I can imaging that the whole "drill-drill-drill off shore, gently pump the crude" (sung to Row-Row-Row-Your-Boat) must be driving you absolutely buggy right now.
I don't claim to be at all overly familiar with the causes of the fuel spike, but even I know (commonsense-wise) that there are a whole lot of factors involved in spike in fuel prices, more than half of which are completely out of our control.
I mean, do you plan to tell China and India to stop using "our" oil? Or oil speculators from making good on their investments? Because that's the market at work, folks. (I know there's a lot more involved and that it's a complicated interlocking of events that is responsible, but if anyone actually thinks that a congressional "energy bill" is actually responsible for everything hasn't been paying all that much attention.)
Either way, I at least know that drilling ain't gonna do shit. And it sure as hell is not going to bring gasoline back down to $2 a gallon. Not in the short term, not in the long term.
I, uhm, have been hating people, too, today.
In any case, there's just no way anyone can be an expert at everything. However, I find that a little judicious use of common sense generally helps sift through more than half the crap.
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I can imaging that the whole "drill-drill-drill off shore, gently pump the crude" (sung to Row-Row-Row-Your-Boat) must be driving you absolutely buggy right now.
I don't claim to be at all overly familiar with the causes of the fuel spike, but even I know (commonsense-wise) that there are a whole lot of factors involved in spike in fuel prices, more than half of which are completely out of our control.
I mean, do you plan to tell China and India to stop using "our" oil? Or oil speculators from making good on their investments? Because that's the market at work, folks. (I know there's a lot more involved and that it's a complicated interlocking of events that is responsible, but if anyone actually thinks that a congressional "energy bill" is actually responsible for everything hasn't been paying all that much attention.)
Either way, I at least know that drilling ain't gonna do shit. And it sure as hell is not going to bring gasoline back down to $2 a gallon. Not in the short term, not in the long term.
I, uhm, have been hating people, too, today.
In any case, there's just no way anyone can be an expert at everything. However, I find that a little judicious use of common sense generally helps sift through more than half the crap.