Comments on: Relief At Gas Pump Sought

By: Paul Revere

Paul Revere — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:20:45 +0000

Yes. The speculators are a big part of the problem, and the US govt should do something about it. It’s awfully tiring listening to blowhards like Schumer constantly railing against the oil companies. They are convenient villains, too convenient at times. It’s more complicated.

But every problem America is facing about oil could be fixed. But no one has the gumption to do it.

By: the consultant

the consultant — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:08:52 +0000

in 1978 when I ran for congress…the independent oil drillers could not drill for oil because of the wellhead
tax….a refinery hasn’t been built in this country for
about 30 years…george w..listened to my pac presentations
you would have thought he would have done something by now
domestic drillers need incentives and tax breaks to take
our oil out and refine it and sell it at prices we
can afford..right now the speculators are controlling the
price of oil..most of our oil is imported believe it or not
from canada..but the spot price of oil is determined by
the market….hybrids are bull…greening is bull…
the US needs to become energy independent so our foreign
policy is not dependent on offending the OPEC states..
which candidate will do that…only someone who recognizes
the problem and will serve one term…

By: Wahoo

Wahoo — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:28:51 +0000

In case you didn’t know it, in April, Time Magazine, which is more liberal than not, did a cover story on “The Clean Energy Scam.” Ethanol was a primary energy scam.

All of the left’s “new energy” policies are failures, as is the public schools system in most large cities, and that is another fiasco fashioned by the left. And how has Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty” been doing the last four decades? Besides swallowing billions and billions of dollars. Did it work? No.

The oil crisis will get worse before it gets better. That’s even IF it gets better. More trouble is coming.

By: ed

ed — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:00:02 +0000

Keep paying Iran, Venezuela, Russia and various Islamic fundamentalist states $120 per barrel of oil and we will see what life form they have in mind for us to adapt to.

By: 7Curses

7Curses — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:25:41 +0000

if the tree huggers lose and the creeps prevail then we will just mutate into another life form and adapt to what is left

By: ed

ed — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:00:20 +0000

Our representatives have collectively delivered our citizens as hostages to fate by inaction. And we continue to fund smarmy potentates and outright enemies of the US in the middle east and elsewhere to an ever exorbitant degree to boot. It is almost beyond belief.

By: Wahoo

Wahoo — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:49:23 +0000

What’s really wrong is that for 34 years both parties in Washington have been guilty of doing nothing to avert this. The clear warning signs were there in the first gas crunch of ‘74. Then there was another one in ‘79.

The Democrats and their tree-hugger friends are very guilty for restricting, hindering and otherwise impeding drilling, new refineries, and so on. Now, the insanity of ethanol is impacting corn and other food prices up and down the line.

By: 7Curses

7Curses — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:34:31 +0000

all republicans can ever do is call for tax reductions they have no imagination and no concept of what is really wrong