Three Dollar Gasoline: an Opportunity, Not a Crisis

The American Thinker ^ | April 24, 2006 | Christopher Chantrill

[MineralMan]

Boy, I'm sure glad you weren't serious. That would have been a really dangerous situation. Maybe you need to add some sort of indication that you're joking. You had me really worried about your safety.

[Rte66]

Between me worrying about all the exploding glass and everyone else worrying about the garage itself exploding (see, I gave him credit for opening all the windows, but then I didn't think it was all in his garage - I thought he said it wasn't - I *assumed* it was in a special gasoline storage bunker on his property), we pretty much had "al baby" in smithereens already! Plus all the little kiddos at the school next door.

If you've ever seen a *real* storage tank on a tank farm, such as those around the Houston Ship Channel, blow its multi-ton top in a fire situation, you'd have seen me cringing here, lol.

[MineralMan]

I know. Not everyone is really aware of the risks with storing gasoline. I mean, we all have it in our cars, and in gas cans for our lawnmowers, etc., so we don't usually think of it as dangerous.

That's why I was so worried about al and his story. I mean, I can understand how someone might try something like that to beat the high prices.

I'm just really glad he wasn't serious and that there isn't really any danger. It's really important, I guess, to put a smiley face or something on your message when you're just joking around.

[Rte66]

Thanks for explaining to us all - and hope you get it cleared up with whatever idjuts are flakking you elsewhere. I was about 80% sure you were joking, but we had to know for sure! Thanks for the funny "gotcha"!

*Don't try this at home, boys and girls.*

[Fintan]

You folks may think I'm a minor annoyance, but my Congressman is on the money...

 

[Uncle Vlad]

But there is no Republican energy policy. That's the problem.

[Uncle Vlad]

Bingo! Why don't they get it? The Republicans are like the little dog who has finally learned how to pee on the rug, hit himself with a rolled-up newspaper and throw himself out the back door.

[Rte66]

I used to have Coke bottles of condensate from the initial production of wells I had an interest in, all lined up on my bookshelves in my house - until I realized they were just little Molotov cocktails waiting to happen or nitroglycerin grenades or something, lol.

People would pick one up and say "what's this?" while I'm diving under the dining room table. Having my Sterno fire chafing dish nearby always gave me the willies. Anyway, last move, I threw them out. At least, I hope I did and they're not sitting in an unairconditioned storage unit with my other stuff. I think I would've heard the blast, if so.

[BadAndy]

"must be a jealous Yankee fan wishing you had some pitching that wasn't over 40 years old and a few bats that could hit in the clutch."

Jealous? Of the Mets? That's pretty funny considering that Mets fans consider they had a successful season when they don't finish in the basement.

[Darnright]

Bump for later

[rhombus]

Sure there is, apparently you just haven't liked it. What would YOU like to see as an "energy policy"?

[Uncle Vlad]

Open up drilling in ANWR, see a free flow of oil from Prudhow Bay, start drilling off the coast of Florida and California, open up exploration of Colorado and Utah. Expand nuclear power and allow more refineries. (We haven't built a new refinery in this country since the 1970s.)

That's a start.

[capitalist229]

this country is in desperate need of a leader.

If you and your friends keep that up, you may just get us a Democrat in 2008.

BUMP

[rhombus]

A lot of people agree.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/energy/

Unfortunately a lot of people disagree. They have perfected the art of filibuster.

[Wolfie]

...could anyone be stupid enough to store that much gasoline indoors in glass bottles?

Have you been to a Wal-Mart lately?

[Uncle Vlad]

I just saw Bill Frist on Good Morning America talk about investigating the oil companies for "price gouging." Hey Bill, how about eliminating the Federal tax on gas. Government makes more money per gallon than the oil companies ever dreamed of. Funny how that doesn't even enter your thinking, huh Bill?

When the Republican Senate majority leader starts sounding more and more like e Democrat every day, it's time to bail.

[rhombus]

Yeah the Republicans are really cowed now. Hastert, Frist and Bush all on the class-envy "gouging" bandwagon. Sorry, no one is going to like you more just because you are beating the Democrats to their tired old message. Four dollar gasoline is the price we pay for our Green stupidity, not someone's greed. Go ahead and bail if you want but I don't see that strategy working. Rather, I am going to stick with the party that I think I can exert the most influence on. Admitedly it looks like no one is listening these days but keep griping because if we don't press them, who will?

[Recovering_Democrat]

Not if they can bestir themselves to do something more than stand foursquare against "price gouging."

o Now is the time to demand that Congress passes a decent energy bill.

o Now is the chance to demand that we build some more oil refineries.

o Now is the chance to drill for oil in ANWR.

o Now is the chance to search for oil on the continental shelf off the west and east coasts.

o Now is the chance to rationalize the crazy quilt of gasolines blended for each individual city.

This is absolutely correct. We won't hear of it in the LameStream Media, though.

[Mel Gibson]

FYI, I regret voting for the current resident of the White House, voted for him as Governor of Texas.

He is a Judas Goat and does not represent the interests of the United States but Saudi Arabia and Mexico. You have "eyes but cannot see, ears but cannot hear".

[EBH]

I believe these are the 3-5 gallon bottles used in home water systems. http://www.bottled-water-shop.com/sparkletts.html