Closing Arguments: Your Thoughts on Four Dollar Gas

my first concern is who is making all the money follow the trail.—–next why after approx 40 years since oil embargo 1972 i cannot believe do we not have far more efficient vehicles–we can get from other countryies but run into all kinds of government roadblocks—if a country as brazil can do away with foreign dependance–why cannot the usa–government is too involved in everything with worthless controlls and has never invested enough in alternate fuels–now we have no other choice as we are facing economic ruin.

I would like to know what have our Political leaders been doing before we had a Presidential race? We rely on the people we vote for to look after our interests and we always find that all too often its their own interests their looking after? Somebody sold the American people out, how did we get so dependent on foreign oil? All our leaders do is talk about it during campaigns, and as soon as their elected they cave in to special interests leaving the American people feeling out in the cold.Personally I have had enough of Politicians, enough talk lets see some action!

We should be drilling in ANWR and off both coasts. I hope everyone now sees the need for an active energy program. If they don’t see the need I hope they will get a picture of the porcupine caribou and gaze at it dreamily when they pay their bills.

spugee
we need better fuel mileage and alternate fuels as oil is a limited fuel source

it is called political prostitution plain and simple

Gas prices are a part of the cost of Iraq War:
Aside from the over 4,000 dead and tens of thousands of US troops injured–let alone their “uninjured” relatives the flawed invasion has other costs.
One other example of the economic burden of the flawed invasion of Iraq. Our military presence in Iraq alone accounts for almost 10% of US consumption. Summarized from AP:
The U.S. consumes about 21 million of the world demand of 86 million barrels of oil per day.
The Defense Department is the nation’s single largest user of energy. At 1.6 million gallons a day in Iraq, the war alone accounts for over 7.6% of US demand. If we were to account for total military, let alone government usage we would be over 10% at least.
Getting out of Iraq would cut our consumption almost 10% and likely cut prices too. Iraq is guaranteed consumption at this point.
There was no Al-Qaeda in Iraq until we went then and opened up the borders. Iran was a power but it was contained by Iraq. Sadam was a dictator with evil crazies related and working with him but his people didn’t live in the hell that exists now or over the past few years.
[Put that in your pipe and smoke it.]

There are 65 years of known recoverable oil reserves in the 48 contiguous states. This does not include oil shale(150 years) or an elephant field just found in the Dakotas. It might lower the price per gallon if we used this.

Mr Coffee, we are in Iraq, we are winning, and the price of oil has nothing to do with it. Refold your tin hat for a better fit.

I can walk to practically every place where I need to be. We WILL do so. In addition, I am using a motorcycle to get around. I just hate to see so many people suffering. It is not just lower class that is being affected. This is hurting middle-class America!

Rodney, I try to increase my carbon footprint every day.

How are we winning? By what measure? Are things better there than two years after we invaded? Yes. Before we invaded? No.
Is the Middle East safer because of the invasion? No.
Are we in danger of losing Afghanistan due to troops being misplaced in an ill-conceived war with an ad hoc battle plan. Yes.
BTW: How do you pronounce “Spugee” because it doesn’t sound like a good screen name if you ask me.

Hussein,(the original, not Obama)was killing quite a few Iraqis which has stopped. So yes things are better than before we invaded.
On the Middle East, cite your source(a MSM will not do.
On Afghanistan, cite a source besides your opinion-and yes everybody has one of those too.
On Spugee, I didn’t ask your opinion. You must be a good Democrat since you like to take care of everyone else’s business.

Rodney, you are fighting a battle of wits unarmed. What in the world is the point you were trying to make.

iwas not talking to you wooden head
must have been hit on head when young making you a republican

Sluggo – genius wit as always – maybe I’ll stay up after all.

I just hope it isn’t Spoogee but Spug-ee is only slightly better.

where is spudeeg
mr potato head

It’s fairly simple-
If you belong to the backbone of any country , you’re getting screwed.
Oddly, the brains all think that without the backbone, they can survive.
It trulu is disgusting- watching one unit of an essential bond be so disrespectful of what actually provided them their revenue and existence. EXISTENCE.
The comapnies are playing hardball. I say everyone stack up on some Spam and canned chicken and let those a holes figure out who needs who when we don’t show up for work.
Life is about balance- the poor need the rich as much as THE RICH NEED THE POOR.
Whata bunch of idiots.

Rodney, you are killing me with the name potato(e) head. Thats sparkling repartee’.

sluggo
i do not have any idea as to how the runation of our country will stop—–between the arabs and oil along with china sucking the blood out of us–no jobs no money high prices wish i knew the answer–chinese wallmart still growing what will they do when they have it all.

Mr Coffee, you are a character from the Wizard of Oz-no brain.

Rodney, the fix is simple, keep Congress in recess.

wish i had his money and a few of his broads–

It is becoming apparent that drastic measures must be implemented to save, not only our economy, but world-wide starvation. Right now, our military uses as much oil as the country of Greece; 350,000 barrels of oil each and every day. Eighty-one million barrels are pumped out of the earth each day. It can only last just so long. Is it 5 years? Is it 7 years? It is high time that certain curtailments of unnecessary use of oil be implemented. Congress should immediately limit all frivolous flights of the military’s airplanes and helicopters-pronto. This should include disbanding the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds and all air-shows until we can drill a bottomless oil pocket.

I think the price of gas is going to continue to shoot up along with everyone’s blood pressure. This will be a boon to the pharmaceutical industry, but it won’t be passed on in any form or advantage to the consumer.

I think we should park the congressional limosines and make Obama walk to all his speeches carrying his teleprompter. The people should make Pelosi quit wearing petroleum based make-up and tell Harry Reid to direct his hot air toward electrical generation. We should also make the Air Force ride tricycles and make the navy paddle its boats. Now there is a well thought out solution.

spugee
i thought you left.

why are you not showing compressed air cars? why does the news not cover the posative possiblies of nuculear energy?. but seriously we never here of the compressed air cars yet they will be replacing combustion engines. Is it because our oil companies own our government and media? I watch a news report on Neil young putting an eletric engine in his 50′s Thunderbird that had a small gas generator and went from 10 miles to the gallon to 100 and Aronold put a 40,000 engine in his hummer and when from 10 miles a gallon to 40. At the end of the report n oone asked what are they not coming out of detriot like that. WHY?

It’s over. The prices will continue to go up and we are no longer able to control our own government. We are at the mercy of other countries…they cut the oil supply off and we die. Not literally, but our economy dies.
I think we need some new interventions and the USA needs to change it’s attitudes. Stop buying stupid hummers and freaking cars that can float if you drive in the river.
It’s over though…our economy is crashing and its more than oil…but its a big factor.

I repeat. Drill in ANWR and off both coasts. If you disagree think of me laughing at you when you pay your bill at the pump.

The problem is the fools that people send to Congress. It is an old saw that the people get the Senator and Representative they deserve.

Rodney, do not worry for me, I don’t believe the sh*t that congress promotes that says it not their fault.

Government makes more per gallon than the oil companies. Does that lead any of you deep thinkers to the correct answer?

cost the arabs 2.00 per barrel to produce—where is all the money going–a few more millionairs before bushy gets out

Rodney, if you are right (which remains to be seen) have Congress get after the Arabs. When they are finished laughing, tell me how you want to heat your house next winter.

I know I should proof ready my stuff sorry

spugee
i heat my house with coal—-and bushy even tryed kissing arab butt and got nowhere.someone suggested trading food for oil

A national referendum on term limits would help get our governement back. The same people do the state referendum’s each time and know how to do it so one could contact them all and work towards a national referendum for term limits. Its a realistic possibility

kraze
we had a fast breathing reactor built i believe in the sixties—uses spent rods fron conventional nuke plants–there is enough around to power our country for 1000 years—–carter had it shut dowd due to pressure from greenpiece–slick willy had it dismantled–now we need to know WHY

LG, you obviously just started thinking about this issue. Bush/Cheney have nothing to do with Congress screwing this up for 30 years.

You will be walking everywhere before the Arabs cave.

arabs now have chinese market to supply

switch grass is eleven times more efficent to make into ethanol than corn and its not a food source.

cuba is a major producer of sugar cane–would be a good supply for fuel production—-however they are communist and we have embargo against them–WHAT THE HELL ARE THE CHINESE

Why doesn’t congress take the tariff off imported sugar?

GUESS CASTRO WONT PAY THEM OFF

Congress and your representatives have their hands in your back pocket. It not the oil companies that are the problem-its Congress. Wake up and smell that money.

they won’t let me show the link put compressed air car on your search engine you might be surpriused

you can see them operate on u tube but the good news is this is just the begining of a new energy revolution

eat beans
make intestinal gas free alternative

you plug it into your elertical outlet and for 4.00 in eletricity a compressor charges the tanks you can have high pressure compressors put into gas stations too. congress will find a why for them not to come here because they are owned by the oil companies. why do you think they were invented in france? cuz the oil company does not own thier government.

you can argue with me about thier existance but before you do I would educate myself if I were you. my only non proable point is our goverment won’t let them in but look me up in 5 years and lets see what happenes

if you noticed I also talked about nucular energy so we can be off oil I also offered the the alternative to corn as swtich grass

kraze
dont forget ass gass a viable solution

I am talking reality ass grass just shows how much you don’t take this seriously night live in your world I will opt for solutions over aimless bitching. Night think compressed air cars combustion engines will become obsolete kills two birds with one stone less cost and it’s green they exhaust air.

A major reason for the spike in oil prices is the falling dollar. Had the dollar maintained parity with the Euro, crude oil would be roughly $90 per barrel now. Sooner or later the Federal Reserve will have to have to raise interest rates in order to defend the dollar. I just hope we don’t have to re-live the 1970s before the Fed realizes this.

The dollar is falling because we are sending so many overseas to buy oil. Nobody needs anymore dollars.

good night to all and to all a good night

As long as the media keeps talking about rising gas prices and telling that they are going up the oil co. are going to see that we are expecting it and keep raising prices!! Look at history as soon as we stop taking about it they will level off like they always have!!!

It upsets me that we are being told that we are no longer “allowed” to have out-of-town friends, but it’s even worse when we don’t know WHO is telling us!
During the Nixon era, there was a persistent rumor that the government was considering “travel cards” like the Soviet Union used, and anyone who wanted to leave their “home area” would need permission in the form of a travel permit. Such trips would be limited to specific destinations and dates with the reason for the trip clearly stated before the permit would be issued.
The rumor may or may not have been true, but now they’ve found a way to accomplish almost the same thing, and we’re all going along with it.
The new rule is much simpler: Stay home or go broke.

As Jay Leno so appropriately joked about it the other night:
Democrats don’t want to drill for oil here….and they said it won’t be available anyway until 10 years…..the same thing they were saying 10 years ago…
Exactly. Thank you democrats for screwing yet another thing up.

The rising of GAS PRICE is an Internationla issues. So it could be solved internationally.

It’s $8.50 in UK – you guys in US have gas at bargain basement level.

You have two oil men in the White House and a Congress that is totally inept. They played right into big oils hands when they did not force car makers to build efficient cars and we let them tear up our railroads so that everything ships my truck, which is the most inefficient way to move things. Compare the tons moved per mile by a train compared to a truck. Our politicians better do something really fast as this economy is going to crash & burn.

It’s made life more difficult for lots of people, but I think it is forcing many to rethink how they go about their daily lives: consolidating trips, walking when possible, taking public transportation. We need to invest in renewable energy and developing more fuel-efficient cars. Drilling for more oil is not the answer. Once the oil supply is gone, it’s gone. We replaced our old car (200,000+ miles) that got reasonably good mileage with a used hybrid last year.

enough talk. Congress needs to put the pre-enron controls back on trading. The investors do not want to earn their money, they want to steal it .
What good is your money when the world economy collapses. Even Harry Smith won’t let certain people finish their reasonable solutions if he doesn’t agree with them. Until we can learn once again to respect one another and put the people of the country first, nothing can be fixed.

I think it is shameful that our government isn’t doing more. The general public cannot stand much more. Between the gas, the untility rates,and food costs, it is getting harder and harder to make it each week. I don’t know where this will all end, but it is really hurting familys. Someone has to do SOMETHING!!!

Russ….are you calling Obama an Arab? YOu so stupid. Wait until McCain gets in and we’ll see corporations making even more profits and the middle calss gone. Plus we will be in a never ending war…GET REAL

you mean McBush as he will do the same thing bush does. and anyone who thinks we need more oil when there are alternatives that are green are missing the opportunities. Brazil’s government made laws in 70′s to get off oil and look how they are doing. more oil is not the answer

We set back for too long and let people pass laws saying don’t drill for oil here, there or anywhere in the U. S.(but they didn’t stop using oil from somewhere else) and don’t build new and efficient refineries. Now foreign oil has taken us hostage financially while they make billions. We have given them a monopoly at our expense. Alternative fuels are great but they aren’t going to replace what we have overnight, or anytime real soon. We need to make our elected officials listen to what we really need and not idealism. I love getting out in the wilderness but I do have to get there first.

WHO CARES ABOUT THE COST OF GAS? OBAMA CAN TAKE 300 PEOPLE TO EUROPE — AND HE ISN’T EVEN PRESIDENT!
I THOUGHT TO BE PRESIDENT, YOU HAD TO BE “ELECTED”? HE WASN’T EVEN “ELECTED” TO REPRESENT THE DEMOCRATS — HE WAS “SELECTED” BY THE DNC AND BIASED MEDIA.
The media is coronating Obama — Reagan and Kennedy were both “elected” before they went and spoke in Germany to the public. I think we should have the election by the Anerican people first, and then the media and should back who is elected — not who they favor. This thing in Germany, he is not speaking for the American people yet.
HOW MUCH IS THIS TRIP COSTING THE TAXPAYERS?
Barack Hussein Obama “hopes” we won’t notice how many times he’s “changed” his mind.
Why did Obama wait until he is running for President to find out what’s going on overseas?
ALL IT IS NOW IS A HUGE “PHOTO-0P” WITH THE BIASED MEDIA IN TOW.
If he cared at all about what is going on — he would have been before now — and don’t even get me started on Afghanistan — he should have been there several times — considering his committee appointment.
This man is a fake and a fraud and my only hope is that the American people wake up before it is too late. HE IS A DANGER TO AMERICA.
ANYBODY BUT OBAMA