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The Unsustainable Lie of Inflation

Excellent article, I agree with most of it.

Lessons of Medicare Dis-Advantage

As you say, you are not a senior and you have not experienced basic medicare or medicare advantage. I have Humana and I pay an additional $46 per month plus the $96.40 for medicare. Humana includes Part D prescription drugs which Medicare does not directly offer. Also Medicare requires payment of $135 before Part B coverage begins, whereas Humana does not require this payment. Also Medicare only pays 80% of doctor visits whereas Humana has a copay of $15. In a recent visit to the emergency room due to vehicle rollover, my entire cost with Humana was $50 whereas it would have been $1500 with Medicare(20% of $7500). Obama is wrong that Advantage Plans are the same as Medicare.

AIG: Spiraling Downwards, And Awarding Bonuses on the Way

Agree with willyum. Do we really need AGI and the "experienced, talented and smart" people sucking off the government dole based on their prior deeds? What AGI needs is responsible management instead of these egg suckers.

My Thoughts on Oil

Good article, now if only we could get congress behind natural gas as an alternative fuel for vehicles. I firmly believe that a good "green" vehicle would be a natural gas and electric hybrid. Keep up the good work.
I keep sending emails to several CEO's that supply natural gas suggesting that they convert their fleets to natural gas, but I haven't received any responses.
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From an American who cares.

California on the Brink?

Allow drilling off Santa Barbara and the rest of California's coast. Allow more refineries to be built. Get rid of the prison unions. Get rid of all the deadbeat state, county and city employees (including all of CalTrans). Cut school budgets by 30%, this can be done by getting rid of 70% of the administration. Go back and cancel all agreements, contracts and laws that Gray Davis and Jerry Brown agreed to. Recall Barbara Boxer, and Nancy P.(what a couple of deadheads). This list can go on forever, California needs major surgery, not band aids.

Is There Enough Natural Gas?

WOW! You have been busy. This article should be placed in Obama's hands. Secretary Chu should be replaced with a more competent energy secretary. I'm a firm believer of natural gas fired vehicles. My neighbor has a propane fired pickup.

When I was 16 years old and delivering newpapers by car in 1958, a fellow lady carrier 1950 Studebaker car that had been converted to propane. She drove over 100 miles per day and got great mileage. She drove that car to save money and she did save money. I was paying 23 cents a gallon back in those days for gasoline and I considered gasoline to be a major expense of the job, but I'm getting away from the topic.

As far as distribution of natural gas, there are numerous pipelines used today to transport gasoline around the country that could be converted for natural gas use. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners is a large owner of some of these pipelines.

Installing new storage tanks and refueling facilities, building transport trucks for local distribution, converting existing vehicles and building new cars to use natural gas would be a better stimulus and longer lasting for the economy than the one's presently being presented.

We only need to convince certain boneheads in Washington.