 'hero-presidents' served in the military.

I recall Obama's feebled attempt to 'create' a long-form birth certificate. That "Obama-ination" was thoroughly pulled apart by Adobe-computer experts in just a few short weeks.
The White House response? No comment.

Interesting that "Really??" (seems to) have all the facts but no one else does.
So, sir, what Blog are you reading from?

Also interesting is your logo: "Really??" That was the way a Ledger reader responded to my Ledger l/t/e when he attempted to claim some falsehoods in my letter.
Really?? ...I love it!!

Nice try:

: George Washington, already a professional surveyor, did not attend college.
: Eisenhower finished 61st out of 164 at West Point, but later finished first at the Army's Command and General Staff School. West Point is ranked as the best college in America by Forbes.
: Reagan's record is on display at his museum at Eureka college
: Bush and McCain just hauled off and released theirs to the public. Bush was a "C" student and McCain finished near the bottom of his class at Annapolis

No one likes paying taxes. What makes Kuster so special

Adaptation of a Protest Sign

Attn Democrats shoppers. Clues are on sale at Walmart today. Suggest you purchase some in bulk as you all surely need them.

why anybody would think a new pipeline, deep water well, fracking gas or all these combined would lower your gas prices is beyond me. crack dealers don't drop their prices when they add fillers when the crack heads will pay anything cause they are addicted and under their thumb. kick the habit crack heads.

Americans have been putting up with four plus years of record high fuel prices! The bottom line is we need lower cost oil and gasoline to promote economic growth and price stability. Yes it’s an inconvenient truth to many liberals. This means producing our way out of this situation, opening up oil drilling and building new refineries. Notice the word “PRODUCING” in the last sentence – not speeches or more twaddle about weather stripping, tire pressures or someday getting viable electric cars. The fact is not one new refinery has been built in the U.S. in 35 years. Instead of meeting this challenge Obama’s solution is continued delays to Keystone XL. We are talking about 20,000 real U.S. jobs – not government subsidized phoney jobs and putting downward pressure on fuel prices. Billions have been wasted on “Green” companies that go bankrupt at the expense of America taxpayer. We need a crash program right now to boost domestic supplies and produce more gasoline!

Americans For Prosperity: The Koch brother's lobbying group.

The Koch brothers would *NEVER* want to see less energy consumed since that's where they make their money, and a rise in the gas tax might lead to less petroleum consumption.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Prosperity

Great. Put people back to work. Nothing like good ol' capitalism to keep the wheels turning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros

Meanwhile, back at the ranch....what's George Soros up to lately? Media Matters can probably use another influx of cash.

Now here's an interesting take on 'the pipeline'. And it's from, of all people, Ralph Nader. Hmmmmm.

http://nader.org/2013/02/21/perils-of-the-keystone-xl-pipeline-confront-obama/

You libs ever see this?
(http://www.topix.com/forum/city/paintsville-ky/TP1AGUEBQ5EJ9UORT)

"Dear Employees:
As the CEO of this organzation, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barrack Obama is our Oresident and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way. To compensate for these increases, our prices would have to increase by about 10%. But, since we cannot increase our prices right now due to the dismal state of the economy, we will have to lay off sixty employees instead. This has really been bothering me since I believe we are family here and i did'nt know how to choose who would have to go. So, this is what I did. I walked through the parking lot and found 60 obama bumper stickers on our employees cars and have decideed these folks will be the ones to let go. I can't think of a more fair way to approach this problem. They voted for change....So i gave it to them. I will see the rest of you at the annual company picnic."

Doncha' just love it? Then I thought I'd do a "Snopes":

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/layoff.asp

Yup! It's listed as a "Legend" (?); NOT a 'False'...or a 'Mixture', as they often do.

Isn't John Wayne a legend? Isn't George Washington a legend?

Fiction means false. If Snopes found it incorrect it would have been labeled FALSE, as they usually do.
It's like 'what the meaning of IS...IS'.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/legend

Whatever....

Americans Spend $900 More A Year On Gas Under Obama

http://nation.foxnews.com/obama-administration/2013/02/23/americans-spend-900-more-year-gas-under-obama

Why wouldn't Hassan and Norelli make this problem worse?

Gas Tax Not all for Highways

"Campbell wrote, it will generate $1.25 million annually for the Fish and Game Department, $658,000 annually for the general fund and $593,000 annually for the Department of Resources and Economic Development's Bureau of Trails."

Campbell is democrat who sponsred bill

"Under Campbell's bill, the gas tax would increase by 15 cents over four years -- 4 cents-a-year in each of the next three years and 3 cents in the fourth year."

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20130225/NEWS0602/130229396

Anybody hear about democrats using Gas Tax Money for non Highway Expenditures?

The reason fish and game needs additional funds is to rescue hikers. As much as Im glad to see this cost will no longer be covered just by hunters , fishermen , snowmobilers and boaters it still dosnt put the cost where it belongs , on hikers.

Democrat skullduggery is SOP.

Democrats use Horsemeat in their Swedish Meatballs.

Businesses unhappy with gas-tax proposal

This will have a negative impact on jobs. Democrats run on job. When elected all they do is destroy jobs.

http://www.eagletribune.com/latestnews/x1503758348/N-H-businesses-unhappy-with-proposed-gas-tax-hike