Thank you, Obama - gas $2.13/gallon

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Registered: 08-27-2001
Thank you, Obama - gas $2.13/gallon
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Sat, 11-08-2008 - 7:43pm

I guess since we can already blame Obama for Russia's belligerence and the disastrous economy, logic would dictate that he is to credit for me paying $2.13/gallon for gas today.


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Registered: 11-12-2008
Wed, 11-12-2008 - 4:55pm
Look for those prices to rise when Obama attacks the coal industry.
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-20-2008
Wed, 11-12-2008 - 5:00pm
I don't have to look - our electric rates have tripled under the Bush administration - so raising again is what I have grown to expect.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Wed, 11-12-2008 - 7:08pm
Do you get BG&E?

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Registered: 10-20-2008
Wed, 11-12-2008 - 9:18pm
No, when I moved to the shore from Harford County, we did have BG&E, but sometime in the last few years it changed to Delmarva Power - we still got the huge rate increase but I didn't take the 'financing' since I have budget billing anyway. I just bit the bullet and lowered the thermostat in the winter and raised it in the summer. I wasn't very happy about it, but since I rent I really didn't have a choice. The hard part is in the hot months since the school I teach at is not air conditioned, my classroom can be well into the 90's for days on end and then to come home to a hot house is tough. That's when we go to Barnes and Noble or stroll through the freezer section of the Food Lion! LOL
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 11-12-2008 - 9:39pm

There was a plus to high gasoline prices, just as there's a plus to high natural gas and fuel oil prices. We were conserving more, looking for alternatives to fossil fuels, and not giving the energy companies carte blanche to bleed us to death

I devoutly hope that Obama has an energy plan which considers the possible link between fossil fuels and global warming. I hope he realizes the true cost in foreign policy formulation and "defense" spending, created by our over-reliance on resources controlled by loose-cannon OPEC leaders. I hope he's willing to have the nation experience short-term pain for the sake of long-term gain.

Gettingahandle


Ignorance is Nature's most abundant fuel for decision making.


Facts stifle the will, hobble conviction.

Gettingahandle

Ignorance is Nature's most abundant fuel for decision making.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-20-2008
Wed, 11-12-2008 - 11:39pm
Amen!
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-12-2008
Thu, 11-13-2008 - 12:41am

>>> There was a plus to high gasoline prices, just as there's a plus to high natural gas and fuel oil prices. We were conserving more, looking for alternatives to fossil fuels, and not giving the energy companies carte blanche to bleed us to death

Forced conservation only meant that people were hurting...some choosing to forgo food because driving was a necessity. And you probably noticed, but despite all of the searching, no one found an alternative to fossil fuels (which probably aren't "fossil" fuels anyway)...and the energy companies (I presume you meant oil companies) have made record profits, so it's tough to see how "we" took away their "carte blanche."

>>> I devoutly hope that Obama has an energy plan which considers the possible link between fossil fuels and global warming.

It's a myth. Even if man-made global warming was a reality...and it's not...our contribution is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO small as to be utterly insignificant.

>>> I hope he realizes the true cost in foreign policy formulation and "defense" spending,

I think Obama's plans for complete capitulation to our enemies will cut down appreciably on our defense spending.

>>> created by our over-reliance on resources controlled by loose-cannon OPEC leaders.

You do realize that we get VERY little oil from OPEC nations, don't you?

>>> I hope he's willing to have the nation experience short-term pain for the sake of long-term gain.

I think with Obama, it's pretty much going to be all pain.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 11-13-2008 - 2:20am

Would you have been equally fervent in defending horse breeders, farriers, stable owners, etc., a hundred years ago?

Fossil fuels "aren't 'fossil' fuels"? Huh?

Oil companies ARE making record profits. We haven't yet taken away their ability to make money hand over fist--even as they blather on about the uncertainty of future earnings, need to drill more, fewer environmental restrictions....blah, blah, blah. But as other technologies become widely used, mass-produced, and by extension, cheaper, alternative energy companies will have a chance to prove viable competitors--and profits won't be solely in the pockets of oil companies. Hasten the day! However, change isn't easy and fossil fuels have been subsidized, heavily, for over half a century.

Got substantiation for your claims about global warming? Or are we just supposed to accept, on your word and that of vested interests, that human activity is such a piddling contributor to ice melting off the North Pole?

Regarding the claim that Obama plans on "complete capitulation to our enemies". Please provide the quote and/or links.

I realize that we get a sizable amount of our oil from OPEC. http://www.eia.doe.gov/basics/quickoil.html Stats are from this past September.

The past eight years have seen the nation go from thriving economy to foundering, international super-power status to has-been status, and massive unease from the populace at large about the future of the country. http://www.conference-board.org/economics/ConsumerConfidence.cfm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96599102&ft=1&f=1003
Only time will tell how well Obama does but he won't have to work real hard to look better than the execrable leader we've had since 2001.

Gettingahandle


Ignorance is Nature's most abundant fuel for decision making.


Facts stifle the will, hobble conviction.

Gettingahandle

Ignorance is Nature's most abundant fuel for decision making.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-17-2008
Thu, 11-13-2008 - 3:20am
There is no consensus among scientists that global is man made.

 

 

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Registered: 10-01-2004
Thu, 11-13-2008 - 4:32am
If