Oh well, maybe the Rapture requires lots and lots of people.

More food for thought,,,or maybe just food for God,,,

GAry 7

“foreign wackjobs as Canada, the UK and Mexico”,,,

Too bad I happen to LIKE those Nutters,,,and yes, we do pay a LOT less for transportation fuels,(than just about anybody except the oil producers citizens) mainly because the transport industry tries to encourage the growth of sales of their product lines, ie, cars, trucks and planes, which are much more attractive to purchase when fuel costs are low. See: profit margins directly proportional to the size of the vehicle.

Current best estimates of the impact of $4.00/gal (in the USA) gas has been a reduction of oil usage equivalent to driving about a billion fewer miles a year. THAT’S progress,,,
JAck up the price another one dollar/gal and we’ll see more people demanding efficient mass transit as well.

Los Angeles, CA, probably has the WORST mass transit in the world and all that started back in the 1950s, when Los Angeles opted to eliminate the electric trollycar system(which, at the time could take one anywhere in LA in an hour for a dime) that ran all over L.A., in favor of freeways and personal transport (read,: millions of cars, billions of dollars to General Motors, Ford, etc.).

What a long term disaster THAT was/is.

Ah well, at least GM made boodles of money,,,

GAry 7

From my reading it appears you guys in the US only get about 12-15% of your oil from the Middle East. You get much of your oil from such foreign wackjobs as Canada, the UK and Mexico. Part of your problem is you don’t pay enough for your petrol (gas). At worst you’re paying almost half the price of anywhere else and as much as 4 or 5 times less than some of the Eurotrash. Up the taxes on petrol you can say goodbye to your deficit and probably limit the kilometres driven thereby saving gas.

Slightly OT but it is being reported in Oz today that the press are having trouble getting an interview with Palin. Republican analysts are saying that it wouldn’t be fair because she won’t get a fair go. Others are saying that she’d be a disaster away from the teleprompter. Tsk tsk tsk.

Sheesh! How far off the original topic can we get?

BA, did you see the ‘interesting cloud formations and sky sights. BABloggee Kevin Baird has some shots up on Flickr with what look to show some of the effects.’
Now, where were we?

My aunts were all evil: My uncles would have approved!

And that also certainly applies to racking up huge federal debts while making one’s cronies rich with no-bid contracts, “privatizing” government functions, and all the other goodies we have endured since the late 1960s.

And there are an equal number of gullibles on the right, especilly the Neo-Cons who have managed to alienate us real conservatives. Some people _still_ think cutting taxes and increasing spending works. Reagan tried it. GHW Bush called it voodo economics, then he adopted it. Congress tried it. Now the war that was going to pay for itself with Iraqi oil is costing much more than the US government will take in, _especially_ if someone tries cutting taxes again.

Here is a proposal: Restrict government spending on anything not _directly_ related to the function of government as outlined in the Constitution until such time as the budget is balanced and the national debt is paid off. Then after that: Cash payments only.

Holy crap, I just noticed i can resize the text entry box. Yay!
So?? how do you do it?

Quite D:
Trusting politicians is not something most people favor. Even woo-woos have to draw the line somewhere. Which is one reason I prefer the Tag “Independent Progressive”.

Now for something important:

How do you resize the entry box???

GAry 7