Is it time to call for a National Emergency on Energy?

[Armstead]

(This is getting scary.Sorry if this sounds alarmist. I hope I'm just overreactung.)

What's happening to energy prices is going to destroy the economy and kill a lot of people in the coming months if it keeps up. I live in the northeat and I'm scared shitless about the impact of the coming winter if this crap keeps up....Heating prices were already reaching obscene levels last year, and this year they will be deadly unless action is taken.

The people in Washington have to stop kowtoeing to the asshole oil companies and energy speculators. They have to step in and regulate the market and take some other drastic steps to deal with the energy situation NOW.

I know, I know...It's complicated, blah,blah,blah. But it seems to me we are in unusual circumstances where intervention is required to reduce the impact of "free market" forces on the lifeblood of our economy and lives.

Even if it's temporary, the politicians have to remove their heads from the digestive systems of the energy industry to save lives. Otherwise Katrina could look like a Sunday School picnic this winter, in terms of the number of lives devestated.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I am not looking forward to this winter. This little trailer does not

hold heat well, and I plan on keeping the thermostat down low so we can conserve on oil. I REALLY wish we had a woodstove. :(

[Armstead]

2. They'll probably gouge on the price of wood too

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. well we have plenty of wood here in Maine. That's easy to come by

[Lerkfish]

4. Dress in layers, put dirt under your trailer, whatever you have to do

be creative. Drape blankets over your windows.
by putting dirt under your trailer, I mean pack it in to where the dirt goes from the bottome of your trailer to the ground. A great deal of heat escapes from that layer of air between the trailer and the ground.
Be safe, be warm.
Heat up stones in your oven. spread them around the trailer with catcher's mitts.
Pioneers used to have bedwarmers...hot coals in what looked like a lidded frying pan on a long handle. See if you can find one in an antique store or fashion one.
The problem with trailers is that they are not very insulated -- metal is unfortunately a very good conductor of cold.

tha'ts all I can think of right now.

[hatrack]

5. Oh, no - our "leaders" will wait until reality is inescapable and obvious

And then they'll call for "action" - just like they always do.

[Armstead]

6. I think reality is already inescapable and obvious

It has been for a while.

Why the political class is not jumping on this is perplexing to no end.It should be a no-brainer for Democrats.

Even those rePubbies with half a brain and an ounce of decency should not still be relying on the kindnes of oil barons and greedy speculators.

[Tesha]

7. It's about 30 years too late; Carter had it correct back in '76.

It's about 30 years too late; Carter had it correct back in '76.

(At this point, we are screwed.)

Tesha