Today the BBC World Service ran a story where they interviewed a woman in Arizona who supported Obama. The interviewee complained about the price of bread and the price of gas and said that by “focusing on the middle class” instead of given tax cuts to the rich, Obama is going to bring down the price of bread and gasoline. It’s too bad that this woman is misinformed because the programs Obama supports directly lead to higher gasoline prices and higher bread prices.

Obama believes that we should increase the price of energy to fight global warming (that’s the entire point of the cap-and-trade programs Obama supports) and he does not support increasing oil supplies by using American resources. Increasing the price of oil and limiting supply will only make oil more expensive, not less. In other words, Obama supports increasing the price of energy.

Obama supports the biofuel mandates. The biofuel made has driven up the price of commodities like wheat and corn. The mandates causes farmers to plant more corn and then, instead of using the corn to feed people, they are using the corn to make ethanol. In other words, the policies that Obama supports (and President Bush pushed) are making wheat (and hence bread) more expensive.

To vote for Obama because the he talks about helping the middle class is pure foolishness. What matters is looking at the outcome of the policies he supports. If Obama becomes President, he will push for policies that will make energy even more expensive and he will push for policies that make food more expensive.