If anyone is to be labeled “habitual oil users” it should be those who should have by this point looked for alternative fuel. How long has this been a problem and how long have “we” blamed it on those who have to buy gas to go to work.

My opinion, they (those who are responsible for this high priced mess) are hoping we continue to be dependent on oil. How else are they going to continue to make big bucks at our expense. Tell it like it is. We are not buying oil because we like to, it is a necessity.

Then after discussing foreign trade it speaks of government debt and makes a reference to how much debt that is to each American family. This is showing a lack of economic understanding. In an economy there are the three gaps where:

(S-I)=(X-M) + (G-T)
which means Private saving minus private investment must equal the trade balance and the net government expenditures. We already had discussed the trade deficit so we can take that as given. So when the government deficit goes up on the right hand side this implies that savings is going up on the other side.

To put this is simpler terms when the government gives an American a bond it is absurd to calculate that as “America’s” debt because to the private sector person holding it is their savings.

(Now it bad oil policy forces those American to sell those bonds to someone overseas then it becomes “America’s debt”.)

This may all seem trivial but the political implications are important.

#41 – Jane, you are a true cat lover. 20 cats!? My son has one cat, which I will inherit when he goes off to college this fall. She’s too smart for her own good.

1. 15% of the CURRENT US gasoline supply can be replaced if ALL the available acreage of corn is used to produce ethanol
2. US farming practices and subsidies mean that about 8 gallons of gasoline equivalent are used to produce 10 gallons of corn ethanol
3. Ethanol is only 70% as calorific as gasoline
4. Fact 2 and 3 mean that ethanol is NET ENERGY NEGATIVE per current US famring practices
5. Ethanol does nothing to reduce carbon dioxide emissions
6. Corn production is centred in only 2 companies: Cargill and ADM instead of the Five Deadly Sisters of Oil – Cargill and ADM would make out like bandits evne more than they already do.

Ethanol: different pushers, different drug, but same result

no one has to die tomorroW.us

I think you might have misenterpreted my usage of swing, I enjoyed galaxy quest, I love sci-fi, what I don’t love is men, at least in that way.

Well, this thread sure petered out quickly!