On April 23rd, 2008 at 1:53 pm, rightisright said:

With India and China using more and more oil everyday…i’m curious, what do we all think of these cheap inexpensive products we buy from those countries now? Are they so cheap?
Not to mention we’re driving(bio-fuels) ourselves to hunger…in reality starving the inhabitants of 3rd world countries. Bio-fuels another idea that sounds good with no practical positive results…NONE! Cost of food goes up, cost of fuel goes up, lower MPG, higher cost per gallon with damage being done to the internal combustion engine when using bio-fuel. Just how do people get hooked on liberalism?

We have had to replace 3 fuel pumps on our diesel generators at work because the great bio diesel gums them up. When that happens the drive shafts in them shear off. Want to take a guess how much they cost?

How about 1300 dollars each? Sure would take a lot of that CRAP to make up for it. I’m a government contractor so it really doesn’t hurt me but it’s crazy that they still try to ram it down our throats. Stay away from that crap if you can.

Vote for us, you’ll see!

(sarc)

“Lastly, your administration must use the authority given to it by the Congress to end market manipulation,” Pelosi writes.

Just how exactly is the President supposed to unilaterally end market manipulation by foreign countries? Almost all the imported oil in this country is outright owned by or directly controlled by a foreign country (Canda, Mexico, Nigeria, Venezuela, Russia, Ukraine, etc., etc.) The current price spike is being pushed by oil market speculators. How does the President march into foreign futures market trading forums and force them to stop? Nazi Pelosi is an idiot.

He could do it though. By Executive Order open all the drillable land and sea bed to our oil companies. Open the Utah clean coal bonanza that Beelzabubba put into a national park/monument. Open up and subsidize the Green River shale deposits. Build 200 nuclear power plants. In ten years we could call our own tune. That’ll happen in 10… 9… 8… yeah, sure.

The only way to affect gas prices is to impact the fundamentals of supply / demand. Drill at ANWR for example – or off Ted Kennedy’s place in Florida. The Dems (along with McCain) are frustrating oil production, helping to keep prices high.

There is plenty of energy on the continent in several forms. The only thing stopping us from exploiting it is phony enviornmentalism and silly federal/state/ and local feel good laws.

And Speaker Pelosi is as silly as it gets. But the SOBs have done their jobs well and terrified a generation about phony global warming and such; we have work to do. Instead of Pandering to Pelosi Speaker Ginrich should get a job in a coal mine and do some good.

House Republicans turn the tables and put some heat on Nancy Pelosi over gas prices. Good move. Nan’s left speechless. Might even feel like running back to the couch to cuddle with Newt.

Priceless! Finally, the GOP is taking a pro-active stance and holding the Democrats accountable for their words!

Look for Pelosi & Pals to submit the most highly “nuanced” (nuance is DC-ease for a pack of lies and vagaries) response letter DC has ever seen – as soon as they can think it up.

What was that line out of Star Wars that someone here quoted before? Something about this is how democracy dies with cheers and praise?

I love when Democrats get hoist on their OWNED petard. They talk a good game, but, action? See Michelle M.
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1. Each State Government (remember them, the ‘All Powers not specifically assigned to the Congress shall remain with the State’ people?) that permits a nuclear power plant to be constructed, gets an automatic removal of all Federal Gasoline Taxes and removal of all EPA constraints.
2. States and the Federal Governments grant tax credits to all Corporations involved with the construction of a nuclear plant.
3. While the nuclear plants are under construction, the Federal Government releases Strategic Petroleum Reserves to those States to increase supply.
4. States are expected to hold construction/operation costs to the approved budget. Union construction rates will be prevailing wages during actual construction. All construction projects will be Right to Work no losed Union shops will be permitted.

Let’s face it, solving the oil supply problem isn’t going to be an overnight thing. It is going to take time.

Like dudes, enough already! Start drilling !!!!

I have a simple 3 part energy plan: 1) Get government and environmentalists out of the way
2) Get government and environmentalists out of the way
3) Get government and environmentalists out of the way

Whatever intellectually dishonest scientists sold the ethanol concept should be shot as well. Burning food for energy? And confiscating our wealth to pay for it? STUPID!!! Especially when we are sitting on hundreds of years worth of oil! How utterly stupid are these people? The ONLY reason the US is not 100% energy independent is purposeful manipulation by our government. Period. End of story. From now on I think congressional energy bills should be referred to as Sodomy Bills because that is the net effect on the American people.