Like father, like son… so terribly out of touch with the concerns facing the world.

Phil, saying Bush is ‘out of touch’ is a compliment. It’s more like deliberate deniability.

The original Bush cabinet’s full intention was for this exact scenario: an unstable middle east leading to high gas prices.

Scott McClellan, while respectably revealing what everybody already knew, completely avoided the capitalistic desires of these people………

I love Bush!

(Merkwurdigliebe)

Has there ever been a better time to up our refining capacity and standardize our gas? Lower the taxes on gas as well, and see how the situation fares, as legal/lobbyist issues are going to tie down the green push for a couple of years

Coach- remember, Capitalism, properly regulated, is no bad thing…

Here we go again, Murky: Capitalism as a reason to invade and occupy a country is not a good thing. However, figuring out a way to offer people a product that doesn’t rely on petroleum is a great thing.

You do see the difference in the two, right?

Electric cars are going to hit the market early 2009. There’s not much else the lobbyists/big oil can do about it. 150+ miles per charge. 10 minutes to charge. Top speed 95 mph. 0-60 in 7-10 seconds. Some faster. 50 grand. Tax incentives to offset high cost. Simple. Done. Plugs into a normal outlet.

You may never need a gas station again.

besides electric cars, scientistss are developing microbes that replace industrial processes, for example, bacteria that produce long-chain hydrocarbons (gas) as a waste product as they consume their feedstock.

actually, we’re so far in it that it’s going to be awhile before gas comes back down, if ever. there is only so much that can be done right now. opec has us in a choke hold and they couldn’t increase production if they wanted to.

it’s the big lie.

corn-based ethanol is unfortunately a steeping stone until we can utilize switch grass or algae as feedstock for biofuel. desperation will give way to technological advance, no matter what the oil-tards want you to believe. and most rational people are going to eventually see the necessity for nuclear power as well.

First the Liberals were saying we were invading Iraq for access to cheap oil. Now Liberals are blaming Bush’s Iraq policy for high oil prices. Which is it?
Or is John Kerry( Mr Flip-flop) writing your talking points again?

Yes, we can and will change our way of powering our vehicles. In the mean time, there is so much conserving that can be done. I read that the U.S. has military installations in 123 countries.(!) Can you imagine how much fuel must be wasted on those bases and getting supplies to them? And just generally, what a waste of money those bases are? God, I am so ready for a new direction.

(Merkwurdigliebe)

Coach– I wasnt arguing with your point, just simply saying that capitalism with some restraints is better than the alternatives out there

Draft Hillary Clinton,

Ms Hillary Clinton, former First Lady and, at present, the popular Democratic Senator from New York, as their respective candidates for the presidency in 2008. (”Draft” is a procedure peculiar to the US, whereby the rank-and-file of a political party rise in a tsunami-like upsurge thrusting the nomination on a person of their choice, regardless of his/her willingness, instead of, as is normally the case, of a candidate going after the nomination. General Dwight Eisenhower is the only example so far of a person “drafted” and swept into the White House in 1952.)
My demand gains added piquancy when it is remembered that at least 40 countries, the more prominent among them being Argentina, Bangladesh, China, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Turkey and the UK, covering a wide spectrum of political and electoral systems, have had women as heads of State/government, in some instances on more than one occasion.
It is puzzling that the US, obsessed with so many other catchwords like democracy, human rights and so on, is letting the rest of the world score a point over it in this vital respect of maintaining equality between men and women in elective offices.
Coming to think of it, in the US, women’s participation in politics was stymied until 1920, the year in which women there got the right to vote for the first time.

Ms Hillary Clinton have compelling qualifications — brains, charisma and political savvy — for being elected President, and will make, I am sure, a better job of it than their male predecessors.
So, on with it, party faithful, stop not until the goal is reached!

Tell a friend

Draft Hillary Clinton,

Ms Hillary Clinton, former First Lady and, at present, the popular Democratic Senator from New York, as their respective candidates for the presidency in 2008. (”Draft” is a procedure peculiar to the US, whereby the rank-and-file of a political party rise in a tsunami-like upsurge thrusting the nomination on a person of their choice, regardless of his/her willingness, instead of, as is normally the case, of a candidate going after the nomination. General Dwight Eisenhower is the only example so far of a person “drafted” and swept into the White House in 1952.)
My demand gains added piquancy when it is remembered that at least 40 countries, the more prominent among them being Argentina, Bangladesh, China, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Turkey and the UK, covering a wide spectrum of political and electoral systems, have had women as heads of State/government, in some instances on more than one occasion.
It is puzzling that the US, obsessed with so many other catchwords like democracy, human rights and so on, is letting the rest of the world score a point over it in this vital respect of maintaining equality between men and women in elective offices.
Coming to think of it, in the US, women’s participation in politics was stymied until 1920, the year in which women there got the right to vote for the first time.

Ms Hillary Clinton have compelling qualifications — brains, charisma and political savvy — for being elected President, and will make, I am sure, a better job of it than their male predecessors.
So, on with it, party faithful, stop not until the goal is reached!

Tell a friend

Jed Clampett

He was laughing at the ridiculous prospect that they would fail to meet their projected target of $150 bbl oil and $6 gal gasoline.

Jed Clampett

A subsidy for a hydrogen boost system fed by electrolysis produced onboard would go a long way to instantly reducing oil prices. Gasoline prices would also drop due to the increased efficiency. Within a few short years, intelligent tinkerers would find a way to make enough hydrogen from on-board electrolysis to power the vehicle completely on a mix of hydrogen and oxygen, thereby removing our insane dependance on a poison as fuel that profits our enemies.

Next step, remove it as fertilizer and other chemical irritants in our environment.

JUST PHUCKING BUILD ELECTRIC CARS ALREADY. Who needs to worry about the ‘infrastructure’ if everytime you leave your house you have a full battery that can travel up to 150 miles on a charge? Pack an extention cord, and you’re in business.

It’s much easier to retrofit and upgrade a power plant than it is to upgrade a few hundred thousand gas stations…………..

The US military consumes as much gasoline in one day as the country of Sweden.

To clarify, electric cars can’t charge in ten minutes (or an hour) at home using the standard circuit wired into normal homes – that will remain as an overnight trickle charge. The amperage to replenish a car super quickly will have to remain at some sort of filling station that can accommodate the huge amount of power that must be thrown around.

So no, you can’t just drive 150 miles and then borrow a 110v outlet from some rest stop’s coke machine. then quickly be back on the road. They will still have to build some infrastructure, but one that is infinitely easier than one for distributing hydrogen.

Jed Clampett

You can make electricity with a miniature engine, perhaps 2 pistons. Then use the energy generated to run your electric car when the batteries have been depleted. An AC motor is much lighter and efficient than a gasoline motor. Government subsidies could be used to convert all these SUV’s and other gas burners. tax rebates could make it an impossible to resist retrofit. The miniature engine could be a diesel type engine that runs on many different fuels, so that if natural gas is cheapest, you can use it. or ethanol, or gasoline, or peanut oil. You know, if you really put the economic power of the nation behind it, you could change the current paradigm in a matter of a few years. What is missing is the political and entrepeneurial will.

The economic situation in this country is only going to worsen not as a result of how much Americans are paying but rather where the money is going. Taxes on gasoline have been around 40 cents for the past DECADE! Unfortunately with the $2.60 increase on gasoline since 1998 all of that money is going towards these Saudi Arabian billionaires rather than staying within the country. In some parts of Europe there are paying as much as $10.50/gallon and the way that the get by is PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. In the United States public transportation is viewed for the poor. “Respectable business men” do not ride the bus to work. If taxes were to increase there would be more pressure on Americans to use public transportation. It would be money that would stay in the country and could be used for things like creating better transit systems. Sadly no politicians will put forth an increase on taxes on gas because Americans do not want to hear higher gas prices on top of steady spike on prices already.
Increase tax on gasoline + increase in public transportation = better American economy