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DRILL!!!
Ok people, let’s make this simple . Really simple. Oil is a commodity. Commodities become more expensive when demand exceeds supply. Demand for oil has exceeded supply. Oil has become expensive. Oil comes from the ground, where it is drilled and pumped out. So, we need to…uhhh…spin the dredel? Boil corn? NO! There ya go! We need MORE OIL, people! [...]
Continue reading...T. Boone Pickens is no Al Gore
22. July 2008
T. Boone Pickens, who last week unveiled a comprehensive and practical plan to reduce foreign oil imports by more than 30%, or $300 billion, in the next 5-10 years, is taking issue with Al Gore’s recent speech. Today, Pickens released the following statement… “Today, former Vice President Al Gore put forward a framework of a plan [...]
Continue reading...New McCain ads tout drilling
21. July 2008
The latest TV commercial for John McCain places drilling front-and-center as a solution for our current gas price problems, and points to Obama as a significant factor in holding back additional oil exploration. Although it doesn’t much elaborate on the specifics of how or why, the commercial does bring home a single issue that the [...]
Continue reading...Garbage poachers coming to your town?
20. July 2008
Amazingly, the value of recycled garbage has now reached a point where it makes economic sense for people to organize networks of trucks to go out and tear apart people’s recycling bins. And now governments are taking action to ban large-scale anonymous recycling of bottles, cans, and newspapers by requiring picture ID and enforcing criminal [...]
Continue reading...Democrats: ‘Let’s raise gas taxes’
20. July 2008
So the idea of a gas tax holiday is pretty much dead in the water at this point. But, Democrats aren’t satisfied with just that. They’re now talking about adding up to a dime a gallon to the price of fuel in order to pay for assorted highway construction projects… Senate Democrats in May tried to [...]
Continue reading...T. Boone Pickens has the right plan
14. July 2008
Oilman and outspoken political activist T. Boone Pickens has the right idea for dealing with America’s energy crisis. His proposal, backed by a healthy dose of television advertising that has just started, urges Americans to elect leaders that will work to promote energy diversity. Specifically, Pickens wants to begin using wind generated power to supply 22% [...]
Continue reading...Making education an issue in this election
13. July 2008
An advocacy named Strong American Schools will begin running ads this week that seek to nudge Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama on ways to improve the standing of American schools compared with those in other industrialized nations.
Continue reading...Abu Dhabi uses oil money to purchase the Chrysler Building
10. July 2008
That sounds like a headline that would belong in the satrical ‘The Onion’ newspaper , but sadly this is the real deal. The Chrysler Building, one of the most recognizable American landmarks, and the world’s tallest building until 1931, was acquired yesterday by the Abu Dhabi Investment Council for an undisclosed price . This is part of [...]
Continue reading...It’s time for conservatives to embrace energy diversity
9. July 2008
As a Republican, I have grown very tired of the mistaken notion that our party is the party of oil and coal. There is nothing in the platform or doctrine that demands our allegiance to fossil fuels. Alternative energy and alternative fuels are good for America because they promote energy independence. We cannot continue to be reliant on [...]
Continue reading...Global Warming Forced into Classrooms?
17. February 2008
A California lawmaker is pushing a bill to require global warming be included in all science courses throughout the state’s public schools. What business does the state legislature have of deciding what is taught in a science class? Shouldn’t science teachers and local school officials makes these sort of decisions? A Silicon Valley lawmaker is gaining [...]
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