Stewed Hamm thinks that the oil has magically gushed forth onto the world market and caused lower prices. Stick to blogging, not international commodity market analysis. Guess what? We haven’t touched our precious off-shore oil reserves, fouled our beaches, allowed big Oil to extract our public resource with minimal severance tax, AND YET, gas is now $2.05/gallon. Still awaiting that “clean coal technology” and nuclear (or nukuler a al “W” and McPalin) to be our immediate salvation just because they saw so. Yeah, and the budget can be balanced in 4 years. Let’s see Johnny McC pull a rabbit out of his bum first, then maybe I’ll invest in that strategy with my vote.
Hmmmmm. Hope the Wall Street bailout wasn’t premature. Maybe a (regulated) free market could solve some problems. Maybe if Newt “Drill Here, Drill Now” Gingrich had worked on consensus to promote alternative fuels and energy independence, we wouldn’t be riding this roller coaster. Oh, I suppose I forgot who his major campaign contributors were during his rollicking speakership years and how he’s now got his megaphone and pom-poms out for Exxon, Halliburton, and the like. Oh, and Mavericks crash planes and get shot. Not something I want my leader doing anytime soon, metaphorically or otherwise.
