Thank Saxby Chambliss for the CORN Ethanol program. He is responsible for the $.50 tarrif on improted lower cost Ethanol & opposes its repeal.
In today's current energy usage environment, we the people of the United States cannot afford any longer to allow our government to continue in its backward and destructive policies of energy management.
When the current Bush administration decided to allow the stock market to dictate oil prices with its legal gambling infrastructure, it was one of the single worst economic decisions ever made, affecting not only Americans but all people worldwide.
We must, as a country, decide which is more important: oil or tourism.
Force the state of Florida to open its waters to drilling the trillions of barrels everyone knows is there; the same for California.
As it is, we are only one-third dependent on foreign oil. With some simple, positive and, most importantly, inexpensive steps we can wipe out even more of our dependence on foreign oil. Let the Middle East drink their oil instead of our hard work, and the stock market should be banned from setting the price of oil based on pure speculation.
If we are going to start using ethanol, then let's do like Brazil and use a cellulose-base ethanol like sugarcane and not use a primary food crop. Corn ethanol is not working and never will. We need an ethanol source that is more in tune with the energy output of fossil fuels.
Thanks to corn ethanol we are driving less and using more fuel. Cellulose ethanol has seven times the amount of energy output as corn ethanol. Also, corn ethanol is tearing up our older vehicles, which most of us cannot afford to replace.
Once again, let's do it right not half-baked. Stop the nimby mess -- Not In My Back Yard; we don't have room for it. And dump the political correctness in energy policy, which is absolutely wrong!
Alan Marberry, Augusta
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Thank Saxby Chambliss for the CORN Ethanol program. He is responsible for the $.50 tarrif on improted lower cost Ethanol & opposes its repeal.
Get real. Ethanol is the earmark of mid-western states where they plant corn in rows a mile long. They want to protect the business they have created and that is why there are import tariffs on Brazilian sugar cane sourced ethanol. It doesn't matter. Ethanol is NOT a problem solver. Slowing down is. The best energy policy move the government could make is to reduce the speed limit. If gas prices are too high in your opinion, then you have control over your speed and therefore a lot of your ultimate cost. Did you know that we have oil companies that pump our oil out of our basins and export it to Japan? Nationalize the oil reserves, NOW.
How can you ban people from buying stocks in public oil companies?
Oh come on! You mean to tell me that you didn't understand the trickle down theory in politics? It goes like this, You being the peon, get a job from a corporate business, and they tax you according to the federal and state tax codes, and get their own tax incentives for hiring you to begin with, and all the money collected goes into the politicians pools of spendatures and some of it actually reaches welfare recipients, ssi, and other needy places, and then you get your tax rebates again to buy more stuff and increasing the supply and demand. The system then hires more people, and so on, and so forth, and then it trickles back down to you to pay more taxes to keep the system going. So as you are laid off and out of a J-O-B, the taxes keep trickling down to Y-O-U along with the rest of the crappy stuff that you can no longer afford such as replacing your car! This way, they can continue to raise prices and give those bigger paychecks to CEO's who make millions on retirement. Even some politicians have stock in oil companies and make $250,000 from this investment and stick you with the taxes! See how easy that trickles down?
It's amazing how everybody wants to blame GW Bush for current energy crisis. One of the first big issues he tackled (2002) was energy policy that combined drilling more for oil in the USA and conservation. Every year, most Democrats in cooperation with a small percentage of "moderate" Republicans, killed any chance of more drilling in this country. If we would have passed law to drill when GW wanted to, we would be about three years from realizing fruits of a sound policy. Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less!!!!!
China has the "US dollars" to out bid us for the global oil reserves. Combine this with the fact that their are no more "American Companies" with loyalty to America. We have been told for years how the world was "shrinking" and we must "embrace other cultures" to survive. HEY IT AIN'T WORKING PEOPLE. The other "cultures" are on the rise and we are just steps from disaster.
Check out Saxby's web page where he brags about being the author of the farm bill which contains the burning food earmark & over ridding our Presaident's VETO of this waste.... He & his lobbiest son sold us out.
Bush "allowed" gambling on oil that sent oil prices p on the world market (where everyone can bid on futures)? Geez, I didn't know the Pres had that authority. Can the writer (or anyone else) show me that in the Constitution or federal law? Congressional supported corn based ethenol is a disaster (food shortage) as is the mandatory use of florescent light bulbs in 2014 (with the mercury content that wil wind up in the garbage dumps). We need somone other than [filtered word] politicians establishing our energy priorites and solutions. Maybe Bush and Cheney were smart to consult with private industry on the subject.
Gas is $4 a gallon, and the Democratic Congress holds hearings with baseball players. Gas is $4 a gallon, and the Democratic Congress wants to tax big oil. Gas is $4 a gallon, and the Democratic Congress wants Scott McClellan to appear and give a review on his new book. Gas is $4 a gallon, and the Democratic Congress fiddles while America burns out of fuel. Just keep on fiddling, dear Congress, and we'll all be walking and riding bicycles trying to get to the grocery store to buy a $4 gallon of milk.
DE, your absolute ignorance of basic economics is not unusual to the uneducated DIMs like you. Lower taxes (both income and corporate) stimulate the economy and provides jobs. This has been proven by both Reagan and again by GW Bush who inherited a recession from your boy BJ Cliton's policies and we hav had the best growing economy and lowest unemployment until the oil and foreclosure bubbles burst this year. BTW, which grade of school did you drop out in 7th or 8th? You and Shivas seem to have dropped out together.
Jack, the tax cuts for business often did not go back into the economy, it went into wasteful spending on CEO/executive pay, bonsuses, etc. Plus, as Deekster pointed out, in this "global economy" companies are often not American owned anymore so they are not looking out for the welfare of America. As long as they are being fed money for goods they are happy. Sure some American stockholders (wealthy) make money off of it, but these companies keep building factories elsewhere, outsource jobs elsewhere, and sometimes move their HQs elsewhere to avoid taxes all together (Halibertun..who is a major supplier to our military is moving to Dubi..and we are supposedly worried about terrorism, but that is another subject)..thus costing jobs for the middle class and poor. I guess tax cuts work at making the rich get richer. So Jack, I hope you are one of the wealthy, because the middle class is being wiped out.
Jack, I never said I was for Democrats! I am Independent, so get it RIGHT!
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