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Some states tax other taxes on a percentage, like mine. The libs love this stuff, their coffers get stuffed with extorted revenue and then blame the higher prices on the President.
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MTBE should never have been forced upon the gas companies. It was a horrible idea from several different points of view.
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I'm retired and use very little gasoline. I fill up during normal prices about once every 3 months. With the higher prices, I add just a few gallons of gas every month or so, just to silently protest. I'd do the same for milk or any other product I don't need daily if justified. I don't suggest that those who drive a lot do the same, but those that don't could help by not filling up each time and that should help everyone.
ethanol ping - see bottom half of article
This will not make the MSM. The MSM and politicians want us to believe it is oil companies gouging us and its all Bushes fault.
The federal requirement that RFG gasoline must contain
oxygen, ends on May 6 of this year.
MTBE or ethanol, no longer needed.
If there is one among you reading this who can't remember his father saying, "This hurts me more than it hurts you..." somewhere in their past, he has no way to appreciate the full humor of this thread.
bttt for a read later...
One step closer to realizing Al Gore's and the UniBomber's dreams...
Our consumer-based economy is driven by and dependent on readily-available, reliable energy-- choke that off, and we'll all be back to using one rotary dial phone in the dining room, watching one TV, and driving one car per family-- probably a Hudson Hornet or a Rambler...
We need to
1) end the nonsensical ban on offshore drilling off California and Florida--read & weep:
Castro Plans to Drill 45 Miles from US Shores, But We Can't
3) end Jimmy Carter's idiotic ban on recycling nuclear waste, and reprocess the stuff rather than fighting over where to bury it. Europe has done it for decades.-- what to do with spent nuclear fuel? Answer here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1468321/posts?page=50#50 hattip: Mike (former Navy Nuclear Engineer)
4) use the 300-500 years worth of coal we have on our own land, using the new clean-coal technology.
-Clean Coal Centre--
5) and finally, there's nothing wrong with conservation- but you can't conserve your way out of a shortage. Nor is there anything wrong with "alternative" energy sources- except they don't supply the vast ( not to mention readily-available ) amounts of power we need at a price competitive to more conventional sources.
We do need to get serious about this before we get strangled by a bunch of petty thieves and dictators who don't like us much.
My tongue-in-cheek collection of energy-related links:
Sticker Shock-$3 a gallon gas? Click the picture:
And kindly note, and note well-- the first reply to this post ( when gas was $1.45 a gallon ) was derisive... so, who's laughing now?
