Third Party Guy

Stick with Gold and the Oil Stocks

"Certainly over the past 30 years Americans have lost their zest for protesting in spite of the many reasons why they should have."

Perhaps April 15th will begin the reemergence of peaceful protests, have you found your local Tax Day Tea Party to protest wrongful uses of taxes yet?

I wonder what the media will report that day!

Time to Fill Up on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Fitzman:

"...the tax i am recommended would bypass Congress and go directly to jobs and infrastructure to make America more energy dependent..." - I assume this is a typo and you meant to say independent.

Perhaps you missed my pseudonym, but I am far from a victim of the government and media. I realized during the Clinton administration that Capitalism was being dissuaded, but I agree that the Bush administration has driven the nails in the coffin.

And perhaps I put you too much on defense by lumping you in with "Greens" that you missed the point of my comment. Everything you are wanting to do, Infrastructure, solar, NAT vehicles by restoring the tariffs on oil. In you response to me you are correct that I don't want to pay the rising cost for depleting Mexican (truly worldwide) oil and expensive tar sand (and shale) from Canada. By restoring the tariffs on oil, which is another form of subsidy, and the price of oil rebounds to $100/ barrel, alternatives will be competitive without their own subsidy. As a taxpayer, I am tired of taking the risk through subsidies and other programs, while someone else reaps the benefits (or at least no loss).

Further, I was not bashing you for wanting to get NAT solution, rather I was pointing out that there is already a foundation on which to build. Waste Management only uses NAT trucks where state/local laws mandate it. Imagine if every state mandated the refuse haulers were to use NAT trucks, how long would it take for the infrastructure to get in place? There would be a demand and some entrepreneur would jump at the opportunity.

My point is we do not need any new taxes for your wish list to happen. Unnecessary taxation in thievery, and your idea is unnecessary. Further, I believe your idea, " put a $0.02/gallon "green tax" on gasoline with provision that this tax bypass Congress", would require a Constitutional Amendment. But why should we start following that outdated piece of paper now, because not following it has led us to unsound money, wars, exporting jobs, and corporate welfare (among other things) hasn't it?

Time to Fill Up on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

I'm getting so frustrated with every "Green" out there wanting to tax (steal) some industry or another and give that money to one they support. Whatever happened to good old fashioned Capitalism, Free Market enterprise, and American ingenuity?? Oh, that's right, these things that made America great are now evil. If you don't like something that is being offered in the market (ie. fossil fuel vehicles), then make something better that you do like. Quit crying about it. AND when you do finally build something better, don't sell out at the first $$$ you see - it will likely come from Big Oil or Detroit 3 that you are so mad at anyway.

Okay, now that the rant is over, there is a very simple solution: end NAFTA. 70% - 80% (depending month to month) of imported foreign oil comes from Canada and Mexico, not the scary Middle East as we were brainwashed into thinking a decade ago. (notice how the rhetoric used to be oil from the Middle East, but now has changed to foreign oil. Most people have come to equate foreign oil with that from the Middle East) Along with many other wrongs, NAFTA subsidizes Big Oil.

Now that we (America) have had the sticker shock of $4+ gasoline, and it is now heading below the $2 level, it is the perfect time to end the oil subsidy. It is already known that when fuel prices rise significantly, Americans scream for alternatives. Let them compete on even ground with no subsidies. It might be painful for a time, but the cream will rise to the top without taxpayers money. If you like one idea or another, you can then use your own money that wasn't stolen through taxation to invest.

However, it will take significant risk, fortitude, and most importantly will power.

As for the NG debate, every county in America has a stockpile of the stuff. Every landfill is a source of NG (Methane). Waste Management already uses NG powered trucks to collect trash in some states. CAT and DEERE are both working on their own versions of NG engines. Several emerging technologies are coming online to help speed up the break-down process converting refuse into fuel(s). There will soon be a day where landfills are mined for their resources.