Gas prices

The EPA and environmentalists in the US are killing our economy.
If they (we) really cared about this planet and life on it we would stop the economies that ARE raping the earth.

300+ million people in the US. 6+ billion on earth and .0001% are commodities speculators and driving oil prices where no man has gone before.

4:45pm and Daytona is delayed. All this crap is putting me in a bad mood!

One more thing my kid is back in Afghanistan.
When the economy is in the pits alcohol sales goes up - I'm going to buy some beer!

SN206 wrote: Well good to hear! Now we can ski! Now, all you have to do is trade in all that burnt orange crap for some quality Sooner Style!

O no! A damb sooner... A sooner.. O man

I did a quick search on the web for "oil pipeline break rupture spill" and I found a few days worth of reading including a spill into the Yellowstone river where they blamed the river. A few good ones in Canada recently.

I guess we can conclude that the saftey of pipelines is about as safe as ab offshore drilling/oil rig or a tanker ship with a drunk captain.

Waterdog wrote: One more thing my kid is back in Afghanistan.

Andy, I cannot imagine anything that would make me as proud and scared at the same time as that. May God bless him and your family.

Dave

If pete wants I can post pictures from my deployments in case he wants to doubt that too.

A solution? Let's just use all the oil up and then someone will have to come up with an answer. The oil companies will have all the wealth in the world and they will come up with something else when there is no more oil to exploit. Maybe it will involve magnetism. It won't be in my lifetime.

I don't have the solution and if I did I sure wouldn't be posting on a website I'd be swimming in my trillions.

The oil companies have too much power, you won't see any changes until were about empty. Then you will see new technology and ideas come forward.

GlassSeeker wrote: "Obama has stopped all offshore drilling" Not true, do some research before you post BS.

Window glass I dont BS. He has blocked 103 new oil rigs for for offshore drilling. You dig..

Eric,
I understand but there are things that do go wrong from time to time. So what if we followed the lefts idiology?? We be screwed. Look at Obama. We sure didnt have a problem with Bush..

Ski you said Obama stopped ALL offshore drilling and that's not true. So just cut that jive.
George HW Bush is the President who banned offshore drilling in 1990.
President Obama is for limited offshore drilling, in March of 2010 he announced he was opening new areas to offshore drilling in US coastal waters shortly thereafter DeepSpill Horizon occurred becoming the largest oil spill in US history. Obama still did not ban it.

Obama opens new areas to offshore drilling

GlassSeeker wrote: I hope it reduces the number of huge wakeboard boats out on the Delta so I can more easily seek and find the smooth flat glass my feet crave.

Gas prices up Wake Rats down

GlassSeeker wrote: Ski you said Obama stopped ALL offshore drilling and that's not true. So just cut that jive. George HW Bush is the President who banned offshore drilling in 1990. President Obama is for limited offshore drilling, in March of 2010 he announced he was opening new areas to offshore drilling in US coastal waters shortly thereafter DeepSpill Horizon occurred becoming the largest oil spill in US history. Obama still did not ban it. Obama opens new areas to offshore drilling

Obama put a moratorium on deep water drilling. It was successfully challenged in court but the administration kept the moratorium in place anyway. Since the moratorium was lifted 5 wells that were underway have resumed, and a whopping 1 new deep water well has been approved.

eric lavine wrote: nuke power and plug in cars, what is there to think about? there is enough uranium pulled out of warheads to power this country, hydro, what do you guys sit there and think these physisists dont think about this or even the government? there is plenty of LNG to power this nation, I wise man would suck the Middle East dry, and then use our own resources...and then they will call on us

Eric, you are right, this could be an excellent solution, but we will need a lot more generating capacity to make it a reality. We already have rolling brown outs in California, what will it be like if we all plug in our cars every night? We should have stated building new nuke plants five years ago in preparation for the chevy volt today. We could drop our electrical prices, help out our industry, and reduce dependence, but how may new nuke plants have come on line in the last 20 years? Here in Minnesota then Governor Pawlenty signed onto a green energy mandate demanding I believe between 20-30% of our energy has to be from renewable sources. The renewables cost 30% more per kilowatt than coal fired or nuke, so all our bills have gone up, and we have to pay out more in energy assistance. This is one of the reasons Obama wants to subsidize electric cars with a 10 grand tax credit. We would not need the subsidy if we had cheap electricity.

I see Europe still has diesel as the better (by no means great) value.
We have diesel at about $.50-.60 per gal higher. Add to that the pig urine additive to make the exhaust cleaner which adds another $.10 per gal,

Kristof wrote: It will soon be unaffordable to drive a decent car or boat over here... Just to put things into perspective for you Americans... And, I converted the Euro/liter price into $/Gallon for you guys. Gas prices in Europe at the moment: Belgium: Gasoline: 8,85 $/Gal Diesel: 7,96 $/Gal Germany: Gasoline: 9,00 $/Gal Diesel: 7,71 $/Gal France: Gasoline: 8,83 $/Gal Diesel: 7,80 $/Gal Holland: Gasoline: 9,59 $/Gal Diesel: 7,69 $/Gal I just took Belgium and our neighbouring countries.

I feel for you, that is what happens when you have a government that is not out to serve the people who support it, and is trying to socially engineer their behavior. Sadly our president worships that type of government, and we were dumb enough to elect him.

In the seventies we created the Department of Energy to fix all our energy problems. Here is their mission.

Mission

The Department of Energy's overarching mission is to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States; to promote scientific and technological innovation in support of that mission; and to ensure the environmental cleanup of the national nuclear weapons complex. The Department's strategic goals to achieve the mission are designed to deliver results along five strategic themes:

Energy Security: Promoting America's energy security through reliable, clean, and affordable energy.

Nuclear Security: Ensuring America's nuclear security.

Scientific Discovery and Innovation: Strengthening U.S. scientific discovery, economic competitiveness, and improving quality of life through innovations in science and technology.

Environmental Responsibility: Protecting the environment by providing a responsible resolution to the environmental legacy of nuclear weapons production
Management Excellence: Enabling the mission through sound management

45 years later we have not solved any of the problems, we have merely subsidized them. No one item on this list should trump another. Our president said early in his presidency that he wanted to see gas prices rise, just not to quickly (or in an election year). That is against the goal of providing affordable energy and having economic competitiveness.