Comments on: Coming around to it at last

By: MaxDamage

MaxDamage — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:32:02 +0000

I’ve been reading the news of late. Washington is concerned about the environment. About Iraq. We just had a vote on a carbon credit bill.

I’ve a pair of 150-gallon diesel tanks. They’re on a Chevy straight truck. I’m not concerned about the environment or Iraq so much, I’ve people smarter than me who will advise Congress on that. I’m worried about getting a product to market. Because when it costs me $1500 to fill those tanks to take corn or beans or sunflower seeds to market, you can bet I’m passing those costs on to the consumer or I’m not driving.

Just for a mental exercise, you remember the media that claimed all the corn was going to ethanol and poor Mexicans couldn’t make taco’s because the corn was too expensive, never mind there are fifty different kinds of corn?

Look for the word “soy” whenever you buy oil, bread, salad dressing, peanut butter, mixed nuts or even hamburger. Soy is everywhere. Some goes to biodiesel. So if ethanol were really taking all the corn don’t you think you’d see less corn in stuff and more soy? Corn nuts, corn flakes, corn chips, corn on the cob, corn kernels, corn syrup…

The cost increase isn’t because there’s less product or much more demand, it’s because it can’t be shipped economically because diesel is so expensive. Diesel takes sweet crude to refine.

There are seven different laws that prevent us from drilling for oil in our interior, or on our own coasts. China is drilling off our coasts right now. Our energy plan is to delay refineries, tie them up in legal injunctions, and hope the Canadians keep refining oil sands. The answer of Congress to $5/gallon diesel is to ask about the salary of an oil company CEO, who runs a company that produces billions of gallons of diesel. He’s at least providing a product. What’s the last thing Congress produced, other than new taxes?

Demand is up, supply is only steady, do they not teach economics in law school so that our leaders may understand? Oh, wait — I almost forgot these are the same people who wrote the tax code.

Sorry. We’re doomed.

– Max

By: STEVEC

STEVEC — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:53:03 +0000

A key failing of the Bush Administration, from top down, has been the failure to sternly take on the mainstream media and the naysaying Democrats on the issue of Iraq and the importance of Iraq to our “regional strategy” (and I fervently hope we have a regional strategy beyond making nice to the G**d*** Saudi’s) and to take the issue to the public by regular, high visibility statements / press conferences. That the mainstreamers now generally downplay or ignore the positive story that Iraq is becoming is no surprise, but they should have their collective feet held to the fire. And, had the administration done a better job of communicating, they could be crowing very loudly and the public might give them some more respect than Bush’s “approval ratings” indicate.

By: PatRM

PatRM — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:13:02 +0000

Why can’t the dems grasp the simple concept of PROGRESS. If they could maintain an ounce of sense inside their heads they could realize that the only thing stopping more attacks on America and the west is taking the fight to them.
Instead they hide behind their liberal agendas about enviromental concerns and socialist reform when they should get their butts in motion and start doing the PATRIOTIC thing and help our brave men and women out there in the thick of fighting to pull out. IN VICTORY and nothing less than that

By: badbob

badbob — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:07:54 +0000

Incremental progress and definite change in the security situation. No time to let up now as you hammer home, however al Sadr and his movement haven’t been buried yet. Until that happens we still have a lot of hard work ahead…Serious work. Why that guy still breathes is a mystery to me.

Hard work, BTW, that BOH, Hillary, marionette head from San Fran and about 60% of the American people don’t have the fortitiude to finish decisively…We still have those who would snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Hence, my apprehension.

By: RPL

RPL — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:02:07 +0000

Can we consider this a “road to Damascus” moment on behalf of the press?

By: Daveg

Daveg — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:18:02 +0000

The Dems are learning that they are now hoping to inhabit the Whitehouse under the new rules that they have spent the last eight years putting in place. Primary amongst those rules is that you can never, ever admit to a mistake.

Just watch the hilarity that ensues when they try to use the Executive authority that they’ve also spent the last eight years eroding with their hysterical ranting.