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Of course the Religious Right will endorse McCain, because there is no other alternative. And the way McCain flip-flops and bends over to placate any and all groups; who knows, the Religious Right might just end up with some of the things they want from McCain.

The bigger question is who will McCain pick for his VP. That choice will tell you alot about the future of the GOP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5N_MsfBgaM

I don’t know why the guy had marbles in his mouth when he talked.

BTW, doesn’t Bob Dole also lobby for some Saudis? Is it to keep the US dependent on the Middle East oil?

I think it is both Democrats and Republicans fault. I also think it is the greed of big oil willing to sell America’s soul for more profit.

Enter OPEC with their magic pill. Hook the US on their oil and then after enough years pull the plug. That glug you hear is our economy going down the drain. And still the congress continues the dog and pony show with the oil execs.

Democrats and republicans alike need to wake up before we have foreigners running our country.

If you look carefully at the pronouncements of the industry you will see that they say the same thing – it is not refining where the problem lies.

As for emptying our own remaining reserves that will simply hasten the BIG crash when we no longer have liquid fuels but also no longer have chemical feedstocks. George Bush has mouthed the words that we need to end our addiction to oil. Now we need to replace those empty words with action.

writerdon – “Franklin, it can not be both ways of faulting Obama for attending the same Christian church for twenty years. And still question his religious alliance as to whether he is Moslem or Christian.” You should know by now that Paul CAN have it both ways – he has never let the truth get in the way of his talking points.

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Big oil started screwing America and Americans twenty years ago by reducing production of domestic oil. They harmed entire communities by putting workers at every level on unemployment. That the Augusta refinery has been allowed to fall into ruin is just another indicator that other than bleeding the American people dry big oil has no investment in this country.

It’s all right, I love ya anywayz. :D

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PS Here’s to the “memorial” part of Memorial Day. Thanks, yall men and women of the armed forces. ALL of youse: thank you.

Amen.

Way to go, bro. Jesus, if only a quarter of us here could write so thoughtfully, this place would NOT be the vermin infested hellhole people like me have so obviously made it. Thank you for your thoughtfulness as expressed here. :D

Also, here’s a shout out to filmfan. And others, too (my memory for new names is sinfully crappy, and I sincerely regret that in me).

Steve, ya think a rethink of yer sorely observed absence her is in order now? I’m thinking it should, bro. :D

PS Here’s to the “memorial” part of Memorial Day. Thanks, yall men and women of the armed forces. ALL of youse: thank you.

“A few years back, Bush even made the proposal that refineries be built on closed military bases.”

econ101, are you really so dumb that you cannot understand that companies do not want to build very expensive new refineries — and have excess capacity that lowers their profits?

Well duuhhh…

Has anyone ever experienced a gas station running out of gas recently? Exactly.

In fact, I should think that the oil companies themselves in alliance with the futures traders would likely OPPOSE any increase in refining capacity.

This is why drilling for the meager supply of oil in the US is not relevant or helpful. The refineries are running at capacity now. More oil would just sit in storage tanks waiting to be refined.

But let’s get back to those gas stations that are never out of gas.

The supply of gasoline remains pretty much constant. Otherwise, stations would at least occasionally run out of the stuff.

We are being had. There is no shortage of gasoline. There are just greedy futures traders using every fart and sneeze in the world to jack the price.

“Making the issue political to the point of having Americans at one another’s throats gave a handful of the privileged huge opportunities to capitalize on our differences and got us to act against our own interests.”

Celtic, that patern, indeed, is one of the foundational building blocks of Facism… History is only too clear on that!!

You know, oil speculators have set the goal of $8 per gallon of gas over the next ten years. Do you know what that’s going to mean to young Ameicans just starting out in their early twenties ten years from now? You think real wages are going to keep up with the kind of inflation that’s going to cause – no way.

70% of oil lobby money goes into Republican congressmen’s pocket: 70%. The US Senate isn’t getting work done passing bills those guys don’t want passed because Mitch McConnell is fillibustering everything. Democrats aren’t making an issue of it, because Republicans are ruining their own prospects for regaining the majority or even keeping a close minority in the Senate.

When 47% of your countrymen TRIED and TRIED to tell you that the intensity of your committment to your “values” was being taken advantage of by the privileged and their access to power in government you called us baby killers – AS IF that was addressing the issues.

You want to tell me this country is going great, everything’s great; you go right ahead. But this country isn’t going great. The religious right didn’t get any big bills ending abortion or stopping gays from existing. You can’t teach intelligent design in schools. You didn’t get your agenda met and you weren’t ever going to because the people with the power were just using you.

Now, you have an opportunity: quit calling people who aren’t baby killers, baby killers. It doesn’t seem hard. When someone says something you don’t agree with = don’t call them baby killers. Also, you might want to refrain from calling them Moslems when they’re really Episcopalians. That’s just silly.

But the Republics are happy to blame the recession of 2001 on Clinton.

“Bush wants to build more refineries.”

Quote when Bush made that statement.

“Bush wants to drill for more oil.”

So why did he acquiesce to Jeb’s request that the Feds not grants a permit to drill off the Gulf coast of Florida?

“Democrats do NOT want to drill for more oil.”

Bullshit.

“If Bush had his way, on the PRODUCTION side of the balance sheet, gasoline would be: CHEAPER!”

More bullshit.

“Explain to me how you suck out of your thumb the conclusion that one convert is better than another.”

I never, ever said that Obama was a Muslim. My question was how does one person get to chose the goodness of another person’s conversion experience. I’ve gathered from remarks that Obama has made that he “became” a Christian, that he came into life in the Christian faith. I never said he converted from Islam to do it. Maybe he converted from not having an especially well defined religious faith of any particular sort? I dunno, but he does say he’s a Christian. He does say he has a life in the Church.

It has been INSISTED that Obama is Muslim and therefore he;s not a real Christian and not a real American. I’m saying the head of the Liberty School of Theology REALLY is a Muslim who converted to the Christian faith. Doesn’t the same judgement hold true for him that he’s not a real Christian and not a real American?

‘Cause, frankly, that just sounds like more religious right double talk: Well, if he’s OUR convert he’s OK. And if he’s YOUR convert he’s not.

Not only that. But, I believe the point I made was that people who are shooting off their mouths about Obama and his faith had one of their own sitting right in one of their own schools of theology and they didn’t even know it. hadn’t bothered to know it. And didn’t expect, once again, to be caught in their ignorance about it. You want to have credibility? Do your homework and find out the facts before you go shooting off you mouth in judging other peoples’ faith.

Just what, exactly, has George W. Bush done to increase the price of gasoline?

Well, the economy does have an effect on consumption, and 6 of Bush’s 8 years in office saw an economic recovery, and then a boom.

Still, I give Presidents very little credit or blame for economic issues.

Even if you are in the naive school of thought that thinks Presidents, some how, magically “control” the economy, that is only ONE thing, in a mix of several variables, where the price of gasoline is concerned.

On the other issues?

Bush wants to build more refineries.

Democrats do NOT want to build more refineries.

Bush wants to drill for more oil.

Democrats do NOT want to drill for more oil.

If Bush had his way, on the PRODUCTION side of the balance sheet, gasoline would be: CHEAPER!

Instead, Democrats had THEIR way, and gasoline is: MORE EXPENSIVE!