OBAMA says, "Blah, blah, blah...."

I think the liberals and envirowackos are short term thinkers or people unskilled at analysis of complex interactive events. Otherwise, they are just evil, and I don't think that.

The capitalist market that you are so proud of is being strangled by overegulation. Calling that local power company is NOT going to do a thing towards building nuclear power plants. This friend, customer, whatever of yours should see about marketing this miracle fuel as there could be a possible use for it. You should see about informing yourself on the issues. Thanks for the laugh... that was a good one!

Destiny, A customer of mine makes a bio-diesel product so pure that you can run it 100% with no LSD diesel. This is made with a product called switch grass which grows like weeds, requires little water, and can grow anywhere. If you can cut diesel full consumption in half you will lower demand, and prices will decrease dramaticly. You make it sound like the government regulations are influencing oil and causing the high prices. The fact of the matter is the oil market is opperating in a capitalist enviroment, and they couldn't ask for anything more. See you want us to institute domestic drilling, yet no oil company has come out and said they if we did allow for more drilling, they would. It sounds to me like you want the government to make them drill, because the oil companies aren't going to. You say that the price would drop over night, yet oil will not flow for 5 + years, and try getting oil equipment today. The other problem is it doesn't make business sense to drill today, there is little equipment available to drill, and when you are making record profits why would you want to rock the boat? I have said this before, if you want to build new nuclear power plants, call your local energy company, and tell them you want them to build one of them in your back yard. I have one in mine, see what that does for you, and your family.

Elect me. We'll built nukes. We'll take the protectionism off US Oil companies so Mexico and Venzeula (or anyone else) can sell direct in the US market undercutting the US companies. Put real honest to god competition back into the international oil market selling to US consumers. US companies really don't drill because they make more pumping less selling it high than pumping more and selling it for less. I'm not kidding.

red, this is the first time I have ever agreed with you on anything. I agree 100% that the oil companies don't want to drill, it doesn't make sense, and all of this we need to start drilling is pure politics. Show me on oil company that has said it will drill in ANWR. But I don't agree with the nukes, I have one in my back yard that has one of the worse track records according to the NRC.

It has been my experience that many who disagree with me do not understand what I've said. I'm working on expressing myself better. If you understand the point about oil drilling and the profit incentive, then I must be learning how to say what I mean in a manner others can understand. Yippee!

In fact, when countries do go with the idealist who sounds good and appeals to masses of people with emotion more than logic, it almost always turns out badly. Mugabe in Zimbabwe comes to mind. Sure, he's on everyone's $hit list now, but remember 20 years ago? He was the Obama of Africa at the time. I find the similarity chilling.

Down at the democratic party headquarters.

Well, guess you will find out when Obama is president!

Obama's answers are basically all socialism. Let's consider the previously socialist Israeli Kibbutz. The Israeli Kibbutz system is one of the modern experiments in socialism. While the Kibbutz still exist, practically none are still socialist. Over the long term this does not work. It has been proven over and over. I read an interview done with an old Israeli woman who had lived on a Kibbutz for years and she had the best explanation of why socialism doesn't work I have ever seen. Here it is. "Under socialism you have to work really hard to help support people lazier than yourself who you don't even like.".

I can certainly tell you why Obama is more popular than Bush. Short answer, people don't know Obama yet and are tired of Bush. Long answer. The public of the USA is rather fickle and quite demanding. They want whoever is president to perform miracles. You know, things like cut taxes without reducing or eliminating government programs, increase government programs without raising taxes, stop tryants from killing people or threatening war, (Stop them without actually hurting anybody), provide health care free for everyone, and things like that. When Americans finally figure out any given President is not going to deliever these miracles, they get mad at him. Right now, they are mad at Bush as he has been in almost 8 years. If Obama becomes president, the same people who are mad at Bush now will be mad at Obama in 4 or 8 years.

I agree that many will be unhappy with Obama no matter what happens in his administration. I think however many of these people will not be the same who were unhappy with Bush. Most,not all, will be the staunch Republicans. I wish we could work together a little more in this country instead of being divided so strictly by party lines. This is the problem. Without the backing of the people nothing will get done.I am a Democrat who respected Reagan and think he did a lot of good things. No I don't like Bush that does not mean if the right Republican came along I would not support him or her. Whatever happens I just hope things work out.

Yep.

I wonder how many polling points this is going to cost him?

I would love to have a nuclear plant nearby. The economic benefit for the community is huge and the designs are much better than in the past.