Thanks

Just another reason to like Palin. She is one smart gal.

Global warming is the liberals church.

“Once you know about her daughter’s pregnancy, once you know about her husband’s political interest in the Alaska Independent Party, once you know about the special nature of their latest child, I think that’s enough,” Gibson wrote.

No wonder they picked Gibson.

Looking to the longer term, there are other considerations. If, for example, Mr. Pickens’ approach to fueling the vehicles with natural gas would be adopted, there is the entirety of the existing filling station infrastructure to be replaced. Moving forward from there, should fuel cells be determined to be the energy source of choice, should the rework to natural gas be done in a way that can be adapted to handle hydrogen?

There are other policy issues involved as well. Should all of us suddenly drive new vehicles with twice the fuel economy of our current ones, then there will be decreased revenues from the gasoline taxes that fund the Highway Trust Fund, for example. Thus, should there be an increase in the rate of tax on gasoline to replace the lost revenues from greater economy? Or, in light of the decreased revenues, should some limitations be put, through appropriate zoning regulation, on urban growth to the “suburbs”? If not, then should there be more funding of mass transit systems, light rail, whatever, to move the folks more efficiently from the bedroom communities to the core areas? Do we care about the core areas at all? What about “telecommuting”?

I’ve many questions, not answers. Thoughts?

“SEC. 7. COASTAL PLAIN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.
(3) ensure that the maximum surface acreage covered in connection with the leasing program by production and support facilities, including airstrips and any areas covered by gravel berms or piers for support of pipelines, does not exceed 2,000 acres on the Coastal Plain.”
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Gravel roads and gravel mines are not included in the “maximum surface acreage covered”.

“I kind of like the idea of helping the car companies re-tool so they can build more efficient autos.”
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It’s a good idea. OilEndGame suggests federal loan guarantees to help automakers with initial retooling.

Also feebates, scrap-and-replace programs, various “carrots”, etc.

PDF page 13 at http://www.oilendgame.com/ReadTheBook.html

See index for page #’s of more details re policies.

Only because they couldn’t measure it properly in the high altitude of Denver, CO. the week before.

LEBANON, Ohio – John McCain took a risk in picking little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as a running mate, but now the campaign’s playing it safer. She’s sticking to a greatest hits version of her convention speech on the campaign trail and steering clear of questions until she’s comfortable enough for a hand-picked interviewer later this week.

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More than 40 million people tuned in last week to listen to the speech from Palin, the 44-year-old first-term governor whom McCain announced as his surprise vice presidential pick just days before. Since then, that basic script is all anyone has heard from her publicly, and her only interaction with the media was a brief conversation with a small group of reporters on her plane Monday — off the record at her handlers’ insistence.

Associated Press reporters were not on the plane, but an aide told the journalists on board that all Palin flights would be off the record unless the media were told otherwise. At least one reporter objected. Two people on the flight said the Palins greeted the media and they chatted about who had been to Alaska, but little else was said.

By comparison, her Democratic counterpart, Joe Biden, has been campaigning on his own for weeks, at times taking questions from audiences. He was interviewed on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday.

His campaign appearances have touched on a range of issues — in Florida he talked about U.S. support for Israel, in Pennsylvania it was economics and tax policy.

Amid growing sniping from Democrats, the McCain campaign announced that Palin would sit down for her first interview, with ABC. It will take place over two days at her home in Alaska.

And then?

McCain campaign manager Rick Davis has said that Palin will “agree to an interview when we think it’s time and when she feels comfortable doing it.”

“She’s not scared to answer questions,” Davis said on “Fox News Sunday.”

So far, Palin has barely spoken with voters either. Since the convention, she and McCain have breezed through a Wisconsin ice cream shop, a New Mexico restaurant and a Missouri barbecue place, shaking hands with diners but not taking any questions. Photographers and television cameras have been allowed full view while reporters are typically ushered too far away to ask questions or hear most of the conversations.

Her public remarks essentially have been excerpts of her convention speech, delivered while introducing McCain at rallies.

Her schedule released Tuesday shows she will attend a “welcome home” rally in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Wednesday evening — her first major campaign appearance without McCain at her side and his advisers hanging in the wings.

To be sure, all candidates running for office give the same remarks over and over — Barack Obama’s stump speech has hardly changed throughout the campaign, and McCain has been telling familiar stories and jokes for months.

But none of the candidates in this race has been so shielded from the media, so protected from any spontaneous situation, and Palin’s unvarying remarks give the impression that she and her message are being tightly controlled. As before her convention speech, McCain’s campaign is briefing Palin for her first TV interview.

In her remarks, there are always descriptions of McCain as a “man who’s there to serve his country and not just his party.” He’s someone who’s “not looking for a fight but is not afraid of one either.” He “doesn’t run with the Washington herd.” He’s the only man in this election “who has ever really fought for you.”

And always the same details about herself, how she “stood up to the special interests, the lobbyists, big oil companies and the good ol’ boys network,” as a mayor and then governor in Alaska.

The people in their crowds, many of whom say they’ve heard these lines before, still go wild when she repeats that McCain put everything on the line last year when he said “he would rather lose an election than see his country lose a war.”

She can be a little cutting, as well, when it comes to the Democrats.

“In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers,” she says. “And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change.”

She delivers the line, like many of her veiled criticisms of Obama, in a disapproving tone that still manages to sound charming to her fans. It is part of what makes her so popular on the campaign trail.

Another favorite is that story about how she got rid of luxuries in the state Capitol, like a personal driver, chef and luxury jet.

“I put it on eBay,” she says.

Audiences love this part, but what Palin never adds is that the jet didn’t sell on eBay despite numerous attempts. The state eventually hired an aircraft broker to unload it.

Such short-lived pollution includes black carbon (soot), low-altitude ozone, nitrates and sulfates. Each type of pollution influences surface temperatures differently — from the cooling influence of sulfate particles, which tend to reflect sunlight, to the warming characteristics of heat-absorbing black carbon.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080904_pollution.html
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Record particulate matter was recorded over Minnesota during the GOP convention. It has been attributed to widespread b**l Sh**, spread by attending conventioneers.

“HLP” –

I’ll name the place.

You buy the lunch.

Then you can tell me how you have decided to accept or interpret your version of “the” Faith.
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Any Thursday in October. Locally, of course.

Phantom

…something called “market forces”.
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Or OPEC not having come to a consensus on where they want the price level to be.

…something called “market forces”.

Drill threat? Not a threat. There are over 2000 rigs pocking holes for gas and oil in the U.S. right now. Highest count in many years.

If you are concerned about what Palin spent on travel don’t look at what Pelosi spends. You’re head’ll explode.