Bring on 6$ a Gallon Gas

SFGate.com ^ | Mark Morford

[VeniVidiVici]

Morford. What a putz. So classically illustrates a liberal too.

Implement a favorite liberal program so that everyone lives they way you want them to, but, oh yeah, we need to give breaks and subsidies to these folks over here otherwise it wouldn't be fair.

Do they even see the stupidity and hypocracy in their schemes?

[Qout]

Raise the price of gasoline high enough and I might decide to start makin' my own high test.

Gas Too Pricey? Make Your Own
Tennessee Man Sells Still and Kits to Make Ethanol at Home
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Business/story?id=1902339&page=1

The directions are all here.
http://www.ethanolstill.com/

Of course that's a type of adaptation Mr. Morford doesn't expect. It's one of those unintended consequences that happens when you mess with free market forces.

[Screaming_Gerbil]

He's also deluded in the typical liberal way about other things:

Another example: You know what would happen if guns -- all guns, everywhere -- were banned outright tomorrow?...

...Over a short blip of time -- say about 10 or 20 years... Guns would begin to disappear. From the culture, from the drug dealers, from the streets...

[Screaming_Gerbil]

This might be a new record for Morford, he wrote an entire article without a reference to gay sex. Though he did mention porn.....

He does manage to fit in a refence to an orgasm in there...

Think 20 years is too long? BS. It is but an eyeblink, a twitch, a faint toe spasm in the great long orgasm of time.

[Young Scholar]

Mark Morford's Notes & Errata column appears every Wednesday and Friday...

er·ra·tum n. pl. er·ra·ta: An error in printing or writing...

[ChEng]

Actually, they do drill off the coast of California. How about drilling off the West coast of Florida (where I reside) and the wastes of Alaska? I was staying in a hotel in Scotland, the hotel owner had a Pathfinder, said it cost him a $100 every fillup, that was in 1997..

[backhoe]

I have been covering, ( Or, as Seamole puts it...-backhoe's pseudoblog--... ) pseudo-blogging, this issue for years, so allow me to drop out of Lurk & Link mode for a rare bit of commentary-- we all need to get serious about our dependency on foreign sources of energy, and use our own resources.

Our consumer-based economy is driven by and dependent upon 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 in the living room, and driving one car per family-- probably a Hudson Hornet or a Nash Metropolitan...

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

2) build a lot of next-generation nuclear power plants, not just for electricity, but for any process requiring heat, power, or steam.
And if we replaced our existing nuclear plants with this one there would be significant benefits.

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 this 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, we should all practice it- 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. Then again, there is this to ponder:
Energy From the Gulf Stream
http://www.energy.gatech.edu/presentations/mhoover.pdf

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?

Vest-Pocket Summary:

1- drill for gas & oil like crazy- onshore, offshore, and in Alaska
2- go nuclear for power
3- convert stationary plants to clean coal technology or Next-Gen Nuclear
4- slash taxes and regulations like crazy

[B4Ranch]

If you've got it, a truck brought it.

[B4Ranch]

It's nice to be debt free, isn't it?

[dalereed]

Sure is!

It's also comforting to be in a financial position to take advantage of other peoples misery when their financial foolishness catches up with them.

[ElkGroveDan]

Why should they suffer because a bunch dumb asses in California and New York are hung up on some tree hugger fairy tale that ANWR is the garden of Eden

For the record there are only TWO dumbasses in California holding up ANWR. Meanwhile there are two senators for each tiny little state in the Northeast that add up to a major political coalition -- including several RINOs. Blame people from states smaller that most Western counties for stopping ANWR.