seawolf77

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Biofuel Future Threatened By Severe Weather

Great post. Sugar based ethanol works well too. Way better than corn, which you have to make into sugar first, and I don't care how sweet the corn is, it don't have more sugar than sugar. Hemp is a no brainer and should immediately be legalized. Cotton clothes for which it was scacrificed is no longer the product it once was in an energy starved world. We are going to want clothes that last 6 times longer i.e made from hemp. And while you're at it legalize marijuama. We're all gonna need to be high with the storm headed our way. posted 07/01/2008 at 15:32:32

Just How Sick of Lies Are We?

The media today are clowns compared to the Cronkites,Brinkleys of old. When did journalism die? I put the end of common sense when we impeached Bill Clinton. After that, anything was possible, and believe me it scares me when I think what they have done. Our leaders are a catastrophe. The Bush name will go donw in history as a modern day Nero. And our reporters by extension are catastrophes. Ditto our news channels. posted 07/01/2008 at 15:19:03

Clean Energy Cost Comparisons Looking Better and Better

WRONG! The time for that was ten years ago. I think back when Tony Soprano was asked by the hapless sporting goods store owner when his store was being cleaned out for debts he owed the mobster. "What's the end game here?" he asked. "It's a bustout. Chapter 11. Bankruptcy." The store owner started crying. I was watching "Till Debt do us Part" or something like that about America's addiction to credit and spending and one of the economists asks a Congresman "What's the end game here?" talking about America's ballooning deficits. He just smiled at her. posted 06/29/2008 at 12:58:11

Chevy Volt: "The Barack Obama Of Automobiles"

I've been saying this for years. One of the big 3 should cease all internal engine production and switch to electric car production immediately. What have they got to loose. They're going down the tubes faster than you know what anyway. posted 06/29/2008 at 14:35:11

The Time For Fed Action Is Now

Oh Please. Do you really think dorky Bernanke can do anything. Inflation is about one thing and one thing only. The basic building blocks of your society just got mroe expensive and there is nothing you can do about it. Energy. It costs alot more, a whole lot more to find and produce and refine oil today, natural gas very soon, and coal about a year from now. So everything you do just got more expensive. Period. What can we do ? Conserve. Cut back. Sounds positively anti-American. Well consider this. Maybe American ain't so great any more. If it ever was. We have been pigs so long the trough looks like Redondo Drive. The big fat pig next to you looks like a Cadillac Escalade. The farmer getting ready to slaughter you becasue you are too expensive to feed and pork bellies are going thru the roof looks like....YOUR PRESIDENT! posted 06/29/2008 at 13:05:45

The Obama Problem

The change we need. Only a liberal could make that statement so assuredly. George W Bush and Dick Cheney had the misfortune of being in office when peak oil became a reality. They went to war to secure the energy resources for this country's future. Like it or not, they DID something. I can't stand either one. But my hat's off to them for taking action. Obama vaunted judgement will look childish very very soon. posted 06/27/2008 at 10:52:25

The Audacity of Dope

As was famously stated in of all things an Oliver Stone movie "The organizing principle of society is war. The power of the state over it's people resides in it's war powers." Consequently you cannot have such quaint ideas as turn the other cheek and the meek balh blah blah and be able to organize a bunch of nazis at heart. They have to be able to tell you what to do. How you are doing it wrong. What a fool you are for not being like us. You are going to hell for this or for that. No matter they can't explain why or where ever did they get the notion they were the judge. They just say it, and say it louder if you object,and then hit you or send the cops after you when you fight back. May the whole lot of them find that lowest rung in hell that Dante reserved for the traitors. posted 06/29/2008 at 14:12:57

The End of Oil

The petroleum age is indeed drawing to a close. Pity. We humans are now so gorged with wanton waste our excrement is sugar coated. This is Germany 1939 folks. War,famine,pestilence and death. The four horseman are about to ride. It's like I tell everyone, during WW2 you wouldn't want to be a German or a Russian. But South and Central America got a pass. Guess where I'm headed. And for all you morons who will call me unpatriotic or a rat leaving the ship early I got 2 words for you : who cares. posted 07/02/2008 at 11:43:56

Why McCain's "Drill Here, Drill Now" Proposal Fails the Supply/Demand Reality Check

Exactly. That in essence is what went wrong with this country. Dissent was turned into treason. Anyone who has ever worked in a big company knows what I am talking about. It is what they say it is, not what it is. Take that up to a national level and you have what you have. Politics has become an alternate reality. Thru the looking glass. Alice in Wonderland. And when the whole rotten lot of it comes crashing down, nary a tear will be shed for this country the world over. There will be rejoicing in the streets. America,The Great Babylon, has fallen. The reason they are not drilling where they are not drilling is that prospects are dim there. DUH. The world is rapidly running out of cheap easy to get oil and that will cause a fundamental revaluation of the entire world. Hold on to your hats. posted 06/26/2008 at 17:19:47

Republicans Taunt Obama As Spineless Over FISA Reversal

A republican calling anyone spineless is like a termite calling a cockroach a pest. posted 06/27/2008 at 10:40:50

The Third Oil Shock: Two Possible Outcomes

Wow! 2 blogs on the same day speaking the oil truth. Bravo Huffington. You are correct. Everything in this country and world will be revalued. What was once considered passe, such as a Sunday drive , will become a priceless luxury. A home in the country with a long commute. NOT! To say it will hit this country hard is like calling a Cat 5 hurricane a little bad weather. America uses 25 barrels of oil per person per year. Europe is a distant second at 8. Get the picture? posted 06/26/2008 at 14:30:56

Don't Blow it Barack

Very well said. All our politicians are the same. It is so weird. The further right and left they go, the more the same they become. It's like they're making a circle. posted 06/26/2008 at 13:14:25

Ralph Nader, Who Asked You?

Will this guy ever go away. He's as bad as the Bushs and Clintons. posted 06/26/2008 at 15:28:36

Offshore Oil: What Would Sun Tzu Do?

Finally some one speaking sense on this blog,. Very good article. It is time to start discussing the oil depletion protocol. What that says to a stunned world is that oil production has peaked, while demand is surging, and it's time to start talking rationally about who gets what and to heck with letting the market decide. This is life and death.If you want to drive around in a Escalade , you pay 4 times what the guy driving a Vespa scooter. $16 a gallon vs $4. You want to air condition your Phoenix home, you pay 4 times what the guy in Ashville pays. It is time to highly penalize all forms of waste. You want to make windmills or photovoltaic with that enrgy, you get it cheap. You want to make a yatch, you pay thru the nose. It is time to reformulate the world, to revalue everything now that cheap energy is gone. Sugar cane based ethanol is the only biofuel PROVEN to work on a national scale with existing infrastructure. Brazil is the model. Use it. posted 06/26/2008 at 14:08:56

Precedent George Bush

The Bush family is like a terminal illness for this nation. Just when you think you're over it, there it is again. Just when the country seems bright again, and you can breathe, you wake up and there is another Bush. BUSH. CANCER. BUSH. CANCER. Eating away at the very frabic of this once great nation, consuming it from within, multiplying with fearsome, exponential growth. Until one day it dies. And what killed it. BUSH. posted 06/26/2008 at 12:16:06

The G in GOP Stands for Ghoul

I guess that's why they waited for George W Bush to get elected huh? Lest we not forget you loathsome inbecile that 9/11 happened on a Republican watch. posted 06/25/2008 at 15:08:46

Top NASA Climatologist: Put CEOs On Trial For Global Warming Lies

Our "leaders" did this to us. We are between a rock and a hard place and it's just about to get unpleasant and there ain't a thing we can do about it. Right when we need the energy the most, it will be gone. And even if we had it, burning it would only make things worse. Think global tsunami. All that CO2 we have been feverishly pumping without any remorse into our atmosphere will land flat on us, crushing the planet inhabitants, us included. posted 06/24/2008 at 11:58:40

Do the Democrats Want to Lose?

It's all a sham. How can you explain Richard Nixon, Dan Quale (oops) , all the Bushes except maybe Jeb, Dukakis etc. etc etc. Now we get Obama. Incredible. He's gonna change things! What has he ever changed. The discourse? At least I can point to Hillary and see she tried to change health care and almost did it in spite of the collective stupidity of the country and against almost overwhelming odds. That was a battle. Rove is right. He's a smooth talking idiot lawyer, no more no less. What will they call this country after Obama gets elected. An abomination. Get it? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA posted 06/24/2008 at 18:44:27

Smart Advice for the HuffPost Investor: A "No-Brainer" to Invest in Your 401(k) Plan? What if Everyone is Wrong?

A self respecting Republican. Go on now. posted 06/26/2008 at 11:03:26

The Real Food Crisis

Corn based ethanol is baloney. The only reason it is ongoing is becasue the world seems placated watching a bunch of silly old white men telling them something they know in their hearts to be false is true and correct. The only thing sugar is good for is making alcohol and cavities in your teeth. It has energy content obviously, but little or no nutritional value at all. Switch to sugar based ethanol. It's only a matter of time and it is the ONLY proven biofuel that works on a national scale....Brazil. BUY SUGAR. posted 06/24/2008 at 15:33:16

Bush/McCain's Gas Price Scam is an Enron Re-Run

Oil production was on an undulating plateau for the US between 1969 and 1971. No matter what we did we could not get it any higher than 11 million bpd. Then it started to drop and has been ever since except after Prudhoe Bay. In 2004 the world began an undulating plateau that it is stil on now at about 85 million bpd. It will soon start to drop. If you were an investor and knew that would you have invested in oil knowing full well that demand is exploding. Don't blame the speculator. Blame your leaders for believing some guy dressed up like a a Roman going to a toga party in the desert, blame your leaders for staking their country's entire future on it, blame your leaders for lying thru their teeth just to keep the party going and not coming face to face with the energy crisis the sooner the better. And when Obama gets elected where do you think the blame will go even though he had nothing to do with it. I'll give you 3 guesses and the first 2 don't count. posted 06/25/2008 at 14:14:14

The Fault Is Not In Our Rock Stars, But In Ourselves

I've seen rock stars. These guys and girls are posers. And it is a stretch to call it music. posted 06/22/2008 at 12:14:20

The Financial Sector Is Still In Big Trouble

You said it. The utter stench of mendacity is revolting to all but the most hardened stomachs. posted 06/22/2008 at 13:00:55

The perma bull. Frost even comes out of his mouth when he talks. posted 06/22/2008 at 12:51:58

Onward and Ever Upward -- But Not in a Good Way

God you are so spot on. Home of the brave and land of the free. Really. Since when. I keep telling people Reagan destroyed this country, and his idiot wife with her Einsteinien just say no policy. I am leaving too. Am making plans as we speak. This country has become THREATENING to all but the holy rollers,jesus freaks, and Republiqueens. posted 06/22/2008 at 14:08:17

"Food vs. Fuel," A False Debate

Not while the oil monkey is on our back. posted 06/20/2008 at 14:02:17

Who Does George Bush Think He Is?

Churchill would be deeply offended; he must be spinning in his grave. Bush loves this messianic caca, he really does. He's one of those that has the "right" to be funny, as anyone who has worked in a big corporation knows. He can joke about war, death, flood victims, brownies, anything he pleases. He's the decider. posted 06/20/2008 at 15:48:55

The Floods: New Orleans, God, and Nature Can No Longer be Blamed

The Army Corps of Goofballs is what it is. All you heart of the heartland midwesteners who sneered at the good people of New Orleans for having been corrupt and imcompetent and immoral and complacent and worse, hope you realize that wet is wet, whether you are on your knees praying or on Bourbon Street partying. Acts of God happen to all people. It makes me sick listening to the self righteous Christians, there bony crooked fingers waving in my face, and all the time thnking wait till it happens to you. Well now it has. And you got lied too as well. Your levees were as bad as any in Louisiana, as any in The Big Easy. So in the immortal words of Stanley Kolwaski "HA HA HA HA HA!!!! " posted 06/20/2008 at 14:01:47

Questions Energy Secretary Bodman Need Ask At This Weekend's Summit In Saudi Arabia

We live in a capitalist society. If your neighbor has something you desperately need, say iji-boo-bah, and he won't sell it to you until you meet his price. As a capitalist you would say why did you allow yourself to become so dependent on iji-boo-bah. Why do you continually insist the Saudis turn control of their fields over to us. You would be more intellectually honest if you said let's invade them. You are standing on morally bankrupt soil sir, and you insist we join you. Shame on you sir. posted 06/20/2008 at 11:19:45

What If Obama Isn't A Game Changer?

What game has he ever changed? And you expect him to go to Washington and change that game. And don't tell me the primary. Please. He beat probably the most unpopular woman in the world. It's kind of like Luca Brasi making his bones on Pee Wee Herman. And what change is America looking for that Obama has even the remotest chance of changing? What? Inflation. Yeah right. Energy is more expensive and energy makes everything more expensive. Economics 101. Health Care. Hillary could not do it but Obama will. RIght. The gravy train for all the old people. Sweet dreams baby. Iraq. Where all the oil is. And he wants to leave. Fact is Obama's wand ain't no better than anyone else's, it's just currently a litle more popular. Whoopee. posted 06/20/2008 at 11:52:21

Thinking About Oil? Try This!

They passed the buck because the oil is not there. Is it so easy for the American people to believe that we would rather send our entire wealth to foreign countries when we have our own oil and we can't get it becase of some caribou. Wake up people before it is too late. Conservation. Car pooling. No Sunday drives. 4 day work week. Think our way out of it, not whine our way out of it. posted 06/20/2008 at 01:38:57

Why Do Republicans Like Fossil Fuels and Not Care That Much for the Environment?

I am not sure you understand the science behind alot of this. Gas fired turbines, especially combined cycle (which uses the heat from a gas fired turbine to drive a steam turbine) has efficiencies approaching 60%. Compare that with a coal fired plant, about 26%and a car engine , about 18%, and you have significant improvement in efficiency. Also since coal is CH, oil is CH2, and nat gas is CH4, you also get 4 hydrogen atoms for every molecule of gas burned, which is where the energy is. So you are getting alot more energy for every C atom released to go mate with an O2 when using nat gas, a lot more. Mat Simmons and Boone Pickens both want nat gas as transport fuels, but this is based on the premise of continuing use of the internal combustion engine, which is in my opinion a flawed premise. Electric cars is the only way to go. Use sugar based ethanol and biodeisel to bridge gap and create the new infratructure. posted 06/20/2008 at 16:11:45

Working-Class Soldiers Shed the Blood, ExxonMobil Gets the Oil

The same people who think Iraq was not about oil think Oswald killed JFK even though any fool can see he was shot from the front. The energy under Iraq could power the world for 3 years. That's a big nut. Hussein thought he was in the cat bird's seat after the sanctions had preserved his reserves while exhausting everyone else's. Truth is this is how they planned it all along. Anwr is our last piggy bank of oil. Iraq is the present piggy bank. posted 06/20/2008 at 12:05:51

Why Vacations Just Don't Work

I will never go on another vacation again. Just about everywhere you go, it's just like America, people serving you who can't stand what they are doing and resent the hell out of having to serve you. Sometimes overtly. Why bother? The tourism industry is just baloney. Now when I go somewhere if I even get a whiff of it I never go back again. That place will never see another dime of my money, and if the rest of you started doing it maybe they would improve. Until then, Hasta la vista baby! posted 06/19/2008 at 12:42:15

Bush and McCain: Drilling us into a Deeper Hole

The future is car less. Get used to it, embrace it and you will thrive. Hold on like the proverbial monkey with his hand clenched so tight around the fruit he can't flee and you will get creamed. Cars are probably the most over hyped, expensive, and inefficient contraptions ever devised. An internal combustion engine is 20% efficient TOPS. It even beats a coal fired power plant. When you think about all the energy humanity has WASTED simply becasue it could, any sane and resaonble person would shudder in shame. posted 06/19/2008 at 16:36:53

President Bush Calls For Offshore Drilling On Federal Lands: The Time For a National Oil Trust is Now

Who cares what it sounds like. Like my momma used to say, when your hair is on fire you better do something other than just sit there. posted 06/21/2008 at 16:08:27

How to Transform the US From a Debt to an Equity Economy

Agreed. Let them handle the truth. We can't afford them. What would it cost without them? I say let's take our chances and if we need to mobilize then. Happened in WW2 and we still won. posted 06/18/2008 at 12:45:04

The so called greatest generation sold us down the river. They promised themselves the moon, refused to lift the retirement age so they could live on the gravy train for up to 35 years in some cases, added drug benefits when they knew they could not afford and now want the estate tax repealed. Let's just say NO to them. I know they are our parents, but SO WHAT? In my book, that makes it even worse. Let them all ROT. posted 06/18/2008 at 11:51:07

With Global Warming, Delay is Not An Option

These people will roast before admitting to it. I have seen it, much akin to the now infamous unwavering Bush resolve. posted 06/17/2008 at 17:59:36

Staying Sane In Iraq: A Soldier's Story

Interesting post. I'll have to remember that when things get tough. posted 06/17/2008 at 15:06:32

Floods Force Corn Prices Up, Up, Up

It costs .80 cents for a gallon of sugar based ethanol and over $2.20 for corn based ethanol. Why? First you have to turn the corn into sugar, and I don't care how sweet the corn is, it does not have more sugar than sugar. You think America would like to have the option of .80 cents a gallon sugar based ethanol? With $4 gallon gas. This country has no energy policy is generous. This country's energy policy is INSANE!!!!!!!!!!! posted 06/17/2008 at 12:55:49

Another "Benefit" From $200 Oil...

Baloney. The powers that be created this country, and it just goes to show that maybe the powers that be never should have been. America's rail system would make Bulgaria proud. Our air transportation system is for the cows. When you look at America today, it's like the movie The Devil's Advocate, you see only monsters and devils. How did this happen. Leadership. $200 oil is just the beginning. Imagine the whole world grinding to a halt, and then every country erecting barriers to entry. Every time I see 4 gallons of water go down the drain I think that one day soon people will kill for just a cup of the stuff. posted 06/16/2008 at 19:01:25

America's Foreign Policy Bubble

Pride goeth before the fall. And ours is going quick. America, Americans are broke. That is a fact, other than the top 1%. It is so ironic that cheap oil destroyed the Soviet Union but expensive oil will destroy America. Talk about karmic justice. And maybe finally we can put away the Reagan won the cold war hooey. Americans will soon experience something they never thought possible : hunger. posted 06/17/2008 at 12:11:32

As the World Watches, Washington Fails Again on Climate and Energy Leadership

Buy oil. They're not making any more of it. posted 06/16/2008 at 12:36:12

Empire or Democracy: Are We Ready for the Fall?

Leadership defficit. God you are so kind to the bums. Bill Clinton, certainly the best president of my lifetime, was also incredibly lucky with cheap oil and a productivity explosion due to the interent. But we are a soon to be grease spot in history. No country can survive when they build their entire infrastructure, both commercial and military, on a resource they no longer possess or control. It's like building a city in the desert, an energy desert. While not always true, it is true NOW. And now and the future are all that matter. Our's is bleak. posted 06/16/2008 at 14:25:23

The New York Times Pipes The Saudi Production Polka

That's funny. If I said buy land there not making any more of it probably not a peep from ya. I guess you must be one of those that bought high and now have to sell low. Not good capitalism. Speculation is not evil, otherwise it would not still be around. Kind of like the Nazis. No what is evil is poor resource planning, either personally, nationally, or globally. We have all 3 in spades. Our citizens stink, our government stinks, and we could care less about the rest of the world. Truly a recipe for disaster and evil incarnate. If some people were smart enough to see this coming and not believe everything that comes out of the talking heads on the boob tube, more power to them. The rest STILL think there is a rich creamy nougat of oil under us and we only need to stick our needle in it...forever. They deserve what they get too. posted 06/17/2008 at 15:42:44

I've seen the needle and the damage done, a little part of it in everyone, but every junkie's life's a setting sun....RIP America, the end is coming a lot sooner than you think. posted 06/16/2008 at 18:11:40

Buy oil. They're not making any more of it, it's cheaper than water, and people are using it like there is no tomorrow. Which they just might be right about. posted 06/16/2008 at 12:49:16

The Economic Debate Has Yet to Target Key Issues

The problem is enormous and ominous. Cheap energy is a thing of the past and the world has grown and is still growing as if it is not. When you have to drill 5 miles down and in the ocean, you have to ask yourself, is this madness. And at what point is it madness. The same thing happened to the whaling industry and it is no concidence that the largest oil fields are called "whales". They had to go out further, stay out longer, to find fewer and fewer whales at rapidly diminsishing profits despite incredibly high prices. This is known as a death spiral...down the tubes. Couple this with increasing temperatures and rising seas and a population almost entirely near the sea, and you have a recipe for the end of the world. Just when we need the energy the most it will be gone. posted 06/17/2008 at 14:20:07

Dear Ms. Maria Bartiromo: Some Basic Economics

Thank you. That is one of the fundamental arguments for why the rich should pay more taxes. Since they own most of the businesses, real estate etc these improvements benefit everyone, but them the most. Finally government's don't run on air. They need money. And while there was a time in my life where I can spend that dollar a whole lot better than the government can argument kind of worked, it sounds trite now. Pathetic actually. It's time for a reality check. Now that the boomers are retiring (and I am one) let's raise the retirement age. We missed it on the so-called "greatest generation" , so let's do it now. Raise it to 70 immediately. The so called "greatetst generation" left us totally in hock becasue they rode the gravy train as long as they could, took out WAY more than they put in, and frankly don't care. I say let em rot. And no way repeal the estate tax. They ain't dodging that responsibility as well. Cheapskates all of them. posted 06/21/2008 at 17:28:40

As Good As It Gets for McCain

Yeah just like how could W get re-elected. Against a war hero with 2 purple stars. Who was AGAINST the Vietnam war. The Republicans got plenty of Obamaite in their pockets. How could the Dems put up a black , extremist muslim for election in 2008? Easy, he ran aginst Hillary Clinton. Plus he's got a nice smile and can speak 2 sentences without tripping over the adverbs. Whoopie! posted 06/13/2008 at 11:45:10

Confederate Remembrance: Senator Webb, the Confederate Soldier and the Lost Cause

The Civil War was an idiotic war that should never have been fought. I , like Ron Paul, agree that slavery would have died a quiet death since industrialization and machines made slave labor obsolete. Why did we fight? Who knows and who cares. Ancient freakin history. You do-gooders find another cause. The Union would have come together on it's own without that idiot Lincoln killing off 1/2 of America. AND FOR WHAT?????? The Emancipation Proclamation. Puke! posted 06/13/2008 at 12:35:37

David Letterman: 'Dick Cheney Couldn't Care Less About Americans'

Goons the world over are shreiking. posted 06/12/2008 at 18:42:27

A Warning to My Old Republican Friends: Screw Up The Obama Moment and You're History -- Literally

I am way too old and jaded to believe in boogeymen or saviours anymore. posted 06/12/2008 at 13:43:18

John McCain Dismisses the War's Collateral Damage

They hate us because we destroyed their country. You think? posted 06/12/2008 at 14:24:12

Did John McCain Just Say What I Think He Said About Iraq?

My freinds, I have none. posted 06/12/2008 at 16:32:08

How The Wall Street Journal Fabricated a Scandal to Impugn an Obama Supporter, James Johnson

Fox News could not find their ass with 2 hands. Let's face it, it's jokealism now. I watch the "news" for entertainment now. Do I take any of it seriously. Not just no. HELL NO !!!!!!!!!! posted 06/12/2008 at 12:52:47

Sorry, Mr. President, But Your Legacy Is More Awful Than You Think

The worst ever. No ne is even close. posted 06/12/2008 at 15:45:58

Dick Durbin: People Sliming Michelle Obama Deserve The "Hottest Ring In Hell"

There are also millions who don't. posted 06/12/2008 at 12:29:10

Oh this is so ripe. A Republican wanting to lecture us on fairness. Oh please please tell us what's fair so we'll know. Please I am lost without your sermons. Oh just being posted next to someone so wise is an honor. UGHHHH! posted 06/12/2008 at 12:28:49

The End of the Conservative Era

Now I know why they fed them to the lions. posted 06/12/2008 at 12:08:06

Smart Advice for the HuffPost Investor: Investing in Commodities -- Smart Move or Fool's Gold?

Exploded to 260 billion. That's a bit disengenous don't you think in a 100-150 trillion world economy. And this is the most valuable asset in the world. posted 06/11/2008 at 16:55:55

Blame Rising Oil Prices on Bush

Had I been in charge I would have picked Venezuela. Closer. The thing is Iraq has the light sweet stuff, the good stuff. But the supply line Jesus. On a cost basis Venezuela made more sense. While Brazil may have found a large field, MAY, it is almost 5 miles down and the oil is super hot and under high pressure. They are comparing the development of this field to the space program....in other words big bucks. Ditto the Arctic. Only a few people ever had the cojones to invade Russia, and they got them handed back to them. And no I am not defending Bush, just stating the obvious facts as I see them. posted 06/11/2008 at 14:52:55

Bush secured what is remaining of the world's fossil fuel reserves when he invaded and occupied Iraq. The idea of leaving Iraq while simultaneously desiring cheap gas prices only demonstrates the pathological stupidity of the American people. In 2006 we threw out all the Republicans so that the Democrats would end the war. How's that working out so far? Now we get a naive little kid who claims he is gonna end the war and his "judgement" would have even precluded it. Bought it, hook, line, and sinker. So what does that make us, the democrtaic party? The biggest bunch of suckers the world has ever seen. posted 06/11/2008 at 10:46:46

I Was Wrong About The War On Drugs -- It's A Failure

War. Always wars with these chicken hawk Republicans. I know. Let's declare war on ugly political operatives and stupid sons of presidents and tired old ex CEO's who stunk at everything they ever did. That should really make this country safe. posted 06/10/2008 at 18:05:31

Oh grow up. Ony an idiot Republican never changes his freakin mind and thinks it is somethng to be proud of. Rock solid George W Bush and Dick Cheney. Oh joy. posted 06/10/2008 at 14:56:24

The war on drugs. I thought it was the war on bugs. And I thought it wasn't working. Silly me. posted 06/10/2008 at 14:53:21

Increased Airline Fees and Reduced Service Are Chintzy: Wouldn't it Be Less Annoying and Would Anyone Really Notice if They Just Raised Their Fares a Little?

Another gift from the gipper. Reagan, the gift that keeps on giving. posted 06/12/2008 at 19:05:13

Kucinich Introduces Bush Impeachment Resolution

Agreed. Who died and elected her pope. posted 06/11/2008 at 17:01:25

Senator Bill Nelson: Abolish The Electoral College

It's a dinosaur. Should be in a book on dinosaurs. Should have been gone long ago. America should be a fully functional democracy, where no longer does some small idiotic group prevent something as valuable as stem cell research based on thruths that are completely unfounded and exist only in the mind of the so called faithful. I would encourage all of you to start acting less like God if you want to be more like him. Do you really believe God would be against stem cell research on the grounds that the cells are potential humans. How retarded is that? posted 06/10/2008 at 16:06:53

Intervention for America's Oil Addicts

Obama has a grasp for what's needed. He wants to leave the place with all the oil. What a freakin MORON !!!!!!!! posted 06/12/2008 at 12:23:58

America has scoured the world to punch ever deeper and more expensive veins to feed it's carnivorous apetite for fossil fuels. We have set to boiling rocks and sand with ever more precious and clean natural gas to create synthetic oil. Kind of like taking caviar and making fake crab meat. We have invaded another soverign nation under false pretenses to secure some more black crack. What do they say about addicts, they have to hot rock bottom. Boy I sure do wonder what that will look like here. posted 06/10/2008 at 11:15:21

Saudi Arabia To Hold Meeting On Soaring Oil Prices

Saudi Arabia is concerned about high oil prices. They are having a meeting to discuss it. Oh bless their hearts. I can't wait for them to start sending the money they get from the black goo that just happened to be under thier ground at the right place and time back to us becasue they feel....dare I say it....guilty. I am sure I am not alone in saying this, but I feel better already. posted 06/10/2008 at 16:23:52

This Administration's Singular Achievement: Making the World Safe For Gluttonous Oil Profits On the Backs of American and World Consumers

Thank you. It takes 10 years to bring a field online. The trillions of dollars flowing into the commodity markets are evenly balanced. As hard as it might be for you to believe, there are still people out there that think the price of oil is too high and are willing to put their money where their mouth is. They are going short. The market decides who is right and your conspiracy theories aside, aren't you a ittle old to still beleive in the boogeyman. I mean unless you are a Republican. Nobody buys boogeymen like Republicans. Commodity markets are balanced by definition; believe me I have been on the losing side of many a trade. Just not this one. posted 06/10/2008 at 16:46:20

Wow! Very well said. I am ashamed to be an American watching them all behave like spoiled little children. Like one blogger said to me once "Why is our oil under their sand?" It truly boggles the mind that nationally syndicated respected columnits propagate this garbage. My hats off to you sir! posted 06/09/2008 at 15:11:24

Where was Hitler born? At Versailles. Where did the oil crisis begin? When America turned it's back on the loathsome poilicies of Jimmy Carter, such as conservation , and were hoodwinked into thinking an average B-rated actor form Hollywood with below average intelligence but a nice smile and cheery demeanor could signal an end to America's energy probelem, we condemed our children to a tragic day of reckoining. And here it is. posted 06/09/2008 at 14:23:30

Nothing Went Wrong

What "we" was he ever a part of. What "we" ever did anything. Describe it to me in detail. posted 06/10/2008 at 14:25:32

Oh give me a break. This vaunted judgement is a load of hooey. When he realizes why we are there he'll look like the total idiot that he is. Peak Oil baby. Read it and weep. posted 06/10/2008 at 14:24:27

Comparing Barak Obama to Bill Clinton is like comparing Sanjaya to Mick Jagger. One is the flavor of the moment in a rigged vote who has the media fawning all over him. The other is a man who is a giant among politicians, probably the greatest of my lifetime. posted 06/10/2008 at 14:23:01

Playmates on Politics: Q&A with Politically Savvy Bunnies

Agreed. Watching them all hang on Hefner is like watching mummy porn. posted 06/10/2008 at 17:56:05

The Good News About $200 Oil...I Hope...

I think the Bejing Olympics and a Gulf hurricane will be the final nail in the coffin. The world must contract for the first time in my memory and it's not going to feel good. Sugar based ethanol and soybean based biodiesel are 2 stop gap measures that will see us thru. 4 day work weeks and virtual office for several employees a week are conservation measures which could help. This is what we need to be talking about, not finger pointing and raging against the machine. posted 06/09/2008 at 17:59:49

G-8 energy chiefs meet as oil soars

Anyone who blames the speculators has rocks in their heads. Anyone who blames the currency wants to buy those rocks. Anyone who could not see this coming is blind as a bat. And everyone expecting things to go back to normal ain't got sense to piss in a pot,. There ARE limits to growth. We have reached them. Period. Now some of must die. Boo Hoo. posted 06/08/2008 at 13:21:40

What's Going On in the Oil Market?

You need to get your facts straight. Oil inventories are not at a 15 year high. It is comments like these that promulgate your myth that speculators are too blame, which they are most certainly not. Companies have a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to maximize profits and as such thet are buying oil like crazy becasue THEY think oil is cheap now. Do you really think a few speculators can compete with tthe likes of Exxon, Southwest, and soverign wealth funds. Speculators are like fleas on a dog. The dog is world companies hedging against higher fuel costs. Get your facts straight. posted 06/09/2008 at 14:32:10

It is difficult to have a bubble in a deliverable and consumable commodity. Evrey day between 85 and 86 million barrels of oil are consumed. Every day. Without exception. Contrast that with gold where almost none of it is consumed. Ever. So if there was a speculative bubble, you would see hoarding, short pouring, blending things like that. While many would argue there are 15 ships full of millions of barrels of oil off the coast of Iran, I would argue let's stick to provable facts. Demand is a voracious monster that must be curbed before prices will fall. So America tighten your belts. Use less. And if you really want to find the boogeyman, don't look under the bed. Look on the bed. posted 06/09/2008 at 12:43:47

You make some very good points. I have said this many times, that we may be witnessing the last great bull run of all time, the crude oil market. After it pops and yes it will but not until it goes much higher, the world wll be in a new place. We will be thru the looking glass. Alice in Horrorland. posted 06/09/2008 at 12:27:43

Exponential growth is the ideology of a cancer cell. posted 06/09/2008 at 12:25:00

Amazon.com Goes Down For More Than 2 Hours

Is it me or does Jeff Bezos look more and more like an alien being. posted 06/09/2008 at 18:48:21

Why We Hate

Hate is a primordial source of energy, and it is hardwired into our DNA . It has also been conditioned into us. So hate is a tough nut to crack. Stick to dieting or no-porn days. It is the curiously feminine desire to make everything we see better that is at the root of much of our misery and we should strive to kill that at every turn, not the things that make us human. Diversity is unnatural, but healthy. So try to get along but if you but heads so what, don't feel too bad about it. It's natural. posted 06/06/2008 at 18:08:41

Can we REALLY get the gas companies to lower prices?

I see it all the time, people are in absolute complete denial. Why? Because they told us they had 40 years of the stuff. At least. We are in between anger and denial, with bargainig just around the corner. They told us. They told us. They told us. Well...maybe they lied. posted 06/06/2008 at 16:59:20

Oil Crisis: Your Primer on the Great "Peak Oil" v "Speculators" Debate

I think you are ignoring a minor detail. It's their oil. Not to put too fine a point on it, but what would you do if it were yours. The problem with people like you is you think "why is our oil under their sand?" As far as speculation goes, if it's so bad, why is it still around? Speculators provide a very valuable service in a free market. They provide liquidity for hedging since there always needs to be short to go with a long. And on the personal side, capital letters are unneccesary to make your point and frankly I find them rather ugly when used excessively. posted 06/10/2008 at 16:00:48

You are ignoring the demand side of this equation. posted 06/08/2008 at 13:01:03

Most of it is wasted. Do you really need 500 horses under your hood. Do you really need your house 72 degrees, at all times. Do you really need steak and potatoes. Do you really need 20 suits. No America, they don't hate becasue of our freedom, they hate us becasue of our greed. posted 06/08/2008 at 12:41:09

Another way of looking at that is that a barrel of oil contains the equivalent of 25,000 man hours of work. That is 12 and 1/2 men working for you all year full time. The average American uses roughly 20 barrels a year. That is 250 men working for you full time every year, energy slaves. Washing your clothes, doing your dishes, pulling your plow, driving your car, flying you to grandma or your mistress, lighting your stadiums etc etc etc. So even if you pay the guy $1.00 and hour , that's $500,000 of work you get every year. I agree with KTM to a point, he neglects the cost of the infrastructure that delivers it to you which is considerable, as well as the costs of the machines that use it, again considerable. But we are somewhere in between the 2. Since every government in the world subsidizes energy (which is why gas costs $10 bucks in Holland and .21 cents in Venezeula) it is unknowbale what the intrinsic value of a barrel of oil is. But it's a lot. posted 06/07/2008 at 18:23:30

That is of yet unconfirmed but we'll see. This notion that we have plenty of oil is proof positive what a magnificent job of propaganda has been worked on the American people. It's like global warming or climate change. People's beliefs resist change, but more importantly their beliefs demand expression. To the guy who believes the Saudi's are sitting a on big creamy nougat of oil, he's going to go out and buy a big one ton F-350 to show that he is right. How's that working for you now big guy? I have always maintained that even when Florida is underwater, the Republicans will be screaming from their rowboats "It's a natural cycle...it wasn't us." Splish splash. Who cares? posted 06/06/2008 at 16:36:21

President Trump. What a joke. Writing a book on how to get rich when he was born that way. Kinda like Jesus writing a book about how to get holy. Please stop seriously quoting that man. Peak oil is now in the history books and I have read quite a few people say it's coming out party was Memorial Day. posted 06/06/2008 at 15:19:29

The Collapse of the Middle Class, Letters from Vermont and America

The average American has no equity in their home. He has no equity in his car. He has no savings account. The average American has maxed out his credit cards. He has not gotten a raise in years and has been told be thankful you still have a job. The average American's purchasing power is 1/2 what it was a few years ago. In short the average American is screwed. AND FOR WHAT? This is the American Dream. Baloney. The American Nightmare more like it. And it happened so fast and so under the radar. We didn't see it coming and it was upon us. Now it just hurts. And it is only beginning. posted 06/06/2008 at 12:18:08

Oil's Largest One-Day Gain On Record: Thank You, Mr. Bernanke

KTM is right. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the social compact that existed between it's citizens and it's govrnment prevented a humanitarian disaster. Socialism I know. But what happens when capitalism fails? In Moscow a housing project that supports 10,000 people is not uncommon. We have 5,000 McMansions with 2 people in each. Get the picture. posted 06/07/2008 at 18:58:03

While Memorial Day was Peak Oil's coming out party, the China Olympics and a Gulf hurricane will put the exclamation point on it. That is why speculators are rushing in. They see the big pop coming. Then the big poop. Speculators do not create a trend, they amplify it. Think of speculators like a flea on a dog. The dog is walking happily along, tail wagging, head up, eyes bright. Then in an instant he is brought to his knees, and starts scratching violently. You would think that flea was huge, with the jaws and teeth of a piranha. But he's not, he's just a little flea, maybe the size of a tiny buggar. But he brought a 150 lb dog to a dead stop, and that dog gave him his full , undivivded attention. That is a speculator. We are the canaries in the coal mine, so thank us don't condemn us. posted 06/07/2008 at 18:41:48

Home Foreclosures Set A Record

Why is there no national dialogue to reduce consumption of petrol? Why? Finger pointing , petulant , complaining Americans is not a pretty sight. Grown a pair. Insert a spine. Pull up the old boots. We have lived extravagantly for so long now, everyone has forgotten things can get tough. Home prices WERE a speculative bubble fueled by cheap energy. You drove till you qualified as they say, and then while you were there you built as many square feet as possible. McMansions. Now you can't afford the drive to work (if you still have a job) and soon you won't afford to heat and cool all those empty rooms. But oil is NOT a speculative bubble. Oil is energy. Energy is power. Energy creates wealth. And now it's getting scarce. Put those 2 together and what do you have. A contratcing America. There's no way around it. It's a brave new world. AMERICA MUST ENACT A 4 DAY WORK WEEK NOW !!!!!!!!!! posted 06/09/2008 at 17:08:10

Why Hillary Lost: She Failed to Share Her Heart's Stories

Obama is an oratory genius because he follows quite probably the worst public speaker in presidential history, an oratory moron. Just like you give a starving man a pack of crackers and he rips it open and exclaims this is the best damn crackers I ever had, so cometh Obama. You Obama fawners give me the creeps. Hillary lost becasue everyone wanted her to, especially the media. Why? Who knows and who cares. It certainly did not serve America's best interest. Al Gore 2 is all this was. And watch what we get. George W Bush 2. If Reverend Black Panther had been shown early on, Obama would be a grease spot. No the Republicans let him get traction so he could beat the one person every last one of them have voodoo dolls with pins galore in , Hillary Clinton. Anyone with an iota of sense can see the telegraphing Republicans a mile away. Anyone but a democrat. posted 06/05/2008 at 18:21:36