The Paddock

Stossel sued and now campaigns against frivilous lawsuits.

If you don't think banning in/off shore drilling and extreme regulations have anything to do with gas prices, then you are either in denial, from lala-land, from another planet or just plain nuts.

As usual you'd be wrong. Gas prices under Bush were not his fault and the Democratic Party acknowledged that. They didn't make that a campaign issue at all. On every news cast I saw at the time the democrats would always agree that the office of the Presidency has nothing to do with gas prices. Blaming Obama for high gas prices is just a lie the talking heads on the right came up with because they can't beat him on his record and on the issues. They made it up to get the ignorant on the right, and there are many, angry. They are just reinforcing Obama hatred. It's what they do. And conservatives eat it up. Obama has not banned any drilling. In fact drilling has gone up under his administration. What new regulations are you speaking of? The gas hike has to do with Iran using oil as a hostage. Would you propose we just open all the spouts and use up all our reserves to temper gas prices temporarily? If Obama did that you'd accuse Obama of being reckless and irresponsible. Even if we did that it wouldn't drop prices much, if any at all. People like you just hate the man and no matter what he does he's wrong. You blast him for trying to get us off oil and then blame him for high gas prices. This a perfect example why I have started to go more and more to the left these past 10 years. The lies, ignorance, and hypocrisy of the majority in the right is sickening.

That's a blatant lie. The Dems and the heads on TV, newspapers, and national magazines constantly talked about all the troop deaths, high gas prices, and downturn in the economy. You don't hear a peep about troop deaths anymore even though they had spiked under Obama for the majority of his term. I'm not sure what it is now, since he has pulled a bunch of troops home finally hopefully it's down.

You are only just now hearing about the higher gas prices cause you can't ignore $4 and $5/gallon gas. Obama is touting the higher oil production as if it was because of him. He isn't giving credit to the previous administration. He wants to claim the higher production as his own and blame Bush(who deserves much of the blame) for anything negative.

I don't hate Obama, I hate his liberal polocies. You here the left say that drill, baby drill won't work but everytime we threaten it the cost of oil comes down. Also, drilling will be far more effective in 5, 10, and even 20 years than the alternative methods that Obama has touted and given BILLIONS of money to failed companies. Solar, electric, wind, algae, etc are all 50+ years away from being effective or viable. Keep kicking that can down the road while more and more oil and gas fields are found every year expanding our drilling capacity and being poo-poohed away while prices continue to spike.

Also, the speculators are able to make monstrous profits because of the reliance on the radical regimes overseas. Start drilling more today on our own shores and land and the speculators have a more secure and reliable source to rely upon for future oil sales thus bringing down the cost even if only minimally.

Remove our ridiculous tariffs on imported sugar cane. Let South America send us their abundant and cheap supply of sugar cane ethanol, which is 8x more efficient than corn ethanol and nearly as efficient as gasoline. It would probably run around or under $2. Badda bing. Maybe we'll catch up to Brazil on our energy policy sometime this quarter century.

We're not finding much new oil--the oil companies are just going after what's harder to get to because the price of oil is so much higher. We wouldn't be talking about tar sands or deepwater if we were at $50 a barrel. Proven oil is in decline and, even if it weren't, demand from Asia is going to far outstrip production anyway.

Solar, wind, and biomass--and throw in hydrogen--are a ways from viability for sure, but the point at which their cost, which continues to decline, intersects with oil, which will continue to rise, will be sooner than 50 years--probably 15-20.

And the idea that there's our oil and somebody else's oil is very un-Republican of you. Any oil we produce in this country will be sold to whoever will pay the most. It could be China or India or whoever. The idea that we can produce enough to cause a glut on the market where all prices come down is a pipedream--and again, it has more to do with demand that it does production.

I'm gonna agree with you on this. I'm not sure why some people are so against alternative fuel sources. Of course it's probably the all or nothing attitudes of people on both sides. I think we should invest in research. Just not like we invested in Syndra or whatever it's called.

I was speaking more about people like you and me. I know how Washington works. I like Rush Limbaugh, but I get frustrated to no end when he gets all anti-environment just solely to be anti-the other side. I don't know if he really believes all that crap he says, or if he's just trying to drive your ilk nuts. But I think he does us a disservice. Nothing wrong with being good stewards of our environment, provided it doesn't become our god, which seems to be the case with many liberals.

+1 DA!

I think it's a great idea to continue researching (and striving for) more energy efficient and cleaner fuel... but you don't shut down or cut off your own fuel supply (and "F" the rest of us at the pump) 25 years before anything better is vastly produced, cheaper and easily accessible... just to appease the extreme, hug a tree, save a whale, environmentalist wacko's on the left, who "FUEL" your campaign account... THAT's "F"ing BULL*edit* POOP!!!

That's like getting rid of your car, just because you don't want it anymore... LONG before you have the means to replace it with the car you prefer. Now, your dumbass is gonna whine, bitch and moan when you realize "HOLY SH!T... I REALLY SCREWED MYSELF... NOW I HAVE TO WALK EVERYWHERE... OR CATCH A GAS GUZZLING BUS" .... "I"M SUCH A DAMN IDIOT!!!"

Whew... SMCH

Well your whole premise is off. No one is shutting down our supply. We're exploring more and using more of our own oil now than ever before. In fact, the tree hugging loonies you are talking about are mad at Obama about it. I don't even know how to take that 2nd paragraph. I guess I'd just say more people walking would help out on a lot of fronts. That's the kind thing to say I think.

Serious question:

Why is it that "SOME" people are AGAINST the killing of "guilty" murderers... but at the same time, are ALL FOR the killing of "innocent" unborn children?

I've always had a hard time wrapping my head around that one... it just boggles the mind.