Bush offers long-term ideas for energy woes

[StuckinBFE]

“I fully understand that many folks around this country are concerned about the high price of gasoline,” Bush said. “We're doing everything we can to make sure our consumers are treated fairly, that there is no price gouging.”

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/11507193.htm

(I am calling BS on the "no price gouging" at least where I am.)

[whistle]

1. Total Bushit

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Of course there is price gouging.

That is because there is a lot of program-trading arbitrage on the oil commodity markets. But you can be sure that at every level, nasty shit is occurring. That's what happens when you deregulate markets like that, then turn your back. That is what the maladministration has done.

[wallwriter]

3. Total Bulls***

These are the people who laughed years ago when Carter put solar panels on the White House. Not so funny now. And of course you won't hear word one about giving up driving SUVs.

[Rainscents]

4. One of the Thug call in Randi's show yesterday and he try to explain

why he is Thug. I couldn't help but to laugh when he said, at least he has a job and his boss ( small business) is getting tax break. These morons hasn't got a clue!

[ixion]

5. no gouging, yet oil companies reported record profits in a sluggish

economy.

Yeah. Right. Whatever. :eyes:


Oh, and another thing... it's CITIZENS NOT "consumers". :banghead:

[cascadiance]

6. If his administration hadn't chopped the alternative energy research

... budget by over half when taking office, let Enron, Dynegy, etc. get away with murder in California then, and later made it sound like he had new programs to promote alternative energy, but in fact linked it's funding to getting ANWR drilling passed in congress (and it's funding dependent on revenue from ANWR taxes, etc.), then I wonder if we might have had some way of reducing our oil consumption more by now.

Peak Oil is happening NOW. We're going to see some bad crap soon when the effects of that are being felt. China and others are also seeing this and trying to make claim for much more of the oil that's left now too. We piss off more people like Venezuela with our foreign policy, reducing the dollars' strength more, we're heading for big problems soon.

[Daphne08]

7. "...no price gouging..." Oh, then please explain these

Just to start with:

Shell's huge profit fuels calls for windfall tax
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/02/04/nshell04.xml



BP Profits on Track as Oil Prices Surge
http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=21562


Gurus Take Oil Profits, Buy Biotech
http://www.forbes.com/investmentnewsletters/2005/02/08/cz_mr_0208gurupicks_inl.html


Record oil company profits not bringing new capacity
http://southeastfarmpress.com/mag/farming_record_oil_company_2/


Analysis: Oil and the Bush cabinet
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1138009.stm


It is not difficult to find the proof. I can't believe Americans are going to buy that "no price gouging" crap!

[warrens]

8. A guy from Financial Times took this baby apart on NPR

He basically said, not ONE word about conservation, SUVs, improving fuel efficiency. It was all supply side, and zero demand side.

[doodadem]

10. I heard that NPR bit as well

He was saying that the U.S. only has 3% of total world oil supply, but we use 25% of the world's supply. Any person with common sense would say, we need to start looking at alternative energy.

It would not only solve our problems on oil dependency, it could create millions of new jobs and opportunities for investment. But you don't even consider such things if you're an ex-Texas-oilman in bed with the Saudi's.

[tom_paine]

9. Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie

Lie lie lie. Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie. Lie lie lie lie lie. Lie lie lie lie lie, lie lie lie lie lie.

Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie. Lie lie lie. Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie. Lie lie lie lie lie. Lie lie lie lie lie, lie lie lie lie lie.

Somewhere down in Hell, Hitler is smiling and laughing his ass off.

"So, ze Americans viss all zere luff of 'freedom' and 'liberty' haff fallen to my Money-Launderers. I KNEW zey would..."

[carnie_sf]

11. This from the head

of the most oil-drenched administration in recent memory.

[shantipriya]

12. Bush & long term Ideas

Bush and "ideas" don't go together.The guy has no intelligence ,education and real world experience to have any vision or ideas about anything.
Most of the time the ideas or vision attributed to Bush in the media are fed to him by others and he has no clues about them.
He is an idiot and a moron. On his own I'd be surprised if he can rise above middle management at a Walmart or a Grocery store!!!