Pathetic that the popluace can see the writing on the wall and has for years while the policy makers who should be looking ahead are blinded by… ummm, shall we say sunglasses made of lobbyist incentives to remain satisfied that the issue is under firm control.

When is big business going to wake up and realize that the technology already here and they will make more by implementing it than bankrupting the country?

Don’t need a degree in economics to figure this one out.

“(Obama? McCain? Honest to effing god is that the best we could do in a time when this country needs a great man to lead it?”..

Those are my exact thoughts everytime some inane political rantings fall from their lips. I can’t believe that these two horses made it to the political finishing line..

While McCain maybe the lesser of two evils, his positions on just about any issue seem to shift like the sands of the Sahara..

He also suffers just a wee bit from pandering syndrome as well. I doubt we would get much of an energy policy under his presidency, being that he is a Global Warming believer..

Not to get into a political banter of who did what when, but, to make a point, I have to mention that Clinton vetoed drilling in ANWAR in 1995, and kept in place, the ban on off shore drilling.

The whole “we won’t have energy available in ten years” argument was made then too.

Just imagine if they did drill in every place oil was available back then, we would be taking less of a beating at the pump today..

Bush has since publicly lifted the ban by executive decree. So all that is left is for Congress to act. And act, they have!

Madam Pelosi, the first lady speaker of the house, led by a coalition of the “Democratic” faithful has finally revealed their secret plan.

She wants to dump 700,000 barrels from the strategic oil reserve, resulting, as she sez, in lower prices at the pump!

Stroke of genius..

Happy days are here again, and 1.90 a gallon prices will had by all. Ah, well, not really.

In a nation (US) that uses 85 million barrels of oil a day, and a market that prices oil globally, it is just a hiccup at best. And now, she, not Bush is standing in the way of letting drilling

No price relief will be had by anyone, anytime soon. She just said the other day that even though the public wants to drill, and a bill is in congress, which has the votes to pass, she will not let it on the floor for a vote..

“She said that she, and the congress is to busy cleaning up George Bush’s mess”..

Ah, yes, hearings on steroids, and calling oil companies in for a little chat about “windfall” profits. Hey America, there’s you change, and your audacity of hope!

Funny story about congress and oil company executives that have to sit through this..

Maxine Waters from California, had a “communist slip”, and actually revealed to the oil company executives gathered before here that:

“This socialist, err, liberial, in me, would like to take over and Nationalize your companies!” I am paraphrasing here, but it is close enough for government work!

I guess the bottom line is that we better just all get bikes! Because if B. Obama gets elected, with a Democratic congress in full control, then we will have no oil shale, no clean coal, no nuclear power, and definitely no expansion in domestic oil exploration.

Sad Indeed..

Robert C – The Wholesale Products Guy..

http://junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080710.html

http://www.votenader.org/media/2008/07/11/Pickens/

Nader is actually hailing Pickens’ plan (I had a feeling he would).

And just because he is not a “viable” candidate, does not mean that supporting Nader will not have an effect on the election. He is opening up the national debate.

And maybe he can become viable — in a three-way race, you could win as little as 34% of the vote (don’t know how that would work out with the anti-democratic electoral college …)

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As for ANWR, the way I see it, we don’t actually need it yet. Why not wait for the rest of the world’s oil to be depleted? Then when everyone else needs oil the most, and they’re willing to pay $1000+ /barrel for it, the US can control the market … why squander the resource now?

In the meantime, maybe alternative energy sources and conservation will advance enough that oil will become a “has-been” energy source, and we will have preserved the refuge.

Just a thought.

IMO, it is insane not to drill based on some environmental boogyman.

This is an interesting site…http://www.anwr.org/ (I’m not affiliated in any way with it)

“More than 75% percent of Alaskans support exploration and production on the Coastal Plain of ANWR. “