Nightly Ramble:BitsBlog Lives, Oil,taxes, Oil, the Sun, More

• I complained last night that Memeorandum had been pretty much ignoring BitsBlog. Apparently, someone there is reading, and they reacted. The post complaining about being ignored, got featured status. Gottena  few links through since then, a well. Nice to

Interesting questions from Victor Davis Hanson, this morning…

Why is the U.N. holding conferences about rising food prices, but not spiraling oil prices that in various ways account for them? Somehow in the globalist mindset the agricultural producing world

Interesting poll from CNN this morning.  It seems that John McCain and Barack Obama are tied in the polling numbers;

In the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll conducted entirely after Obama became the presumptive Democratic nominee, he leads his Republican

You didn’t hear about this yesterday, I’m willing to bet. The Senate Commerce Committee met on Tuesday, trying to figure out what to do about the sharp increase in prices on oil. I mentioned the other day that George Soros

In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes. Yet there is no congressional investigation into this obscene profit margin. Apparently, there are more taxes to be made on oil

Look, I think Wayne Allard is a putz… an admittedly quick assessment based on limited info.

But he got this one right:

May 1st, 2008 – Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.) joined New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici,

A while ago, and once again, earlier today, I pointed out a salient fact that nobody seems to notice:

According to CNN Money, Exxon total “profits” if you don’t count exploration costs, were $40BUSD, in 2007. Their taxes, however,

McQ:

Many are taking the following quote of John McCain as an indication that one of the primary motivations for Iraq was oil.

MMmmpppffh.

If oil was the reason we went to war, then we might consider the Iraq war

The audacity of stupidity and being too young to remember the Carter Administration.

May 1 (Bloomberg) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama‘s proposal for a windfall profits tax on oil companies could cost $15 billion a year at

Common sense, sharp wit, great writing, have long known that Kyle-Anne could write, , mostly through American Thinker, Just just discovered she has her own blog.  Here she dissects BO rather well.

Mrs. Clinton’s adviser Claims Indiana

Hillary Clinton has now joined John McCain in proposing the most irresponsible policy idea of the year—an idea that actually could aid the terrorists. What’s worse, both of them know that suspending the federal gas tax this summer is a

The North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources has releases a state report on the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota    The currentlly recoverable portion of the Bakken formation represents about ten percent of known domestic reserves.   That is just over

Hemry Lamb in World Net Daily over the weekend:

With gas prices now yon-side of $3.50 per gallon, wouldn’t it be great to have an extra million barrels of domestic oil flowing daily into the American pipeline? Blame William Jefferson

In watching the developments in the Middle East, these last few months I have to tell you that Iran is likely to be our next stop militarily. I do not believe this to be a choice of ours, but rather

Billy makes a great point this morning:

I don’t know why people keep referring to what’s going on with energy as a “market” while it’s stepped on by government every mile of the way from the field to your tank,