OK all you terrible gas station owners, look out Ron Kind is coming after you. If you gouge at the pumps he is going to get you. This is really going to make gas prices come down especially since they did this huge study which said no one is gouging.
What in the heck does Congress think they are doing? this is unbelievable, our economy is going down for the count and Congress is going to fine gas station owners? We need to get rid of this Congress and start with all new people. Congress had better come up with something better then this, are they all on drugs? They want a band aid for a cut artery.
Is the American public truly going to put the same people back in office? or are we going to have real change by finding new people.
How about Paul Stark and Robert "Bobby" Erickson to start with?
Come on Americans wake up and smell the smoke we are going down for the count and it is not Congress it is us, we need new people and we had better get started. The election is in November and right now the same people are running for Congress so nothing will change unless we decide differently. Lets get going and find new people to elect.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
How to Lower Gas Prices
The author of this article read article here knows how to get the gas prices lowered what is the matter with Congress? I think most of them are so old that they are senile and can't understand the facts. How about some fresh new young blood. If they have served for more then four years out they go!
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
The American Congress has gone Insane
This article that I found on the icecap.us site is proof that the Congress of the United States of America has gone completely mad. Do they really think that if the American public knows exactly what their plans are that they will allow them to get away with it? Not if they know but how can they find out? The media won't print the truth and I don't know how to get it to them so I am putting this on my site and hope and pray that you will read and research what you find in this article. I know it is long but it is the only way I can get you to read it. Please before you vote check out this article it only takes a few minuets of your time but is of supreme importance.
America’s native criminal class
Locking up energy, driving up prices and destroying jobs to “save the planet”
Paul Driessen
There is no distinctly native American criminal class, Mark Twain observed – except Congress.
A century later, government power and intrusiveness have increased exponentially – and special interests have adapted by employing lobbyists who can navigate Washington, explain technology to tech challenged members and staffs, persuade legislators that provisions are vital (or disastrous), and give clients “a seat at the table” where subsidies, mandates, taxes, preferences and penalties are meted out.
The system is both the cause and result of far too many congressmen becoming members of what commentator Charles Krauthammer calls an “ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous knowledge class” that has arrogated unto itself the right to rule American citizens.
Even legislators who don’t keep wads of thank-you cash in their freezers have committed misfeasance and malfeasance, by handling vital energy, environmental and economic matters in ways that would likely be prosecuted if done by businessmen. Lawmakers, eco-activists and companies routinely engage in social experimentation and central planning akin to previous Great Leaps Forward – and refuse to acknowledge the damage their actions inflict on workers, families, minorities and other businesses.
Today, in the name of protecting the environment, politicians have locked up enough oil, gas, coal and uranium to power the United States literally for centuries. Representatives of six of the nation’s eight biggest petroleum-guzzling states routinely vote to ban drilling off our coasts and in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Interior Department estimates that these lands could hold more than the proven oil reserves of Iran or Iraq: 139 billion barrels that could be obtained with today’s technology.
This energy belongs to all Americans. But politicians keep it off limits, and force us to consume oil that the rest of the world desperately needs. Food and fuel prices soar, poor families get pummeled, and we are compelled to send trillions of dollars to corrupt dictators, and give up jobs, tax revenues, royalties and security that developing US resources would generate.
Drilling bans also increase the risk of more spills from tankers carrying oil to replace what politicians have put off limits. In sixty years of offshore oil operations, only the 1969 Santa Barbara blowout resulted in significant oil reaching shore. Offshore oil platforms rarely pollute; they create magnificent artificial reefs. As a scuba diver, I’ve seen them firsthand, including the beauty where that blowout occurred.
So when Senator Maria Cantwell and colleagues oppose drilling – and then demand that President Bush tell OPEC countries to produce more oil – they are telling the world’s poorest people: Drop dead. We don’t care if you need oil and soaring prices are killing you. We refuse to do our part. We are consumers and importers, not producers. We will always put our eco-centric attitudes and our ties to green pressure groups ahead of your welfare.
When Congress doles out subsidies for ethanol, it converts tens of millions of acres of crop and habitat land into cornfields, diverts billions of gallons of water and fertilizer from food to energy, and sends fuel and food prices even higher.
When it silently endorses NRDC campaigns to stop petroleum leasing and drilling in western states – it shows it’s happy to eliminate more jobs and energy production in the face of soaring demand and prices, and turn those states into playgrounds for wealthy elites, unaffordable for average Americans.
However, for sheer economy-wrecking, nothing compares to climate change proposals like the 491-page Warner-Lieberman bill. The Senate rejected it last week, but more proposals will soon be introduced –even though 32,000 scientists have signed the consensus-busting Oregon Petition, saying they see “no convincing evidence” that human greenhouse gas emissions disrupt Earth’s climate.
Average global temperatures have not increased since 1998, even though atmospheric CO2 levels have risen by 3% a year. Moreover, notes meteorologist Anthony Watts, the 1.4 degree F decline in global temperatures since January 2007 offsets the total net warming during the twentieth century. And this temperature stabilization and downturn was completely missed by every computer model that alarmists use to conjure up apocalyptic climate scenarios.
All this means little to the “arrogant knowledge class.” Senators Clinton, Obama, Reid, Boxer, McCain and colleagues still insist that US carbon dioxide emissions be slashed by 71% – to levels last seen in 1937, during the Great Depression, when our population was one-third of today’s, and electricity use was in its infancy.
They would increasingly tax the 85% of our energy that is generated by fossil fuels. Gasoline could hit $6 or even $8 a gallon, and the cost of electricity and natural gas could more than double by 2030, according to the American Council on Capital Formation and other analysts. Moreover, sequestering all that plant-fertilizing CO2 would cost millions of additional megawatts and trillions of additional dollars in electricity.
The impact on services for poor, elderly, disabled and homebound people – and on airlines and
manufacturing – would be disastrous. In impoverished Third World countries, the effects would be catastrophic and lethal, as global warming pacts are translated into ever higher prices for food, and a permanent dearth of affordable electricity for economic growth, lights, refrigeration and sanitation.
Many people and lawmakers finally grasp the magnitude of these costs. But four-alarm politicians have the support of activists, banks, scientists and corporations who say the climate bills are landmark “green” legislation – as in $$$$ for research, complex cap-and-trade tax deals, government handouts, mandates and subsidies for unreliable renewable energy, and opportunities to gain advantages over competitors.
Notes the Wall Street Journal: the $3.3 TRILLION in cap-and-trade auction revenues that Senator Boxer “expects to scoop up” by 2050 under Warner-Lieberman were exceeded only by the trillions in “revenue handouts” she had already promised to its supporters.
Make no mistake. Warner-Lieberman and its kin have nothing to do with saving the planet. They are about the power to control – and curtail – the power we rely on: for homes, offices, hospitals, food, consumer products, transportation and modern living standards.
They are about who gets to decide: where our energy will come from … how much we will have … what it will cost … whether there will be enough to lift more families out of poverty … and who will be the winners and losers in a world of government-mandated energy scarcity. They are about creating a massive, regressive tax and regulatory scheme – to redistribute people’s incomes to constituencies that politicians judge are more likely to keep them in office.
It’s truly ironic. Fifty years ago, Democrats were defending the Jim Crow laws they had enacted to keep blacks from schools, lunch counters, buses and drinking fountains. Today, Democrats are leading the fight to impose what Congress of Racial Equality chairman Roy Innis aptly calls “Jim Crow energy policies” that block access to energy, drive up prices, and keep minorities from achieving economic civil rights.
Even more ironic, four decades ago, Republicans led by Senator Everett Dirksen wrote and enacted landmark civil rights bills. Today, a biracial Democratic presidential candidate and Senate Republicans like John Warner and John McCain are championing Jim Crow energy and climate policies that trample on economic opportunities and civil rights.
These policies are far more criminal than anything Mark Twain ever dreamed possible.
______________
Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Congress of Racial Equality and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power · Black death.
America’s native criminal class
Locking up energy, driving up prices and destroying jobs to “save the planet”
Paul Driessen
There is no distinctly native American criminal class, Mark Twain observed – except Congress.
A century later, government power and intrusiveness have increased exponentially – and special interests have adapted by employing lobbyists who can navigate Washington, explain technology to tech challenged members and staffs, persuade legislators that provisions are vital (or disastrous), and give clients “a seat at the table” where subsidies, mandates, taxes, preferences and penalties are meted out.
The system is both the cause and result of far too many congressmen becoming members of what commentator Charles Krauthammer calls an “ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous knowledge class” that has arrogated unto itself the right to rule American citizens.
Even legislators who don’t keep wads of thank-you cash in their freezers have committed misfeasance and malfeasance, by handling vital energy, environmental and economic matters in ways that would likely be prosecuted if done by businessmen. Lawmakers, eco-activists and companies routinely engage in social experimentation and central planning akin to previous Great Leaps Forward – and refuse to acknowledge the damage their actions inflict on workers, families, minorities and other businesses.
Today, in the name of protecting the environment, politicians have locked up enough oil, gas, coal and uranium to power the United States literally for centuries. Representatives of six of the nation’s eight biggest petroleum-guzzling states routinely vote to ban drilling off our coasts and in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Interior Department estimates that these lands could hold more than the proven oil reserves of Iran or Iraq: 139 billion barrels that could be obtained with today’s technology.
This energy belongs to all Americans. But politicians keep it off limits, and force us to consume oil that the rest of the world desperately needs. Food and fuel prices soar, poor families get pummeled, and we are compelled to send trillions of dollars to corrupt dictators, and give up jobs, tax revenues, royalties and security that developing US resources would generate.
Drilling bans also increase the risk of more spills from tankers carrying oil to replace what politicians have put off limits. In sixty years of offshore oil operations, only the 1969 Santa Barbara blowout resulted in significant oil reaching shore. Offshore oil platforms rarely pollute; they create magnificent artificial reefs. As a scuba diver, I’ve seen them firsthand, including the beauty where that blowout occurred.
So when Senator Maria Cantwell and colleagues oppose drilling – and then demand that President Bush tell OPEC countries to produce more oil – they are telling the world’s poorest people: Drop dead. We don’t care if you need oil and soaring prices are killing you. We refuse to do our part. We are consumers and importers, not producers. We will always put our eco-centric attitudes and our ties to green pressure groups ahead of your welfare.
When Congress doles out subsidies for ethanol, it converts tens of millions of acres of crop and habitat land into cornfields, diverts billions of gallons of water and fertilizer from food to energy, and sends fuel and food prices even higher.
When it silently endorses NRDC campaigns to stop petroleum leasing and drilling in western states – it shows it’s happy to eliminate more jobs and energy production in the face of soaring demand and prices, and turn those states into playgrounds for wealthy elites, unaffordable for average Americans.
However, for sheer economy-wrecking, nothing compares to climate change proposals like the 491-page Warner-Lieberman bill. The Senate rejected it last week, but more proposals will soon be introduced –even though 32,000 scientists have signed the consensus-busting Oregon Petition, saying they see “no convincing evidence” that human greenhouse gas emissions disrupt Earth’s climate.
Average global temperatures have not increased since 1998, even though atmospheric CO2 levels have risen by 3% a year. Moreover, notes meteorologist Anthony Watts, the 1.4 degree F decline in global temperatures since January 2007 offsets the total net warming during the twentieth century. And this temperature stabilization and downturn was completely missed by every computer model that alarmists use to conjure up apocalyptic climate scenarios.
All this means little to the “arrogant knowledge class.” Senators Clinton, Obama, Reid, Boxer, McCain and colleagues still insist that US carbon dioxide emissions be slashed by 71% – to levels last seen in 1937, during the Great Depression, when our population was one-third of today’s, and electricity use was in its infancy.
They would increasingly tax the 85% of our energy that is generated by fossil fuels. Gasoline could hit $6 or even $8 a gallon, and the cost of electricity and natural gas could more than double by 2030, according to the American Council on Capital Formation and other analysts. Moreover, sequestering all that plant-fertilizing CO2 would cost millions of additional megawatts and trillions of additional dollars in electricity.
The impact on services for poor, elderly, disabled and homebound people – and on airlines and
manufacturing – would be disastrous. In impoverished Third World countries, the effects would be catastrophic and lethal, as global warming pacts are translated into ever higher prices for food, and a permanent dearth of affordable electricity for economic growth, lights, refrigeration and sanitation.
Many people and lawmakers finally grasp the magnitude of these costs. But four-alarm politicians have the support of activists, banks, scientists and corporations who say the climate bills are landmark “green” legislation – as in $$$$ for research, complex cap-and-trade tax deals, government handouts, mandates and subsidies for unreliable renewable energy, and opportunities to gain advantages over competitors.
Notes the Wall Street Journal: the $3.3 TRILLION in cap-and-trade auction revenues that Senator Boxer “expects to scoop up” by 2050 under Warner-Lieberman were exceeded only by the trillions in “revenue handouts” she had already promised to its supporters.
Make no mistake. Warner-Lieberman and its kin have nothing to do with saving the planet. They are about the power to control – and curtail – the power we rely on: for homes, offices, hospitals, food, consumer products, transportation and modern living standards.
They are about who gets to decide: where our energy will come from … how much we will have … what it will cost … whether there will be enough to lift more families out of poverty … and who will be the winners and losers in a world of government-mandated energy scarcity. They are about creating a massive, regressive tax and regulatory scheme – to redistribute people’s incomes to constituencies that politicians judge are more likely to keep them in office.
It’s truly ironic. Fifty years ago, Democrats were defending the Jim Crow laws they had enacted to keep blacks from schools, lunch counters, buses and drinking fountains. Today, Democrats are leading the fight to impose what Congress of Racial Equality chairman Roy Innis aptly calls “Jim Crow energy policies” that block access to energy, drive up prices, and keep minorities from achieving economic civil rights.
Even more ironic, four decades ago, Republicans led by Senator Everett Dirksen wrote and enacted landmark civil rights bills. Today, a biracial Democratic presidential candidate and Senate Republicans like John Warner and John McCain are championing Jim Crow energy and climate policies that trample on economic opportunities and civil rights.
These policies are far more criminal than anything Mark Twain ever dreamed possible.
______________
Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Congress of Racial Equality and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power · Black death.
Monday, June 9, 2008
AMERICANS STOP BEING STUPID
I am amazed at the stupidity of the American people. We have the freedom according to the Constitution to control what goes on in this country but we don't use that freedom. We allow the lying of the media to scare us into believing whatever they print. The truth is that the democrats are the cause of the high gas prices as well as the environmentalists. If you don't believe me check out their glee at the high prices of gas. Can we do something about the problem? Yes, of course we can. Vote out any democrats who have voted against using American oil to stop the high price. I keep hearing the phrase "Oh well the American people always arise to the occasion". That is just plain stupid. WE DON'T HAVE TO just be very vocal and say we will not vote in any person who won't allow us to drill for and use our own oil. Our taxes are sky high and the democrats say they are going to raise the taxes to the mother of all tax raises and the sheep like Americans are going to vote in more democrats so that even if we had a president who cared about the pain of the American people the checks and balances that are supposed to be in place so Congress can't take control of the country will not work.
Stop being stupid Americans look to our computers and check out the voting records of those you are planning to vote for. Do they not see our pain? They don't care, so in a free country like ours, which is supposed to be run by the people, we are able to stop them no matter which party is guilty of trying to destroy us.
Stop this insanity of the global warming hoax, check out icecap.us and see that the truth is, mans influence on global warming is so small that it is nothing at all. Don't believe the T.V., radio, magazines or any other person or news media when they make the claim that man is destroying the world, go to the computer and research yourself. You will see the truth I promise you. I don't care which party is doing the damage GET THEM OUT OF OFFICE and you will see our taxes fall, our food prices go down and also the price of gas will drop to half of what it is now. People are starving, THIS IS IN AMERICA, people here don't starve. We are not a third world country, uneducated without the ability to find out the truth of what is happening WE CAN FIND OUT AND WE CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
AMERICA QUIT BEING SHEEP DO SOMETHING, you are losing everything.
Stop being stupid Americans look to our computers and check out the voting records of those you are planning to vote for. Do they not see our pain? They don't care, so in a free country like ours, which is supposed to be run by the people, we are able to stop them no matter which party is guilty of trying to destroy us.
Stop this insanity of the global warming hoax, check out icecap.us and see that the truth is, mans influence on global warming is so small that it is nothing at all. Don't believe the T.V., radio, magazines or any other person or news media when they make the claim that man is destroying the world, go to the computer and research yourself. You will see the truth I promise you. I don't care which party is doing the damage GET THEM OUT OF OFFICE and you will see our taxes fall, our food prices go down and also the price of gas will drop to half of what it is now. People are starving, THIS IS IN AMERICA, people here don't starve. We are not a third world country, uneducated without the ability to find out the truth of what is happening WE CAN FIND OUT AND WE CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
AMERICA QUIT BEING SHEEP DO SOMETHING, you are losing everything.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
FACT: OUR GOVERNMENT IS TO OLD
Do you really want change? That is the title of an article that I put in the La Crosse Tribune Opinion section. I would like people to wake up and see what is going on in Washington and why gas prices are so high, why taxes are so high and no real work is being done. So I will link to the article so you can wake up to what needs to be done. WE NEED NEW PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON and we now have two non career politicians running and this is how to change the look. Please read!
Sunday, June 1, 2008
SHOULD HE OR SHOULDN'T HE?
This is a copy of an e-mail I sent to an ongoing discussion about Bobby Erickson running against Jennifer Shilling. I want some who are reading these posts to realize that Republicans are not mindless robots and that these discussions are not divisions but something called "thinking things through" which is something the other party should try to do.
Now for my e-mail:
I would like to point out a few things about the discussion of Bobby Erickson running against Jennifer Shilling. I have a copy of the Libertarian platform and as I read it I realize that there are some things I don't agree with but many more that I do. Right now the Republican party is running more on Liberal beliefs then they are Conservative beliefs, note our Liberal leaning candidate John McCain. What is the Republican Party doing? Most people I know feel that John McCain, while a great patriot, is not running on Conservative ideals. John McCain says he is a Republican, he is running on the Republican ticket so one must assume that he is a Republican. Or is he a Democrat running as a Republican? I have listened very carefully to his campaign speeches and I am sorry but he says exactly the same things as Obama and Hillary, except for the war, is he running as a Republican because he feels that is the only way he can win? I am a Conservative who finds value in much of the Libertarians viewpoints but I still vote Republican because that is what I am. I believe in the right of choice and if Shilling is running uncontested I have no choice. Win or lose I want someone to run against her and Bobby has agreed to do so and I will back him with the best of my talents and work to convince those I know to do the same. It is about time that we get on with backing a person who says he is a Republican and help him win this fight against Shilling. If I accept the arguments against Bobby running then I can not vote for McCain for the same reasons.
Now for my e-mail:
I would like to point out a few things about the discussion of Bobby Erickson running against Jennifer Shilling. I have a copy of the Libertarian platform and as I read it I realize that there are some things I don't agree with but many more that I do. Right now the Republican party is running more on Liberal beliefs then they are Conservative beliefs, note our Liberal leaning candidate John McCain. What is the Republican Party doing? Most people I know feel that John McCain, while a great patriot, is not running on Conservative ideals. John McCain says he is a Republican, he is running on the Republican ticket so one must assume that he is a Republican. Or is he a Democrat running as a Republican? I have listened very carefully to his campaign speeches and I am sorry but he says exactly the same things as Obama and Hillary, except for the war, is he running as a Republican because he feels that is the only way he can win? I am a Conservative who finds value in much of the Libertarians viewpoints but I still vote Republican because that is what I am. I believe in the right of choice and if Shilling is running uncontested I have no choice. Win or lose I want someone to run against her and Bobby has agreed to do so and I will back him with the best of my talents and work to convince those I know to do the same. It is about time that we get on with backing a person who says he is a Republican and help him win this fight against Shilling. If I accept the arguments against Bobby running then I can not vote for McCain for the same reasons.
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