Let’s Make A Deal
May 27th, 2008Let’s Make A Deal
Smart
I’ve got one of these… (different color)
…awesome vehicle, 4WD, leather, power everything, heated seats, power moonroof, towing package, Honda quality and reliability.
I want one of these…
…has none of the above, but I wont need a second mortgage to fill up the gas tank.
Anyone want to trade?
Stop Hugging Trees
May 17th, 2008Stop Hugging Trees
And The Moose
I don’t want to go off on a rant here, but are you feeling the pinch at the pump yet? Gasoline is a very affordable $3.75 here today. That, by the way, translates into $15 just for my lawn mower gas.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve had about enough of the hemorrhaging of American dollars to the middle east.
Clearly we need to put research and development for alternative fuel sources on the fast track here in the United States.
Auto factories should be pumping out hybrid vehicles faster than Michelle “It’s a vagina, not a clown car” Duggar can spawn new babies. Maybe the geniuses in Washington should subsidize hybrids rather than put forth half-baked “tax rebate” schemes which only pump more money back to Saudi Arabia.
And, for Christ’s sakes we don’t want to further perpetuate the problem by building any more fossil fuel power plants. We need more hydro, more solar, more wind, and obviously more nuclear. Build them now.
Begin building several new oil refineries in strategic locations throughout the country. And, by “strategic” I mean “not in the fucking hurricane alley or on top of a major fault line”, like the current location of some of our refineries. Again, fast track these… You know those thousands of Mexicans crossing the border illegally every day? Round them up and ship them to the refinery construction sites. When the job is complete, give them citizenship - they will have done more for the country than most of our politicians have for the past two decades.
For the short term, drill.
Drill ANWR. Drill off the coast of California, Massachusetts, and Florida. I don’t care if it causes sterile polar bears or dolphins. They’ll survive. Drill the massive oil reserves in North Dakota.
ANWR alone has ample petroleum reserves to supply more than 5% of our oil for at least the next 12 years.
If there is even the slightest chance that any parcel of land might be sitting atop oil, drill it. I don’t care if it’s my back yard or the front lawn of the White House.
Or, you can sit back and wait for oil to hit $200 per barrel and gasoline to hit $5 per gallon, and bitch about how much it costs. At least you know the polar bears will be able to continue their active sex lives up in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Of course that’s just my opinion, I could be wrong…
