for now; that’s Alaska’s good news this week.

we will soon be seeing both higher unemployment, general inflation, and at the same time, the return to the kind of energy prices we saw last summer.

It will be harder and harder to blame it all on Bush and the eevil Republicans.

We have to get our act together as a movement and offer some real alternatives because very soon, there will be a lot of people with buyers remorse.

Here is where I get furious with Republicans. We know there are green “extremists” out there, but there are a lot of Americans, and that includes the Northeast and California, who will be furious over this, if they know about it. Republicans need to be condemning things like this, and not just now, but over and over again. We need to talk about this, over and over and over again.

Yet we will still have people say we need to change our stand on abortion, so called homosexual marriage, etc. to get these (enter group here) to vote for us.

This is a huge winning issue. One of many coming our way. But we need a teaching tour, not a listening tour. If the press will not get our message out, our elected leaders need to get the message out. Connect this to the coming rising fuel prices, since it will play a huge part. Stay on message.

Its not rocket science. What this president and this congress is doing is dangerous and insane. This comes very close to treason.

Will any Republican elected officials do anything??????

the case for Texas succussion grows ever stronger.

I remember when the Republican Congress a few years ago passed a $100 billion dollar energy bill that went about 60% as tax breaks to oil and gas and about 40% as subsidies to gasahol subsidies.

I am in the oil and gas business in Wyoming and I benefitted from those tax giveaways but I was furious about that bill because it was just another example of Republican runaway spending and undue K-Street influence peddling. I was angry about it for the same reasons that I was furious about huge ag bills, highway bills, etc, etc. It was irresponsible, an abuse of the tax code by special interests and it bordered on corruption and it was an abandonment of conservative principle and good governance.

There were a lot of good reforms that could have gone into that energy bill like making it easier to build power lines and drill offshore and drill onshore and build nukes and the list go on. But at the end of the day all it really was was a huge spending bill which was part of the then current Republican strategy to maintain their power in Congress through bribery. It was disgusting!

To the extent, that those are the tax breaks being reversed, I could care less.

but after all the grandstanding ,finger wagging and lip service about the environment and how we are destroying the planet,most folks are not any more concerned than they are about split ends,dandelions,and lumpy gravy.

But one party seized on the idea and the squishies from the other jumped aboard to do nothing more than control big businesses,tax the living day light out of whoever has the money and the means to make the hoax have life. Energy companies and all their affiliates. Of course the users of that energy are going to take it the toughest so they must be courted,appeased,and given sympathy so they’ll resist less and look else where for someone to blame for their higher costs.
I think all the users of the energy are beginning to catch on.

Anybody who believes burning ethanol is less CO2 producing than gasoline is smoking something and it will soon explode. Do you think the corn plants itself.

It’s another of the giabt scams to ration energy and control freedom.

and manipulative “framing” of the issue. To the b***ards in control, getting a fractional break on the millions (billions?) in taxes that the energy company pays is the equivalent of a government “subsidy”. Doublespeak is their M.O.

If I pay an effective federal tax of twenty percent on my income this year, but the tax law is changed and next year I only pay nineteen percent of my income in federal taxes, I have not become the beneficiary of a government subsidy! I have still paid nineteen percent of my income to the government!

It’s almost as if they WANT to discourage domestic energy exploration, development and production.

It also means that more oil company money will be invested in Angola, Nigeria and Brazil and less in the United States. It will also destroy American jobs.

For natural gas I think that things will be different. The administration is wrong about natural gas being internationally traded. To ship natural gas across oceans it must be liquefied and moved by tanker. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) only accounts for 1-2% of US demand.

While there is a some pipeline trade between US and Canada, North America is essentially an island with very weak connections to gas markets in other parts of the world. This means that higher costs will simply be passed on to customers. People will pay more for heating and electricity.

First they make development economically unprofitable or outlaw it.

Then when gas and oil prices rise, they blame the companies for profiteering and market manipulation for failing to engage in energy exploration with their holdings.

This then becomes grounds for expropriating the developments. Then, in order to actually develop these holdings, they will need to form a state corporation, which will most easily come from nationalzing the companies or extorting them to work the fields at gunpoint.

Once the government owns the gas and oil, they can proceed to rape the environment to generate cash to continue to buy off enough of the populace, just like every other despotic enegy state.

Americans have now enslaved themselves to a government that will destroy their way of life. In an interview this week glenn Beck spoke with a professor in Spain who has been studying the green movement there. This professor said that his studies have shown 2 conventional industry jobs lost for every 1 green job created. Spain has a 17% unemployment rate. Glenn Beck stated in response to this revelation that any government who continues to pursue this green policy investment given these results is either “dumb” or “want to enslave the population.” I wonder what Americans will do when jobs start going away in place of the green movement and gasoline hits 7$ a gallon?

as the dollar continues to lose ground. BO will respond with the following:

1) he’ll begin wailing about those evil speculators (you know, the same ones who drove the price of crude down to the $30′s last winter….). This is turning into a Nixonian style paranoia with Obama: whether it’s Chrysler bondholders, or oil traders, or whomever—all evil in the world is due to “speculators.”

2) it’s a fair guess he’ll panic if oil goes past $70, and begin releasing oil from the Strategic Reserve. In his own head, this will be his way of showing “the speculators” who’s boss.

As a previous comment noted, Venezuela has siezed the assets of an oilfield services provider, Williams Co. I guess Hugo took the measure of Obama a couple of weeks ago, and like the rest of us, saw a big wuss.