I'm watching Glen Beck and he's saying that McCain is going to add a $0.50 per gallon tax to help fight global warming! That should cost him the nom right there....hopefully!!!!
__________________
I love Christmas lights. They remind me of the people who voted for Obama. They all hang together; half of them don't work, and the ones that do, aren't that bright.
For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do
not understand, no explanation is possible.
A golf course is a willful and deliberate misuse of a perfectly good rifle range.
fat chance of it costing him......I can only hope that tomorrow he shoots himself in the posterior hard enough to make a difference at the convention....but again, fat chance.
__________________
Hntngirl's mother-in-law and Personal Advisor
Davidmil's Seal of Approval: Non-Moderator Class
Master of the Shovel
Official Advisor to Sunset
Would be nice if it cost him the nod, it won't though. Make gas 4 or $5 a gallon, we'll pay it, we all do, I love how gas gets everyone so heated, they can raise it to $10 a gallon and we'd still buy it, and we will as it gets there, until bio diesel and ethanol from something other than corn comes on line. Higher it goes more likely these alternatives will come into play, so raise the hell outta it!
Would be nice if it cost him the nod, it won't though. Make gas 4 or $5 a gallon, we'll pay it, we all do, I love how gas gets everyone so heated, they can raise it to $10 a gallon and we'd still buy it, and we will as it gets there, until bio diesel and ethanol from something other than corn comes on line. Higher it goes more likely these alternatives will come into play, so raise the hell outta it!
I don't think the majority of people will just roll over and take it since the money will be going to "fight global warming". I think a lot of people are getting tired of hearing about "global warming".
Then Clinton who's going to "take" the oil companies profits to fund her socialists ideas, so we're in for a rough 4 years just with fuel prices if they get in.
__________________
I love Christmas lights. They remind me of the people who voted for Obama. They all hang together; half of them don't work, and the ones that do, aren't that bright.
For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do
not understand, no explanation is possible.
A golf course is a willful and deliberate misuse of a perfectly good rifle range.
That's the kind of sh** I hate him for! Here we have a controversial issue with hundreds of skeptical scientists, the underlying premise (troposphere hotter than earth's surface) WRONG, polar ice on MARS melting (could it be sunspot activity?), and McCain's willing to take money away from us consumers to "combat the problem." Fact is, even if we DO HAVE manmade global warming, destroying our economy while other nations jack up their CO2 emissions won't do any good!
That's the kind of sh** I hate him for! Here we have a controversial issue with hundreds of skeptical scientists, the underlying premise (troposphere hotter than earth's surface) WRONG, polar ice on MARS melting (could it be sunspot activity?), and McCain's willing to take money away from us consumers to "combat the problem." Fact is, even if we DO HAVE manmade global warming, destroying our economy while other nations jack up their CO2 emissions won't do any good!
Thats how I feel about it too, but I guess not many people on here are too concerned about it...
I wonder if he will use the money to buy "carbon credits" from Gore's company?
__________________
I love Christmas lights. They remind me of the people who voted for Obama. They all hang together; half of them don't work, and the ones that do, aren't that bright.
For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do
not understand, no explanation is possible.
A golf course is a willful and deliberate misuse of a perfectly good rifle range.
we need a new government not just a new president... thats what it boils down to.clean start upholding the constitution... my solution to all problems
there is nothing that is Fair about "free trade," NAFTA, World Court all have to go... we punish ourselves to help the world at our expense when other nations dont have to abide by limitations b/c they dont meet the criteria set by the global community.
I love the way people want alternative fuels for vehicles and how this is a big issue all of a sudden, 10 years ago it was a punishable offense if any american auto company made even so much as a hybrid. But now everyone wants alternative fuels and they speak of increasing gas in order to get people to cut back on gas. We do not have the infaststructure to support a gas free society. We dont have the public transportation avenues or anything even in MAJOR cities.
they want to raise gas prices but what is the alternative? I have not seen a single flex-fuel fill station or any alternative fuel pump inNew Yorkstate.
Solution to the "problem"
Government has to encourage more alternative fuel fill up stations. Having flex fuel vehicles does not help if you dont have flex fuel.
Creation of more Hybrid/flex fuel/ Gas alt trucks. the prius and similar crap vehicles dont cut it in most of the country. They might be fine in the city but when you gotta have space and horsepower you need an efficient and powerful suv/pickup trucks.
Vouchers for vehicle trade-in. Trade in your old gas guzzler for a new efficient vehicle.
you cant bully the people not to use gas, you have to positively encourage them to use a better option... AND they have to remember that most Americans are in debt so they have to keep in mind that just as they cannot afford to pay the increased gas prices they will not be able to pay high amounts for a new truck. Maybe if hybrid versions of trucks didnt cost 8-12k more than their gas versions more people would buy more of them...
__________________
"To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." ~Senator Richard Henry Lee, 1788
Support Our Troops, Honor Them, Thank Them!
Would be nice if it cost him the nod, it won't though. Make gas 4 or $5 a gallon, we'll pay it, we all do, I love how gas gets everyone so heated, they can raise it to $10 a gallon and we'd still buy it, and we will as it gets there, until bio diesel and ethanol from something other than corn comes on line. Higher it goes more likely these alternatives will come into play, so raise the hell outta it!
well watch your food prices go up as the grain price goes up. I'm a farmer and the cost to raise live stock is getting out of hand. i don't have any but a lot of my neighbors do and they are thinking about getting out of it. which will just help fuel the cost of food prices. i don't feel that ethanol and bio diesel band wagon will do anything for cutting the cost of gas. here in Iowa we have e85 gas pumps at almost every gas station. bio diesel is getting easier to find too. we use bio diesel in all our farming operations. plus if where are we going to grow the stuff to use instead of corn for ethanol. we are losing thousands of acres a year to development. south America is cutting down the rain forest by thousand of acres a year. i use to take all my grain to an elevator that took the corn to feed mills and other areas. now 100% of my corn goes to the ethanol plant that is four miles from my bin site verses 10 miles to the elevator. just because it makes more sense income wise we have cut back on the number of acres we grow soybeans on. Evan with beans at 11.20 a bushel we can still make more money growing corn at 4.50 a bushel. i know most people see what the Chicago board price is higher but we have a basis. the basis is what it cost to ship the grain. if the basis is 35 cents you take that off of the Chicago board price to get what you actually get for the grain. the basis changes depending where you live. some areas have a high basis others have a lower basis. with having an ethanol plant so close are basis is around 10 to 20 cents most of the time. any ways sorry for the long post. in my opinion ethanol and bio diesel wont help with gas prices that much. the reason e85 is cheaper in the first place is you don't pay the same tax on it at the pump. at least here in Iowa. but I'm not complaining about the extra income from bio fuels. i just feel its not going to be the fix all the politicians are clamming. ethanol comes from corn. bio diesel from soybeans.
See the article on Drudge right now about global cooling coming, due to low sun activity. Maybe McCain can change the tax to $1.00 per gallon, with the second $0.50 offsetting the effect of the first $0.50? Then he can say he voted for the $0.50 before he voted for the second $0.50. LUDICROUS!
McCain's $0.50 tax on gas...
