Thrift Maven

Thursday Outlook: Crude Awakening

A relative who works for Conoco Philips said he thinks he understands why oil prices have gone so high. The Chinese have been closing many coal mines . They now have to import so much more coal from the U.S., Canada and elsewhere. Shipping more coal requires huge amounts of oil.

The Republican Political Machine threw out President Carter's Energy Sufficiency Program, which program would have been the start
in the right direction, at the very least, of a sane and intelligent
energy policy.

This country cannot afford intellectual lightweights in the White House ever again. It will take fifty years to recover from the fools that people voting Republican have given us for almost all of THE PAST THIRTY YEARS. The Clinton Presidency was mired with a Republican Congress hellbent on putting private interests before national interest. Here we are, funding Middle Eastern regimes which are killing our sons and daughters. The transfer of wealth
due to the policies of the Republicans is sickening.