Could it be that Nancy’s plan to solve the energy crisis is literally to do nothing? We can only hope.

I have enjoyed making snarky comments about the gas prices and the complete failure of the democrat leadership to do anything about it.  Bad enough that prices have doubled since the democrats were elected, but now that they are historically high,…

(President pretends he didn’t hear question- yet again, and turns away.)

Caught this on another site – it’s a very interesting read.

Bush Says Drill, Drill, Drill — and Oil Drops $9! [Larry Kudlow] 7/15/08

In a dramatic move yesterday President Bush removed the executive-branch moratorium on offshore drilling. Today, at a news conference, Bush repeated his new position, and slammed the Democratic Congress for not removing the congressional moratorium on the Outer Continental Shelf and elsewhere. Crude-oil futures for August delivery plunged $9.26, or 6.3 percent, almost immediately as Bush was speaking, bringing the barrel price down to $136.

Now isn’t this interesting? **SNIP**

LINK TO Kudlow’s Money Politics Column

Not a single new drop of oil and yet the price plunged today. Can you imagine how far it would drop if we actually started to drill our own reserves?

Bush lifted the executive order. Good. The Congressional order expires later this year. Care to guess howe much the price of oil will drop then?

Who would pick up the garbage for these turds if we did not exist?

Who would build the building of academia where these turds spew their communist filth?

Who would plumb the turds from their bowl w/o working Americans?

lgm will be wealthier than a lot of people who actually work for living when he retires.

On July 15th, 2008 at 8:13 pm, Concerned Citizen said:

So lgm, do you have a 401k or an IRA? Why? They won’t pay off for decades, so why bother?

I know that had to be rhetorical, right? lgm is depending on big nanny government to take care of him in his later years and, maybe, a university retirement plan.

So lgm, do you have a 401k or an IRA? Why? They won’t pay off for decades, so why bother?

The estimates of that are very conservatively rated at 800 BILLION barrels of oil (NYTimes) with a high estimate in the trillions of barrels range (recoverable with today’s technology; more like an average of 413 billion barrels unrecoverable yet) exceeding Saudi oil reserves.

You’re making the assumption that lefties want energy independence. They hate any form of independence, since it reduces their power over your lives – or if they are sheep, increases their responsibilities which they are too immature and insecure to embrace. If oil erupted into your backyard, someone would declare it a hazard to an unseen microbe, make it off limits to you, and tax you to “clean up”. They have a world view that embarces “can’t and won’t even if we could.”

“TURN OFF THE LIGHTS – WHEN YOU PAY THE LIGHT BILL, YOU CAN LEAVE THEM ON!”

“CLOSE THE DOOR – I’M NOT PAYING TO HEAT/COOL THE OUTSIDE!”

Now that I am paying my own bills, I think I can manage what helps/hurts my electricity bill, thank you very much.

GWB should have asked Mark Smith, “Why, do YOU need someone to tell you what to do?”

On July 15th, 2008 at 1:30 pm, lgm said:

englishqueen01 said (#69):

Here. A list of scientists who oppose the mainstream assessment of global warming, for various reasons.

Exactly one of the people on this list is a promnant climate scientist (Linzen).

Then as I noted above (and you neatly ignored), you must reject Gore completely, based on his qualifications.

bayou22 said (#88):

Also, did anyone hear Rush’s analogy to the Dems talking point of “drilling won’t produce any oil for 4-5 years”?

He said you might as well tell young people that “college won’t produce a degree for 4-5 years, so why bother with that either”?

It’s 7 to 8 years, not 4 to 5. Even then the extra drilling will make little difference because there’s not much oil there.

Really. So the infamous oil companies want to waste their money drilling for oil that isn’t there. Now, even for you, that can’t make much sense, but since you wrote it, I may have overestimated you.

And if you don’t like the estimates of offshore oil, how about oil shale? The estimates of that are very conservatively rated at 800 BILLION barrels of oil (NYTimes) with a high estimate in the trillions of barrels range (recoverable with today’s technology; more like an average of 413 billion barrels unrecoverable yet) exceeding Saudi oil reserves.

Your side of the argument will be moot when Northeast liberals start paying for heating oil.

I have already had the folks at Idaho Power try to bribe me into letting them control my air compressor for my homes air conditioning unit, which ain’t going to happen ever. I already bought and installed a programmable thermostat a few years ago that has reduceed our energy consumption for heat or air conditioning to barely operate except when we are at home saving big bucks even with the rate increases. Conservation can only go so far before many will finally have to decide between eating or freezing to death this winter as it is. DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW, and PAY LESS (Yes I am shouting again)!

The last thing any of us need is big daddy government sticking their noses into our energy consumption. It will not stop there until the usurpation of every God given right is under the control of our fascist leaders at all levels of government. The ball is in the Democrat led Congress’s court they can either buy a clue and pass some common sense legislation or face the music when the freezing and starving masses either throw them out of office in November or thanks to the voter fraud efforts of ACORN are strung up from the nearest trees when winter really sets in.

lgm is an idiot.