Gas Went Up Again Today

[ElviswasaBluesFan]

bastages

[kennyboyerfan]

If I were Karl Rove, this would worry me as much as anything else in the Bush/Cheney Re-election bid. The average Joes out there are going to be ticked off if gasoline moves over $2 a gallon, and they're going to blame Bush, whether he has anything to do with it or not.

[lasvegasreb]

This is like Matt doing his thing and bragging about Phoenix weather.

Gas in Las Vegas = $2.09/$2.18/$2.29

So shuttup

[BurnKU]

Originally posted by kennyboyerfan@Mar 9 2004, 02:09 PM
If I were Karl Rove, this would worry me as much as anything else in the Bush/Cheney Re-election bid. The average Joes out there are going to be ticked off if gasoline moves over $2 a gallon, and they're going to blame Bush, whether he has anything to do with it or not.

I agree. People vote with their wallets, and if there is less money in their wallet because of high gas prices, Bush will certainly get the blame.

[ElviswasaBluesFan]

Originally posted by lasvegasreb@Mar 9 2004, 02:10 PM
This is like Matt doing his thing and bragging about Phoenix weather.

Gas in Las Vegas = $2.09/$2.18/$2.29

So shuttup

The difference is I ain't bragging!

[lazydaze]

BullHead City

$1.99/2.09//2.19, and thats not bad.

P.S. 91 degrees, thinking about getting the boat out for the afternoon.

[Bleacher Creature]

If gas prices go as high as expected (3.00), it's going to put a major roadblock on any economic recovery.

[lazydaze]

Not if we cut taxes.

[lasvegasreb]

Originally posted by ElviswasaBluesFan+Mar 9 2004, 02:14 PM-->

QUOTE(ElviswasaBluesFan @ Mar 9 2004, 02:14 PM)

[steveInebriated]

Damn. I should have filled up last night. :(

[ElviswasaBluesFan]

I got lucky.

I passed one gas station that had raised prices and as I was cursing the oil industry, I passed another that had not raised them yet, so I ducked in and filled up at $1.55. Yee-hah, I saved a whole $2.

Steak for dinner!

[nick2]

Challenges Administration, Both Parties to Focus on Alternatives, Ingenuity in the Marketplace

WASHINGTON - 01.22.02 | In a speech today sponsored by the Center for National Policy, Senator John F. Kerry (D-MA) offered an alternative vision for America's energy security:

"As we have turned the corner of a millennium and century, we have urgent reasons to be serious about our energy future -- and we have an extraordinary opportunity today to begin a new era in which our conception of how energy is produced, used and conserved is transformed.

"Common sense tells us that the policies that made us dependent on foreign oil -- however repackaged in the mantle of patriotism -- will only keep us dependent on foreign oil. If we enact th e entire Bush energy plan we will find ourselves twenty years from now more dependent on foreign oil than we are today. The Administration has not offered an agenda for energy independence. It has offered an agenda that evades the tough questions -- provided blinders where we need magnifying glasses -- and slogans in the place of genuine leadership.

"The Administration sees a world where our principal effort is to drill our way out of our problem while alternative, renewable fuels and technologies rise or fall on their own at the margins no matter what compelling reasons exist to behave differently. I see a world, where even as we drill because it makes economic sense and we have to, our primary focus shifts to cajoling and exciting a new market place for those alternative and renewable energy sources because there are compelling reasons to do so.

"Energy security is American security. Our policy must reflect that we live in one world, not four or five separate ones and we need an energy policy of national purpose that confronts the hard realities and sets real priorities based on the needs of all Americans. There is no question that if we remain complacent one day those dangers will force us to act. We owe it to ourselves and to our children to acknowledge and address them now, while we can still maximize the benefits.

"And the most responsible thing we can do is to tap America's strength's, our markets, our ingenuity, our invention, our innovation and, most importantly, our values to control our destiny and begin a long evolution to an energy world that benefits our security, our economy and our environment."

A Saudi Arabian oil minister and a founder of OPEC once said, "That the stone age came to an end not for a lack of stones, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil." I don't believe that we are about to run out of oil But I do believe that the consequences of remaining dependent on oil are too great, too dangerous and wrong for this nation, and that now is time for national action. Rather than have our energy policy be the last big mistake of the 20th century, we can make it the first major opportunity for security of the 21st century.

Thomas Edison said that "the biggest and most responsible thing" he ever did was to build the world's first electrical generating station in 1882 on Pearl Street in downtown Manhattan, powered by coal. He was right. Coal was the best choice for America in 1882.

It's time to ask what they will say the biggest and most responsible thing we ever did will be.

And I say the most responsible thing we can do is to tap America's strength's, our markets, our ingenuity, our invention, our innovation and, most importantly, our values to control our destiny and begin a long evolution to an energy world that benefits our security, our economy and our environment. That is what we owe our citizens.

[lazydaze]

Where has he been for 18 years?

[BurnKU]

Sure, it sounds good to say he wants to "tap America's strength's, our markets, our ingenuity, our invention, our innovation and, most importantly, our values to control our destiny and begin a long evolution to an energy world that benefits our security, our economy and our environment", but what does that mean? I don't see that as a strategic plan to reduce our dependency on foreign oil.

[madyaks]

Oil buddy's in Texas getting rich, pumping more oil, contributing to the committee to reelect.