In response to the letter of June 26 “Dollar Short” it appears that the letter writer has been listening to the Democratic response to the Republican effort to authorize drilling in ANWR. Senator Schumer (D-NY) was on on the radio…
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Loading ...One reader has identified Harry Reed and Nancy Pelosi as the reason for high gas prices. It is certainly clear that we do not have an effective energy policy and it is also clear that every politician since 1973 is…
(3 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Big oil gave millions to Bush’s campaign. In an effort to grant one big, last, return favor, Bush seems to suggest that we can drill our way out of the high gasoline prices by making more off shore sites available to…
(7 votes, average: 3.29 out of 5) Loading ...The 6/23 article written by Paul Krugman, “McCain embraces the failed Bush energy approach” was hilarious. In the article, he critizes President Bush and John McCain for advocating increased off-shore drilling as a potential solution for addressing soaring gas prices.…
(6 votes, average: 3.17 out of 5) Loading ...I thought it was curious that the Post-Dispatch (8/16/08) found it necessary to print a photo below the op-ed piece by Jonah Goldberg encouraging drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The photo of a solitary polar…
(4 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Read all the newspapers, listen to all the news programs and you’ll be told our current oil crisis is pegged to restrictions on drilling and overly restrictive environmental laws piggybacked onto world wide record consumption. However until today I had not heard of what appears to…
(2 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...In the business column dated 6/16 “Rail transit just isn’t trying to improve fuel efficiency”, the Cato Institute fellow focuses on inefficiencies in our transit. He bemoans that buses often run less than full. To him, this means we should…
(2 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...For the past month, in response to $4 per gallon gasoline, I have been conducting a driving experiment: I have been setting my cruise control right on 60 mph while on Highways 70, 370, and 270, and have made sure…
(10 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...In today’s paper, Gasprom, a Russian oil company, the biggest next to Rosneft, is predicting the cost of oil will be $250 a barrel by the year 2009. Gasprom is also trying to muscle into the Alaskan Pipe line deal…
(4 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5) Loading ...I am somewhat amazed at the myriad of reasons attributed to high gas prices that I’ve been recently reading about in the Post-Dispatch. Our government blames commodities specualtors, supply and demand, China, India, the seasons, weather, potential weather, etc., but they fail to mention the world-wide instability and…
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