“We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.”

[Deja Q]

Well, George. We took your advice. Mostly because we need gas to putter around our cars in.

Others really took your advice and didn't check the mileage information when buying those huge honkin' SUVs because of the instant tax breaks they got.

We took your advice.

And now you tell us "Don't buy gas if you don't need it."

Just like you told us to get education as a response to all the jobs going offshore. Education for jobs that don't or won't exist.

Just like you wanted us believing in Iraq.

If your popularity is above 35% come next poll time, I will be surprised.

Maybe you really are a uniter. More and more people, though many out of blind self-interest, now realize there's so much less homeland worth defending. :-(

It's not as much the storm, but the ill-preparedness of the people we elect; in local, state, and federal levels. Including oil production and refineries; what good is lending out the oil if there's no place to refine it (never mind taxpayers already paid for it and effectively get to be double-dipped... :-( ) I mean, bad things happen but politicians on BOTH sides need to stop begging to the almighty dollar.

[applegrove]

1. "We need an energy bill that encourages people never to think before

they consume from Big Oil". That makes for the best kind of customer. Scarcety and focus on alternative markets, not subsidizing the market with lowered wages of workers in the USA, would cause a recession and get people to "rethink" their relationship with oil.

Why the markets continue to roar. Why SS, tax breaks for the rich, etc. keep being dumped on the market to keep it going. The rich suffer from inflations. But not when Oil inflation is combatted with lower wages and underemployment for the Americans who are not rich.

The rich continue to sacrifice ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. They do not even pay for war.

[Deja Q]

2. And God has a special place for the greedy...

Of course, some translators perverted the Sodom and Gomorrah story to scapegoat homosexuals instead of telling it like it T-I-IS regarding the selfish and greedy.