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Kmax2k1
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I thought Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats had a "Common Sense Plan to reduce the price of gasoline" -- that's what she and the Dems running for office claimed in 2006... Time to start drilling and refining our own oil (for heaven sakes we are importing 15 percent of our gasoline now) in the Western Hemisphere -- independent from OPEC and the Middle East sponsors of terrorism. Recent finds in the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, Wyoming, North Dakota, ANWAR. Instead we get ethanol subsidies and encouragement that is taking corn and other food products out of the food chain, running up prices for most everything. I wonder if the much maligned Cheney Energy Meetings during the first term saw any of this coming.
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I applaud his efforts, but I fear that greed will win out over economic morality and patriotism.
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Your BigFanny
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If everyone parked their car for two days and refused to buy a drop of petrol... THAT would force systemic changes sufficient to alter the picture in favor of public demands. United we stand. Hip. Hip... and all that ROT!
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Guess what people. It doesn't matter if 100% of our oil came from America or just 5%. If OPEC and the speculators say the price is $135 a bbl that is the price of oil EVERYWHERE. The only diff is that the refineries that have access to $50 bbl oil from their own fields make a lot more money than those that have to pay full price for their oil.
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Your BigFanny wrote: If everyone parked their car for two days and refused to buy a drop of petrol... THAT would
force systemic changes sufficient to alter the picture in favor of public demands.
United we stand. Hip. Hip... and all that ROT! We'd all have to park our cars for at least two days EVERY week to even begin to make a dent in this juggernaut. Now that China, India & other nations with growing economies are competing with us for this non-renewable resource the Law of Supply and Demand will keep our prices rising. It sure was nice while we were one of the few nations who used much petrol. Now that many more are ... we'll all get less for higher prices. The caveat: China's & India's economies are growing and competing with us so effectively because so many Americans crave mountains of cheap goods and refuse to buy American!
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“always pithy and correct”
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we won't drill for more oil at home, we won't build refineries or nuclear power plants and we won't stop buying gas guzzlers, but bush and the republicans need to do something. amazing
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If we could run cars/trucks on Hot Air, we wouldn't need oil! Congress could fuel every car, truck, bus, train AND airplane in this country! sen lautenberg is just blowing smoke to try to ADD POWER to the Democratic side of the aisle! Congress (both sides) won't establish a "common sense" energy program!! They need the confusion to 'control' us and the things we want to do. Taxes, rules, congress must JUSTIFY ITSELF, and show us that WE NEED THEM!
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wsd
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The greed of the American oil companies will wreck this economy in 18 months. A family of 4 will need $60,000 a year just to make ends meet. Shades of the soup lines of the 1930's.
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ThatGuy
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Build 400 nuclear reactors in America in the next 20 years or shut up. There is NO other solution. Everything else is lies and politics.
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I believe Lautenberg is an outright liar! The latest data I have imported to a spreadsheet from the EIA is for 2005 but in that year we produced 5178 and imported 13714 K Bbl/day of crude (for a total of 18892 K Bbl/day. So we produced only about 27% of what we used. However nearly 40% of our imports were (in order of volume) from Canada, Mexico, the U. K., the U. S. Virgin Islands, Norway, Brazil, the Netherlands, Aruba, Argentina, Belgium and Germany. None of those countries seems to me to fit Lautenberg’s claim that,“Our country burns 21 million gallons of oil every day,' he said. Two-thirds of that oil is imported from unstable regions of the world, run by governments who are not our friends." We produced 27% ourselves and imported about 31% from what I believe are stable, relatively friendly countries for at total of 58%. He also said that,“The long-term solution to our energy crisis lies in alternative fuels and efficiency. If we aggressively promote innovation in solar, wind, biofuels and geothermal power, we can help lower energy prices, turn the tide on global warming and strengthen our national security.” Very probably, but those words “long term” are most important. NONE of those technologies are economically competitive with fossil fuels NOW and in my view are not likely to be for over 25 years. Burning food DOES NOT seem like a way to solve our problems but seems to be preferred by both Republicans and Democrats. Lautenberg IS a smart politician! He realizes that a vast majority of the voters DO blame “Big Oil” for the high prices of liquid fuels but neglects to mention that taxes take more of the money spent on gasoline and diesel than the oil companies make!
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Hazmat
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It's Not true that OPEC would control pricing if we were supplying our own needs from domestic sources. A nation that can produce enough oil for its own use doesn't need to depend on OPEC for pricing. If USA drilled for oil on our own soil - where there's plenty of oil to satisfy our needs for decades - the worldwide price would drop precipitously. For their own political purpoes, the Democrats have allowed the environmental extremists to destroy our nation's energy independence. Lautenberg conveniently doesn't propose using our own oil resources and nuclear energy. He is a fraud.
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wsd wrote: The greed of the American oil companies will wreck this economy in 18 months. A family of 4 will need $60,000 a year just to make ends meet. Shades of the soup lines of the 1930's. Silly nonsense. Big OIL can put its financial resources into alternative energy and make as much money as it makes from oil. figue the ramifications for yourself.
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“The Clinton Nightmare is Over!”
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As long as all Democrats and some Republicans (including sadly John McCain) are sold out to the Sierra Club, Greenpeace and other far-left environmental extremist whackjob groups, we will never be allowed to drill for the plentiful supply of oil we have on our own land, will never be allowed to build more refineries, the last of which was built in the '70's, nor will we be allowed to open more nuclear plants. Grandstanding by leftist jerks like Frank Lousenberg, claiming Bush is the problem just illustrates how totally disingenuous liberals are about this problem that threatens to cripple the country's economy.
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Fight to win
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It is the Democrat policy that has caused the current high prices.
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These narrow-minded, self-centered, ignorant dems are the cause of the problems and all they continue to leech money for themselves. Power mongers... The dems block all action GOP tries to do, and sit back and WHINE cause nothing gets done.WWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Fight to win wrote: It is the Democrat policy that has caused the current high prices. It is a combination of factors. >peak oil >the war in Iraq has stopped some flow of oil >our low dollar in which we have to compete with other currencies (Bush deficits) >we need to drill for more oil >China's and other countries growth putting pressure on prices There could be more reasons, like switching refineries to home heating oil for the winter, not enough oil rigs, etc.
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Gerry
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Go to this site to learn about the alternatives. They all have problems but I would favor plug in hybrids. Seems to be the most doable. This show should run at 7 pm tonight on PBS Directv.
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Gerry
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Maybe I am looking at this to simplistic, but the answers are simple. >First you create an energy council. They can cut the red tape and examine future alternatives. >Second, you need to fix the dollar because we have to compete with other currencies for oil. That will be hard to do. >Third, you get rid of corn ethanol. >Fourth, you drill for off shore oil. Only 15% is available at this time. >Fifth, you pick the two best alternative energies and invest in them. >Sixth, the last I saw on PBS NOVA the plug in hybrid is the most possible and in fact doable today. You plug your car in at night. The car runs on battery for the first 60 miles and after that gasoline. This would cut out half of the gas we use as most people commute to the store or work on short distances. So if you drive less than 60 miles per day you will never pay for gasoline. >Seventh, I would give (our government and our tax money) 1 billion dollars to each car company that builds cars in this country. And I would tell them in eight years all cars will be hybrids. The billion dollars will shut them up. This will help get us away from Middle East oil. This will also get the price down with less demand. Other countries will follow and the price of oil will fall further. With the price falling this will help the airlines and anything else that relies on oil. >Eighth, there are 15 nuclear plants on paper and we also have coal that can be used in FutureGen plants for our electrical grid and the energy council needs to push this fast. But not too fast that you get shoddy workmanship. >Ninth, the problems include relying on parts for nuclear power from other countries since we don't have those parts. All alternative energies have various problems. All 600 drilling rigs are in use. So at best drilling could only start in 5 years. So with all of this it takes time, even if you start now. That means 5 years, 10 years, 15 years on various aspects of our energy needs. Now if we could only have a president that knows what he is doing. Unfortunately, the president we have is incompetent.
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Kmax2k1 wrote: I thought Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats had a "Common Sense Plan to reduce the price of gasoline" -- that's what she and the Dems running for office claimed in 2006...
Time to start drilling and refining our own oil (for heaven sakes we are importing 15 percent of our gasoline now) in the Western Hemisphere -- independent from OPEC and the Middle East sponsors of terrorism. Recent finds in the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, Wyoming, North Dakota, ANWAR.
Instead we get ethanol subsidies and encouragement that is taking corn and other food products out of the food chain, running up prices for most everything.
I wonder if the much maligned Cheney Energy Meetings during the first term saw any of this coming. Yes you are right. When Nanny and her gang took the majority in November I remember hearing about the solution to the energy crisis they have. Of course, other than investigating growth hormone/steroids in baseball we have another "do nothing" congress that equals the "do nothing" president. Thank goodness for Algore too and his BS global warming.
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