In my humble opinion, there is no one in this race – not the other GOP candidates or the current president – who has anywhere near your ability to solve the problems that plague this country and its economy. The impact your policies would have on monetary, energy and budgetary matters would save this nation’s economy and put us back on the path to prosperity.

Forget what the polls say…STAY IN THE RACE…NO MATTER WHAT. Conservatives will have your back and help you win this nomination as we take back this country.

The drifting, feckless and incomprehensible energy policy, (or lack thereof) of this administration has left us with no secure source of fuel and continued to place us at the mercy of countries which are becoming less secure every day. Millions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted on utopian green energy scams, and that’s what they are since none of them has paid off and are the result of unprecedented government intervention in the free market.

Political patronage is no substitute for a sound, understandable, sagacious energy policy which ensures we have the fuel necessary to run our industry and daily lives. We are in a much more dangerous situation due to this administrations incompetency.

Your policy positions are so much less important than your hair, in this primary. Attacking the anti-business policies of the Obama administration should be the focus of the campaigns. If you can respond to our comments, please talk about the way to win in the general election.

You made my day! What a pleasant surprise and a good morning to see the most knowledgeable visionary leader posting on RS! I suspect you will not be dissapointed at all with our response! Way to go, Mr. President!

Oh btw, please continue to call out for another debate before super Tuesday! Those cowards are afraid to debate you but the voters deserve to have more and not less debates!

He sets policy and has the veto, but congress also has a say.

Congress members, by and large, HAVE to at least APPEAR to be sensitive to environmental concerns. Environmental soothing is the lubricant for an energy-independence policy in modern-day America.

I’d go through it paragraph by paragraph, but that would take it too long. I’ll just correct a few choice passages–some of them are certifiably incorrect and some that are just misleading.

During the years I was speaker the average price for a gallon of gasoline was $1.13, and when President Obama took office in January 2009 the average price nationwide was $1.89 a gallon. Three years into the Obama presidency, the average is $3.47 a gallon.

-I love how he assumes that Obama is all powerful when it it comes to gas prices. Firstly, there was a year-over-year drop of over a dollar a gallon between Jan 2008 and Jan 2009 (cite) due to the financial crisis and recession (ie: deflation due to reduced demand). As the economy improves and demand increases, the price will go up (look at the trend under GW Bush, 2001-2009). Furthermore several factors that Obama had no control over, such as the Arab Spring, tension with Iran, tension with Syria, increased demand in China and India, and speculation in commodities markets, have exerted upward pressure on oil markets. To simply assert that Obama took office and now prices are higher is misleading in its omission of key drivers of gas prices.

He has stubbornly prevented the development of American of oil and gas resources that could be used to meet greater demand with increased production.

-Here is a question of scale and timescale: We buy oil off of a global energy market, not a domestic one. While we do restrict our consumption from certain countries (like Iran), the price we pay at the pump is regulated by their supply. The price we pay for our domestic oil product is also tied to the price of the world market. This would be true of new production unless Mr. Gingrich is arguing for an extremely protectionist trade policy. But let’s assume for the moment that OPEC wouldn’t react in any way if we expanded our oil production. Even if we immediately started preparations for drilling everywhere there is oil to be drilled, that oil would not reach any market for several years, so it would have no (absent speculation) impact on our gas prices for years to come. Furthermore, unless we were able to instantaneously dump all of the oil in our tar sands and offshore wells on to the global market at once, our production would account for a swimming pool in the Pacific Ocean. How much of an impact do you think that such a tiny proportion of oil has on overall price in a global market?

Implementing a bold American energy plan will bring down the cost of gasoline, eliminate our dangerous dependence on overseas oil and ensure that no American president is forced to confront Iranian threats to close the Straits of Hormuz or ever again bows to a Saudi king.

-Once again… Global Market. If Iran closes the strait of Hormuz, or the Saudis get pissy, there would still be horrible ramifications for gas prices and our economies.

$2.50 a gallon gas is not a dream. It’s achievable with the right policies.

-You’re forgetting economists’ favorite assumption: ceterus paribus.

Frankly, I believe that we should increase production of domestic energy of all types as long as it’s environmentally friendly and respects worker safety, but let’s not call “Drill Baby Drill” a panacea when it’s not.

is consumed in the U.S. [and the rest of the world, for that matter] in two forms: petroleum and its derivatives, and electricity. Coal is used in producing electricity but it is no longer significant nationally in producing heat for homes and buildings. Hydro power produces about 7% of our total electricty; wind, solar & biomass about 2%, coal and related products about 51%; nuclear about 19%; and various forms of oil and natural gas the rest.

In transportation, as we all know, 99+% of the fuel is a petroleum product. The price of all petroleum products, liquid and gas, is set at the well-head on the basis of worldwide supply and demand. Oil and gas, like money, are “fungible” in terms of substitutibilty. That means the market place doesn’t really care if the product is produced in the U.S., Venezuela, Russia, or Saudi Arabia. If we add more product to the world supply, other things being equal, prices will fall. OPEC and other players might conspire to cut their production and support current prices, but, depending on our production surge capability, that might or might not work. The down side is that drilling wells and getting crude oil to the refinery is not a short-term solution to the problem. Note, also, that the 0 Administration has not replaced the amount of oil withdrawn from the SPR the last time he tapped it.

And a good, bold, energy policy. More bold is needed. (Nice to see cain is rubbing off on you) PS, squash romney like a bug.

Keep pummeling and come out on top!

keep up your positive message, continue to hit Obama, and we’re going to stay with you Mr. Speaker. Please, please continue to call out, confront and battle the Enemedia, they are hurting the USA as much as the Democrat party.

As everyone who thinks about it knows, high energy prices take money out of everyone’s pocket, not just as the gas pump, but also in the inflationary impact upon practically all products which we buy.

From food, manufactured products, packaging, etc., everything costs more which either contains oil, or consumes oil in the manufacturing process.

Also, I would request that you re-examine your support for ethanol mandates in our gasoline. As you probably know, ethanol is a negative energy product. (It takes more energy to produce it than is derived in the final product when mixed with gasoline).

It is damaging to many types of gasoline engines, including boats, motorcycles, aircraft, and lawn equipment.

I love your support for a market driven energy policy. should we Americans be able to decide for ourselves whether we want to put pure gasoline or an ethanol blend in our vehicles?

Great message. Hang in there!

David

Keep up the positive campaigning with specific ideas to turn the country around. This makes the other candidates’ platforms seem negligible by comparison. That is what sparked your prior rises in the field in my opinion.

I’ve occassionally (ok, very rarely) seen people argue that “Speaker Gingrich is a lot like Barack Obama. They’re both good speakers, both professors, etc” the difference- aside from Grand Canyon sized gaps in ideology and ability – is that you’ve still retained your common sense.

It’s hard to imagine *anything*, within the realm of what an American President might actually fail to do, that could hurt America more than Barack Obama’s policy on energy and particularly the keystone pipeline.

You’re policy is right on the money. THANK YOU for your leadership on this issue. And, while I’m at it thank you for running for President and for your leadership through most of my lifetime!

That was a great line and sounds so original….very Newtlike…so refreshing compared to “courageous, consistent, and resolute” which were designed to play to the audience and the base!

For me & my family, you are the ONLY choice!

yet another debate.

I’m astounded at the number of republicans, especially in the supposedly conservative sector of the press, who are in fear of Obama and who think that nominating an Obama clone is the surest path to conservative victory. I can only suppose that they thought the best way to defeat the Soviet Union was to elect our own Stalin.

In any case, thanks for continuing to be in the race so we aren’t forced to choose only between TweedleDum and TweedleDumber.

It’s astonishing the level of bias in the media. Some saying you have given up, but then blast you if you get aggressive. Drudge is a total romney hack. It’s obvious much of the rest of the media is biased either negative headlines or ignoring your campaign. Be yourself, be genuine and it will always show through.

Keep up the good fight, Mr. Speaker. Stay on the big issues that are important to America. Energy, jobs, national security, healthcare, border control etc… You are good at pointing out obama’s failures and how you will go about helping to fix things.

People need optimism and something to look forward to.

Santorum and Romney looked like two little kids with petty arguments back and forth.

How spineless it was of Santorum, Romney, Paul campaigns to contact each other to drop out of the Georgia Debates. The only one cancelled? Please call them out on that and challenge them to Lincoln Douglas debates to make up for it. That was despicable.

With your reform DC stance, and buttressed by Gov Perry it’s time to call conservatives to arms and get involved in the local party apparatus. Approx half of all precinct spots are still vacant. This is how we can rebuild the Republican party, reboot states rights/power against the DC centralized establishment.

This is right up the tea party’s alley, as well as America in general.

Please start talking about this. We need a Gingrich revolution

I appreciate so much how you take it to Obama and have bold ideas. I look forward to your leadership in Washington, D.C.

And I didn’t just put this footer on, it’s been on here for weeks.

I will be signing up soon to make phone calls for you for Super Tuesday.

You are our only hope. Please fight on!

and this country needs to have that or we’re done. You showed some of that in the debate. I realize that you have been blacked out by most of the media. However, when asked who I thought won the debate…there was no hesitation…YOU DID!

So..get Adeleman (sp) to keep pumping the $$ in and make some 30 minute spots and get your message out…otherwise America is done..cooked…over. You know it…I know it…and even though many of the people on the board don’t like to hear it…they know it.

We need a person that can look into the future. We know the past. We know Romney’s record (which btw…he lied again last night)…I know that Santorum is a spender. Even with his Article 10.. I think it was an Article, wherein he put in Article 20…shows that he will spend even more. Neither of these programs needs to be in the Federal Government’s control.

You wiped out our deficit in one swoop…keep telling America about it…even to the point of telling them that we will regain our Triple A credit rating if we get our house in order.Oh…and don’t forget to tell them how it will affect their lives…not the government’s…but theirs.

Keep Perry in something…he is too good a man to be thrown to the ground.

Great job last night Mr. Speaker – if these guys are to scared to debate you, I think you should do exactly what you said you would do if Obama wouldn’t debate. Follow Mitt around for a few days and refute his comments point by point. It would drive him CRAZY and get you tons of press! After all, it was his team that started sending his aides to your events in FLA – this would do him one better!!!!!

Please don’t get out of the race, the country needs you!

Re the Speakers time, but even if he just shadowed him for a day he would get tons of press for it and Romney deserves it for pulling out of the debate!

in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming in the text if not the excellent 29 minute speech, which I enjoyed this morning because it was the connect-the-dots speech I had been hoping Rick Perry would make after his energy plan announcement.

I already knew, months ago, about the ONE TRILLION barrels of shale oil – well, actually I had read that Colorado alone has 1.25 trillion barrels of shale oil, which is five times the known reserves of Saudi Arabia, and about 300 years of USA consumption at current levels. I had read about the USA shale oil in an article about the shale oil reserves in Israel, about 250 billion barrels, which would make Israel equal to Saudi Arabia in oil reserves, quite the geo-political gamechanger too.

I did not realize how much of that USA shale oil is on Federally owned land.

Certainly hope Speaker Gingrich’s 29 minute energy talk is seen by millions of Americans in the next week. This truly is what the debates should ALL have been about, but, better now than never.

Speaker Gingrich and Senator Santorum it’s wonderful to see you both writing here. I’m going to post this on the topics that each of you started.

I really admire and respect both of you, in fact during the 1990s when I became interested in politics, the two of you along with John Kasich were my three favorite people in politics. And now two of you are running for president!

At first I supported Newt and wanted to see Rick as VP. but have recently changed to supporting Rick as president and would love to see Newt as VP. I wrote and explained my reasoning for this change of heart in another topic. In actuality, I would be happy whichever one was at the top of the ticket, it’s just that I think Rick has a better chance of winning the general election at this point.

Why I’m writing today is not to comment on your respective posts but to implore you both to team up and stop splitting the conservative vote. When delegates are proportioned this may not be as much of a problem since you can combine your delegates at the convention. But for winner take all states, you just make it much easier for Mitt Romney to win.

After super Tuesday whichever one of you has the most delegates and/or state wins and higher poll number please work together by making a deal behind the scenes to team up either as President/V.P and/or with the promise (in writing if necessary) to leave the race and endorse the other if you are given the opportunity of working on a project that is most meaningful to the one that will step down from the race. I noticed that Rick Perry was promised the opportunity to work on a 10th amendment project if Newt became president. This is the type of thing I’m referring to.

Please don’t let ego stop you two from combining forces and winning in November. It’s obvious that Mitt Romney and Ron Paul have made some arrangement with each other. Ron Paul only attacks Newt or Rick. If they did team up, Romney as President with Ron Paul as Vice President it would make perfect sense.

Since Romney knows he will never have the enthusiasm of the conservative base he will compensate with Ron Paul’s base, namely the youth vote who are usually moderate to liberal, and they are almost cult-like in their devotion to Ron Paul.

It’s a great strategy actually, that’s why I worry so much that our conservative candidates will not do something similar to ensure that they win the primary. I’m sure I’m not writing anything that you both haven’t considered but what concerns me is that I remember when Newt was in the lead awhile back, he mentioned on television making common cause with Rick Santorum but didn’t elaborate further. I don’t know if Rick Santorum will start to get overly confident and think he doesn’t need Newt.

Just remember, “pride goeth before the fall.” You need each other, so work together and you can reach your collective goals, don’t work together and you may lose to a better organized Romney/Paul collaboration and end up with nothing more than speaking tours over the next few years. It’s up to you to appreciate each other’s strengths and abilities, combine them and win!

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But do nothing to get it started.

then Obama tells us solar, wind, and now algae are the answer. When? in 50 years if we are lucky?

Here we are again with the liberals saying that opening up drilling is not a short term answer. I’ve heard them saying that the reason why gas prices are going up is because of the tensions in the middle east. Well, hell’s bell’s, when hasn’t there being middle east tensions? Steve Moore was on CNN this weekend, and the liberal host said that getting drilling up and to the point of actually producing fossile fuels won’t help our current situation. Moore laughed and said that we have been going back and forth on drilling in ANWAR for 30 years, and they said back then, it will take too long. If we started drilling in ANWAR 30 years ago we would be reaping those benefits now, and long in the past as well. I would pay big bucks in order to be able to take a bucket of pond scum, and pour it over Obama’s head.