Posted on 04/13/2008 10:45:45 AM PDT by papasmurf
Eliminate all subsidies for wind, solar, and ethanol/biofuel and make them stand on their own if they wan to exist.
“If you think this is a “crisis”, I’d hate to see how you act when the sh*t really hit the fan.”
But it is hitting the fan.
Here in Panama, prices are racing upwards at a tremendous rate.
While I am not going to suffer from hunger, the folks who are just getting by with a few hundred dollars a month are becoming desperate.
This is not only an U.S. problem, it has become global.
Why do I mention Panama?
Because a lot of food is imported from the U.S.
Also, the price of grain has jumped. Bread and other basic foods have jumped in price because of this alternative fuel crap which in the end rots out the car engine.
There is a group of people who are getting rich off this ugly joke that is why it will continue.
Chain Ted Kennedy in front of a wind turbine. 10MW guaranteed.
Please, don’t read into it, what is not there or intended to be there. Crisis is a long way from catastrophe. The sky is not falling, and we are not all doomed.
But, by any definition of the word, we are in a crisis.
Certainly, our quality of life is affected, do you agree?
Thanks for that, I would like to read more his thoughtss. Do you have a link to share?
How can you leave the Gov’t out of a Gov’t created problem? The only solution the market alone can offer, at this point, would be devastating to our economy.
True, but then what would all of mccains lobbyists friends do??
I’m not as smart as AlGore, so I’d probably join the Amish.
That would solve my energy crisis.
:)
“but then what would all of mccains lobbyists friends do??”
Hopefully go bankrupt!!!!
I think you’ve hit most of the critical areas, I’d probably add a moratorium on all gas taxes at the federal level. Use solar or ethanol subsidies to “pay” for it. Heheheh!
then drill some more
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We aren’t really in a crisis, the price of oil was below where it should have been for a long time, now it’s over corrected, eventually it will swing the other direction. In the meanwhile if the fed gov needed to do something to fix the situation (there is plenty broken, we’re just not in crisis) there’s really only 3 steps necessary:
1 - outlaw local blends, none of the blends various states and municipalities demand accomplish anything good and the fact that there are so many blends reduces the efficiency of refining and increases the costs
2 - drill drill drill, ANWR Gulf of Mexico, there’s a bunch of reserves we can’t get to mostly because of environmental laws, kill those laws and start the drilling, won’t really help the situation now but 5 to 10 years from now
3 - end the bio fuel silliness, the fuel it provides isn’t efficient and it’s driving up the price of important staple foods
There’s probably a few other tweaks, but those 3 would do a lot. But remember we aren’t in a crisis, we’re in a twitch. Twitches happen, that’s what makes life interesting.
Please see my posts #12, and 24.
BTW, your 3 steps are good ones. I would add that biofuels have not been proven to be markedly cleaner than gasoline, either.
This isn’t a crisis, this isn’t even close to a crisis. We don’t have gas lines, we don’t have odd/ evens, we don’t have rolling black outs, we are not in a crisis.
yet our Prez and our Congress sit on their hands...ho hum...the serfs are struggling....
“The sky is not falling”
Outside the US of A, we are in a free fall.
It just has not caught up in the US of A. It will soon enough...and very soon.
I know what the word means, that’s why I know we are NOT in a crisis, the energy is there, the energy is still cheap when you really think about it, we aren’t running out of ANYTHING. There is no crisis, except in the heads of people prone to pointless panic, and those people are ALWAYS in a state of crisis because without crisis they break out in a rash.
Drill ANWR, build refineries, build nuclear power plants, get the government OUT of whatever their grimy fingers touch, get rid of the obscene gas taxes here in California, um ....
1) Eliminate or sharply reduce all state and federal road usage taxes on gasoline.
2) Eliminate or sharply reduce the taxes on oil company profits.
3) Eliminate the EPA and all of its obnoxious regulations that have bound up this country’s energy supplies for the past thirty years.
4) Open up ALL of this country’s public lands and off-shore areas for exploration, drilling, and extraction.
5) Build many more refineries and nuclear power plants, after cutting through the regulatory mess that makes it nigh near impossible to do so now.
6)Pass federal legislation that supercedes ALL state laws on what types of gasoline blends may be used within the various states, thereby eliminating the ridiculous “boutique blends” and establishing ONE national standard.
7) Support research into better, more technologically advanced fuels like biodiesel.
8) Get over the gloabl warming hysteria and get rid of the onerous emissions requirements that are killing the auto industry, particularly in California.
9) Tell the Saudis that from now on, they can go screw themselves.
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