Rog,

I saw an opportunity to give Dubya credit. What's wrong with that? Now he sees an opportunity to play politics with a rescindation of an executive order his own father had put into place. (sidenote-Why does he hate his father's policies so much? Envious of a true war hero? Doesn't want to be called a 'wimp'?) It's not as if he's actually going out to drill himself. Let's face it...it's politics, pure and simple. Here's a new slogan..."The mean ol' Dems are keeping you down by not allowing gas to be 25 cents a gallon like it is in Venezuela! Booooo, Hisssss!!! Throw out the Constitution- Vote for Bush in 2008!"(sarc on)

Syrius

rolling back the billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies

How is subsidizing ethanol any different from subsidizing oil?

They hate Pres. Bush worse than they hate bin Laden (if they hate him at all).  Their entire political program is based on making the United States weaker.  I consider most of their comments and actions traiterous.  They have no shame.

Jeff Lebowski

www.angrywhitedude.c...

serious? you don't seem to have a good grasp on how the business world really works. god forbid that we should consider the army corp of engineers for any project that involves a cost to recovery ratio basis.the government just does not have the same profit motive that business has to exist.

BEGRUNT, it seems that people lose sight of what we as a country has given the world over the last 200 years. The one thing that always screws with our way is our politicians. The only thing holding us back from lower prices is OUR POLITICIANS!

All of them need to be fired and replaced by the voters ASAP! 

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

 "Hope for Change...you're going to need every penny to sink into your gastank!"

.......and hope you have plenty of spare "Change" at that, thanks to the No-Drill-O'crats. 

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

                   - Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

                               " The Cake is a lie."   

"When Government starts going into the hands of Corporations, there is
always the kind of corruption that can be seen from previous examples
such as Halliburton, BlackWater, KBR, Enron, Bear-Sterns, IndyMac, soon
to be FreddieMac, FannieMae,...etc."

You left out the most corrupt of them all: government itself. This nation faces 59 TRILLION in unfunded liabilities, and it ain't because of the evil corporations. And now you want to put them in charge of the oil business too, lol. Sure, cuz they've shown they know what they're talking about when it comes to oil.

Mo-ron.

That's not even an answer.

People already do a lot to conserve. "Average families" already do that. "Average families" are hacked off because the government won't let the OilCos get what's RIGHT THERE.

Don't give me that crap about oil being finite. Only in the very, very long-term. People have been crying wolf over that for nearly a century.

 Reduce consumption, find better ways to conserve for the average family to exist, it's not too much to ask...or is it?

Sigh, Syrius, Syrius, Syrius, how can we reach you???  Do you really think the average family is responsible for the price of energy by their consumption of it?  By the Dems logic being advanced, the average family is expected to save money by using less energy.  This is implicite in their demand that we conserve our way out of the energy crisis.  But this is a misdirection on many levels since first it was the Dems and the environmental extremists who are blocking domestic drilling, coal and nuclear plants thus creating a shortage by not allowing the domestic supplies to meet demand.  It is the Dem party by their ban on domestic drilling who is directly responsible for forcing consumers to purchase their oil from foreign sources to make up the difference.  Surprise, surprise, America is not entitled to use everyone else's oil without paying a price for it. What's worse there Syrius, as a result the US Treasury has been shorted over $2.5 trillion in lost royalties and taxes due to this outsourcing of energy by the Dems. So not only did the Dems short the Treasury of literally TRILLIONS of dollars they put that money in the hands of foreigners. 

Now let's look at who is doing the consuming and who is doing the conserving.  Half of all residential electrical use is consumed by the likes of Al Gore's class, the 5% of the population who owns 70% of the personal wealth of the country.  We know that Al Gore uses 20 times the national average household annual electricity in just ONE of his mansions.  Now I ask you Syrius where the priority in conservation should occur, the 95% who use the least or the 5% who use the most??????  But as typical of Democrats they tell the average American family that they should conserve when their supporters are the ones who should be conserving.

Btw- Syrius, do you think it is ethical of Al Gore as a wanton user of electricity to be paying half the going rate of his neighbors????  Take $1,000 (his monthly bill) and divide by 20, you get $50.  When was the last time you paid $50 for your electric bill and on what size home? Don't you think it's perverse for Al Gore to get a discount for using so much electricity? The reason Al Gore gets that discount is because it is done on the backs of the most frugual of energy consumers, the average American household. Al Gore pays only half for his electricity because, the other half is pay by the average American household. Don't you think it is unethical of Al Gore to be subsidized by his neighbors?  And yet it's Al Gore and his allies, the Dems, who have pushed up the price of oil and natural gas in a bid to make it as expensive as the so called alternative energy they are touting??? So not only does Al Gore use at least 20 times the national average, he pays only half for it, and we pay his other half!!! Tell me, where is the social justice in that?  Syrius, why are we being forced to subsidize wanton consumption?? 

Do you see how obsene the hypocrisy is in this? This like the hippopotamus telling the ants they shouldn't drink so much and they should do most of the conserving because there are more of them than one of him.

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

I suspected that was the case. Thank you for responding to my inquiry. Now I have another reason NOT to shop there!

"Money is the scourge of the men who attempt to reverse the law of causality--the men who seek to replace the mind by seizing the products of the mind."  Ayn Rand