Yes congress is the culprit but if you think they will change don’t hole your breath.
That farm package Bush vetoed was insane and now they are going to override the veto. Republicans and Democrats support the bill. That leaves this country and the people in it up the creek. An illegal alien has a better chance of survival in this country than our kids and grandkids will have.
Not enough people call and they feel more pressure from the environmental lobby.
Never have so few denied so much to so many.
Never have so few denied so much to so many.
Someone raised a good point. When the Democrats told President Bush to tell the Saudis to raise output, they basically admitted that increasing the supply will lower the price. So, I am patiently waiting for the Democrats to tell President Bush to tell American oil companies to increase output and refining capacity since both would obviously lower the price.
On another matter, the Democrats are telling us that we want "change." So, if energy and food costs are spiraling upwards, and people vote for the politicians who will do nothing to alleviate the problem, then they obviously don't want change.
If you like $4/gal, Thank Congress.
Pray for W and Our Troops
We need to start acting like we care about America first. Especially conservatives, who by all other measures are the ones actually concerned with our nation’s security and future - yet who have for some reason mostly, bought into the “offshore it all, and sell all the jobs” free trade foolishness.
Nay, the “free trade” treachery.
So-called “free trade” is directly responsible for this mess, and will keep making it worse until our country is destroyed! De-industrialized, wiped out financially, then taken over by purchase, and eventually by force. Yes, that is where we are heading, by not looking out for our country first.
Our trade deficit is the reason, our dollar is dropping.
Sending our factories to China (enabling 1.3 billion newly rich drivers to start buying the very same oil, we otherwise would) is the reason, oil is skyrocketing.
Which of those trends, is improving? (both are getting worse)
We really need to wake up. RIGHT. NOW.
We don’t have much time.
The momentum, is moving very quickly, to our enemies.
You can see it ... all around!!
Spare us the river of tears. Maybe pillorying these guys for "market forces" may not help oil prices, but common, these guys are not "innocent."
When demand of things is controlled by a limited supply, and consequently prices rise substantially above cost of productions, the "windfall" profits constitute what is known as an economic rent, the theory of which dates back to Adam Smith. Said "rents" are certainly fair game for taxes, and, no, taxes on such rents do not pass to the consumer, despite what the wags around hear think.
Look at the bright side: Congress will be on vacation soon. They can’t do much harm when they’re not in session.
Although I don't use this product, since people are starting to use bicycles more, people might be interested in this autoshifting bicycle.
Autoshifting bicycleAlso, I'm keeping an eye on developments in bio-fuel production.
First, the bad news about ethanol. Ethanol fires are evidently harder to control than gasoline fires.
Ethanol fires hard to control 1Hopefully, ways will be developed to make controlling ethanol fires easier.
Ethanol fires hard to control 2
On the brighter side concerning ethanol, there's now evidence that people might get as much, or more, bang per buck for their gas dollars with gas / ethanol mixtures.
Gas-competitive gas / ethanol mixturesAlso, I was surprised by the introduction of a machine (popularly known as a still) for making home-made ethanol.
EFuel100In stark contrast to the 1700 gallons of water required to make one gallon of corn-based ethanol as indicated by the OP, the EFuel100 uses only 170 gallons of water to produce 35 gallons of ethanol In other words, the EFuel100 uses less than 1% (about 0.2%) as much water as corn ethanol, under five gallons, to produce one gallon of ethanol.
But also note that the water used in the EFuel100 process does not take into account the water needed to grow the sugar that is used for this process.
And watch out for fines for violating biofuel regulations.
Fines for violating biofuel regulationsAlso, progress is being made in the development of other non-corn ethanol production technologies as well.
Non-corn ethanolFinally, I've also been hearing good things about biodiesel production but need to find some links.
There should be white hot anger directed towards the “no drill ANWAR (and other places)” people in Congress and environmentalists.
People should think of these people every time they fill up with gasoline.
I think Bush will do something but we must feel a little more pain. It is quickly being made obvious that there is nothing that Congress can or will do.
The problem is that bursting the oil bubble is going to hurt some folks.
HOFMEISTER: In the United States, access to our own oil and gas resources has been limited for the last 30 years, prohibiting companies such as Shell from exploring and developing resources for the benefit of the American people. It is not a free market. According to the Department of the Interior, 62% of all on-shore federal lands are off limits to oil and gas developments, with restrictions applying to 92% of all federal lands. The Argonne National Laboratory did a report in 2004 that identified 40 specific federal policy areas that halt, limit, delay, or restrict natural gas projects. The problem of access can be solved in this country by the same government that has prohibited it. Congress could have chose to lift some or all of the current restrictions on exploration and production of oil and gas. Congress could provide national policy to reverse the persistent decline of domestically secure natural resource development.