Oil
Tar Pit: Oil Addiction And Denial
Some wise words on our energy policy … 37 years ago.
December 22, 2008 | Read More
Crude Awakening
Congress is talking tough about investigating oil speculation. That’s nice. But where were you guys when we were taking out third mortgages to fill up our gas tanks?
November 26, 2008 | Read More
One Last Orgy Of Profits
The same bunch of bunko artists who brought us the current financial meltdown had a major hand in making a tank of gas cost as much as dinner out at La Folie.Playing Chicken Little about the Far East and increased demand was a convenient self-fulfilling prophecy for them. They and their puppets in the media kept shouting about prices going up and up and, lo and behold, prices did go up. A lot. Now they’re crashing. Coincidence?
October 8, 2008 | Read More
Reason #75: Look Out Jimmy C, I’ve Got an SUV!
Jimmy Carter was serious about getting us off our oil addiction. He even had the cojones to suggest that consumers who make energy-wasting decisions should be held accountable, declaring: “Citizens who insist on driving large, unnecessarily powerful cars must expect to pay more for that luxury.” Compared to today’s watered-down political-speak, that’s one shocking statement, isn’t it?
Twenty-six years after Carter uttered those words, George W. Bush signed his Economic Stimulus Package of 2003, which awarded $100,000 in tax credits to people who purchased a 6,000 pounds-plus SUV. (A Hummer weighs around 6,400 lbs and gets ten miles to the gallon in cross-town…
August 27, 2008 | Read More
Reason #68: Oil Junkies
America’s longtime energy mantra: Keep the oil flowing no matter what the cost.
When Ronald Reagan was governor of California, nothing pissed him off more than Berkeley hippies and their Vietnam protests. The Gipper despised all the tree-hugging flower children, who in turn disdained anybody in a business suit. Today, the town is still full of wild-eyed lefties, and nothing’s changed except their rallying cries: “Hell, no, we won’t go!” has been replaced by “No blood for oil!”
That slogan gets repeated a lot, and it’s tempting to write it off as hippie-dippy nonsense when the woman chanting it has hairy legs…
August 27, 2008 | Read More
