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POPSDemocrats And Gasoline that they must have some gall to criticize creationism when they in fact subscribe to its economic equivalent. But as I wrote last week, I don't really think they are this ignorant. They're providing a rhetorical distraction to the fact that they want high gas prices, probably higher ones than we have right now. Meanwhile, in order to deflect and even harness consumer anger in the political arena, they can send out Chuck Schumer to put on this dog-and-pony show about the phantoms that are secretly directing the economy from behind closed doors. It's a smokescreen. As an energy consumer, you should be a lot more concerned about what Democrats are doing in the open Senate chamber. The gas crisis finally hit Capitol Hill with full fury this week, and Senate Democrats have launched a plan that sounds ambitious: Take on Wall Street speculators, OPEC, price gougers and Big Oil. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9967.html
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POPSA Little Welcome Home from the Torture Masters "As they ridiculed me, they took delight most in mocking letters I had received from readers in England. I had now been without food and water and the toilet for 12 hours, and having been made to stand, my legs buckled. I vomited and passed out. All I remember is one of them gouging, scraping and clawing with his nails at the tender flesh beneath my eyes. He scooped my head and dug his fingers in near the auditory nerves between my head and eardrum . The pain became sharper as he dug in two fingers at a time. Another man had his combat boot on my neck, pressing into the hard floor. I lay there for over an hour. The room became a menagerie of pain, sound and terror."
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POPSAnother peak? As the cost of food skyrockets for many reasons, including shortages, the cost of inputs to industrial food production are coming under stress. A 30% rise in a year is serious, 100% in a week is a mania, or major panic. We have been waiting for the other shoe to drop in so many areas, when they all do, we could be killed by a shoe shower.
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POPSWhy we need high oil prices I know this sounds crazy, but i honestly believe that high oil prices in the short term (1-5 years) is a very good thing if it forces us to find alternatives. I am definitely concerned that if oil prices drop temporarily, the momentum behind alternatives such as wind and solar will die off - leaving us exactly where we are today - way too dependent on oil and way to harmful to our environment.
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POPSHarry Reid's Anti-Energy "Consumer-First Energy Act" of 2008 Simply put, the Consumer-First Energy Act is an anti-energy bill that will only add to already-high energy costs. Fewer Restrictions on Domestic Oil Production We need fewer restrictions on domestic oil drilling. America remains the only oil-producing nation that has placed a substantial amount of its energy potential off-limits. This includes a few thousand acres of Alaska's 19.6 million acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). This small portion of ANWR is believed to contain 10 billion barrels of oil—an amount equivalent to 15 years of imports from Saudi Arabia.
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POPSBig Oil Tax Thank goodness there are a few left in the Senate that have brains.
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POPSFuelist Democrats Amen! Amen! This Congress, whether Reps. or Dems. have brought us to this point. As a matter of fact, it's been avalanche-ing towards this point for over a decade. I hope people are as hoppin' mad as I am....and I don't drive no SUV.
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POPSToo "Complex"?: Part II: Thomas Sowell --all the while lamenting the lack of affordable housing. So long as politicians can get some people's votes by publicly feeling their pain when it comes to housing costs, and other people's votes by restricting the building of housing, they can have a winning coalition at election time, which is their bottom line. Moral melodrama is where it's at, politically. Too "Complex"? http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/05/13/too_complex
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POPSSenate Democrats Offer Energy Plan Amid Price Surge Now, why would they want to "...consolidate previous failed attempts"? :~( No real solutions here; just bandaids, blaming, and blustering. How long will it be before Congress gets the message that WE are serious about these energy problems? Just like everything else, our legislative branch of government talks forever and all the while accomplishing nothing until it's a Crisis? Then they look to their typical scapegoats instead of looking towards themselves.
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POPSSenate Democrats Eye Gas Price Relief Bill So NOW they decide that it's time to do something? Amazing. And their suggestions....those too are amazing. All the while we sit on top of our own resources and limit our own independent options. Politicians. A pox on all of them.
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POPSPelosi To President Bush On Gas Prices
Your support is the more critical as your Administration has failed to persuade OPEC to increase their oil production, despite your influence with OPEC nations. The New Direction Congress is providing forward-looking leadership that will fuel America’s energy future, save Americans’ money, create good jobs, improve our national security, and preserve our planet for our children. This critical issue needs Presidential leadership and I urge you to please join us to address the skyrocketing price at the pump. best regards, NANCY PELOSI House GOP challenges Pelosi for gas price plan House Republican leaders on Tuesday challenged Nancy Pelosi to release a plan to lower gas prices that they say Democrats touted when they were in the minority. (Press release dated April 24, 2006, Pelosi said, “Democrats have a commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices.....) http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/house-gop-challenges-pelosi-for-gas-price-plan-2008-04-22.html
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POPSSTOP SECRET $15 BILLION ANTI-ENERGY BILL FROM PASSING The Senate and House have passed separate bills on energy filled with government mandates and taxes that threaten to send us back to the disastrous Jimmy Carter era of energy shortages and gas lines. Now the Liberal leaders of Congress want to meet in secret to devise one bill that is sure to take the worst sections of each and ram it through Congress without debate. October 24th article, Holman Jenkins of the Wall Street Journal pointed out that there's a glut of ethanol resulting in falling prices while the cost of production skyrockets. He points out that even $90 per barrel oil has not resulted in ethanol success without massive subsidies. Government intervention like this always produces special interest winners while the taxpayer foots the bill. YOU CAN HELP DEFEAT THIS LEGISLATION! http://capwiz.com/acu/issues/alert/?alertid=10481861
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POPSGM Exec Stands by Calling Global Warming a “Total Crock of Shit” Ted Stevens the Alaskan Psycho-Dinosaur says the ecological threats to polar bears are a “crock” too I’m sure. And it’s a “crock” that Exxon is gouging for oil/gas profits, even though they made more money last year than ANY other company in U.S. history in these “tough uncertain times….” These PUTZES are going to have to discover their own consequences face to face, and I hope it’s sooner than later….
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POPSRule by fear or rule by law?
The government has also contracted with several companies to build thousands of railcars, some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly to transport detainees. According to diplomat and author Peter Dale Scott, the KBR contract is part of a Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME, which sets as its goal the removal of "all removable aliens" and "potential terrorists." Fraud-busters such as Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, have complained about these contracts, saying that more taxpayer dollars should not go to taxpayer-gouging Halliburton. But the real question is: What kind of "new programs" require the construction and refurbishment of detention facilities in nearly every state of the union with the capacity to house perhaps millions of people? Sect. 1042 of the 2007 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies," gives the executive the power to invoke martial law. For the first time in more than a century, the presiden
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POPSDouble Your Gas Mileage! 2X 2 oz. of pure Acetone for each 10 gallons of gasoline, in addition to routine maintenance, is a wonderful idea to counter the major oil companies' price gouging. Do you think it's a coincidence that oil companies shut down parts of their plants for "routine maintenance" during the busiest travel season of the year? Let's fight back! As mentioned in the video, Acetone is not harmful to your engine. It promotes clean burning and fuel efficiency, increasing the longevity of your automobile!
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POPSStop Price Gouging You and your friends can provide your input into the gas gouging controversy by signing Moveon.org's petition against price gouging. Congress is hedging again on this important issue. Make your voice heard!
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