A little common sense would be nice.....

HELLO WASHINGTON D.C.!!!!

Is anyone working there that has a brain functioning above the level of Broccoli???? Just checking because I'm becoming more and more convinced every day that there isn't.

Fuel....Gasoline.....Diesel.....Natural Gas.....Heating Oil.....All of us are acutely aware of how expensive these basic necessities are becoming. What I can't understand is "WHY" the wackadoos in D.C. simply cannot acknowledge that we need to be more proactive in finding a solution.....

Oh wait.....Yes I do understand, we'll call it the "Gore Syndrome". Even most mainstream scientists are now forced to admit that their climate models are flawed as they relate to global warming theory since there isn't a sufficiently large enough data set to truly validate the concept. This "winter from hell" that we are just coming out of should be enough for most of us to understand that.....

So what we have are Gore's disciples still telling us that the sky is falling and we need to unilaterally do something about it.....Hmmmm like become a third world country.

Not on my watch.....

If we continue down the path we are on that's exactly where we are headed......We need to quit being the little frog in the pot of water, happily sitting there thinking everything is fine until he starts to boil.

The simple truth is that oil prices have no business being as high as they are.....There is a huge speculative boom right now.....True, the Chinese are using more oil than they ever have before in their history, as are the folks in India. Also true that there are some supply difficulties in certain producing nations, but they have little or nothing to do with the availablility of product. There are other factors why OUR prices are so high.....

This is largely a problem of our own making. We have huge reserves of oil and natural gas, but the politicians are so busy catering to the wants of the environmental movement that we cannot access much of it. We haven't built a refinery in 30 years. We refuse to use clean, affordable nuclear power. Conservation will NOT work on it's own, and the technology of Solar is still too inefficient to be a viable alternative, except in limited residential use, and even then the cost to benefit ratio is skewed too far in the wrong direction. Figure a $20,000 for a solar system to supplement grid power.....If that saves you $50 a month it would still take almost 32 years to pay back the inital investment.....and somehow I don't think the system will last that long.

Short term we need to drill to extract what we have and build more refineries. I'm sick to death of hearing about ANWR.....3000 acres in an area so vast is like a postage stamp on a football field. I have a friend who works up on the north slope and he's sent me pictures of the area where BP wants to drill.....It's a dead, desolate wasteland. forget the warm and fuzzy pictures that the Sierra Club shows off.....That ain't the way it is.....

Yes I live in a state that benefits greatly from the extractive industries. It's irrelevant now since we have the highest average gas prices in the nation, and we also have winter 7 months a year. I know many people who had heating oil bills on the order of $500-600 per MONTH. It doesn't matter how well built your house is.....when it's -40 to -50 for months at a time it's damn expensive to heat a house. It all balances out in our pocket books.

The bottom line is that we NEED to take advantage of the resources we have while we wait for the newer energy technologies to develop into reasonable alternatives.....

A few things to think about......

If the science that Gore rails about was so accurate then why was his a Nobel PEACE prize and not a Nobel for Chemistry which would be more appropriate given that we are talking about chemical reactions that are supposedly altering the climate.

That wonderful little electric car you just bought.....You plug it in at night and the power comes from a natural gas or oil fired power plant.....You can feel all warm and fuzzy about that but you're still using fossil fuels for that vehicle. And what about the hazardous waste disposal when the batteries wear out......

Environmentalists want to REMOVE clean hydro-electric projects for fish migration.....

115 BILLION barrels of proven oil reserves, 85% of which are not accessible because of the environmental lobby. Same goes for the 242 TRILLION cubic feet of natural gas.....

Solar panels at this time are only 19% efficient.

Ethanol is only about 75% as efficient in running your car as gasoline. It's also a major contributing factor to the inflation we are seeing in food prices.

Nancy Pelosi's wonderful idea about halting the filling of our strategic oil reserve would only remove 1/3 of 1% from our daily usage in the US.....The resulting savings at the pump? Right now less than a penny per gallon.....Thanks Nancy that really helps.....NOT!

When I was living in Seattle I saw a sign in a vehicle that said "NO WAR FOR OIL".....The vehicle was a Ford Expedition.....at about 9 miles per gallon.....Hypocrasy on a GRAND scale!

The Seattle Post Intelligencer did a puff piece on a liberal conservationist who had managed to limit his family's driving to 300 miles per week.....he lived in Bellevue and took the bus into Seattle for work, his wife drove a minivan those 300 miles each and every week.....I lived in Everett at the time, had a 30 mile commute each way and I only drove about 320 miles a week.....and I was getting 36 miles per gallon.....Their minivan was getting 21 and they were excited about that.....

WAKE UP WASHINGTON!!!!

You have a golden opportunity to prove that this is STILL a constitutional republic of, by and for the PEOPLE, not a bunch of self-interested hypocrites selling out the citizenry to help further the agenda of the environmental lobby and stuff the coffers of your campaign fund for re-election.

You can't have it both ways right now.....The technology isn't good enough to warrant it, and it's every day Joe-Sixpack who is paying the price.