Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Speaker Nan, last summer, announces her bold plans for bringing down those gas prices. H/T: Texas Rainmaker.
Obama voter’s logic: Obviously, we haven’t given democrats enough power yet. Let’s go further into the cul de sac and see what happens.
Memorial Day 2009: $6.50 regular self-serve, if you’re lucky.
As people consume less fuel in America, vehicle emissions should drop. Less pollution means bluer skies and longer lives — and the potential to slow global warming, albeit slightly. Lower energy demand means the air will contain fewer toxic agents, like particle pollution, which can get deep into your lungs and cause serious health problems. Bottom line? About 2,220 lives have already been saved over the past year because of higher gas prices and less pollution, according to an estimate calculated for TIME by J. Paul Leigh, a University of California at Davis health-economics professor who co-wrote a study on the topic in the March 2008 Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. If prices remain high, we can expect some 2,000 people to avoid dying from pollution in the next 12 months.
— 4. Less Polution, from 10 Things You Can Like About $4 Gas, Time Magazine.
Update: Buck opines on a subject that overlaps significantly:
One of the things that bugs the Hell out of me about the current “energy debate” is how our loyal, patriotic, and oh-so-concerned-about-OUR-welfare Democrats distort… nay, totally misrepresent… the issue of domestic oil drilling. There IS a Democrat Party Line in this space and it goes something like this (from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, via The Obamanon’s web site):
Oil companies, he said, already have drilling rights to millions of acres of federal land, “and yet they haven’t touched it,” Obama said. “John McCain wants to give them more when they’re not using what they already have.”
The companies ought to pay a fine on drilling rights they’re holding but not using, he said.
Well, now. That Las Vegas speech drew some attention from the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal Monday:
“I want you to think about this,” Barack Obama said in Las Vegas last week. “The oil companies have already been given 68 million acres of federal land, both onshore and offshore, to drill. They’re allowed to drill it, and yet they haven’t touched it – 68 million acres that have the potential to nearly double America’s total oil production.”
Wow, how come the oil companies didn’t think of that?
Perhaps because the notion is obviously false – at least to anyone who knows how oil and gas exploration actually works. Predictably, however, Mr. Obama’s claim is also the mantra of Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, John Kerry, Nick Rahall and others writing Congressional energy policy. As a public service, here’s a remedial education.
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To deflect the GOP effort to relax the offshore-drilling ban – and thus boost supply while demand will remain strong – Democrats also say that most of the current leases are “nonproducing.” The idea comes from a “special report” prepared by the Democratic staff of the House Resources Committee, chaired by Mr. Rahall. “If we extrapolate from today’s production rates on federal lands and waters,” the authors write, the oil companies could “nearly double total U.S. oil production” (their emphasis).
In other words, these whiz kids assume that every acre of every lease holds the same amount of oil and gas. Yet the existence of a lease does not guarantee that the geology holds recoverable resources. Brian Kennedy of the Institute for Energy Research quips that, using the same extrapolation, the 9.4 billion acres of the currently nonproducing moon should yield 654 million barrels of oil per day.
There’s much more at the link, and it’s all good. Whenever I see or hear the Democrats’ arguments against domestic drilling, I naturally assume they’re both arrogant and insulting. Arrogant because they truly believe they have the only answer(s) to our energy problems, and they most certainly don’t. And they (Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Emmanuel) are insulting because they obviously expect me to believe this shit.
The bit about fining the oil & gas companies for not using the land falls right in with the pattern. Roll back the tax cuts, raise the minimum wage, put in price caps, tax their profits, tax their equipment, tax their land.
The common thread is that you make it more expensive to do business.
What happens to prices of things when it’s more expensive to get them sold?
I’d love to see a real interviewer question Obama or any other prominent democrat about how this works. Don’t try to shred the guy to ribbons, don’t try to embarrass him…no interruptions except one, “that doesn’t answer the question I asked you.” Just one simple question: How does this work? Step One is make it more expensive to be an oil company, through your plan(s); Step Three is lower gas prices; what is Step Two, exactly, Senator? Take all the time you need but please stick to the subject.
Oh and that dunking stool on which you’re sitting will give way, if we hear the words “Bush” or “failed policies” or “Iraq.” Ker-PLOOSH.
We’re supposed to have freedom of the press in this country because the public has a right to know. Seems this should’ve happened a long time ago.
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Thanks for the link, Morgan. Much appreciated!
- Buck | 07/03/2008 @ 18:35