“See? It all works out just fine!
But playing ‘chicken little’ is much more fun for cosmos.
Now we just need those energy plants in western KS to continue balancing.”

Boxlock is WAY too [ * ] to understand that it was NOT supposed to “balance”.

2007 should have been cooler than 1998.

* = fill in your favorite word(s) and/or phrases, since we’re not supposed to make personal attacks on the WE Blog.

It takes some time to reverse the damage that Republicans do.

It takes reversing tax cuts for the rich too.

See? It all works out just fine!
But playing ‘chicken little’ is much more fun for cosmos.
Now we just need those energy plants in western KS to continue balancing.

A little over one year ago:

1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:

1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity
value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5)Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion
dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!

Remember it’s Congress that makes law not the President. He has to work with what’s handed to him.

A liberal is a person who says “Spend it. It’s the governments money.”
A conservative asks “What is it you want to spend my money on now.”

I don’t know if I can stand anymore change…….

You’re clueless about climate.

El Nino causes warming.

La Nina causes cooling.

A decrease in solar causes cooling.

1998 had a record warm El Nino.

2007 had cooling from a La Nina, and a solar minimum.

2007 tied 1998.

Why?

Because there is a long term, human-caused global warming trend.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7329799.stm

We have no shortages of gasoline.

Long Term Plan:
Wean ourselves off of oil and continue researching new energy sources.

By the way water vapor is also a greenhouse gas and there is much more of it, maybe we can find a way to tax that as well.

You are usually just obtuse. Here you descend into stupid.

“The cost of gasoline is where it is because of all the government BS.”

Um no. There have been no major tax increases state or Federal on the price of gasoline recently. The price of gasoline is manipulated by futures traders using every fart out of an oil rich nation as an excuse to jack the price.

“If we would simply allow more drilling, more refining, and less regulations on every aspect of oil production it wouldn’t cost so much.”

Now this is REALLY stupid.

The US has very little easily accessible oil remaining. The oil rich nations would LIKE it if we depleted what reserves we have. We have no capacity to much affect the global demand for oil.

And refineries? Did I miss a gas shortage? I see no stations out of gas. They always have ample supply. Huh we must have ample refining capacity. And no one WANTS to build a refinery anyway.

The rest of your post is “I this” and “I that”. Well Nathan? The world is just a little bit bigger than you and YOUR creature comforts. And if no one has ever told you that before, I am pleased to be the first.

What do you drive?

If a majority of Americans were demanding the fuel milage of 35MPG they wouldn’t be buying SUV’s and Trucks.

The cost of gasoline is where it is because of all the government BS.

If we would simply allow more drilling, more refining, and less regulations on every aspect of oil production it wouldn’t cost so much.

Typical liberals, you implement government regulations which drive up price, complain about the price, then say because of the price we have to have more government regulations.

Go buy yourself a Honda Civic JM Walker. Do your part to contriubute to the “so called” public demand for higher MPG by putting YOUR money where your mouth is.

I can still afford to put gas into my 4.7 liter V8 just fine. I enjoy having the towing capacity I do and the ability to haul things. I also enjoy being able to get onto the freeway and up to 70MPH quickly.

Personally, I’d rather spend that extra $1.50 a gallon that’s been added over the past 7 years of Bush’s rule on something I’d enjoy more than spewing pollutants into the air I breathe. Unless you’re getting a kickback from the oil companies, you’re being raped.

‘CO2, warming, and causality’
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2008/03/co2_warming_and_causality.php

“z, in comments:
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“CO2 is not causing global warming, in fact, CO2 is lagging temperature change in all reliable datasets.”
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[response] See also my forthcoming paper: “Chickens do not lay eggs, because they have been observed to hatch from them”. “

Every other civilized nation on earth mandates better gas mileage than this one. While they did so out of necessity, this country, still locked in the dark ages of energy conservation, does not do so for profit only.

There is no desire, nor do they feel the need, to press for maximum output, in MPG, thus reducing the average joes’ fuel cost, saving energy, not sending billions to countries supporting terrorism and doing something beneficial for the environment.

The Republicans slam us with being traitors, surrender monkeys among just a few, but the republicans can’t seem to understand how much money their so-called patriots are throwing to terrorists. So if and/or when this country is attacked by terrorists resulting in thousands killed, look in the mirror and remind yourself, “I helped pay for that attack because I was more interested in profit than people.”

You neo-cons got nothing, and offer nothing.

If the patriot act was meant to reduce the risk of terrorist attack, they would MANDATE all new vehicles have ratings above 35 MPG. The technology is out there, but, damn, how can a company make a profit if people only have to fill up every 500 miles?

You morons may call us surrender monkeys for not supporting a war perpetrated on the American public by this admin, but you all are directly supporting terrorism every time you deny the publics demand for energy conservation.

I am the only expert on anything and EVERYTHING!

Of course, I will lie and make things up in order to further my conservative cause.

We don’t lie - the right wing bloggers own that franchise.

Let’s face it - you attended college as a janitor - nothing else - the closest you came was cleaning out the wastebaskets.

If I am wrong, prove it, idiot.

He will scream his highly educated head off about some claim I make, but when statements like Clark, J R and J M Walker make he’s knows that are false, he just let’s them slide on by.

Guess you have to maintain the Lib standard of reckless disregard for convenient facts eh Ben? :)

Ben enjoys the personal attacks on me, even when they are false.

In short, the Libs on this blog have no balls to call other Libs out when they lie.

It’s proven every day.

…as evidenced in Clark’s 4:58 and 5:00 pm posts.

(chortles)

Then why are you on welfare?

They only “science degree” that McCluer has is his Janitorial Degree, earned for cleaning out the science lab after class.

But it was signed by the head janitor……