Of Touregs And Other Such

Look, Glenn, the reason that people are going to four wheel drive rigs like that, is that cars have been so seriously downsized… You tend to have to work tubes of KY into your monthly driving budget, just so

Hey Billy, even you aren’t aware of the scope of the attempt, here…. an unusual situation…

“The United States should consider implementing a European-style gasoline tax if it hopes to deal with energy security and global warming, the head of

Interesting note, the other day from Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell:

The great danger of confronting peak oil and global warming isn’t that we will sit on our collective asses and do nothing while civilization collapses, but that we will

Michelle Malkin:

There’s rioting over gas rationing in Iran. Bloggers covering the turmoil here , here, and here. Iran is blaming-who else?-the U.S. for the unrest.

Of course.  After all, when you limit yourself to the luxuries available

Cost is a function of supply versus demand.   The Senate democrat energy biil literally does nothing to increse the supply of energy.  However the bill has specific plans to disincentive energy production.  From the Hill:

“These guys made whatever

Dirty Harry Reid is against spilling of American blood to wage to global war on terror.  Yet Dirty Harry would rather have American motorists die as result of driving a Yugo than to drill for American oil in the Alaskan

Congress has apparently forgotten the ‘Seventies.  Well I have not.  Maybe the public needs a little reminder? 

David Ivanovich, Houston Chronicle, writes of the domestic oil industry media effort to remind voters of h0w stupid Congress was in the

Boortz, this morning:

A recent issue of Geophysical Research Letters (surely you’re a subscriber) revealed that Neptune has been getting warmer since 1980.  Researchers are investigating whether increased output from the Sun might be the cause.

This warming of Neptune

Billy is rightfully incredulous over an article he points to in the WaPo, today:

“I lay on the table a modest proposal: Put the government into the oil business.”

Somebody named Steven Pearlstein loses his mind right out loud

Talk about stuck of stupid.   Instead of dealing with either the supply situation or refining capacity shortfall, the House passes a bill utterly incapable doing anything to help motorists at the pump.   Josef Hebert, Associated Press, reports:

WASHINGTON –

CRAWFORD, Texas â€”  Former President Jimmy Carter backed off Monday from harshly critical comments he made of President Bush over the weekend after the White House offered a biting rebuke to the former president by calling him “increasingly irrelevant.”

“My

Just a few days ago, I told you……….

The lighter the vehicle is, the more miles per gallon it will get, but it’s also far more dangerous to those inside said tin can when they have a wreck, air bags

Some interesting points from George Will today:

WASHINGTON — Democrats, seething at the injustice of gasoline prices, have sprung to the aid of embattled motorists. So resolute are Democrats about defending the downtrodden, they are undeterred by the fact that

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush, prodded by a Supreme Court ruling, said Monday his administration will decide how to regulate pollution from new motor vehicles by the time he leaves office.

Bush signed an executive order directing federal agencies to

I’m getting mail again, about how I ought to be writing about gas prices.

I’ve already done that.

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About two years ago, I posted a list of causes of high gasoline prices. The situation, has not changed, except for