Posted on 10/26/2005 8:26:45 AM PDT by Bosco
Rush continues broadcasting from the Northern Command in NYC(and its confiscatory tax rates) this week in the wake of hurricane Wilma.
Proves there was no need to raise the price. In my book, that's gouging. That should make them the target of a boycott. Let them see how an 89% loss feels.
Leftists tax oil companies to fund their schemes because they can't earn it themselves.
Exactly. It's all such a crock.
Bush is saying he is pushing Congress to cut spending...and cut programs that aren't working..
BUT, he emphasizes the need to keep the tax cuts permanent.'
That's sure what it looks like. I'm disgusted that it's gotten to this point. It's all such a farce, and yet there are democrats doing real illegal things walking around unindicted.
So don't buy any gas. Boycott them all you want.
What's so wrong with wind farms? If in the right places, they produce a LOT of electricity and reduce the need for foreign petroleum. The Wind Farms in West Texas are one of the reasons that Texas operates only at about 46% of it's full capacity on a daily basis. Texas has it's own energy grid and uses less than half what it could put out on any given day. Wind farms are a great idea. When did they become some liberal pet project? It's not a bad thing to have something like that that requires less petroleum.
Excellent - shut down bad programs, de-fund the Left. Drain the swamp of money the Left lives in.
PETA can't stand windfarms, they currently kill too many birds, but mods are in the works to decrease the kill.
Here's elevator reading... still looking, shame I go to so many sites and can't find where I posted it (It was linked through an open window blog).
Receipts? Documents. When he surfaced to take on Bush’s sixteen words from the SOTU, Wilson claimed that he’d seen the documents in early 2002 and they were forgeries. From the WaPo Pincus-written 6/12/03 article http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A46957-2003Jun11¬Found=true(wherein Wilson is both the “envoy” and the “the former U.S. government official:”
After returning to the United States, the envoy reported to the CIA that the uranium-purchase story was false, the sources said. Among the envoy's conclusions was that the documents may have been forged because the "dates were wrong and the names were wrong," the former U.S. government official said.
Per the Senate intelligence report, the documents in question were not available in February 2002, the time of Wilson’s visit, so Wilson could not have known they were forgeries at that time. However, hey did become available later and Wilson could have learned of them from his wife as is recounted here (http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2004/07/kevin_drum_make.html).
Read this also:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4936
You can continue to pay 87% more, too. Until there is another way to fuel a vehicle with a non-complex hydrocarbon fuel, it's a monopoly. I cut my gasoline usage by more than 50%. I built a steam driven vehicle for around town driving, which is more than 90% of my driving.
I can still remember Cuomo's show, it was a real snooze. Libs are much better at writing lies in newspapers becuase they can't get challenged.
Problem is, all the ones that don't work are Dem giveaways. Try to cut them and you are instantly accused of racism, pandering to the rich, etc.
There aren't enough fiscal conservatives in Congress to cut anything. They can't even limit the annual increases without it being labeled as a "cut".
State breezes into offshore wind business
BY ELLIOTT BLACKBURN
AVALANCHE-JOURNAL
Texas will build the nation's first offshore wind farm within the next seven years, the state's General Land Office said Monday morning.
At a news conference, Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson described the project as a more cost-effective alternative to West Texas wind for big energy markets in East Texas.
A 50-turbine farm seven miles off the Galveston coast could power 40,000 homes while making money for Texas schools, the office hopes.
Patterson
"Coastal wind power has come to the United States and found a home in Texas," Patterson said.
Louisiana-based Wind Energy Systems Technologies, LLC., will build the project and lease the more than 11,000 acres needed for the farm from the state for 30 years.
Texas holds the rights to all submerged lands off its coast for more than 10 miles into the Gulf of Mexico, a quirk of sovereignty from its brief stint as a republic.
Because of these rights, companies need only negotiate with the state and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, cutting out other federal agencies that must approve projects in other states and earning Texas leasing revenue, Patterson said.
Provided by the General Land Office
This artist's rendering depicts a wind farm off the Texas coast. The state is planning to build the nation's first offshore wind farm.
A minimum $26.5 million will be paid to the Permanent School Fund over the full course of the Wind Energy Systems Technologies deal, Patterson said.
"That's free money for the schoolchildren of Texas," he said.
Texas is second in the nation for wind-power production, with more than 2,000 megawatts in installed or planned wind power supply, according to the American Wind Energy Association. Most of the state's turbines dot mesas and ranchland in West Texas.
But energy culled from gusts across the Panhandle is trapped here unless costly transmission lines are built to carry it to other cities. The General Land Office has earned $782,000 off of a land lease for wind power just south of the Guadalupe Mountain State Park in West Texas, but a big push in 2003 for similar deals met with little interest, land office spokesman Jim Suydam said.
"We threw a party and nobody came," he said.
The land office is still interested in leasing out land in West Texas for wind projects, but is concentrating its efforts offshore, Suydam said.
Land-based wind farms wouldn't suffer from the sudden attention to the east, said Andy Swift, director of the Texas Tech Wind Science and Engineering Research Center.
Offshore wind farms are much more expensive to build and maintain and transmission costs would still be high to move electricity from the coast to a city like Dallas, he said.
The U.S. is lagging far behind Europeans in offshore projects, and it was good for Texas to be taking a lead, he said.
"I think there's room for both," Swift said. "We're really pleased to see something going into the Gulf."
Kinda hard to beat Rush in the ratings when the DUmmies put their audience to sleep!
Do you think things like this liscense plate, plame being listed in 1999's Who's Who, that she donated to Gore under her real name, listing her occupation as covert CIA agent, etc., has been introduced to Fitzgerald? Surely it has right? If so, how can he indict anyone in the Bush admin for doing what she'd been doing herself for many years? That's just beyond stupid.
If democrats actually tried to educate themselves on politics and policy they wouldn't be dems for long.
Just how tough what is it really?
I live in a factory town. I work for one of them in HR. I work very closely with our hourly people. We don't pay the highest wages in town. These are people who use gift certificates they earn in our recognition program to buy diapers for their children. So, if the gas prices had really been 'tough' and had created the kind of hardships you imply, I would have been hearing the complaints. Not so, and we just had our United Way drive. We did as well as we did last year (when we didn't have high gas prices).
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