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Cheap gas stalls green efforts

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soxconn

Don't start with anything variable. It produces uncontrollable degrees of freedom. Like variable interest rate loans, you are assumptions into the future that are totally unpredictable. Like cap and trade, there is no measure of effectiveness so therefore it produces NOTHING but revenue for the government and a burden on tax payers when they are bailing out the government for lousy analysis and decisions. Remember, those same people that were here when Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the CRA were implemented with a complete lack of risk management and oversight, are still the same idiots in charge. Insanity is sometimes defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
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DougHuffman

I pray that I am not the only one suspicious that the price of fuel is being manipulated for the greenies purposes. Prepare to be assimilated by the BOG. Resistance to Obamination is futile. BOG Brother is watching.
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dynodick

It's not surprising that govt wants to solve the cheaper gasoline problem by piling on taxes. It's what they do. Let's let the private sector deal with this! Drill here, drill now,. Double the number of nuclear power plants. Develop and use clean buring coal plants. Communism does't work.
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Buzzog

The Reid-Pelosi-Left Wing nutcases just can't wait to punish low income Americans for wanting and trying to live like they do. They will not stop trying to falsely raise the price of energy. They want the US to be a loser, just like they are. Eliminating fossil fuels from the energy equation is not just foolhardy, it is an intentional attempt to turn this country into a bankrupt Third World Nation.
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road_warrior

I new it was too good to be true! And i kinda thought this was a hook since prices started dropping. These illuminati don't really want to help us they just want to hook us. We scared them by using less oil and getting serious about alternative resources. So they will back off for awhile and then slowing starting jacking up the prices again. it's the from in hot water theory. THey are just trying to find out how fast they can turn up the water temp $$$ so that we won't notice.
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Shore10

When will the greenies be satisfied? When were all living in huts and farming again? Let them lead the way. If it works for them and their kids, I might start to think about it. Until then I like living like an American and not like a European!
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cjwirth

Gas prices will go back up in the Peak Oil energy crisis. According to most independent studies, global oil production will now decline from 74 million barrels per day to 60 million barrels per day by 2015. During the same time demand will increase 9%. No one can reverse this trend, nor can we conserve our way out of this catastrophe. Because the demand for oil is so high, it will always exceed production levels; thus oil depletion will continue steadily until all recoverable oil is extracted. Alternatives will not even begin to fill the gap. And most alternatives yield electric power, but we need liquid fuels for tractors/combines, 18 wheel trucks, trains, ships, and mining equipment. The Energy Watch Group (funded by the German Parliament) concludes in a current report titled: “Peak Oil Could Trigger Meltdown of Society:” "By 2020, and even more by 2030, global oil supply will be dramatically lower. This will create a supply gap which can hardly be closed by growing contributions from other fossil, nuclear or alternative energy sources in this time frame." http://www.globaliamagazine.com/?id=482 We are facing the collapse of the highways that depend on diesel trucks for maintenance of bridges, cleaning culverts to avoid road washouts, snow plowing, roadbed and surface repair. When the highways fail, so will the power grid, as highways carry the parts, transformers, steel for pylons, and high tension cables, all from far away. With the highways out, there will be no food coming in from "outside," and without the power grid virtually nothing works, including home heating, pumping of gasoline and diesel, airports, communications, and automated systems. This is documented in a free 48 page report that can be downloaded, website posted, distributed, and emailed: http://www.peakoilassociates.com/POAnalysis.html I used to live in NH-USA, but moved to a sustainable place. Anyone interested in relocating to a nice, pretty, sustainable area with a good climate and good soil? Email: clifford dot wirth at yahoo dot com or give me a phone call which operates here as my old USA-NH number 603-668-4207. http://survivingpeakoil.blogspot.com/
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BeyondGreen

Not enough credit is being given to the high gas prices this past year and it's serious damage on our economy and society. That one factor alone has caused serious stress in both individuals and businesses. A record number of homes and jobs have been lost as a direct result. And, while we are doing the happy dance around the lower prices at the pumps OPEC is announcing cuts to manipulate the prices upward again. We must get on with becoming energy independent.We can't take another year like this past. There is a wonderful new book out about the energy crisis and what it would take for America to become energy independent. It covers every aspect of oil, what it's uses are besides gasoline, our reserves, our depletion of it. Every type of alternative energy is covered and it's potential to replace oil. He even has proposed legislative agenda's that would be necessary to implement these changes along with time frames. This book is profoundly informative and our country needs to become more informed and move forward with becoming energy independent. Green technology would not only provide clean cheap energy it would create millions of badly needed new jobs. The Book is called The Manhattan Project of 2009 Energy Independence NOW. Our politicians all need to read this book. www.themanhattanprojectof2009.com
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ziggy_stardust

What kind of bailout will we give the teamsters, when we tax them out of their jobs? Maybe some solar panels or a windmill on every truck will do it. Better ask AlGore. Who cares about higher prices and tax anyway. I thought everything would be free under the Marxist messiah Obama/Soetoro? I hope they don't raise the tax on OE 800 and pork rinds.
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road_warrior

Is anybody like me and just suspicious that as soon as Obama gets into office and starts messing with things that this is going to distant memory. All these great gas prices. The liberal illuminati are going to tank this whole thing with all the green initiatives!
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xpress_yourself

This is the plan of the liberal illuminati. They're lowering gas now, and as soon as people stop thinking about drilling, they'll raise it.
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