Captain Compassion wrote:

On Fri, 11 May 2007 01:31:58 -0400, PagCal <pagcal@runbox.com> wrote:

Captain Compassion wrote:

THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
Record gasoline prices great news for U.S.
By ANDRES OPPENHEIMER
aoppenheimer@MiamiHerald.com

LAWRENCE JACKSON/AP

House Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. Bart Stupak,D-Mich.,
right, and House Judiciary Chairman, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.,
announced that they are submitting legislation to prevent price
gauging at the gas pump.

Hurrah! Great news! When I filled up my car's gas tank yesterday, I
paid an all-time record $3.41 a gallon, and experts are predicting
that gasoline prices may soon reach $4 a gallon.

I can't wait!

4 bucks by summers end. just wait and see.

And, probably 5 bucks by the 08 elections. Ha, ha, Republicans don't
stand a chance. They and their party, the GOP are doomed to the trash
bin of history.

Will the Carbon Tax lower the price of gasoline?

Interesting question.

The Carbon Tax will do a number of things, that include:

1. The price for energy will now truly reflect the down-stream costs for
oil.

2. By #1, this will cause other forms of energy, that don't share these
down-stream costs to become competitive. This includes solar and wind.

3. The Saudi have said that they will lower the price of oil to try to
put other energy sources out of business, so right there, the price will
start to come down.

4. But, never the less, over time, because of #2, demand for imported
oil will decrease as other forms of energy take over, thus lowering the
price.

5. As time goes on, say in 10 to 15 years, we just won't burn any oil
any more, and therefore we just won't care what it costs.

As time goes on, say in 10 to 15 years, we just won't burn any oil
any more, and therefore we just won't care what it costs.

On 11 May 2007 07:44:29 -0700, "George W Bush (The W stands for
weeny)" <defendusa2@yahoo.com> wrote:

On May 11, 1:31 am, PagCal <pag...@runbox.com> wrote:

Captain Compassion wrote:

THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
Record gasoline prices great news for U.S.
By ANDRES OPPENHEIMER
aoppenhei...@MiamiHerald.com
LAWRENCE JACKSON/AP
House Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. Bart Stupak,D-Mich.,
right, and House Judiciary Chairman, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.,
announced that they are submitting legislation to prevent price
gauging at the gas pump.
Hurrah! Great news! When I filled up my car's gas tank yesterday, I
paid an all-time record $3.41 a gallon, and experts are predicting
that gasoline prices may soon reach $4 a gallon.
I can't wait!

4 bucks by summers end. just wait and see.

And, probably 5 bucks by the 08 elections. Ha, ha, Republicans don't
stand a chance. They and their party, the GOP are doomed to the trash
bin of history.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Nah, Gas prises always reach their low for the election, and then it
is back up.

Funny how that happens.

If you were to hold elections on the first Tuesday in June it would be
a different story.

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On 10 May 2007 08:40:57 -0700, "George W Bush (The W stands for
weeny)" <defendusa2@yahoo.com> wrote:

On May 10, 11:36 am, Captain Compassion <dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net>
wrote:

THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
Record gasoline prices great news for U.S.
By ANDRES OPPENHEIMER
aoppenhei...@MiamiHerald.com

LAWRENCE JACKSON/AP

House Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. Bart Stupak,D-Mich.,
right, and House Judiciary Chairman, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.,
announced that they are submitting legislation to prevent price
gauging at the gas pump.

Hurrah! Great news! When I filled up my car's gas tank yesterday, I
paid an all-time record $3.41 a gallon, and experts are predicting
that gasoline prices may soon reach $4 a gallon.

I can't wait!

I'm not kidding. I am more convinced than ever that unless gasoline
prices rise above $4 a gallon, there won't be a nationwide uproar
strong enough to force Washington to get serious about reducing the
U.S. suicidal dependence on foreign oil.

Barring $4-a-gallon gasoline prices, America will not get serious
about reducing toxic emissions that worsen global warming, and will
continue to fund corrupt Middle Eastern kingdoms that deny basic civil
rights to women and fund Islamic fundamentalist schools, some of which
preach violence against innocent ''infidels'' in the name of Allah.

And, closer to home, without $4 a gallon gasoline, Washington will
most likely continue filling the pockets of oil-rich tropical
autocrats.

Venezuela's narcissist-Leninist President Hugo Chávez is a perfect
example of U.S. oil-funded radicalism. When he was first elected in
1998 and gas prices were at $9 a barrel, Chávez was ridiculing critics
who speculated that he would become a radical leftist. ''Me, a
Communist?'' he asked reporters.

Today, with oil prices at more than $62 a barrel, Chávez ends his
speeches proclaiming ''Socialism or Death!'' He claims that the United
States is ''the cruelest, most terrible, most cynical, most murderous
empire that has existed.'' And he chaperones Iranian Holocaust-denying
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad throughout Latin America.

Granted, the Bush administration will tell you that it is doing a lot
to reduce America's oil consumption. In his recent State of the Union
address, Bush laid plans to reduce U.S. gasoline usage by 20 percent
over the next 10 years, among other things by increasing the supply of
alternative fuels such as ethanol.

But Bush, a Texas oilman at heart, and the U.S. Congress, not immune
to the car lobby, are far too timid in attacking the U.S. foreign oil
addiction.

On Monday, the U.S. Energy Department announced that gasoline prices
hit a national record of $3.05 a gallon, because of bottlenecks in
U.S. refineries. At the Miami Beach Shell station where I filled up my
tank, regular gasoline was $3.41; Plus gasoline was $3.60 a gallon.

Judging from U.S. Energy Information Administration figures, the
long-term picture is bleak: based on current trends, Americans will
continue buying SUVs, Hummers and ever-growing cars, and U.S.
dependence on foreign oil will increase. Consider:

· While light trucks and SUVs accounted for 19 percent of all vehicles
sold in the United States in 1975, the percentage grew to 50 percent
by 2005. By 2015, light trucks and SUVs are projected to account for
52 percent of all new U.S. car sales, according to EIA projections.

· U.S. imports of foreign oil have soared from 35 percent of total
U.S. oil consumption in 1973 to 60 percent of total U.S. oil
consumption in 2006, according to the EIA.

''Overall imports of oil are going to increase, as we consume more
petroleum,'' Jonathan Cogan, a spokesman for the EIA, told me in a
telephone interview Wednesday.

My opinion: This is insane! I have nothing against you buying a light
truck or an SUV if you are a soccer mom with quintuplets, a concert
bass player, or a rancher in Montana.

But when I see these ever-growing vehicles driving through Miami --
where I have yet to find a hill, let alone a mountain -- with just one
person inside, carrying nothing, I can only conclude that America
deserves the foreign oil-rich despots that are causing so much
trouble.

As long as America doesn't get serious about reducing oil consumption,
petro-dictators will grow stronger, and there will be more of them. So
when I see $3.41 gas prices, I say: ''Bravo!'' The sooner we get to
$4, the better!

--
There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.

Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here,
not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they
alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS

"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.

"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant

Joseph R. Darancette
dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net

Bush and the Repuglicans are working hard for you to get your wish.
You should thank them every time you cannot afford to drive somewhere.

In what developed country is the free market pump price for gasoline
less then the US?

Relevance?

"Captain Compassion" <daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote in message
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On 10 May 2007 08:40:57 -0700, "George W Bush (The W stands for
weeny)" <defendusa2@yahoo.com> wrote:

On May 10, 11:36 am, Captain Compassion <dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net>
wrote:

THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
Record gasoline prices great news for U.S.
By ANDRES OPPENHEIMER
aoppenhei...@MiamiHerald.com

LAWRENCE JACKSON/AP

House Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. Bart Stupak,D-Mich.,
right, and House Judiciary Chairman, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.,
announced that they are submitting legislation to prevent price
gauging at the gas pump.

Hurrah! Great news! When I filled up my car's gas tank yesterday, I
paid an all-time record $3.41 a gallon, and experts are predicting
that gasoline prices may soon reach $4 a gallon.

I can't wait!

I'm not kidding. I am more convinced than ever that unless gasoline
prices rise above $4 a gallon, there won't be a nationwide uproar
strong enough to force Washington to get serious about reducing the
U.S. suicidal dependence on foreign oil.

Barring $4-a-gallon gasoline prices, America will not get serious
about reducing toxic emissions that worsen global warming, and will
continue to fund corrupt Middle Eastern kingdoms that deny basic civil
rights to women and fund Islamic fundamentalist schools, some of which
preach violence against innocent ''infidels'' in the name of Allah.

And, closer to home, without $4 a gallon gasoline, Washington will
most likely continue filling the pockets of oil-rich tropical
autocrats.

Venezuela's narcissist-Leninist President Hugo Chávez is a perfect
example of U.S. oil-funded radicalism. When he was first elected in
1998 and gas prices were at $9 a barrel, Chávez was ridiculing critics
who speculated that he would become a radical leftist. ''Me, a
Communist?'' he asked reporters.

Today, with oil prices at more than $62 a barrel, Chávez ends his
speeches proclaiming ''Socialism or Death!'' He claims that the United
States is ''the cruelest, most terrible, most cynical, most murderous
empire that has existed.'' And he chaperones Iranian Holocaust-denying
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad throughout Latin America.

Granted, the Bush administration will tell you that it is doing a lot
to reduce America's oil consumption. In his recent State of the Union
address, Bush laid plans to reduce U.S. gasoline usage by 20 percent
over the next 10 years, among other things by increasing the supply of
alternative fuels such as ethanol.

But Bush, a Texas oilman at heart, and the U.S. Congress, not immune
to the car lobby, are far too timid in attacking the U.S. foreign oil
addiction.

On Monday, the U.S. Energy Department announced that gasoline prices
hit a national record of $3.05 a gallon, because of bottlenecks in
U.S. refineries. At the Miami Beach Shell station where I filled up my
tank, regular gasoline was $3.41; Plus gasoline was $3.60 a gallon.

Judging from U.S. Energy Information Administration figures, the
long-term picture is bleak: based on current trends, Americans will
continue buying SUVs, Hummers and ever-growing cars, and U.S.
dependence on foreign oil will increase. Consider:

· While light trucks and SUVs accounted for 19 percent of all vehicles
sold in the United States in 1975, the percentage grew to 50 percent
by 2005. By 2015, light trucks and SUVs are projected to account for
52 percent of all new U.S. car sales, according to EIA projections.

· U.S. imports of foreign oil have soared from 35 percent of total
U.S. oil consumption in 1973 to 60 percent of total U.S. oil
consumption in 2006, according to the EIA.

''Overall imports of oil are going to increase, as we consume more
petroleum,'' Jonathan Cogan, a spokesman for the EIA, told me in a
telephone interview Wednesday.

My opinion: This is insane! I have nothing against you buying a light
truck or an SUV if you are a soccer mom with quintuplets, a concert
bass player, or a rancher in Montana.

But when I see these ever-growing vehicles driving through Miami --
where I have yet to find a hill, let alone a mountain -- with just one
person inside, carrying nothing, I can only conclude that America
deserves the foreign oil-rich despots that are causing so much
trouble.

As long as America doesn't get serious about reducing oil consumption,
petro-dictators will grow stronger, and there will be more of them. So
when I see $3.41 gas prices, I say: ''Bravo!'' The sooner we get to
$4, the better!

--
There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.

Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS

"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.

"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant

Joseph R. Darancette
dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net

Bush and the Repuglicans are working hard for you to get your wish.
You should thank them every time you cannot afford to drive somewhere.

In what developed country is the free market pump price for gasoline
less then the US?

Relevance?