So you must be voting for Obama then?
For all of us older than 40, this oil crisis is deja vu.
Thirty years ago during the Carter administration, we older Americans sat in long, long, long lines waiting to get gas and hoping the gas station still had gas by the time we got to the pumps. We could fill up our cars only on odd or even days, depending on our license plates. We had an energy problem in this country with unemployment rates at 7.5 percent, interest rates as high as 20 percent and inflation at 11 percent.
Years later, we still don't have an energy program. We are even more dependent on other countries for oil. Instead of an energy policy, our Congress and bureaucracy have been putting roadblocks to any solutions.
This is a great country that has overcome many major problems, and we can solve the energy problem. It's time to tackle the problem just as we did when we faced World War II in desperate need of ships, planes, ammunition, guns, etc. We won that war, and we can solve this problem today.
It's time for our government to be focused on energy. Redistributing our wealth to Third World countries to sustain our needs for oil is beyond ridiculous! If Congress doesn't act now and cut all of the bureaucracy, it's time for those lawmakers to go. The approval rate of Congress when I last looked was 9 percent. ...
I want a five-year plan to make us energy independent using oil, solar, wind, nuclear, coal and anything else that the great minds of this country can invent -- and ethanol only if it isn't made from our food. This great country can accomplish anything it sets its mind to! It's time to act!
Marilyn Doremus, Aiken, S.C.
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So you must be voting for Obama then?
End the "Burning Food" government program will cut the cost of gas & food. Eliminating the $.54 duty on imported Ethanol will cut the gas price NOW. What's wrong with our congressmen?? They are in the pocket of Iowa corn growers & Ethanol special interest. Term limits now.
No DrGunby if she were for Obama she would be against all those things!
So DrGunby, if we raise taxes and continue to prevent domestic drilling, our problems will be solved? Strange reasoning.
Yesterday on my cable, C-SPAN and QVC were broadcasting on the same channel. I bought a congressman on easy pay.
LOL tom ga, it's almost impossible to get a good price on a congressman any more.
Truly Unbelieveable...lets go back to the failed administration of JIMUH the fuel "shortage" was a result of poor planning and the beginning of the "Share our Pain" Liberalisim. We can pump the fuel we need and ...AND Refine it in this country. The sad fact is that the failed education system is not teaching students to research history.
I believe we have all forgotten where we came from and those on the hill are making too much money to understand the issues of the common man. Remember they get the incentive of a goverment car with fuel expense paid for. Our first revolution should be to set all senators and congressmens cars on fire for the next rendition of the Boston tea party. I for one am sick with the thought that my hard earned money is going to them for all travel expenses paid. They are testing our wills to see how far they can take this before we stand up for ourselves.
Oil is a finite resource. This price shock has given us a chance to see how dependent on it we are, and realize how wasteful our culture has become. Now usage is droping, not because of some regulation, but because we're now paying the real price.
Ms. Thomas, Energy Department experts report that if we drill of our coasts that we will most likely reduce the price of a gallon of gas by four cents. Reducing the speed limit to 55 would save vastly more gaoline than drilling off our coasts will produce.
The Democrats have fiddled while we've run out of oil. There is plenty of untapped oil in the USA to stop the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of the world. $700 billion from the US to countries who don't like us and some ends in the pockets of terrorists. They've picked our pockets thanks to the Dems. It's absurd that we can drill for ice on Mars and can't drill for oil in our own country.
I am all for alternitive energy, but we need oil and gas NOW to last us until this alternitive is found and the proper infrastructure for delivery is built. However, the democrats solution is conservation, or in other words, lowering our standard of living for all Americans. I don't know about you, but I enjoy gathering my family into one vehicle to take a vacation or even a trip to the mall. American's love their sports cars, trucks and SUVs and won't give them up easy.
Gummy (er Gumby) your boy Osama does NOT want drilling of our own oil, and that is a matter of his voting record, along with the other DIMs led by Pilosi and Reid. No energy policy that makes sense by November, kick them out! The DIMs only accomplishment in two years is get a raise in minimum wage to buy more votes. Heard a DIMocRAT idiot on the House floor this morning wanting to make the minimum wage a LIVABLE wage! The moron doesn't have a clue as to how many jobs would be lost were his legislation to become reality.
Jack, do you live in Georgia??
I am currently a student at Aiken Technical College and I had to be faced with keeping my job or going on with the Radiology program that I was accepted in the fall. I was informed that I can not have my clinical hours adjusted at the end of the shift. I wanted to just leave 2 hrs. ealier on Tuesday's and Thursday's and it can't be done according to the instructors. Then make it up on the weekends, and on my breaks from school.I initally wanted to do Radiology and I have worked so hard to pursue my dream. I decided Radiology after my preganacy resulted in a miscarriage. I saw my baby on the screen and I knew then I wanted to do that for a living. I want to see life and to see if I can come up with a treatment for different dieases. I was hurt to know that Aiken Tech. is not setup for non-traditional students. My GPA is close to a 4.0 and I have worked so hard to get to this point. The program is very hard to get in and I got in along with 11 people out of 70 people that applied. I lost my dad, my uncle(month later), divorce, almost losing my home, my job, my grandma got her legs taken off and she had a heart attack. I have to help take care of her and survive. I can't believe that I have to chose surviving and higher education. We need more instructors and options for working people like myself. What about weekends classes, what about night clinicals? I am up aginist a hard rock here. I vowed to not put work before school as I always have. But I may have to again. I thought higher education is what make us into a productive individual and happier community. I don't know what to do? It kills me to give up on something that I worked so hard for, just to fail myself. I am a working almost 30 yr. old lady, no one to have my back (to help me), and I will always work. So do that mean I will always put my dream on hold or say to forget it? I am ready to be a wife and a mother and I have put that on hold to pursue my dream. 3 years later nothing.....
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