The ex husband's credit card is linked to the getaway car. Color me "not surprised."
JMR

The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.

Politico has an article "Pelosi: At-risk Dems back drilling" http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12304.html revealing Pelosi's plan to play out the clock on the 110th Congress until she gets a bigger majority and a patsy president after the November elections.

It seems like Pelosi is even more arrogant than the 'Promised One' if that is possible.  Alternatively is Pelosi the real Puppet Master?

 Goldman Sachs is right to a degree, demand will increase as people adjust to the price, tho some conservstion will occur due to people trading for more fuel efficient vehicles and the efforts of those trying to "save the planet" from "global warming". People are angry, for different reasons and at different targets. But overall they are angry because high energy cost are an inconvenience to there accustomed standard of living, and if they are a little bit over-extended on credit, it can crimp that lifestyle dramaticaly and they get really angry and stressed and they look for "who" to blame. If ole Mac can and will point the finger of blame at the Dems(dims), and make it stick, for not allowing us to increase our own domestic supply by drilling offshore and in Alaska, he could easily win the election.

The U.S. auto makers will shift to more fuel efficient vehicles, because long term high energy cost and short supplies of oil are not going away any time soon. Because there is another 800lb gorilla on the block called China, and India, and other developing countries. The U.S. was the big 400lb gorilla for a long time, but not anymore. The developement of these other countries along with our own increasing demand will keep oil prices high for years to come, although there may be periods of boom and bust which will cause the price to fluctuate dramatically. Overall the price trend will be upwards, unless and untill, we, are someone developes an alternative.

There are serious security concerns, both economic and military, tied to the price of energy and the availible supply and demand equation. Yet Americans will continue to consume every bit of energy they can afford without a thought to where it comes from, or to the consequences of how weak we are if, we are not energy independant and energy strong. At least that's what we were doing untill gas went upwards of three dollars a gallon?

kilrod

Remember, only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American Soldier

How this affects the election is going to be very dicey.  If gasoline prices level off or go lower, the public will become complacent again over the causes of the run up and take a very important issue away from the GOP.  The public seems to suffer from ADHD with their short attention span and gullibility to lib propaganda.  So the big question is will 90 days be a long enough period without record breaking price levels in gasoline for the Dems to once again distract the public with their glittering costumes performing their song and dance routine?  It seems to me Pelosi's shunning of the drilling ban debate is definitely a run the clock out tactic and they the Dems have apparently agreed to a game plan that is designed to lull the public into complacency until Nov 4th.

The GOP needs to keep the issue front and center and also expose the fallacy of alternative energy, especially wind energy. 

 Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.  

FLASH 8/5/08 11:31:52 AM ET: Presidential debate moderators: Jim Leherer of PBS, Tom Brokaw of NBC, Gwen Ifill of PBS and Bob Scheiffer of CBS... Developing... 

Talk about stacking the deck.  This would be the national softball championship for Barry O. 

Postatem obscuri lateris nescitis

As he clearly thinks the nanny state should step in when Subway screws up his sandwhich.

(h/t: Drudge)

The truth is insensitive. - Neal Boortz

I'm sick to death of the media, and the questions they ask of the candidates and the way they run the debates.

Since the constitutional powers accorded to the President of the United States do not include "solving all problems" and "Making your wildest dreams come true", one could sorta look at what the president's powers are and ask some relative questions.

For instance, what would the candidate be looking for in a Treasury Secretary? Secretary of State? Judicial appointments? Ambassadors? 

Feds leave rates unchanged...

Stocks up over 325

Oil down about 3.00 a barrel

Can't wait to hear the bad news on all the other talking head shows..because that's their job, that's what they do...after all it is Repub administration, they hate Bush and they have hope and change with their agenda with Obama....

Not gonna' happen try as they might.

It is sometimes fun listening to their agenda.

Poor leftist babies. 

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_10103554

Your girl is winning our hearts and minds again.

"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008

Read it and weep!

"In order to maintain US lifestyles America must maintain Economic EFFICIENCY much moreso than creating economic GROWTH via population growth.

But economic efficiency is NOT just about a wide variety of independent sustainable heat SOURCES. Its also about maintaining viable and sustainable heat SINKS, particularly rivers lakes and coastal oceans. This is just very basic Thermodynamics. Coastal oceans and rivers are visibly gummed up as seen at ports like Ft Myers in the GOM and will not allow further economic efficiency, no matter how many new heat sources Mr Obama may come up with.

The following prognosis for the rest of the 2008 hurricane season gives some insight into this economic EFFICIENCY problem.

Sorry about no SST/SHS map links as Dotearth is again not posting with them.

!!!! RECCE hypothesis, Edouard and future developments in the GOM !!!!

Edouard hit the Texas coast clockwise around the maximal heat gradient formed by the big heat retaining wastewater plumes coming from Pt Arthur and Lake Charles. This is how RECCEs like Edouard behave.

Given that premise, what happens next?

Comparing the heat maps for Aug 4 2005, 2007 & 2008 gives some useful insights:

Note that 2008 has basin wide ocean heat levels below 2007 and well below 2005.

Further, Aug 4 is well below July 25 2008 but above July 25 2007. Heat levels have actually dropped this year in concert with recent observed retractions of wastewater plumes from the major ports thusfar mentioned. This is quite remarkable and does point to deliberate efforts to hold back waste emissions in order to stall incoming hurricanes

That means the rest of this hurricane season will not appreciably affect the GOM IF wastewaters continue to be held back till September 10th. I will keep posting progress untill then.

However, Ft Myers and Goodland are still a problem and if emissions are not retained fully, a hurricane could develop in the SW GOM or the West Caribbean and run straight into Tampa along the Nthn edge of the combined plume from Myers and Goodland.

As for the rest of the Atlantic basin, it will be difficult to get any major hurricanes now as basin wide ocean heat levels are so far below 2007 levels & 2007 was a mild season.

One further note: the Bahamas and Andros Is are both heavy water polluters and will incur hurricane events as the season progresses. More on this later."

— Posted by fred moore

 This comes from one of the highly educated posters at DotEarth.

45 Communist Goals for America http://www.nationmakers.com/com_goals.htm

Rich Lowry has written an article titled Let them Eat Honor - McCain’s fumbling positions on energy.  Lowry takes you through McCain’s various positions over the years: “McCain has a peculiar taste for complex, verging on unworkable, regulatory schemes — from campaign-finance reform, to comprehensive immigration reform, to a cap-and-trade system limiting carbon emissions.”

On McCain’s energy policy: “his dirty secret is that, as a believer that global warming is a dangerous crisis, McCain should want gas prices to be high.”

Some of you may have watched C-Span yesterday (Monday- 8/4) and listened to the presentation by Anne Korin, co-director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS) and editor of Energy Security. She spoke of energy security at the conservative Young America's Foundation. Among her topics was reducing dependence on foreign oil and why terrorist believe destroying the oil infrastructure is the way to defeat us.

Ms. Korin gave a very entertaining and very informative presentation. If you didn't get an opportunity to see it, I highly recommend that you watch her presentation (in 7 segments) HERE.

The Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS) website has an excellent summary of global energy issues and recommendations for “the transition to an era of energy security and independence.” To begin Click on VISIONS and then on the left side select Energy & Security, Overview.

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"Climate change, my friend, I have to tell you with all due respect, is real. It's real and the question is how do we address it," ~ John McCain