Jimbo

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    • Sun Aug 3rd 12:02 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Retirements on Hold
      User 26737 blames "King George III" for the fiscal situation. I submit that the Congress, Republican and Democrat, are responsible for this fiasco. No doubt user 26737 eagerly anticipates the coronation of OBAMA. I can hardly wait for OBAMA, Pelosi, and Reid to take over Washington. I predict people will be saying: "gee, I miss Jimmy Carter"!
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    • Fri Jul 25th 17:25 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The T. Boone Pickens Approach
      I have to endorse the opinion of user 141176 enthusiastically. My wife and I have been composting our household garbage for more than 30 years. We have a solar water heater on our roof that has been saving at least $50 a month for the last six years. I rode a bicycle to and from work 3 to 5 days a week for the last 19 years I was employed. But I am an agnostic about this man made global warming hypothesis.Conservatio... has its own virtues and rewards.But I am deeply suspicious of Utopians who seem eager to seize control of society "for our own good". I seem to recall that happening in Russia in 1917. By the way, did Al Gore ever ride a bike to work when he was a U.S. Senator? I didn't expect him to use a bike as Vice President but he has always seemed to me to act more like a Crown Prince than an ordinary human.
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    • Tue Jul 22nd 21:37 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Three Stocks To Be Held To Infinity and Beyond
      The author and other commenters have seemed to fail to account for the steady, insidious advance of inflation. I have been pleased to invest in drip accounts with utilities and industrials like Harris, Questar, Chevron(Texaco), etc. But those nice numbers at the end of the time period must also account for the erosion of inflation.
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    • Sat Jul 12th 12:38 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Long Case for Canadian Oil Sands Trust
      There is no doubt that environmental consequences have to be addressed. Don't count on "government" to deal with these issues any better than the evil businessman. The government run TVA was supposed to provide cheap hydropower electricity to the upper South. When the rivers experienced drought, TVA required coal miners to provide fuel at very low cost. The result was stripping away whole mountain tops in Kentucky and West Virginia. Streams were destroyed by sulfuric acid and earthen dams broke and destroyed small towns.I began investing in COS about 1980. It has proved to be the best investment I ever made. And yes, we must do everything we can to ameliorate oil sands mining. I rode a bicycle to and from work 3 to 5 days a week for the last 19 years of my working life. We have composted our household garbage for more than 30 years. We have a solar water heater that is saving us about $50 a month. I cite these facts to demonstrate that I am not an antediluvian neanderthal hell bent on despoiling the world. Senator Obama does not want us to use oil derived from sands nor does he want us to use liquid fuel from coal. I guess he plans to run the economy of liquid moonlight and pixie dust. Four years of Obama, Reid and Pelosi will make people say: "Gee, I miss Jimmy Carter!!"
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    • Fri Jul 11th 10:54 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Oil Price: $100 Before $150 - But $200 Before $50
      My suspicion is that the "greenies" really want to obstruct the production of coal, nuclear, and petrol to force the economy back to the 18th. century. Movement of goods and people will be dependent on sail, horses and mules, foot, and, yes, a concession to the modern world: bicycles. For the record, I have composted household garbage for at least the last thirty years, rode a bicycle to and from work 3 to 5 days a week for the last 19 years of my work career. We also have a solar water heater in our home which is saving us $50.00 a month. But the greenies are part of the utopian movement which seeks to control all human activity in a totalitarian world.
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    • Tue Jul 8th 11:53 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Government's Inflation Statistics Not Fooling Everyone
      I EXITED TIPS AND PUT THE MONEY IN USAA PRECIOUS METALS FUND ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO. I HAVE HAD CORRESPONDENCE WITH KIPLINGER MAGAZINE OVER THE GOVERNMENT'S APPARENT MANIPULATION OF INFLATION STATISTICS. THE FOLKS AT KIPLINGER'S CONTINUE TO ECHO THE GOVERNMENT PARTY LINE
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    • Mon Jun 30th 11:31 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Is General Motors Closer to a Default?
      I owned GM cars in the past. When I wrote the president of a GM division about an annoying defect that the service department said it could not correct, I never received a reply. Whenever I write the president of Subaru America, I don't get a reply from him but a subordinate does send an intelligent, pertinent reply.I am now driving my third Subaru. I wonder if there is a message somewhere for GM?
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    • Mon Jun 30th 11:18 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Oil: If It Looks Like a Bubble...
      I have to agree with and support jerbear. The "bubble" in real estate and the "bubble" in oil are two entirely different creatures. Relatively speaking, the demand for housing is much more elastic than the demand for petroleum. Petroleum is getting evermore costly and difficult to find and produce. When Congress authorized drilling the ANWAR in 1996, Bill Clinton vetoed it saying, in effect, that it would be TEN years before we saw the oil. Well, it is now TWELVE years later and we are paying more than $4.00 for a gallon of gas. There may be a component of speculation in oil but there is a much bigger component of stupidity and ignorance in both parties in congress. It has been asserted that if ANWAR were the size of a basketball court, the required drilling are would be the size of a business calling card. I have no way of testing this assertion. In my more paranoid moments, I suspect that most Democrats, some Republicans, and most enviros WANT a severe fuel crisis in the U.S. so they can impose a utopian world where we depend on animals, sailboats, walking and bicycling for transportation.(I rode a bicycle to and from work 3 to 5 days a week for the last 19 years of my working career BTW). One question for the above Utopians: what to we do with the methane gas and horse manure. (Yes,Yes! Grow tomatoes!)
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    • Sun Jun 29th 11:05 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Inflation Protection: Government vs. Gold
      Thank you for confirming my judgement! I exited TIPS very early this year and went to USAA Precious Metals Fund. The government is monetizing all debts including foreign dollar holdings.
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    • Fri Jun 27th 11:45 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Pay Attention to Oil Decline Rates
      I have read that President Obama plans to develop fuels from liquid moonlight and pixie dust...free from Carbon of course.
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    • Fri Jun 27th 11:18 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Is the Inflation Scare Over Yet?
      I believe what you are describing has another name: STAGFLATION
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    • Thu May 29th 11:34 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Inflation: It Could Be Worse - A Lot Worse
      I agree with Mr. Lentz that inflation is in the neighborhood of 12%. However, after we usher "the administration of terror" off the stage and welcome the administration of Barack Moonbeam, watch for other attacks on U.S. embassies, and similar tests. The recent passage of the shameful "agriculture"... bill clearly shows that both parties are totally corrupt.Mr. Lentz should also prepare himself for more inflation and very much higher taxes.
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    • Wed May 28th 11:52 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Canadian Oil Sands: Good Stock, Even When Oil Bubble Bursts
      I have owned COS since the 1980's. I am sorry I sold some last year. If there was ever a buy and hold stock, this is it!
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    • Wed May 28th 11:45 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      The 3 Main Reasons Behind This Recession
      Dectra, you must have gotten into the fermented Koolaid. The Democrats are heavily favored to control all branches of government. As bad as Republicans have been, just wait til Pelosi,Reid, and Obama take control. The market will dive bomb the first trading day after the election.Then we will have four years of Jimmy Carter redux.
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    • Sun May 25th 12:40 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Case for Not Drilling ANWR
      An interesting idea, however, in the meantime our currency is being degraded daily by paying evermore for foreign oil while waiting for alternatives to develop. I suggest a hydro-carbon import tax, along with drilling ANWAR. The tax should go directly( without Congress touching it) to semi-public enterprises for alternative energy development. I realize my proposal; is a pipe dream because Congress is so inherently corrupt, they would never allow money to be committed without their "earmarks". Just look at the disgusting Farm Bill vetoed by Bush and overrode with the votes of Republicans as well as Democrats.
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