I’m to the point where I can draw no other conclusion than our government isn’t interested in solving the problem of high gasoline prices. The evidence for this goes back well prior to the current wave of price hikes, and

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Eric Florack on June 10th, 2008

I’ve posted this before, but I think it bears revisiting… here’s how to raise fuel prices should you want to do it…

* Create shortages in the oil markets by ensuring domestic oil supplies can never be used. This will

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An interesting story yesterday, on the AP wires:

 

Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home.

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Eric Florack on June 4th, 2008

This is huge. The Souix City Journal is reporting:

By a solid 58 percent to 42 percent margin, county voters approved Hyperion’s request to rezone 3,292 acres of farm land for a new classification, Energy Center Planned Development.

“What happened

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Doctor Krauthammer:

Only Monday, a British parliamentary committee proposed that every citizen be required to carry a carbon card that must be presented, under penalty of law, when buying gasoline, taking an airplane or using electricity. The card contains your

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Eric Florack on May 28th, 2008

Hume, last night:

The group that spearheaded the successful effort to have polar bears listed as a threatened species has a blueprint for further action that could create ripples throughout the U.S. economy.

The Arizona Daily Star reports the

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Eric Florack on May 27th, 2008

That’s the question we’ve been asking here for some time. Simon at Classical Values asks the same questions, and comes up with the same answers we have.

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Eric Florack on May 21st, 2008
  • Create shortages in the oil markets by ensuring domestic oil supplies can never be used. This will force us to get oil from the least stable spots in the world, thus forcing not only higher prices, but forcing us to

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What do you know… the study shows us the science does not link urricanes to man-made ‘global warming’. (Bolding is my own-Bit)

WASHINGTON -(AP)- Global warming isn’t to blame for the recent jump in the number of hurricanes in the

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Eric Florack on May 20th, 2008

Paul Krugman (Idiot, first order) travels to Berlin and notes that there are some differences between Berlin and Atlanta:

To see what I’m talking about, consider where I am at the moment: in a pleasant, middle-class neighborhood consisting mainly

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davidl on May 19th, 2008

Barack BO artfully blends the bad ideas of the last to ‘rat moninees, Al Gore and John Kerry.   First BO buys into Gore’s stupid theory of anthropogenic gobal warming,  AFP:

“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as

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Eric Florack on May 19th, 2008

The madness is reaching epidemic proportions.

Now, the claim is being made that heavier people make for more global warming.

I’ve got an idea. I suggest that a ban on any energy being used on spreading the global warming myth

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davidl on May 18th, 2008

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“Those who are screaming the loudest for increased production from Saudi Arabia are the very same people who are fighting the fiercest against domestic exploration, against the development of nuclear power and against expanding refining capacity,”

President George W. Bush,

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Judith Klinghoffer over at The American Thinker, asks a timely question: What do the Saudis want?

Slowly but surely it is beginning to dawn on a world mesmerized by the Democratic primary contest that an oil cartel has been picking

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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,

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