"The media promised a depression and all we got was yet another lousy quarter of economic expansion."
THIS IS NOT WHAT WE ELECTED THEM FOR! oh, that's right, they arn't public officials, even though they act like it...
I am so sick of being compared to Europe. The US is vastly different than Europe in many ways. One is the distance needed to travel to get goods across the area. We do not have a train system as connected as Europe. There are no where NEAR the tractor trailers on the road there. They don’t consume as many gallons of gasoline that we do. There is no reason we should have the same gas price if the almighty supply and demand rule applies. So we are supposed to sit back, consume how many times more the gas and still say “Well, it’s not as bad as Europe. Too bad I don’t have a train to jump on”.
There, fixed it.
It could be a lot worse? You mean, “it will be a lot worse.”
What new measures are being done to remedy the insufficient supply of oil? That’s a real question, not rhetorical. Will someone please tell me?
I have a suggestion that will lower the price of crude oil per barrel by $20 to $30 OVERNIGHT.
President Bush comes out and says as a national security matter he is issuing executive orders concerning the oil supply shortfall. ANWR, sites off the continental shelf on both shores, new sites in the Gulf of Mexico WILL be opened to the oil companies for exploration and extraction of oil.
Also, to head off the argument of “not in my backyard” it will be federally mandated that at least two new refineries are to be built in EVERY state. All the constriction rules, regulations and hundreds of permits needed to do so will be under immediate and swift review.
When speculators finally see the United States has a leader who will act decisively the price of oil will plumment.
Where is our President?
Yeah, we could elect a government that would add the taxes on fuel like Europe does.
Good thing about Doomsday: It’s always “just around the corner.”