If your life depended on this vote, you would not vote for a Republican. I don't understand how you can think that Romney is the one when he has done nothing but lie and steal for the last 20 years.

Romney's plan will hurt the environment more. Obama's focus on renewable fuels is the trend of the future, when America can continue to lead in innovation and resultant high-tech advancement.

Pigotry, Obama doesn't have a clue how to manage the development of alternative energy! How many failures does it take for you to learn and understand that government is no good at private sector business? You need to learn the basic principle that the private sector is the engine for inovation and capitalism is the fuel that feeds the government the funds it needs to operate... Trust that. Private industry is what has made it possible for our government to do anything... Without it, where would the government find the funds to operate.... Just read Romney's plan and then make a judgement.... Be well informed...

Romney knows absolutely nothing except how to pander to win votes. What a surprising energy policy! More oil and gas developement to give more profits to oil companies and more of the damage from fracking to the people. And states take control of energy? So profits to his political allies and poverty to everyone else. Romney is bad for America.

Ethanol is a flop and has screwed up the food chain. All so the rich can manipulate and speculate on corn prices. Thank you obama.

Nobody trusts Romney, his promises are completely worthless. His word is of no value, because he has never stayed on one side of any issue.

Where are your taxes returns Romney? What are you hiding? Did you take the amnesty for tax evasion? Is that why you own't release your 2009 taxes?

VoodKOKK, Ethanol legislation was passed in 2007 with
the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. Just in case you don’t get
that, this is the year prior to the 2008 Elections you moron but I guess just
like when you flunked high school you blamed Obama. You need to get a life and
stop blaming everyone else for your failures in life…

Oil companies don't get any special tax subsidy's.

They have access to the exact same tax deductions that every other business in the country gets.

If a wind farm manages to do 50 billion in business in a year they could have the same deductions as Exxon.

The spin and lies from the left just never stops.

Hey It'ssimple: name one item in the grocery store that is less expensive than corn, you buffoon? It is SoSimple to merely repeat what you hear on Lush Limpballs radio show without questioning the reality. Go to the grocery and you will see corn is 8 ears for $2=$0.25/ear Why not take your head out of your a$$ and think for yourself instead of repeating something that just "confirms" what you already believe? Corn is no more expensive than any coal or oil you dip wad.

"Oil companies don't get any special tax subsidy's."

No, .. there are still about 4 billion dollars a year in oil industry tax breaks

The states can't afford to stay solvent now. Mitt Romney wants to give states all the power so Utah can legalize Polygamy!

At last an energy policy! Obama never had one, nor a budget for that matter. Solar can stand on it's own now and wind needs to. We have been subsidizing the hell out of both long enough, time for the free market to kick in and take over.

Idiot Obama put tariffs on foreign solar panels, so he saved x jobs and destroyed 10x jobs in the process. With stupid moves like that no wonder he has set records for unemployment. He also laundered over $2 billion in taxpayer dollars through failed alt energy companies who just happen to be run by campaign donors. The criminal is funding his campaign illegally with taxpayer money.

Romney got it right, we need all energy developed, both above and below ground. It takes cheap energy to recover our economy and make us prosperous again. Only then can we afford more green energy subsidies.

Of course only room temperature IQ liberals think solar and wind compete with oil. Unless you own a Nissan Lear or Ford Focus electric, solar panels will not power your car.

Return the power to the states, and allow them to decide what works for them. One size does NOT fit all.

Elliot - Oil companies do get subsidies from the government. The problem is that they are the ones that drive up the price of oil and enjoy record profits while we suffer at the pump. While I agree they should be able to exercise any tax breaks according to law, they shouldn't be getting taxpayer money(which is the subsidy).

Having said that, There's a problem many people don't see with the Keystone pipeline. If it is approved for the original path, how many people do you think will lose their property or part of it to imminent domain? The problem is it will be to a foreign company. To add insult to injury, that sludge would be shipped off overseas once refined by us (USA) so how is that making us energy dependent? Like the president said you can't make this stuff up because it's in the proposed measure which is WHY the President is looking for an alternate route. Not to mention it's kind of ironic that he would come up with this energy plan on a piece of paper CONVENIENTLY after he holds a fundraiser with those big oil executives......BUT he is the best thing for the country right now.

I know I'm going to upset some of those on the right but if Romney does get elected, Grover Norquist will get his wish of having an empty suit to just sign "their agenda" and guess what, it doesn't include US.

Oil, Oil and more Oil, never can Spoil.

Bring back the Hummer and give Koch your dollar.

Do it with Oil and not that Solar.

More Specky for Wally and let the Saudi hold you by the collar.

He has introduced a recipe that will increase health problems at the same time he will be cutting medicare and re-establishing pre-existing condition exclusion clauses on all health insurance policies

Hey G-9,

I don't know where you are buying your corn, but I haven't seen corn at 4 for a dollar for a long time. At best this year it has been at 3 for a dollar, and that was during the 4th of July sale. Usually it is 2 for a buck. 5 years ago it was 6 per $. So somehow I find it hard to trust your opinion when your math doesn't pencil out.

Now let us take the electric cars for example. The biggest issue facing the mass use of these vehicles is that the power grids are antiquated and can't handle it. The Hydroelectric dams use the off peak night time hours to allow the reservoirs to fill. What happens when the electric cars are so popular that they can no longer allow them to fill, because of the massive uptick in demand during off peak night time hours? This is a genuine concern of the people who design and operate these systems. What,,, do you think that wind and solar power can handle this? Not hardly, both are in their infancy.

Now I'm sure that there are those who remember the 70's when we were all told that the oil reserves would run out within 40-50 yrs. and that we needed to find alternative sources of energy. Well guess what, the scientific communities have corrected that time estimate to roughly between 2-300 yrs. That leaves us a little time to figure out the alternatives.

For now though we need to have something injected into the economy, and start to rebuild this nation. Obamas fantasies of being the savior of this nation and ALL of its misguided people is a joke. That man doesn't care one whit about you, me or anybody else for that matter. All he cares about is how much can he steal for his cronies and how much power can he gather to himself. He is scary.

All of you really need to start studying your history. The crap we have witnessed has happened before and it will happen again, but we can stop on the path before we go to far. All we need is to truly understand, rather than just react with childish emotion.

We need fusion power.

Patton This

"VoodKOKK, Ethanol legislation was passed in 2007 with
the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. Just in case you don’t get
that, this is the year prior to the 2008 Elections you moron but I guess just
like when you flunked high school you blamed Obama. You need to get a life and
stop blaming everyone else for your failures in life…"

Wasn't this when the Democrates were in control ? What ever the case Obama is the current President and could actually do something Presidential by using his executive power to ease the requirment for ethanol for a year or so to help fill the gap the midwest drough will cause in our food supply if we don't curtail the use of corn in fuel. Not a big deal really Obama would just have to do something worth while for a change instead of trying to garner votes by rolling out a worthless plan to buy 140 million dollars of chicken and beef that will actually shorten the food supply even more. Great thinker this on is. You betcha

The Dept. of Energy............created under Jimmy Carter. Goal was to make the USA energy independent. A total failure because of Democrat roadblocks. Obama will support and finance other countries drilling..........why not the USA.....catering to his environmental base is why. The only thing the Dept of Engergy has been successful at is growing itself to create more bloodsuckers living off our tax dollars.

Finally we have a canidate who will do what should have been done 40 years ago.

Romney/Ryan

There are too many idiotic uneducated comments here to believe! First Dale, Jimmy Carter wrote what was called the Carter Doctrine!! In it he said that the USA needed to step up its presence in the middle east to insure future oil needs for the country....that was in the 80's so your Democratic crap is wrong again!

Second to all you ethanol corn fools, ethanol can be easily made from sugar cane and pond algea which is proven and cheap! Brazil has all the oil it needs and sells it all because that entire country is run on 100% Ethanol!! And so could we...........furthermore every car company over the last decade plus is making FLEX FUEL VEHICLES to use 85% Ethanol!! WHERE IS IT??

Blocked by Romney Big Oil??

You Betcha!!

I totally agree! And let us not forget Solindra and the other alternative energy companies that got billions of our tax money and went belly up shortly after. The administration we even warned about the unstable situation the companies were in so he sped up the process. Under Obama's plan Energy prices would necessarily sky rocket. And those are his own words. He is controlling the food and energy. If you haven't read Hunger Games, do. It will make you think of Obama and the government! How far are we from that?

Remember --- domestic oil production is at an all time high. Domestic gas production is at an all time high. We are now exporting gasoline.

Daniel Steiberg,

Then why does Big Oil need an extension of government subsidies. Interesting that Romney supports continuing subsidies to the Rich (big oil companies), while refusing to help the poor and middle class (developing alternative fuels). Sounds kind of like his tax policy!

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Whatever Romney puts into law will ONLY benefit him and a small number of others.

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Electric cars actually run on Coal, Nuclear and Oil. And they are prohibitively expensive to buy if you had to pay the real full price for the car. And if you had to pay what ethanol really costs to make, it would cost much more per gallon than gas. It takes more real energy to make ethanol than the energy it produces. They are both taxpayer subsidized. Like Solyndra. And that worked like a charm.

....Funny bumper sticker seen on an SUV: "My baby stroller can crush your smart car."

Yes Charlie. That is because it is more profitable to export the oil due to the subsidies received by the oil companies.

Given the irrefutable evidence of the adverse effects of pollution (in the extraction, refining and use of carbon fuels) to humans and the environment, you would think that Romneys energy plan would kill his campaign. Germany has legislated a green energy economy and are working towards it. Japan is in the process of doing so. China is increasing green energy production at about 3 times the rate of the US. Canada, France, UK, etc, etc are all ramping up their green energy plans. And here comes the US with its head up its a**.

As I have stated before, the reich wing posters are obviously paid to do so (if not, please contact Karl Rove - he has a check for you). I can not believe that there are people out there that are so stupid.

To all you liberals/Democrats - there are a lot of us independent conservatives out here that are not associated with the Republicans and will not be, given the current status quo. So please do not lump us with the bat-s**t crazy reich wing

Alright, we're getting some conflicting comments about whether oil companies actually get subsidies (which are basically payments using tax dollars) or just the same level of tax breaks as every other multi-billion dollar company. I've heard both arguments before, but never seen a good resource. Can either side provide this? (And not some crappy opinion page, but a legit factual resource.)

Joe Thomas-6624551

Romney knows how to get us out of this mess. I trust him. Obama on the other hand, knows absolutely nothing. This ain't a student council election we are talking about. We are talking about saving America. Romney/Ryan 2012. No More for 44. Vote as if your life depends on it!

Romney has NO clue on how to get us out of this mess. A bunch of bullet points on some website does not equal an economic plan. Turning over the 'energy' production to the states is a mistake. This mantra of "DRILL DRILL DRILL" without environmental regulation (oh wait, up to the state to decide), could and would be catastrophic, and end up costing the taxpayers (All of us) more money. It's clear Romney favors "BIG OIL" and the corporate subsidies.

Obama/Biden 2012. Clearly the RIGHT choice of the "CHOICES" available to America.

He has not economic plan let alone and energy one. While I question and do not agree with a lot of things Obama has done/will do, he certainly has more leadership skills to resolve this nations problems then Romney does. Romney is a flip flopper with no

Too many ignorant comments from the anti-oil crowd. We cant live without oil, oil is not only for energy , ok close , the oil companies and you will be walking naked, no electronics, no plastic, no carbon fiver, we can't live without oil you got it . Until we replace oil and their derivative that are millions we must continue pumping oil. By the way, Obama has no energy policy other than oppose any kind of energy but support his friend , crony capitalist from the so called green industry.

This sounds Fn brilliant!

@ Its about time,

Where is Obama's plan? I'd love to read it. Is it in the 2009 budget? Or the 2010 budget? Or the 2011 budget? Or the 2012 budget? Is it in his energy policy white paper?

Obama's economic growth is 1.5% and contracting. Recession time. Double dip. 25 million Americans unemployed.

You have the audacity to say Romney hasn't a clue when Obama has done absolutely nothing.

Get a grip, Obamatards.

How can taking money from the middle class and giving it to the richest people on earth without them earning one cent of it be a good thing?

Obama/Biden 2012 Robmehood/ruin 1040

John in Battle Creek

How can taking money from the middle class and giving it to the richest people on earth without them earning one cent of it be a good thing?

Expalin your non sense. Are all the Obama voters like you?

Godsaveus.

Romney's plan is spot on. If the leftovers wish to keep THEIR States tied up in red tape and environmental regulations holding onto their high tax rates, then they still can and the others can take on expanding oil production greatly increasing State revenues while cutting taxes.

Frankly, with unemployment on the rise and our Country slipping back into recession, Romney's plan would go a long way to stopping the bleeding left by Obama. Remember, Romney will be inheriting this economic mess from the Democrats.

Contrarian001 - Do you have any idea what is going to happen to our environment if we continue at the current levels of consumption of fossil fuels for the next 200 years? It would appear not. Have you ever seen what's happening to the air in every major city in China? Is that the future you want?

Now consider the fact that humans consume more and more fossil fuels each year. This is a long standing trend. So we should not be talking about current levels of consumption at all. We have to consider the exponential factor that is a reality in this equation. We will not make it another 200 to 300 years unless we do something to improve the inevitable result, should we follow your simple minded, myopic plan.

oskar,

take your god and stick him up your azz.

Great so you drill for oil, then what?

We don't have enough refineries to process it and no one is building any.

This is bad for the environment, and bad for our energy future and a huge giveaway to the Koch brothers.

Elliot - Oil companies do get subsidies from the government. The problem is that they are the ones that drive up the price of oil and enjoy record profits while we suffer at the pump. While I agree they should be able to exercise any tax breaks according to law, they shouldn't be getting taxpayer money(which is the subsidy).

For the most part, the price of oil is determined by the world markets. where oil is bought and sold everyday. From what I can tell there are two things there that really affect the price. First is the world's oil supplies and the feeling about whether or not oil is plentiful or scarce. If winter is unusually warm, for example, buyers see a slower season for fuel oil and assume demand may be down. In contrast, if Israel were to attack Iran, investors would fear that turmoil in the middle east could produce shortages and the price would go up. World events and the economy are major factors here. If the US were to make drilling and exploration easier, the markets would have more of a feeling that oil would not be in short supply and it would drive prices down. OPEC also conspires to limit their production, in a sense controlling supplies and keeping prices high. The more oil that non-OPEC countries can produce, the less relevant that OPEC's policies become, also helping to keep prices in check.

The other factor I see that drives up prices is that much of the oil is bought by people who don't even need or use it. They are buying it solely as an investment to re-sell and make money from it. They don't ever take delivery of what they buy and make their living from high oil prices. If the markets could somehow be controlled to force buyers to actually take delivery of the oil they buy, then people who actually NEED to buy oil would not be competing with those who are buying it just to profit from it. An analogy would be housing prices being driven up in the 80's and 90's by people who bought houses only to flip them and profit. Families who just wanted a place to live found themselves in a market where prices were being driven up by investors.

I do feel that the price of gasoline (which is separate from oil) is manipulated by the oil companies. They own the refineries and can very much control supplies (and prices) by shutting down refineries for repairs, etc. Again, government could help here by making it easier for new refineries to open and produce gasoline. Government regulations make it almost impossible to open a new refinery, giving the existing refineries almost monopolistic control over the supply (and cost) of gasoline in the US.

If we drill for more oil and make it easier to refine, then prices will come down drastically, fueling industry and creating thousands and thousands of jobs (many of them good paying blue collar jobs). Our current policies are choking the economic engine to be sure.

Daniel Streibig - Actually Daniel, the private sector doenst pay for all that you claim it does. The Idividual Citizen is responsible for supplying half (47%) of the Revenue that the government collects. Where as over the last Fifty years, corporations have seen their share of the burden fall from about 20% down to only 8% of the revenue collected by the government.

"Almost half of all federal revenue (47 percent) comes from individual income taxes"

"Corporate income taxes today make up about 8 percent of federal revenue"

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3822

Patton This

“but I guess just like when you flunked high school you blamed Obama. You need to get a life and stop blaming everyone else for your failures in life…”

Now that’s rich coming from a dem. Why don’t you pass that message along to Madeleine Albright and the rest of the dems….

Contrarian001, I don't know where you are getting your corn from. Just a couple weeks ago I was getting it @ 5/$1.00. And has anyone considered that if corn prices are going up, just like every other crop, it's because of the droughts from this summer? And last I checked, the weather wasn't one of the domains the President has control of.

The GOP challenger's plan pays little attention to renewable fuels like wind and solar power, long championed by Democrats, including Obama, who has touted green jobs creation as a major part of his own economic and energy plans."

Yeah, that worked out really well, didn't it? Obama has thrown $Billions of taxpayer money away on his 'green energy' companies like SOLYNDRA - which conveniently benefited his big campaign contributors.

While the government should continue to support RESEARCH into alternative energy sources, we need to continue to use our existing fossil fuel energy sources during this transition to alternative energy that is currently going on.

Trying to artificially speed up that transition by forcing consumers to pay higher prices for energy through restrictions/moratoriums on energy development has been a real job killer for us, as well as costing family budgets when they can least afford it.

Mutt has a failed green energy company under his belt as well. Government subsidized businesses go under all the time. Look at family farms.

I think this thread and discussion have made up my mind finally. From Romney/Ryan advocates, I'm hearing rational discussion on the subject. From the Obama/Biden camp, all I'm hearing is "you're an idiot", deflection from the issues, propaganda and half-truths.

well if obama gets re-elected he knows he cant get a third term so he will have nothing to lose this time around. the failed policies will be even more disastrous than the solendra debocle. im a democrat but im sick of slick talking and promises that lead to nowhere. obama has got to go. he has done nothing to help this country. words are not enough its time for action, not saying i trust romney but what other choice do we have? its like south park, it usually comes down to an election being between a giant douche and a turd sandwich.. well this country could sure use a giant douche rite about now because this administration stinks!! and let the collapsing by the community begin! haha...

Gotta love Eric the libtard - "a giveaway to the Koch brothers." You see, when you have no viable argument, no viable plan, all you can do is criticize.

Election 2012 - Plans to create wealth for everyone vs. Obama - no plans and no hope. Guess I know who I'm voting for

I find it hilarious to read the liberal posts on here, because they are so laughably hypocritical. Everything they say about Romney can be said about Obama. You can bet the Californians don't want any state responsibility- they have run their economy into the ground. Give the power back to the states and send Obama back to Chicago!

Romney/ Ryan 2012- the only sane choice

by the way, all you bushblamers, watch this, Nixon started the decline by revoking the gold standard:

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/money-banking/

Alright, we're getting some conflicting comments about whether oil companies actually get subsidies (which are basically payments using tax dollars) or just the same level of tax breaks as every other multi-billion dollar company. I've heard both arguments before, but never seen a good resource. Can either side provide this? (And not some crappy opinion page, but a legit factual resource.)

You asked for it :)

www (dot) bloomberg (dot) com (/) news (/) 2012-07-02 (/) cheaspeake-s-1-tax-rate-shows-cost-of-drilling-subsidy (dot) html

Notice the use of subsidy in the article, THAT is what the dems are calling it. They do not actually get money from the government. However, this law is not used very often if the majority of wells drilled has a large success rate, if it is used at that time, the IRS will, most likely, come after said company.

Alright, one more time. I hope my voice isn't too hoarse to get this across.

Speaking of Ethanol, ... that this grain is needed by the farmers to feed their live Stock which inturn feeds us

Two words: Distiller's Grains. They're what is left over from ethanol production that makes a high-protein animal feed. Amazing, fuel AND a better feed for the animals! Wow, imagine that.

But then, you people against ethanol probably still sit around drinking your beers, or if you think you're high-class, your whiskeys, scotches, and bourbons. Which are all - guess what, that's right - ethanol!

Good old C2,H5,OH. Just in different proofs. That's the difference between your Bud lites, and the E-85 at the pump - the proof of the ethanol - 10 to 14 for the beer and 200 for the E-85 (true, it's been denatured with 15% gasoline, but that's another topic).

We have a great corn crop in PA this year. Lots of rain, lots of sunshine. I don't buy it though. My neighbor gives me all we can eat, so I have no idea what it costs.

I don't like the 10% ethanol added to gasoline though. When there was a choice I drove through the Midwest to Colorado and got 10% worse gas mileage with it than with regular old fashioned 89 octane. Maybe, it was the wind. They are strong out there. A good place for windmill turbines.

North America, mostly the U.S. and Canada; have the largest reserves of Natural gas on the planet, more than the rest of the world combined; and we still restrict power plants from using it instead of coal, we actually force Texas and Louisiana to ship natural gas up north, and force them to bring coal to fire the power plants, Jimmy Carter though up this idea, when he was convinced that we only had ten years Worth of Natural gas left in the ground. we have enough Natural gas, proved reserves, to power every car, truck,power plant and household use for the next 200 years, and yet we build only a few trucks to run on Natural gas, and very few auto's, does anybody see the problem , with our government.

Saxon, you may be right, but having proven reserves of natural gas deep under the ground does not necessarily mean that we can get them out of the ground. I have heard estimates that in some areas like the shale oil in the Dakotas we can only get 10% of what is there. With natural gas extraction using fracking, the %age of obtainable is not 100%, although I don't know what the exact %age is , although it certainly varies from well to well.

Be careful when counting on what we have not yet gotten yield figures on. Natural gas is certainly a useful fuel to use for transportation and heating and electricity generation, but it is not the whole answer to our energy needs.

Half of the electricity generated is used up in getting the electricity to the end user on average from what I have read in articles that say we need to invest in a more efficient energy grid technology.

and, it will create thousands of jobs and hundreds of new employers!

SHAAK322; THE NATURAL GAS ALREADY IN PRODUCTION READY FOR DELIVERY, IS ABOUT 100 YEARS WORTH AS OF TODAY; A NATURAL GAS engine is about 30% more efficient than a gasoline engine, does not require a catalytic converter, since it emits almost zero pollution, it also delivers more usable horsepower, requiring a smaller engine, two company's are putting up natural gas refiling stations at this time nationwide; the large oil company's refuse to put natural gas refill stations in their existing stations( the bill in congress passed making it mandatory, but was killed by the senate).Ford in Brazil is now building natural gas auto's, however , they are not allowed to sell them in the United States ( just like the vw, that gets 60 mpg. built in the states, but prohibited for sale in the U.S.,) our energy policy is being run by the large international cartels, mostly based in the middle east, we are really sold out by our own elected officials.

"in large part by shifting federal responsibilities to the states"

In other words, weaken environmental protections, and leave the red states to pollute and rape the land as they please.

No thanks, Romney

Here we go again. The Bush era all over again. Drill Baby Drill and Clean Coal Technology. When will America ever learn?

Got tht right,all we can hope is that with these gas prices doing what they're doing that common Americans realize that all the oil produced in this country is shipped overseas.None of it stays here and never will,even if you pop oil wells in every square foot of the country.See most of us dont see past our borders.China and India have twice to four times the population of the US and are comsuming almost twice the oil our country does ona daily basis.Republicans have no leg to stand on anymore here..aything siad will be the biggest load of bullshyte promised to us,and we;ll soak it up hook line and sinker.Keystone was meant to ship ALL the oil from Canada down to the NO Gulf Coast and overseas to be refined...not here.The reason?..They pay more for the crude than we do.It gets refined to the highest bidder and lately it aint us.

It is better for us to pay for oil from the middle east. Let them and others dry up before we even touch our reserves. We also have to develop many different alternative fuels. New homes should be built with solar panels catching the sun and the rest of the roof grown wild. Every house should have a windmill and if farmers would convert the cattle/animal droppings to methane gas we would cut fossil fuel usage quite a bit.

For all the idiots posting on here about the Ethanol mandate (RFS) driving up the cost of food at the store, you are all WRONG! The drought is what has been driving up food prices as well as speculation by large investment companies in the commodities market. But then again, it sounds like Romney's plan fully takes into consideration the effect that fossil fuels have already had on our environment. Apparently that global warming talk is just a bunch of junk science. We definitely have not had record heat waves and drought conditions in this country over the last 3 years, and we certainly haven't reduced the polar ice caps by record setting numbers in the last decade. What do a bunch of scientists that have studied this stuff their entire lives know about it anyways! Mitt's right on target to be the biggest dumba$$ candidate of all time, and that is saying quite a lot after 8 years of Bush. Let your right wing ideology lead you down the path of stupid, but stop screwing up the economy, the political system, and the environment for my generation and the ones that come after me! You wonder why we have zero respect for adults anymore.....the youth of this country are the only ones capable of acting like adults. Baby boomers screwed the pooch and I hope that all the idiots like Valhalla Phil die of a heart attack before November.

Oh and the best way to reduce the size of government is to let 50 states decide their own individual energy policies, while still being held accountable to the federal government? That's brilliant! And what do we do with the national power grid? Do we split it up state by state, to let each state make it owns rules and regulations on how to govern electric use and control electric flow in/out of its state along state lines? When there is an energy dispute that involves different states and individual rules written by each, are we to believe that the courts are where we will realize greater efficiency? Do companies that have energy holdings in multiple states have to open their own law firms just to keep on top of regulation compliance in each state they hold an interest? Unbelievable how Willard can personify ignorance and greed in such a fantastically ironic way.

There is this unending misconception about any president and the oil business. The President has almost no control over any of it other than to lobby for what he would like from congress or perhaps use a veto. But, even all that aside, there is no such thing as American oil. There is only World oil. The only way to even put Romneys plan in the works is to know that trading ties will have to be severed and America then goes into protectionism. To be free of foreign oil, we have to have enough energy sources of our own well established. Romney is the one without a clue. Almost nothing he says he wants to do is possible but they make good sound bites.

The one thing hanging out there as part of the right wing plan is they will let the trillions of dollars come in from offshore tax free and end unionism so we can descend into the Neo Third World Economy. Low wages for all and WE WILL OWE EVERY THING AND OWN NOTHING.

That is what we face if the country goes further Right.

Joe Thomas-6624551

Looks like you've become delusional. Romney/Ryan have already lost all of the black, Latino, female, independent, union, senior, and middle class voters. All they have left are the rich and the crazies.

Safely extract and process--PLEEZ. Do you never watch the evening news? Do you want to wait until your tapwater catches fire? Do you want to wait until the gas wells give you multiple earthquakes per day? Do you at least want to know the nature of the chemicals they are pumping into the ground ? don't you think there was a reason that Dick Cheney didn't want you to know what they are? If we don't demand answers now, when do you think we will find the answers? when our grandchildren are dying of chemical poisoning?

Gee spidey .. love the gas flowing out of the taps of drinking water. Tell me, is that 'good' natural resources? And if so, how much do you consume per day? Sounds like you simply want a never ending supply of cooking gas to get your meth pots up to speed.

Tell it to the over 700 dead bottlenose dolphins, mostly babies, that have washed up dead on US shores of the Gulf of Mexico, and continue to do so to this day. I don't think they agree with your definition of "safety," and I doubt Gulf of Mexico fishermen and their families are very happy either.

spider-737231

Ya want to know something funny... Not one of these tree hugger will go a day without driving their cars or using the electricty (Which I am sure is produced by either coal, oil or Nuke).

It's like the Celeberties who protest the wearing of Fur, yet walk around in Leather Boots, Leather Pants and carry a leather purse.

woodrat

What about the 100's of Thousands of dead fish floating in rivers and lakes out west...

Oh yeah, they died because of the drought. How come you are not preaching agaist Droughts?

Ya want to know something funny

Not really .. the environment is something to be taken seriously. But heck Humvee driver, tell us how 1 billion of you help the environment. Golly gee, cars are our current transportation method .. but you bitch because we try to get 30-40 miles MPG while you brat-brag you get 1-2 MPG. Aren't you the smart one?

who? go to bed, Red.

OK red tell that to the Semi drivers who get supplies from one side of the country to the other so we can have affordable food to feed our poor and middle class families. I know how much you liberals claim to love the poor. But you'll destroy the economy over your over zealous environmental policies. Some people actually need utility vehicles, to I don't know, utilize.

Drill Baby Drill! Let's build new refineries and put American's back to work. Recent finds in Alaska alone have the potential to be the 8th largest field on the planet, ahead of Libya and Nigeria....
But noooo, can't touch that, it's "off limits"

How's that Chevy Volt workin out for ya? Has it caught on fire yet?

Romney- Ryan 2012

I can't wait for the wells to run dry and the reserves to run out. Then people will finally have no choice than to look at alternative energy sources. We should be doing it now...but I'm guessing people think the hell with I won't be around when the sh1t hits the fan or those alternatives don't work...whatever the reason for the delay or reluctance in pursuing better fuel sources...hopefully all this fossil crap will run out sooner rather than later.

Keystone pipieline sends the oil straight to world market...highest bidder gets the oil...that will be China.....Repubs...BUSTED!

I suppose his agricultural policy will be slash and burn too. There is no chance of me voting for Romney....there is no doubt in my mind that global warming is real too. Even so he may be onto something....but developing fossil fuels and drill drill drill will do nothing for the American people if the oil companies simply sell the American oil to what ever foreign country such as China that is willing to pay the most.

Unfortunately I'm even more addicted to fossil fuel than most people...but unless Romney wants to put a policy in place where the US exports no oil along with something along the lines of a no trade with China policy, I'm not going to listen to anything he has to say.

LOLZ....and LOLZ....Yes go after all our non renewable resourses....good idea

Do you own a Leaf? Focus electric? If not please explain how solar panels will replace oil, I could use a good laugh.

Solar is now competitive, it no longer needs federal subsidies. If wind isn't there now, let the free market figure out how to get it there. The problem is, coal is already being replaced by natural gas since it's cheaper. Our CO2 levels have already reverted back to 1992 levels thanks to free market capitalism. We are making progress in cleaning up our carbon footprint, we are not making progress in being energy independent. That requires drilling.

Actually I drive a Honda Civic Hybrid .... Averaging 45 - 50 mpg

Streibig. It will be change alright. Change back to the 19th century with robber barons, back-alley abortions and women and people of color who know their place. That what the wingers and neo-cons long for.

How can taking money from the middle class and giving it to the richest people on earth without them earning one cent of it be a good thing?

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Ask someone from North Dakota how environmentally friendly the oil is being extracted there.

Great so you drill for oil, then what?

We don't have enough refineries to process it and no one is building any.

This is bad for the environment, and bad for our energy future and a huge giveaway to the Koch brothers.

Well, at least Mit finally stated a "policy" on something. I am not surprised that he wants to go back to depending on oil drilling -- most of his richest friends on in the oil business --Must not have too many frined in "winf or solar power industry' -- so why use the tax payers money to help those industrys? — No profit in it for him and his rich buddies! His goal is use taxpayers money (but not taxes his own) to make as much money as possible as fast as possible for his friends --while ensuring that they don't pay taxes on the increased excess profits. Sounds good on paper -- but it is really a short sighted goal for personal and corporate greed and enrichment that may very well hurt our long-term natural resources, wildlife, air and water,and the lives and well-being of our population and this country in gneral . After all, by the time the sh*t hits the fan -- the old rich guys will be long gone -- and the remainign clean air, water and land will be onwend by their heirs. My question: Why must the energy policy be "either or' and instead of Both ? Yes, we all still need gas and oil (that is what we all depended on -- like it or not) --so why not build a new refindery or two and increase drilling slightly -- after CAREFUL research and study to ensure minimum impact -- Full solar pwer will not be a reality until Exxon owns the sun!

Tell it to the over 700 dead bottlenose dolphins, mostly babies, that have washed up dead on US shores of the Gulf of Mexico, and continue to do so to this day.

What are you trying to say, since scientists are not even sure what is happening.

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-04-08/us/dolphin.death.mystery_1_dolphin-deaths-bottlenose-dolphins-blair-mase?_s=PM:US

An environmentalist is a person who will never be happy with any situation, even if it is exactly as they wish, they will still whine about it.

Good stewardship of the land is smart and necessary but the measures the environmentalists want are just plain insanity.

I love how the Dems are crying because Romney will of course make his rich oil buddies even richer, but they have nothing to say about Obama giving millions of dollars to his energy buddies and those buddies have done NOTHING but waste all the tax payer money given to them with absolutley no results! We need to drill as well as keep looking for alternatives, but drilling now will ease the economy in this country WHILE we look for alternatives!

Would you not take a job at McDonalds to make sure there is dinner on the table for your children WHILE you look for a better job?

No,they should raise taxes on the McDonalds you order every day

We have known available oil deposits to last for over 200 years. The Bakken oil field has more oil than all of the middle east.

he is not pat of the solution, he is part of the problem. This country is now at epidemic rates of childhood respiratory distress conditions and this clown wants to increase the output of mercury and other by products of coal burning into the atmosphere. Exactly what one expects from the party of no new ideas.

God help us if these idiots get elected.The biggest problem this country is facing isthe inflation from our devalued dollar and the ponzi scam being run by our government and the federal reserve,these people are just two more of their puppets.Better start paying attention people.

We need to be LESS dependent on oil, not more. Increased production doesn't mean decreased prices. The oil comanies are already exporting oil to places where they can make more money. Increasing our production will only increase their profits.

focuses on developing domestic fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal

Of course, these are the businesses of the Koch Brothers. Mitt Romney and the GOP do not mind turning the US into a cesspool to serve their masters.

He and his other 40 thieves have a safe heaven in other countries to go to. Fracking already is poisoning many people, and using much needed water for irrigation, instead being used for drilling. Ask the people of Oklahoma and Texas, that have had SEVER DROUGHTS, but THEIR IGNORANT, GREEDY GOVERNONRS CONTINUE FRACKING THE LAND.

If you vote for Mitt Romney, he will only destroy Alaska, and the few other places that remain untoched in the US due to drilling restrictions. They think that Global Warming is a hoax. They want you to have 20 babies, They think God will take care of humanity, regardless of how many children you have. The land is for grabs!

Wherever you look at it, the GOP are a group OF IGNORANT ASS***ES

I say invest in alternative energies, don't forget how we got to the moon or where we got the Internet.

But I agree with both republicans and democrats.
Trickle down economics and trickle down government both need to be put in check.

I say we also invest in capturing asteroids. And building a giant rail gun and a capsul and launch our nuclear waste and store it on the asteroids. Maybe when aliens attack we can send them a nuclear asteroid. Or Iran? Pigs fly!

Obamas new slogan... FORWARD and...a dog in every pot

The Republicans are desperate trying to find something to criticize President Obama. If you are talking about Mitt Romney, yeah! I remember how he likes American Cars..

He said "Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs" As if it was choped liver. All of you, more than happy to contribute to the destruction of the planet. Happy with guns, and happy destroying the environment.

Naughty, gas has been over $6/gal in Europe for the past 10 years. This is a global problem, not Obama's fault. BTW... thanks for sending your dollars to China by shopping at Walmart.

the facts of this matter is this . america has too much dependance on oil from other oil producing countrys, the oil producers are getting fat rich while american citizens are being drained with high gas prices, why not drills on our own shores for oil that our nations could maybe get back on its feet, and not be plauged with the dependance of oil from other oil producing nouations, if this don't happen gas prices liable to reach ten dollars a gallon, something needs to be done, wind mills is a drop in the bucket to what our country needs for power ...so you figure this out,!!! drill for oil here in the united states or keep being doomed to high fuel prices!!!

I own a printing company that I started back in 1993.

You can't blame the fall of your business in oil prices. The computer age and internet era has arrived. Most people have NO NEED FOR YOUR SERVICES. YOU NEED TO DIVERSIFY.People used to also used to hire people to write their letters, because there were no printing services.

The world is a very different place. Computer and Internet are doing what your kind of business used to do. Even if oil will fall to the ground, you can't expect to be very successful.

He said "Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs" As if it was choped liver. All of you, more than happy to contribute to the destruction of the planet. Happy with guns, and happy destroying the environment.

LOL...Romney bought a GM product...You know the Company Obama spent billions on bailing out, I probably do more to conserve energy and protect the environment that most of you supposed greenies, My guns have never committed any crimes and have never hurt anyone, I have taken long walks with them during which I got plenty of good old fashioned outdoor exercise, The have provided me with fresh game for my table and I enjoy shooting them.

oops...did I say good old fashioned...I am sorry I know they are bad words to you progressives... you will probably be accusing me of wanting to take us back to the stone age.

If you think drilling on American soil or in our waters is going to lower gas prices, you are a sucker. Who owns the gas stocks? We will foul up the land and waters.

I wonder how much oil stock Mitt has?

I probably do more to conserve energy and protect the environment that most of you supposed greenies, My guns have never committed any crimes and have never hurt anyone,

It never cease to amaze me how people on these vines have a CRYSTAL BALL OR ARE MASTERS OF DIVINATION, and they know what other people have, if they have a job or not, are not protecting the environment, are only seating around waiting for a welfare check, etc. etc.

So who cares that Mitt Romney bought some GM cars? He was going to TANK that company to begin with. You REPUBLICANS love to hunt, love to go fishing, and you can't wait to destroy the same places where you go and hunt, fish, etc. I guess the good thing about that is that eventually you will run out of animals to hunt, and then you will have no choice , but hunt each other. There is a light at the end of the tunnel.

You must be talking about what will happen if Oblamo is re-elected, Gas prices are at record highs now,

• No -- we had record high gas prices under George W. Bush.

@ Respond, No need for my service, lol. Not everything can be done on a computer, sorry! And how exactly am I to diversify when I'm hardly keeping my head above water? You obviously have little to no idea of what the printing industry does.

I do blame the oil and government, they made my cost rise, not the internet.

More Republican 'ideas' that are very bad for the country.

With all the emphasis on getting off the need for OIL seems that the people with who make their money off of OIL is getting nervous, there are so many companies now producing Electric vehicles soon the price of these vehicles will be going down and bye bye OIL companies, so of course they want to milk those OIL rich lands before it losses value, and guess who's right there in their corner ROMNEYHOOD.... Keep the WELFARE for the OIL companies while the citizen have to pickup the TAB nice plan.

NEWS FLASH; domestic exploration is up multiple times during the Obama administration. Romney wants to fool people into believing it isn't so. And guess what. you republicans will. the windfall here is that energy rich states can make deals like Louisiana did years ago. State law requires that the state NOT get a single dime of revenue from it's own oil. So now with state control, Exxon, Mobil and the queens favorite company (bp) can get some extra gravy too. YAY More for the rich and screw you lol. yep, keep voting republican and the DuPonts, the melons etc. will simply love you. OH and as ive been trying to tell you for 11 years now. gas is up because our dollar is down. Bush started this glorius cycle of devaluation, so just lay back and enjoy it.

It never cease to amaze me how people on these vines have a CRYSTAL BALL OR ARE MASTERS OF DIVINATION, and they know what other people have, if they have a job or not, are not protecting the environment, are only seating around waiting for a welfare check, etc. etc.

I do not need a crystal ball,I can tell you what I do, I have a solar array on my barn roof, I have a solar array in my back yard for my home, I have a wind powered water pump that is used to water my crops,(I do fall back on electricity when there is insufficient wind) I have large retention basins to store rain water for irrigation use, I used natural fertilizers(composted manures), I have rain barrells on all of my gutter downspout that we use to water our flowerbeds, I have a tankless water heater to reduce electriciy costs, I have a dedicated subpanel for my freezers and refrigerators that allow me to shut down the electricity to my home after 11pm and turn it back on at 5am, I have CFL lights where practical in my home, All of my outdoor lighting on my home is solar with the exception of my front door light, I heat my home primarilly with wood using less than 100 gallons of oil per season, I heat my barn with wood , My tractors are high efficiency diesel , My family car is a hybrid one of my trucks is gas and the other is diesel.

So who cares that Mitt Romney bought some GM cars? He was going to TANK that company to begin with. You REPUBLICANS love to hunt, love to go fishing, and you can't wait to destroy the same places where you go and hunt, fish, etc. I guess the good thing about that is that eventually you will run out of animals to hunt, and then you will have no choice , but hunt each other. There is a light at the end of the tunnel.

Romney was not going to tank the company, He was going to let it go thru bankruptcy just like any other company would do, Just like the airlines have done and in case you have not noticed they are still flying. Yes we love to hunt and fish and our hunting and fishing licenses and all the fees we pay and all the donations we make are what pays for all of the land and animals preservation and conservation, We will not run out of animals because we support conservation but we also know that land and animal populations have to be managed.

NEWS FLASH; domestic exploration is up multiple times during the Obama administration

Newsflash...domestic exploration is up becaused of permits approved under the Bush administration and because of exploration on state and private lands that Obama has no control over, permits for exploration/drilling on federal lands is down under Obama

Let me guess. Trickle down tax breaks will result in energy savings?

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If your life depended on this vote, you would not vote for a Republican. I don't understand how you can think that Romney is the one when he has done nothing but lie and steal for the last 20 years.

All I want from you is proof of your accusations....you seem to be great at making up facts but fall far short of any proof! Put up OR shut up!

"The Left" is the home of the weak minded and the feeble individual who needs others to do their thinking for them and to promise them the delusional perfect life. Big government, for you, is the answer.....be very careful what you ask for! Stand on your own two feet, think for yourself and stop falling for political propaganda. Educate yourself from materials not supplied by ANY political, self-serving party.

Tyler

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wow, people on the crazy pills are up early, lol.

this has nothing to do with religion, but fuel. fuel to heat homes, get produce, and product from point A to B, and being able to afford to drive to work in back, without it costing a good $100.00 off the top of their check to do it.

supply is up while demand is down in this country. Learn the basic priciples of supply/demand. Also, you can produce as much oil as you wish but it will still be sold to the highest bidder which is China, India and the Middle East. Producing more will not lower the price of oil in this country. PERIOD.

Hey Mike - maybe you're business is going down because you're a crappy businessman. I work in the medical field and with new technology, we're not printing as much. We send everything electronically. So, I guess you want to blame that on the President as well?

For you and others drinking the Rmoney kool-aid. The US is producing more oil than at any other point in our history with more wells in production. But hey, don't let the facts get in the way of your moronic hatred for the President.

People talk about how we need oil. Sure. But you don't need that SUV that gets 10 miles to the gallon. You don't need to drive as much as you do. I drive a hybrid and my wife drives a compact car. We average about 30/mpg. If everyone drove cars with higher fuel efficiency and drove less (heck, maybe we wouldn't be such an obese country as well), we wouldn't need so much oil. And, if we used solar and wind to power our homes, we wouldn't need so much oil and gas.

Maybe our children's children will actually have a planet to live on.

Will the states be held responsible to make sure any oil spills or other environmental damage are properly cleaned up? You can't just rape the resources and leave the mess for the taxpayers to clean up.

Oil is not only for energy is a big mistake to think like that, without oil you are nothing, we depend on oil for more than you can imagine, comments against oil are silly , the computer you have is made from " oil". However Obama do not have a positive energy policy that lead to independent energy, he oppose coal, nuclear, gas , but any other kind of energy , solar , wind , hydro are not sufficient to provide energy to cites, towns and transportation, that make the price of oil goes up . Romney offer a plan that include all of above , not only oil. However we must produce more oil to be less dependent from foreign countries Oils are in different grades and not all are for energy so wewill always willbe trading oil with other countries , but more oil we put on the market lower will be the price. PERIOD Why Obama relese some of our oil reserve ?

Congrats, Romney. You've regurgitated the same bull@!$%# that the right wing has for years. Has it worked? Well--our air is approaching unbreathable, our water undrinkable, and globally, we've exploited all that can be exploited--dumb ass rich weasel.

How can taking money from the middle class and giving it to the richest people on earth without them earning one cent of it be a good thing?

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NEWS FLASH; domestic exploration is up multiple times during the Obama administration.

After permits are approved it usually takes 3 to 7 years to result in production. So, the production/exploration increase we see today is largely the result of the Bush policies. Now, if the trend continues for a few years then I'll start to give Obama credit - but for now the only credit I'll give him is he didn't completely stop the exploration approved by Bush.

Thank you bayllie. That is what all of the gas price complainers fail to understand. ALL oil, no matter where it is produced, is sold on the world market. The gas sold at the pump rarely contains what was produced from US crude, or if it does contain US crude, it is blended with foreign crude. That is why we are exporting more than we are importing now, and still relying on foreign oil (including Canadian.) That "great" Canadian owned pipeline will NOT reduce the cost of gas at the US pumps. Canada has already admitted several times that it will in reality RAISE the price. Commodities speculation and Chinese/Indian rising fuel demands are the two main factors that have raised our pump prices and the price of crude on the stock market. We are also now exporting a great deal of that natural gas that they are BLASTING out of Mother Earth with their destructive fracking practices.

Romney is just out for himself. Using fossil fuel will just line his pockets more. We need to find alternative fuels and there quite a few ready for use/

Science and math? What are those? Keep cutting funds to education until the population is too stupid to understand the truth from a lie. Then you can tell them fantasies like energy independence by drilling for more oil in the US. The rich beat the oil drum and lead the blind ignorant masses off the cliff. Aren't those greed bastards such proud Americans? They are willing to destroy their own country all in the pursuit of profit. Makes me proud to be American...what about you? Who needs science and math?

Until the energy storage issue is solved, renewable energies will be a small, expensive part of our energy system. The science just isn't there yet. I'm all for funding research to solve the issues with wind, solar, etc. to make them viable in large quantities - and helping the industries grow once the science is there. What I'm not in favor of subsidizing an industry that isn't ready for mainstream use, and forcing consumers to pay significantly higher energy prices until the science is solved.

Also, as others have pointed out, gas for vehicles (not including things like planes) only accounts for about 40 to 45% of the oil we use - the rest is for things like computers, fertilizer, asphalt, etc.

I'm sure Romney's energy policy has nothing to do with his main contributors. "Rollingstone" had a great article a few months ago that tied several large Romney contributors and what these contributors would be expecting from him to enact. The Koch brothers will be pleased. Big Oil will be pleased.

anti-trust proponent

Thank you bayllie. That is what all of the gas price complainers fail to understand. ALL oil, no matter where it is produced, is sold on the world market

Using domestically produced oil keeps the money circulating in this country, whereas buying from other countries ships the money overseas. (not to mention it's putting more money in the hands of countries that hate)

BTW, why does anyone still heat a home with oil, unless you are in a remote area that doesn't have a natural gas main in the area? Maybe your state/local area should be investing in building the infrastructure necessary to provide you with that "cheaper" natural gas to heat your home. Then we wouldn't be exporting our natural resources to the rest of the world. Why hasn't the Northeast made this infrastructure investment over the past 60 years? I guess they just like to have something to complain about?

But, then again, why does the US, China, and India consume over 75% of all of the world's natural resources? We are robbing the rest of the world of THEIR resources, along with all of our own.

Ron, did you really read my comment? The domestically produced oil/NG is NOT all staying here to be consumed here. If it were, we would have been systematically reducing our dependency on foreign oil (including Canadian) for the past 30 years. It does NOT keep the money circulating in this country, except in the pockets of the major oil/gas producers like the Koch Brothers.

The only reason alternative energies are not viable is because the US government subsidies the cost of oil by using tax payer money to protect the world oil supply with our military. If the oil companies had to defend their own oil supplies or if the US government sent the oil companies a bill for protecting it then oil would suddenly be a LOT more expensive. We could also go a LONG way to reducing the debt and cost of our government since military spending is 20% of the total budget.

No the Northeast hasn't upgraded the infrastructure to end heating homes with oil or wood. But then again most states in the Northeast vote Democrat, so who are liberals going to blame?

Greg in New York

The only reason alternative energies are not viable is because the US government subsidies the cost of oil by using tax payer money to protect the world oil supply with our military. If the oil companies had to defend their own oil supplies or if the US government sent the oil companies a bill for protecting it then oil would suddenly be a LOT more expensive. We could also go a LONG way to reducing the debt and cost of our government since military spending is 20% of the total budget.

This is a valid issue I'd like to see researched and addressed. However, keep in mind we do that for lots of natural resources - not just oil. Unfortunately, we also use our military to protect resource production for non-US companies (ex: the massive mining operations China is building in Afghanistan - that we are providing protection for).

#1--It's only going to destroy the environment.

#2--All they will do is EXPORT the oil like they do now. It will NOT lower prices here.

#3--He also wants to do away with food inspection. How many lives will that cost?

#4--Romney ONLY works for the RICH. As everything he wants to take from us doesn't affect them at all.

#5--He's against abortion, yet he will eliminate all programs to help support those children. Is he going to support them? Or maybe the RICH can do it with all the tax breaks they pocketed since they never created any jobs with the money.

#5-- Biggest question--Are ALL Republicscum born stupid or do they just practice a lot?

OBAMA 2012--We've had enough ignorance, stupidity, and GREED. It's time to do something for someone other than the RICH.

To date...Romney and Ryans ideas do only one thing..that is enrich the wealthy..which Romney is a huge member of..and the oil company barrons. Of course, clean air is a very miner problem to the wealthy....as long as they have their millions. This country's biggest problem today is that it is being run by the wealthy ..our ideas ( the middle class ) mean nothing to our own elected officals who suck up to those like Romney and his friends.

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Ron, did you really read my comment? The domestically produced oil/NG is NOT all staying here to be consumed here.

Yes, I read your comment, but my comment still stands. If the oil is produced and sold from the US then at a minimum we get the taxes from the sale. We also have laws in place to make it difficult for companies to get money out of the country if it originated here. I realize you may not like who gets the money (ex: your comment about the Koch brothers), but I'd much rather see that money in the hands of US billionaire's than in the hands of Saudi royalty that funds militant Islamic terrorist groups.

@ Rick...you're talking out of your A$$. The Gas & Electric companies in the North East have been continually improving infrastructure to be able to deliver natural gas to every home. Home owners have the right to choose which source of fuel they heat their homes with and many continue to choose oil.

Jongular We have more oil reserves than what is being told by the Government. The main problem right now is Obama letting the chinese getting their hands on other supplies of oil . Just recently China took major control of the oil sands project in Canada. We are not going to need that pipeline running to Texas as the oil from the sands project will flow to China via BC Canada. Plus all the the BS regulations and stone walling put in by Obama's Administration, is what keeps Gas and Deisel prices high. Not to say there are other reason why gas is high mainly do to greed of the Oil corporations.

I do not agree with Romney in this energy policy as its more a give away to oil again. But I do support him and Ryan. Obama has made a total mess of the Economy and the Federal Government.

People need to read that report on Obama from NewsWeek. Shows just how incompetent weak Obama really is and Just how arrogant most of his staff is.

Just to show that Obama hasn't a clue to running a Government, The Head of the EPA has no Scientific Credentials at all. She is a Career Beaurocrat who has never worked one day of her life in the private sector. She was an aid to some Democrat who got her that job for political payback. It to bad the Media wont report on her background. I quess the media is no longer interested in keeping the whole Government Honest.

I do hope that if the states do get control of all leasing that they will trist the oil industries tail and for them to show appreciation for these leases by immediately lowering the cost of gas and deisel. Its called quid pro quo. If they want it they have to give something in return.

Quite frankly the Wind farm program is costing the tax payer more than the farms can produce. Geothermal plants have shown that they can be more productive without all the subsidies that have been thrown at other power gimics.

You would rather have the Kockheads funding our own local terrorists? I don't want the money in the hands of ANY billionaires who are trying to BUY control of our lives totally, and that is what these billionaires are doing. Do you really want to continue to be a slave to them? Or are you one of the 1%'ers? It is well past time for all of you posters to wake up and realize just how this country is totally in the control of the wealthy. Your vote in November really means nothing under the current system. It is past time for all of you to join the Popular Amendment Movement and help pass the Election/Campaign Finance Reform and Term Limits Constitutional Amendments found at www.faircampaignreform.us. Maybe we can finally change who controls the elections and this country before the 2014/16 election seasons...IF we still have a country to change. The GOP under its current direction is NOT going to improve this country. We are heading too close to becoming an extremist religious nation with legislation that the GOP controlled state legislatures and the current GOP dominated HOUSE has forced or tried to force upon us in the last two years or more.

BTW, I am NOT a Democrat, nor do I support the Democratic party, any more than I would ever support the GOP. (The ONLY Republican that I would have voted for in my lifetime would have been Eisenhower and I was too young to vote for him.) I have been a GDI since 1969, after learning about how politics work in this country in the '68 election. I have also been a NO VOTE voter here in the USVI for the past decade plus. They allow us to cast a ballot that tells all candidates that they are unworthy of our votes.

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What planet did you escape from LEFTISTREPORTING? Domestic production has NOTHING to do with the pump price you pay for gas. Your pump price is based on the world market price of crude. NONE of the tar sand crude was going to be sold in the US. It was all destined for the world market once it was refined (causing even more pollution in the US refinery areas), and China was already going to be buying most of it once it was shipped from the refineries.

Wow.. The Obamabots are out early today aren't they.. Question all you Obama Supporters out there? Just how long do you think this nation can continue importing it's gas and oil for use, from the Middle East, and be subject to their political whims, while exporting our resources for sale to other countries, and remain economically strong? Our Alaska oil is sold to countries like China.. Just three months ago, our gas prices were well over $4.00 per gallon and at $5.00 in some parts of the country.. We have a temporary political reprieve from those oil bearing countries hoping to manipulate the winds of our election. However, make no mistake, those prices will not stay down long and are already beginning to climb in parts of the country..

We have coal, Oil, Solar Winds, gas reserves, all of which aren't being tapped to their fullest potential, leaving this country at the whim of others, and our current administration has the weakest energy independence platform of any President in decades. Burying your heads in the sand, doesn't stop the downhill spiral into the economic abyss, in which we are heading....Wake up and drink some coffee, (oh yeah, the coffee beans are imported too).

We have President Obama who has added more national debt to our nation in one term than any prior one term president (Republican or Democrat). We have President Obama who has submitted a extended budget that will increase our National Debt to over 22+ Trillion by 2021 (this is the legacy you want to leave your children, grandchildren and unborn great-grandchildren? Burdened with paying down a national debt that Obama has created). We have President Obama who has done nothing to equalize the fair trade agreement between the US and other countries. We have President Obama who blames others for a unemployment rate that hasn't been this high and consistent since WWII. We have President who created a "stimulus package" and most of the money went to overseas companies, and burdened the American People with a huge loan package from China to pay for it. WE have a President who has forced a Obama-Care Bill down the throats of Americans, when the majority of the country never wanted it. We have a President who has raided Medicare to the tune of over $700 Billion to fund his Obama-Care Bill, ignoring the fact that Social Security and Medicare are Trust accounts funded by taxpayer payroll taxes for retirement and medical use, not an open piggy bank for Obama to draw from.

We have a President Obama who screams over Romney not releasing more than two years tax returns and all the tax returns as Governor; while Obama has spent millions in attorney fees sealing and hiding away every personal, educational, political and travel record not only for himself, but his mother as well. We have a President Obama who shows open distain for the Constitution and would rather sue states over immigration issues, rather than repealing or amending Constitutional Law. In essence, we have a President Obama who is making up his own laws as he goes along...

We have a President Obama who has shown open alienation and disdain for the the State of Israel, one of our strongest allies in the Middle East. In almost four years, Obama hasn't visited or attempted real political friendship with this country. What Obama has done is show political allegiance to Anti-Israel Countries, such as Palestine, Egypt, etc. We have President Obama who only recently signed a friendship agreement with Israel to undermine Governor Romney's recent visit to the country. That piece of paper won't be worth the ink written on it after the election by Obama.. We have Obama who has done nothing, but, make empty promises to the Hispanic population, attempting to woo their votes once more. Oh yes, his recently went against Constitutional laws attempting to pass an Presidential amnesty bill without Congressional approval. We have a President who went against Constitutional Law by sending a raid on Libya using military forces without Congressional knowledge or approval. We have a President who has repeatedly shown little respect for the military and is currently attempting to hinder military voting in the upcoming election..

I could be here all day writing about Obama's failures during the 1st term.. However, it's time to stop voting for this man by what he says and look at what he has done. We have a blueprint from the last almost four years to show us what the next four years would be like under President Obama..

Unless you want to see this country fall into economic bankruptcy and political decline, it's time to step up to the plate, forget about political affiliation and choose a candidate who has a proved record of politically and economically turning things around.

The Romney/Ryan platform transparently lays out what needs to be fixed, how it will be done and at what cost. The Romney/Ryan platform shows how our national debt can be balanced by 2020 without cutting our military strength anymore,(as indicated under the Obama plan). Do Romney/Ryan have all the answers... No.. However, they are the only ones out there offering any viable solutions to this nations problems.. Obama is only giving us more of what we already have from him and "singing in the wind" to win votes.... That might be the legacy your willing to leave your children and grandchildren.. But, I love my family too much to do that to them... This is the most important vote of your life, because it effects the very continuance of our constitutional rights and our children's future.. Choose wisely...

Choose Romney/Ryan 2012.

The GOP challenger's plan pays little attention to renewable fuels like wind and solar power, long championed by Democrats, including Obama, who has touted green jobs creation as a major part of his own economic and energy plans."

Yeah, that worked out really well, didn't it? Obama has thrown $Billions of taxpayer money away on his 'green energy' companies like SOLYNDRA - which conveniently benefited his big campaign contributors.

While the government should continue to support RESEARCH into alternative energy sources, we need to continue to use our existing fossil fuel energy sources during this transition to alternative energy that is currently going on.

Trying to artificially speed up that transition by forcing consumers to pay higher prices for energy through restrictions/moratoriums on energy development has been a real job killer for us, as well as costing family budgets when they can least afford it.

If geothermal is so cost effective for energy production, then why don't we have plants being built. My uncle did a very interesting study on all forms of energy back in the late 70's/early 80's and what he found at that time was that geothermal was NOT going to be a cost effective mass production method. It is also one reason that heat pumps for residential use (which are a form of geothermal) never really caught on.

Liberals are living in the world of envy and class warfare. Policies that embrace liberals make people poor. During the Obama administration we have more people living under poverty line, more people dependent ofwelfare, average income including poor and meddle has been reduce the last 4 years and continue reducing. While liberals complain about the rich they do the impossible to push the energy price in their stupid war against oil , increasing the cost of almost everything , as a consequence the poor people are the ones that suffer the most. Liberals are not for the poor , liberals are for their stupid envy ideology that go to no where of " you don't own your success" and "the rich get rich oppressing the poor". The difference between Liberals and not, is Liberals with their foreign ideologies , want to rob Paulto give it to John, and we want John be successfullike Paul this is how America became great.

Most of the oil used in the US comes from Canada and Mexico.

As for the costs of oil, it is a world commodity, meaning it will cost end consumers the same amount whether it comes out of the ground in the US, Canada or the Middle East.

The price of oil as of late has been high because of the concern that Israel will attack Iran. Maybe you only read domestic and political news and not world or economic?

Also there are two different types of refineries in the US. If you have two different methods of refining oil into gas it means you have different cost structures. Without getting into details that most likely will confuse you, the refineries on the east and west coast are limited to being able to refine a more pure form of oil, while the refineries in the central US are able to refine both pure and less pure forms. The less pure oil is cheaper than the pure resulting in a price advantage for the refineries in the central US.

Additionally there has not been a new refinery built in the US since the 70s because of all the NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard) out there. This includes REPUBLICAN states. The refineries have had to use technology to squeeze more efficiency out of existing refineries. There has also been a few refineries, mainly along the coasts that have gone bankrupt in the last few years resulting in regional shortages/tight supply lines which drive up costs and result in higher gas prices. Despite all of this the US was still able to export refined oil products to other countries including China.

Unless you are going to call for a ban on exports of refined oil products such as gas and diesel, increased production of oil will have no real impact on the price paid to fill your gas tank.

Romney did not throw windmills, in particular, over the cliff. He just indicated that he opposed subsidizing them, i.e let capitalism take hold. I have never heard of a windmill being shut down because it was broke. As a matter of fact, it is my understanding, that if you put one up the electric company has to buy your output. So with each windmill fossil fuel usage is reduced.

As the demand for windmills increases, like everything else, competition will create cheaper and more productive windmills which will further encourage investment.

What we have to do is to tell those A**holes, like Donald Trump and those idiots in the east, who say windmills , a mile or two out to sea, will obstruct their view, to go F themselves and summarily kill all "environmental " attacks which are truly aimed a delay.

Let windmills enter 21st century capitalism. It is the only way that they will succeed.

You can say the same thing about Ryan. A career politician who hasn't done anything else. And how can a person who has never had to worry about paying his mortgage or worry to have enough money to put food on the table for his kids is gonna tell me he knows what I am going through and he is gonna fix it? IMHO, Romney/Ryan = total disaster for the middle class.

"Oil, gas and coal" Any new ideas?

This is the same old same old...

Hey Eagle, and maybe your a moron! Oh let's save the planet and everyone can be just like you! Your pathetic. I don't want a Hybrid car, TOOL! How's that grab you? and get over the moronic "Kool aide" crap already. Don't you think that's been played out enough?

So your in the medical field and things are being done electronically huh? How's that gonna work out for you when the system crashes. That is one of the reason we still print. It's because there are times, believe or not, when computers go down. Or maybe in your perfect little green world where everyone is thin and drives cars that get 30MPG, it doesn't happen.

I love the comment collapse Nazis. Yep, God forbid you say something about Obama or the democratic policies. Pathetic, really pathetic.

@ NaughtyMossy

I dont know if were awake when you wrote the previous comments but you really need to wake up. Wake up now!

First off, Oil prices is not regulated by the standard supply and demand economic system. So increasing oil drilling domestically or off-shore will do nothing to the price of oil that we pay. An you need to look at the situation a little deeper. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA EXPORTS THE MAJORITY OF THE OIL THAT WE PRODUCE! Why, because the price per gallon in other countries like Europe is double, and in some countries, triple what we pay here. Go to London, England with your car and see your jaw drop in shock. They more oil the produce here, the more gets exported, the more money in the oil companies pockets. Not your pockets.

Second, Coal is the dirtiest form of energy in the world, it basically pure carbon dioxide. Coal-fired electric power generation emits around 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide for every megawatt hour generated, which almost double the carbon dioxide released by a natural gas-fired electric plant per megawatt hour generated. So you want to increase coal production, increasing pollution, increasing the chance of our children developing asthma and other breathing abnormalities. All of this is unnecessary when the US can research and improve green alternative ways to produce power (Wind, solar, and geothermal). and alternative fuel options does produce more jobs. If i build a wind turbine, don't I have to hire engineers to maintain, and fix it??

I could go on and on about your narrow minded thinking but it not my responsibility to hold your hand and guide you out of stupidity. Wake up, do research, rethink, and make a decision about whats best for everyone.

Repubs are subsidising Big oil in the billions . Big oil execs testified in Congress that they did NOT NEED subsidies . So what do repubs do about it? They blocked the bill that would remove the subsidies.

REPEAT REPUBS BLOCKED THE BILL TO REMOVE SUBSIDIES TO BIG OIL WHEN OIL EXECS SAID THEY DO NOT NEED THEM.

Romney hired 17 of 24 of his advisors from the Bush / Cheney regime.....you want more years from that failed team? Bush/Cheney/Romney/Ryan for a worse tomorrow today!

Ronzwolf,

So alternate energy sources should be found? Just like the Stimulus has done. Oh, before you complain remember it was bushwhacker who started the program!

I smell Flip Flop in the air. oh no that's Romney LMAO.

Big oil deliberately does not build new refineries in U.S. so it can keep prices high every time something happens to one, maintenance, breakdowns etc. Simply shutting one down for maintenance cause big oil to raise prices even though the amount of oil does not affect short term anything.

REPUBS BLOCKED BILL TO END OIL SPECULATORS WHICH DRIVE UP THE COST OF OIL AND OUR GAS PRICES. WHY? GREEDY WALLSTREETERS DOING THE SAME AS THEY DID TO THE ECONOMY CRASH. Wallstreeters want your money . All they do is click the mouse and make money from oil speculation. Repubs want to do the same with Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Post Office.

Vote Obama/Biden stop oil speculators from ripping us off!

None of you guys ever answer this basic question! Is Romney going to mandate the USA be well supplied prior to Oil hitting global exchanges? Otherwise its just talk, there is plenty of Oil on the Market now, but futures and hedging keep supply tight at the benefit of Oil Companies and Traders. So magically they are going to glut the Market so we can have cheap gas? Just more red herring garbage for the polarized Sheep! Nothing to see here, move on!

We have a President Obama who screams over Romney not releasing more than two years tax returns and all the tax returns as Governor; while Obama has spent millions in attorney fees sealing and hiding away every personal, educational, political and travel record not only for himself, but his mother as well.

Ronzwyf, this Drudge/Breitbart nonsense was debunked years ago. If you want to be taken seriously, you really shouldn't parrot crap light this. However, since you brought it up, what in the world do you want to know about Obama's mother? Jeez, you people are so pathetic.

As a Liberal I say DRILL BABY DRILL as long as the export tariff is at least equal to 65% the commodity price

Down to basic common sense till something better comes along we need to use what we know works, and what we can afford unfortunately that means for now fossil fuels, green has a high price tag and it does not work, and in its present state never will, China has green and they still have a high demand for oil, Europe has green and face it they are going broke and still need oil, Obama is trying to sell a dead horse and some people want to buy it, it only looks like a horse. this country has been run like a two bit gypsy law firm long enough, our president is a finger pointing paper hanging soa# and we know damn little about this man and his past secret life that he goes to extremes to keep hidden from us, we need a business man and Romney is that and a good one, I don't care about his tax returns if he does well then more power to him the IRS isn't after him so let it be, if he can start us on the course to recover then that is what we need. and Obama and his team have failed grossly at that challenge. besides the ME is about to explode and there is no stopping it we need that oil. Obama will sink us. he does not prepare for the worst, the worst is right around the corner, solar and wind will not support our needs, solar and wind will not keep trucks and trains running, solar and wind will not keep your house warm any more then recycled black water is fit to drink. till the transition is feasible and profitable we have no choice, jumping before we are ready will lead to disaster.

Obamas policy is the socialist method of trying to inflate their way out of debt and that will only lead to the destabilization of the dollar and the collapse of the economy. we are on a very bad course we can't continue to go this way, we will fall off the cliff.

D Buck please answer my question #3.78..

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Romney knows how to get us out of this mess.

Romney cannot lift America out of her economic mess.

Mitt embraces the failed GOP policies that put this country in her financial mess.

I trust him.

You cannot trust a man who will not release his taxes.

Obama on the other hand, knows absolutely nothing.

Obama saved the banking industry and spared this country a total financial collapse. When Romney turned his back on our auto industry, Obama saved the auto industry. Our president is responsible for millions of our citizens now having access to health care.

This ain't a student council election

Agreed.

Electing the president of the United States is serious business. This is why voters should not vote for Romney and Ryan.

We are talking about saving America.

Absolutely.

It is time to throw out the failed right-wing policies!

No More for 44.

Lets vote for Obama so that he will be our 44th and 45th president. He will continue to move America forward.

Vote as if your life depends on it!

Your above statement is why Obama is ahead of Romney in many political polls.

Romney/Ryan, for a failed America

Obama/Biden, for a progressive and fair America.

starsailing

Big oil deliberately does not build new refineries in U.S. so it can keep prices high every time something happens to one, maintenance, breakdowns etc. Simply shutting one down for maintenance cause big oil to raise prices even though the amount of oil does not affect short term anything.

Consumption has jumped 24 % since 1990. There aren't enough domestic refineries to do the job. As a result, the amount of gas that's imported is about 10 % today.
Insufficient inventories of domestically refined gasoline contribute to high prices and spark fears about gas shortages, as they did earlier. Refining makes up roughly 14 % of the cost of a gallon of gasoline, and in recent weeks gas prices reached record highs. Because demand for gasoline is greater than what the refineries can produce in many cases, refineries can charge more for gasoline.

The soaring gas costs are bringing more attention to the limited refining capacity in the United States. The number of domestic refineries is declining. In 1980, there were more than 300 US refineries. At the end of 2003, there were 149, roughly a 50 % decrease. Some are running at close to 100 % of their capacity just to keep pace with demand, so it's tough to further boost production.
The chance of new ones being built is slim. The last major US oil refinery was built in 1976, and stringent pollution controls and the overall public distaste for refineries make it nearly impossible for oil companies to build more, oil experts say.
"No one wants one," said Anthony Sabino, associate business professor at St John's University in New York. "Building a refinery is very expensive. It's a multibillion-dollar proposition."

Even a smaller-scale refinery could cost at least $ 1 bn to build, said James Nelson, a division manager at Marathon Ashland Petroleum's Detroit refinery, the only refinery left in Michigan. And due to changing clean-air rules for refineries, it costs millions to maintain the operations, experts say.
In the last 10 years, US refiners have invested about $ 47 bn in environmental improvements for their facilities, much of that to make cleaner fuels. Recently, refiners have invested millions to make cleaner, low-sulphur fuels for the environment.

But even before the idea of building a new refinery leaves the gate, it's faced with opposition from consumers and environmentalists. They're considered eyesores, so no one wants one in the neighbourhood.It's difficult for oil companies to get the environmental permits to build. Smaller refineries have a tough time thriving because they just don't produce enough fuel to offset their operating costs, and experts say that's why so many refineries have shut down over the years

Vote Obama/Biden stop oil speculators from ripping us off

Obama in 4 years have done nothing to stop speculators and he WON'T , because government make more money when the price of gas is higher. Oil companies makes 8 cents per gallon in profit, Government rake up to 48 cents a gallon. Get your facts straight.

Geothermal energy works well in individual homes with some access to groundwater. It cost $20,000 to $30,000 to retrofit a home with it. The people I know who have invested in it, say it has greatly reduced their home heating bill here in PA. Geothermal needs to be installed properly or it could hurt the groudwater we use to drink.

In PA, we have mostly rural areas without gaslines to make use of all that gas the gas companies are fracking their way to. A local Republican County commissioner suggested passing a severance tax on this natural gas extraction like Texas has and using some of the proceeds to extend gas pipelines to small towns and villages throughout PA. I think that would be a good idea, but our Republican Governor opposes any severance tax on natural gas. Corbett gets lots of campaign dough from gas companies though.

@Starfalling ops I mean sailing, Obama wants the price of oil high, its his best source of revenue, did you know about 48% of the price you pay at the pump goes to the government, so the higher the price at the pump the more money Obama gets to give away, now did Obama forget to inform you of that, I got this information right here on MSN where did your info come from. and that does not include the tax at the pump. its true the oil companies pay between 43% to 48% to good old uncle Sam. Obama has done nothing to regulate the price of oil and he has let it run out of control, just like he does with everything. what ever it is you put in your pipe today is causing more drifting then sailing.

Oskar, DBuck.

The Federal gasoline tax is 18.4 cents per gallon. When price of gas goes up and people buy less gasoline, federal gasoline tax revenues actually go down. Check your facts before making such wild accusations.

If you include state taxes and local taxes with the federal gasoline tax, the average tax nationwide is 48.8 cents per gallon, not 48%.

Whatever taxes the oil companies pay on their profits, it is paid on only what is left of their total revenues in the USA after deducting all their USA costs and USA overhead. They also get big tax breaks, so I am sure you are way off base in your gasoline tax analysis.

When is Obama going to release his energy plan?

about 3 years ago. where were you

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if we BUY oil from other countries, how is this cheaper than just getting our own?

NO-bama fans, due feel free to enlighten us all on that economical rational?

meantime, off to bike to work, because its cheaper than driving, taking a cab or bus.

BTW.. not to mention, my bike ($88 walmart special) paid for its self in under a month of what it cost me in gas for the month to go to work and back.

oh so funny! well i can see a lot of nerves went binding looking for an answer, and still none.

as far as some person, (lol) thinking they were smart, here is the difference of rationale. i'll wake up when this guy goes back to middle school to learn basic economics, but to start, i made no refrence to coal at all, but on oil.

as far as my money going to China for my bike... good! show me a bike made in the USA for the same price, and as good ill buy it, GOOD F'ING LUCK! and you can thank your entitlements for this. at the same time, it falls into the same principal when selling anything from oil-bikes-autos-food.

no wonder the clown was elected..... jus to gol'dang funny...

honestly... before being allowed to vote, there should be a competency test given.

Steve-446003

When is Obama going to release his energy plan?

Steve,

To make us less dependent on oil, to allow us better control of our energy costs, to reduce our carbon footprint - and to save the planet, Obama wants to invest in green energy.

We all know the GOP's energy plan, "drill baby drill!"

Steve. Duh.

We're exporting more than ever before. When is oil that is drilled here going to stay here? Ask big oil, why doncha.

Why not wait drilling into our supply until all the other countries run dry? In the means time let's develop energy from mother nature. There is a lot of power available for a very low cost.

Oil companies have the Republican party in their pocket. It is the reason Romney should lose the election.

wow did u check your facts bush bailed out wall street LOL cant even go in a tantrum right

1Foolish-Idea;

The first "promise" of Mitt (dog-on-the-car-roof) Romney

Better to have a dog on the roof than a dog on the dinner table.

Better to have a dog on the roof than a dog on the dinner table.

Some sniors ALREADY have to decide if they can afford to buy medicines or food. Some buy cat and dog food, instead of real food.

Oh! but you are SOOOO CONCERNED with the unborn and the dog that President Obama ate when he was a child. You show with your ignorance that you have never been hungry.

I would see how much you "care' about a dog if you were starving, and you did not have anything else to eat.

respond - so what's the problem with Mitt packing his lunch?

I can't believe that no one has said it "Drill Baby Drill"

We will all be saved by the green energy initiatives of the Obama administration, whether we like it or not. So when can we expect a green energy solution to replace gasoline? Or heating oil? Or should I be asking what decade, or which century? 4.00 a gallon gasoline and the prospect of paying 800.00 to a 1000.00 to heat homes this winter should do wonders for the Obama campaign this fall. So what if none of the Obama green energy initiatives have panned out, he is not giving up even if no one can afford to drive or heat their homes for decades to come. Which by the way, will be yet another dent in federal revenue as the taxes on petroleum plunge. Should do wonders for the economy.

Rick, That's easy!

Take the initiative and get your house some solar panels then you can afford the gas that the Kock Bros want to sell you or the coal for cars, or natural gas that they're drilling for, of course that's if all this fracking doesn't break the crust of the earth like in the movie 2012.

Yes, the specter of "Drill, Baby, Drill" rises it's ugly head again. Perhaps Romney should buy a pair of little red pumps for his next campaign speech?

What America needs is more windmills..., and more solar panels..., and more magical flooby dust. Oh wait..., that is the Obama energy policy...

• America needs more windmills with blowhards like Romney and Ryan standing in front of them blowin' away.

• Romney's energy policy is to make Sarah "Drill Baby! Drill!" Palin his Secretary of Energy!

• Ryan's contribution is to capture all the Natural Gas from the Old Farts in the GOP and sell it to Canada.

Oil prices plummeted at the end of Bushs term because we were losing 760,000 jobs a month and people were buying far less gas. It will increase in price as the economy recovers and we drive more. China is the biggest driver in oil prices because they're increasing their consumption several million barrels a day every year. Oil is a global commodity and whether it's produced here or elsewhere if production doesn't keep up with demand prices will increase. We should increase domestic production to lower our trade deficit but it won't make much of a difference in price. Obamas policies haven't been overly restrictive, republicans tried to force the pipeline issue with a 60 day deadline when environmental issues hadn't been resolved and states were protesting the route. It was nothing but a political ploy by republicans. Most democrats would approve the pipeline if/when routes were approved by the states affected and environmental impact studies were done. It couldn't be done in 60 days.

Phil

Tell that to the people in Corpus Christi who are getting leukemia from the benzene released into the water and the environment by the Citgo refinery. Some of you seem to think that letting the state of Texas, who is run by oil millionaires, be responsible for the regulation of the oil industry is a good thing. When the children, who live in these areas where the refineries become sick and some die from the carcinogens that the refineries put into the water and air and soil, due to lax regulation by oil owned state officials, will it bother you much? Is profit and greed all there is in life that has value?

Will the price of gas come down or are these new plans for the oil industry just designed to save them money and for them to make more profit because they could get away with doing it at the expense of our nation environment and health?

Well-said, Jennifer. Look how gas companies are making record profits. They need no help from the government, but they certainly do need to be regulated. We recently felt earthquakes here in north Texas from ones happening in the OKC area--from natural gas fracking operations. Fuel is necessary, yet we must protect our environment and quality of life!

Repubs block bill to remove subsidies for big oil when big oil execs said on testimony before Congress they did not need subsidies? Blocked the bill again, then repubs whine about dficits afetr they piss away money to big oil rich greedy friends of theirs!

Vote Obama/Biden and Team Democratic party, end the uneeded subsidies for the rich!

Since we are not driving our cars on green energy or heating our homes with such, then any reduction for industry support from the government will just drive up prices for gas and heating oil even further. I know this is a difficult concept for liberals, but if you make it cost the industry more, they will pass that cost onto consumers. So 4.00 gas becomes 4.50, and 3.50 for heating oil becomes 4.00. But at least we won't be subsidizing those evil oil companies, which by the way will still be making exactly the same profits as you pay even more. Maybe there are some more green energy initiatives we can rush to fund so they don't go out of business broke. Liberals have no energy plan, and no clue what this is going to do to the masses. Not to mention it is going to be the poor and the middle class that gets hammered by these skyrocketing prices.

Well, Rick, then how about a push for green energy, in the form of continued subsidies? Take it from the oil companies, and sure they'll chase their bottom line by increasing prices for the consumer - but at the same time the consumer will get breaks elsewhere on non-auto energy use. There will be an overlap. No one living in a crappy 1920s home in low income areas will make the conversion to solar, for example. Those people will, and probably already get, a break (subsidized payment) for utilities. Some things aren't going to change for a looong time. But newer and new construction, or homes in gentrified high rent areas - gotta start somewhere - go green/solar. Rebuild the interurban transportation that oil companies colluded to get rid of a hundred years ago.

Sitting around and doing nothing but maintain the status quo, letting the environment go to hell, is not a viable option.

Hey Starsailing - Nice profile pic! I'm sure your boyfriend took that on your last date..or was it at a "Glamour Shots" in the mall? Anyway, I'm sure you don't drive a car or use anything today created by oil right? All your clothes are made of hemp?

The problem with being a dem is you can't spew all your touchy-feely garbage about saving the environment without being a total hypocrite. You probably drive a car and use GASOLINE right? Then take your weak-a$$ argument and go pound sand. At least there's a candidate out there that has put a PLAN forward.

Can't wait for the debates - Romney/Ryan - The deodorant for America's BO problem

Tebow...you checking out the photos of guys huh....?...well that speaks pretty much your thoughts. Did I say that is my photo...little whiner........like Tebow guess you are down on your knees....uh...praying huh?

Typical rt winger name calling rant because you have no knowledge to express on the blogs.

Vote Obama/Biden and Team Democratic party 2012

LOL! Good one, Tebow! Almost spit out my water!

There is no such thing as green energy!

Copper is mined, is is probably close to a 1000 to 1 ratio, probably higher rock to copper. The same is true with most metals, so some place there is going to be pollution in the world.

True, but the Federal government can still make them protect the environment while they are mining and drilling.

well it seems that most people on this site does not agree.

"No need to use them up, just exploit them for the transition period so we can keep the economy from imploding." Phil, you sound just like a Commie, socialist,,,,,,,,,LOL.

If you took away petroleum today, the entire world economy would collapse. So if we had a viable alternative to petroleum, do you really expect to see it take over the market any time soon? The energy producers of the world have more then enough clout and resources to keep anything competitive off the market. So until we actually near the point of drying up the worlds reserves, do you really believe petroleum producers are just going to sit idly by and watch their industry be shelved?

Rick, you seriously sound like an insider who has sympathy for the "green" ideas, but have resigned yourself to a perceived inevitable fate. If we can get a government sympathetic to "green", then the oil companies will have less clout. They'll still throw their money around, but the public has to be made aware of what's at stake - not only the environment, but future energy sources that are sustainable.

Maybe it will take 4 years of a Romney admin to wake people up to just how much, at all levels of society's issues, the current crop of Repubs will lower their standard of living and quality of life. But it may be too late.

Phil, so socialists control the economy? By extension, that means we have a socialist economy. Nice try, except that capitalism is still very much in effect and every industry that has been mentioned on this board is proof of that. So where's the socialism?

List Of Failed Green Energy Jobs & Companies – By Obama

Update: 7/19/12: The Amonix Solar: FAIL – manufacturing plant in North Las Vegas, subsidized by more than $20 million in federal tax credits and grants given by Obama Administration, has closed its 214,000 square foot facility a year after it opened.

• Solar Trust of America: FAIL - Filed Bankruptcy in Oakland, CA, April 3, 2012 – On April 2, 2012
• Bright Source: FAIL - Bright Source warned Obama’s Energy Department officials in March 2011 that delays in approving a $1.6 billion U.S. loan guarantee would embarrass the White House and force the solar-energy company to close. Lost Billions of dollars but Getting More Money To Keep Trying. Can you say, “This isnt working?”
  
• Solyndra: FAIL - Obama gave Solyndra $500,000,000 in taxpayer money and Solyndra shut its doors and laid off 1100 workers in August 2011 After Billions in Losses due to failure to make a solar product that works!
  
• LSP Energy: FAIL - LSPEnergy LP filed bankruptcy protection and a sale of its assets in Feb 2012
• Energy Conversion Devices: FAIL – On February 14, 2012 Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. and its subsidiaries filed for bankruptcy
• Abound Solar: FAIL - Abound Solar received a $400 million loan guarantee from Barack Obama announced in June, 2012 that it would file for bankruptcy
• SunPower: FAIL – SunPower stopped producing solar cells last year at near bankruptcy restructured only with help of, get this, oil giant TOTAL who owns 60% stake. Irony! Still struggling…
  
• Beacon Power: FAIL – Beacon Power Corp filed for bankruptcy Oct 2011 just a year after Obama approved $43 million loan Government loan guarantee
  
• Ecotality: FAIL - ECOtality, a San Francisco green-tech company that never earned any money on the verge of bankruptcy after receiving roughly $115 million in two loan guarantees from Obama
• A123 Solar: FAIL-A123 received $279 million from taxpayers thanks to President Obama’s Department of Energy loan guarantees and after Solyndra bankruptcy is getting another $500M from Obama and it has lost $400M
  
• UniSolar: FAIL - Uni-Solar filed for Ch 11 bankruptcy in June 20 this year laid off hundreds got more Obama money still failing but still in business
• Azure Dynamics: FAIL - Azure Dynamics files for bankruptcy in June ter millions in Obama “Stimulus”
  
• Evergreen Solar: FAIL - Evergreen Solar received $527 Million in Taxpayer money from Obama filed bankruptcy
  
• Ener1: FAIL received more than $100 million in government funding from the Obama administration filed for bankruptcy January 2012

Obama's green energy policy has been all for show, and to hand out the dough. Just a few short years ago all the talk in Washington was about hydrogen fuel cells, and now nothing about that technology. With Obama it has been solar and wind. The truth is very simple, Washington does not care. They do their best to give lip service for the environmental enthusiasts, and they pretend to care by tossing some money around, but the world can't seem to find a new way to drive cars, create electricity, or heat our homes.

There are any number of reasons oil is here to stay, and not the least of which is that the global economy depends on it. For some countries petroleum is their industry, and with the trading in commodities there needs to be a slow gradual weening off petroleum. But there is also the hole in the federal budget that will be created when petroleum goes bye bye. So the desire to actually make it happen does not exist in Washington except around election time.

There is simply too much money in the world of petroleum, and here in the US the federal government makes more off taxes then the oil companies make in profits. So who is kidding who, as if anyone in Washington really wants that gravy train to end. You have to realize how desperate Washington is to find new taxable revenue, especially when tanning beds are being taxed to pay for ObamaCare. So for a comparable argument, at least the oil industry generates far more in tax dollars then they receive in subsidies, unlike the green energy initiatives which generate no recurring tax revenue but receive plenty of subsidies.

Rick and smarterthanu, while I might be inclined to agree that the polices have failed when it comes to solar and green energy, I do not agree we should give it up. I think it is better to look at why they failed. China invested 100's of millions and probably billions of dollars into solar, wind and research and manufacturing dwarfing our investment. I do not think there was enough money put into the right places, meaning that many if not most of the people or investment firms that took the money did not give enough to the right people to develop it.

Look, there are many of us scientists and engineers that would love to have money invested into our research, development and manufacturing, BUT it is hard to get and it is usually only given to people who know someone in the grant office. Many times, an investment firm will get control of the money and pay themselves ungodly amounts of money to manage it, far more than they deserve. Investors expect to much in return to quickly and then take over and ruin the company by sucking away money.

It is not going to be the big players who come up with new and better technology for green energy, it will be the person working in their humble garage late evenings after their regular job. Then, when it is discovered, he/she will be threatened by the big guys in more than one way and sometimes subtle ways. Eventually, one of us scientists will come up with and be able to produce energy sources like fusion and matter/antimatter type reactors small enough to plug into your car, truck, house, etc and provide power onsite extremely cheap.

Even though it would collapse the oil market and NG market overnight, the prices of oil and gas would plummet and the consumer would be happy as could be. We would finally have the hope of being free from the FEAR of not having enough energy. The economy would not collapse on main street, just wall street. People would then have tons of extra money to do other things and the few who are in control of the current energy sources would have to reduce their paychecks. Things would finally be put into a better balance again.

In this event, everything would decrease in price because the cost of energy would no longer be a burden on all of us.

There are a lot of positives in the end with creating new and better energy sources and just because it has not been developed yet (maybe soon), do NOT think that it cannot be developed, because it can and it will be.

woodrat......funniest thing all night....sad and true...but if there is a buck to make from it, repubs will pass a law to get er done....gufaw!

Obama/Biden 2012

Wasn't that in Obamacare to help hold down costs?

Phil is so ignorant it's almost funny, except that it's so sad.

Clean oil is an oxymoron. "RENEWABLE ENERGY" isnt scientifically possible. Efficient wind energy and solar panels with a market presence and demand... i guess the only word to describe that is joke... If the market wanted it and would support it then it would be. Period. I said it earlier but if just the liberals who preach it would stop using oil we would solve everyones problems. No dependence. No more hurricanes from global warming even muah haha. Dont just post comments about how the world will end. Oil is unnecessary right? There are other options... Use them. Let me have my cheap oil and make fun of me then for using dated and uneccesary technology. You guys are like heroine addicts calling out cocaine addicts for being druggies.

Liberals rushed to buy up the new green energy Chevy Volt in such droves that they had to stop production to try and end the over supply. Which was only a few thousand vehicles. Liberals show up to every argument or demonstration in their SUV's and waving signs made from destroying the forest. Obama, the Democratic Party, and their liberal supporters are all about do as I say not as I do. Even Senator John Kerry fought the wind project off of Martha's Vineyard, because it ruined his view. The totally pompous not in my backyard crowd. Liberals have no viable solutions, but that won't stop them from forcing everyone else to suffer.

Rick, you hit the perverbial "nail on the head"! I'm surprized that your comment wasn't collapsed by the biased "comment police KGB'!

All about getting resources off gov land and into the back pockets of the greedy rich!

17 of 24 of Romney advisers from Bush Cheney regime,,,anybody expect any other plan than the same failed plan for Romney as they had for Bush/Cheney?

Just a deflection from the republicon WAR ON WOMEN, tax dodger refusing to show his taxes, Killing Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Post Office for his privatizing rich greedy friends.

Just a deflection for cutting food stamps to starving children and families and cutting Vet's benefits just to give more taxes to the Romney rich.

Just a deflection for repubs creating voter suppression laws all over the nation where in Pennsylvania said "voter id bill done, Now Romney can win the election." Removing voters from voting to keep only repubs voting in elections, that's right, rigging the elections so millions can't vote.

Romney/Ryan for a worse tomorrow today!

no no voter suppression lol

Talontbo-

Here in my midwestern State, there is hardly any energy underground to be leased, but under a State controlled plan, what there is would be leased to friends of the Governor- with NO consderation of costs to the consumer and with NO regulation on safety of workers or consumers.

I guess the people of my State can just re-enact "The Grapes of Wrath"- me and granny will have to live out of my tiny car, like an Okie family in the dustbowl exodus....

Sounds like an ideal Romney world, doesn't it?

Actual, with the Republican plan to "drill, baby, drill", the world price of oil will decrease slightly until demand catches up. So there would be a short term boost for Americans.

As demand in the developed countries remains relatively stable, the increase in demand will come from developing countries such as China and India.

Thus, most of the US energy reserves will go to feed the developing countries, which in turn will recoup their costs through export of products back to the developed world.

In short, think of it as trading our long term national resources for a short term buff to help the non-developed world create more jobs exporting products.

It's more a boon to developing China and India's economy then it is to the US economy. The oil companies will still see the profits, and the Chinese and Indian people will see the jobs.

At least we know where Romney's "blind trust" portfolio is invested.....developing world corporate stock.

You know a fascist is the far right right? Just saying..Also, what if Obama were to win, what would you do then?

I sure hope he wins again. I do not want to live in a country ran by republicans who are sexist and racist as hell.

And to answer your question, Shrivel up and die. Because he "couldn't believe we did it again"!

anyone who believes anything on this site is stupid

Yeah, Phil it's the liberals that have been ruining American education with unionized schools. It wouldn't have anything to do with education funding being cut, and at the college-level the cost of college and the lenders that think credit card-like interest rates are fair, especially to person with minimal or no income. I can see why more and more people I know are avoiding college to go straight into the workforce debt-free. Also, instead of increasing education funding, it had been cut and depending on the outcome in November, could be cut more to increase the military budget. But yeah, it's the unions killing the American Education System.

Amen. If China wants to continue with the nasty oil spills and the pollution from petroleum products let them go right ahead. The oil industry does not like wind and solar energy production because it threatens to de-monopolize and de-centralize energy production and distribution. Oil might not be king any more. They don't like that idea. they need time to buy up all of the patents before they will like such things. It's interesting that Shell advertises their sugar ethanol production in Brazil, but they don't say a thing about ours. That is because they don't own it!!!!!! Cellulose ethanol research is going on to make ethanol from grasses, etc that don't need much attention to grow and can grow in places where no agriculture is possible now. This is pollution free, domestic fuel. Why in HEAVEN's NAME are we not pushing it forward????

I like the BS alert, sheds new light pointing out the port part, Along the same lines, someone once pointed out to me that it makes sense in a way for us to be paying big dollars for imported oil rather than using our own-- assuming we aren't using alternative sources. Let others sell theirs, we still have ours in reserve in case it is REALLy needed at home, and we aren't screwing up our environment in the mean time.

While you guys are patting yourselves on the back I have a couple of questions for you to ponder.

Where do you think all of the material for these solar panels and wind farms come from?

Do you know the difference between proven reserves and un proven reserves?

How is trading one dependence for another a win?

What are you willing to give up to live in the world that you are dreaming of?

Kannin...How about the mess Herbert Walker Bush made out of the Alaska Valdez mess??? Good ole Republican oil man! Remember him? The president that lied to the people and only served 1 term!

Kannin,

Having every skimmer in the world rush across oceans and seas, hell and high water would not had made a difference. Why? aside from manyof them likely sinking in the high seas (small boats, low waterline), the technology is like 30+ years old, and we have most if not all the skimmers. Big oil has not invested in prevention, prevention cuts into profits. FACT

Free your mind

Not true Leo. Three days after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch government offered to help. They have both experience and plans for combating such accidents. It was willing to provide ships outfitted with oil-skimming booms, and it proposed a plan for building sand barriers to protect sensitive marshlands...

“the embassy got a nice letter from the administration that said, ‘thanks, but no thanks,’” said Geert Visser, consul general for the Netherlands in Houston...

I wonder if Obama wanted an environmental disaster to justify more draconian powers for the EPA ...

Noah, you are talking about the state's that are now cutting to the bone their budget's? "If the States had more control don't you think they would do a much better job of inspections etc. considering it would be in their own backyard and they would have to answer to the People of the State?" Come on, what is this but another flip flop?

Noah, "How quickly people forget the Gulf Oil spill which occurred because the federal government was rubber stamping inspections because they are stretched to thin." Could you give us on thread of info on site that backs your opinion up? http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-09-14/bp-oil-spill/50408458/1,http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0908/BP-report-on-cause-of-Gulf-oil-spill-spreads-the-blame, the list is almost endless, yet you wing-nuts come up with trash talk like this,"States move alot faster than the Fed and they have a much better understanding of their territory than some Bureaucrat in Washington who has probably never been to those States." Who are you anyway? Why do you make this sh*t up? Don't you believe in popular opinion and worldwide news?

Noah, ever watch Smokey and the Bandit? That may be your local government at work,LOL.

Worse oil spill caused by not enough regulation/inspections etc. Blame Bush and the way Big oil comes from multinational firms to break the existing laws. Guess some peole(REPUBS) forgot how BP broke the laws and ignored warnings etc causing oil spil.....DUHHHH!......Can't blame Obama.

States that are repub controlled would not give a damn about regulations. States broke as well, regulation has to come from feds to keep protection for all. Close the tax looholes on the greedy rich like Romney and Ryan and make them pay their fair share of taxes. Like Obama did with Swiss banks accounts. IRS struck deal with Swiss banksin 2009 to catch the tax dodgers like Romney, now those rich are pissed and spending hundreds of Millions to remove President Obama.

Kannin, yoe are wrong according to these news story's,,,,,,,,http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/25/nation/la-na-jones-actqa-20100625, and from wikipedia "The Netherlands also offered to prepare a contingency plan to protect Louisiana marshlands with sand barriers and a Dutch research institute developed a strategy to begin building 60 mile-long (100 km) dikes within three weeks. According to Geert Visser, Dutch Consul-General, the U.S. government responded to the Dutch offer with "Thanks for your help, but at the moment we can manage ourselves", despite BP's desire to bring in the Dutch equipment.^[15][16] US regulations require that oil-contaminated water must be stored on board in US waters. The Dutch vessels continuously extract the majority of the oil, but the water that returns to the ocean does not comply with the U.S. standard."

Get it Kannin, your conservative news site forgot to tell you the Dutch skimmers do a terrible job, (that figures, but not to a political hack) and the water they skim is returned to the ocean dirty, with level of oil above OUR standards, not the Dutch's. So you want us to lower ourselves to another country's standard? You are one dumb Tea tard.

Did your right wing news site tell you this,"

"In some cases, the administration rejected offers because they failed to meet
U.S. specifications: The private consortium that serves as Norway's
spill-response team uses a chemical dispersant that the Environmental Protection
Agency has not approved." or this "

Garret Graves, who chairs Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration
Authority, wrote in an e-mail that state officials "have made it clear to our
contractors from the beginning that we want to use American dredges to complete
this sand berm as quickly as possible . . . Ultimately, any effort to expedite
these berms will be fully considered, but we remain committed to our American
companies." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/13/AR2010061304232_2.html?sid=ST2010061305087, and this one with a great footnote about Bush and his Katrina,,,

"The State Department sent letters to some U.S. allies two weeks after the
accident, and the Coast Guard initially sought to assess what supplies might be
available overseas, but the administration's public posture on aid has been
inconsistent. On May 5, Crowley announced that 13 international offers had been
received and that decisions on what to accept would be made "in the next day or
two." Two weeks later, the State Department said the government saw no reason to
accept any of the offers.

Crowley said the Obama administration is well aware of what happened after
Hurricane Katrina, when the U.S. government failed to capitalize on an
unprecedented amount of foreign aid offers. Allies offered $854 million in cash
and in oil meant to be sold for cash. In the end, only $126 million in cash from
40 donors was received."

and last but not least we have this, you vile hypocrite of a political hack,,,,,,,http://www.factcheck.org/2010/06/oil-spill-foreign-help-and-the-jones-act/

"

Q: Did Obama turn down foreign offers of assistance in cleaning up the Gulf oil spill? Did he refuse to waive Jones Act restrictions on foreign-flag vessels?

A: No to both questions. So far, offers from six foreign countries or entities have been accepted and only one offer has been rejected. Fifteen foreign-flag vessels are working on the cleanup, and none required a waiver.

Nice try creep, but even in the late of night your b.s. goes no where.........ha, ha, ha ,ha ,ha,

"Also, contrary to reports such as the one on "Fox & Friends," international assistance has been accepted. To date, 25 countries and four international organizations have offered support in the form of skimming vessels, containment and fire boom, technical assistance and response solutions, among others. A chart provided by the State Department shows that as of June 23 offers from six foreign countries or entities had been accepted. Fifty more offers were under consideration — including multiple offers from a single country or entity." http://www.factcheck.org/2010/06/oil-spill-foreign-help-and-the-jones-act/

Fox News blows big time,,,,,, and you know it.

Here you militant right wing punks, read the truth,,,,,,,,,,"

Each offer must be compliant not only with the needs outlined by the Unified Command, but also with U.S. safety regulations. The Unified Command provided us with this statement and information:

Unified Command, June 22: Those offers of international assistance that were not accepted, while greatly appreciated, did not meet the operational requirements of the Unified Command. These offers have not been declined because they may be needed in the future as response strategies change. Some challenges in accepting these offers included:

• Equipment failed to meet US requirements/specifications (i.e. dispersant not on approved list/containment boom made of non-approved material)
• Contingencies placed on the offers proved logistically impracticable when compared to other sources.
• In one instance, the offering country’s export laws prohibited delivery of the assistance
• Contingencies placed on the offers made it difficult for the Unified Command to meet the contingency

Also, all offers, except for a few, come with a serious price tag. The Associated Press compared these offers with recent aid that the U.S. gave to some of these countries. The AP reported:

Associated Press, June 18: U.S. disaster aid is almost always free of charge; other nations expect the U.S. to pay for help.

"These offers are not typically offers of aid," said Lt. Erik Halvorson, a Coast Guard spokesman. "Normally, they are offers to sell resources to BP or the U.S. government."

Reports claiming that the federal government has refused help are not only incorrect — foreign assistance has been utilized — but are also misleading: purchasing resources and expertise is vastly different from accepting "foreign aid.",,,,,,,,,,,again from http://www.factcheck.org/2010/06/oil-spill-foreign-help-and-the-jones-act/

Bob...great factual posts as always....rt wingers get their news from Fox news. You know when you do search on Fox News Dumber you see studies that prove people who watch Fox news are dumber for watching their news!

As long as my hands hold up, arthritis, I'll stop the "dummy you down to my level" wing-nut motto..Thanks.

Kannin...Romney did nothing of the sort, he bought businesses and sold them off while putting workers , OUT OF WORK, so he could get richer. He is a skunk, wearing a rabbit skin. His energy policy is nothing but a repeat of our energy policy for the past 12 years.