Gas is $4.00 a gallon, and the Democrats are filibustering against drilling for oil. The Democrats are wholly controlled by environmental groups that lobby in Washington. When the environmentalists get the kick in the tail they’ve earned, we’ll have more energy.
The upside is that this is a Dem Congress. Another negative enhancement to their resume. We need to get them to defeat some more commonsense legislation prior to November.
From the Pelosi news conference of 05-07-08:
‘Drilling is the failed energy policy of yesterday that has brought us
record gas prices today’.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-07-2008/0004808866&EDATE=
the democrat-and-rino-heavy u.s. congress;
scu&bags in action.
(let them eat ethanol; damn scu&bags)
Oh yeah, I'm Cogitator: meanwhile, develop carbon sequestration and atmospheric CO2 extraction technologies.
The problem is that the American people don’t understand economics and oil and never will.
Democrats don’t care how high the price of gas goes. They want people to stop buying it. The rich will be the only ones on the road if they have their way.
Dingell in Michigan recently proposed a .50 increase on each gallon. Why would he do that?? For exactly that reason.
THEY DO NOT CARE. ITS WHAT LIBERALS WANT.
Senate says halt oil reserve shipments
Lynch mob is comin’ when it hits $10 per. Where will the weenies be hiding out ?
It’s only going to get worse as more of the stupid population that votes, votes more liberals into government.
Needed more PR to generate pressure from constituents.
Didn’t even know this was up for a vote.
We need a Levin Surge to let these idiots know how we feel. After McCain's stupid green speech yesterday the Dems know they don't have to give an inch. Even McCain won't increase domestic drilling. He told O'Reilly he won't allow new drilling anywhere. AAAUUUUUGGGGHHHHH!!!!
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 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% as much water as corn ethanol, under five gallons, to produce one gallon of ethanol (corrections welcome).
But watch out for fines for violating biofuel regulations.
Fines for violating biofuel regulationsFinally, progress is being made in the development of other non-corn ethanol production technologies as well.
Non-corn ethanol
“Senate rejects GOP oil drilling plan (defeated Tuesday by a vote of 56-42)”
That is 56 people that need to be FIRED!
We can only hope that McCain selects a real conservative as his VP. After all McCain is getting real old and his likelihood of not making it through a full term, much less a second, is pretty good. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t wish him dead, just that when he does pass he does not screw his party one last time by leaving another RHINO to be president.
The price of gas does not effect these guys. I don’t think anything will happen until about ten or so million of us march on Washington and shut it down. If they are not going to pass anything to help out the country than it would be better to let them do nothing at all.
I want them to drill in the Colorado/Wyoming/Utah area. Much, much more oil than Alaska.
I’m beginning to think that the only way to STOP THIS STRANGEHOLD is to have a MASSIVE TAX REBELLION. A tea party if you will.