Jay Bookman

By Jay's brother

July 1, 2008 5:34 PM | Link to this

And how ironic, Obama’s only solution is research into “Green” energy (at least a generation away for widespread use) and conservation. No drilling at all, he might “explore” the idea of nuclear. So his solution is “all pain, no gain”. These are 2 radicals, each pushing radical agendas. Pick your poison.

By Abundant Pundit

July 1, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this

Contract with Mr. America?

Ginrich makes me ashamed to be a baby boomer.

By James

July 1, 2008 7:13 PM | Link to this

Jay:

One time not long ago I did a personal experiment. I filled my gas tank to the brim and drove my ususal way to and from work. I made it five round trips.

Then I filled it to the brim again and drove as light footed as I could, turned the engine off at long lights, coasted when I could, etc., etc. I made it six round trips.

No kidding ! If everyone would just do that we would have few problems and the gas price would plummet !

By AL

July 1, 2008 7:35 PM | Link to this

Why do liberal socialist insist on telling other people they must limit themselves. YOU MUST.. 1)turn your thermostat down 2)drive an electric car 3)reduce your carbin footprint. etc etc etc. They want the government to make you conform to their twisted ideology. The U.S. has the capability and the technology to tap the cheapest and most abundant resource known to mankind (right now) Fossil Fuel. In many different forms. However,because of a sick almost god like worship of a stupid ideology we aren’t allowed to explore these other resources. Remember to get your new light bulbs. They won’t save you money, they cost more but they will use less electricity. You know the energy we could have more of if we we’re allowed by government.

By ByteMan

July 1, 2008 7:42 PM | Link to this

AL @ 7:35:

Because liberal socialists think that being selfish is something that humans should have outgrown before they got to 3rd grade. “Me me me” doesn’t work so well with adults. You don’t like it from your kids, do you? Well, adults don’t like it from other adults either.

By Abundant Pundit

July 1, 2008 8:05 PM | Link to this

Oil is cheaper now than during the ‘73 oil crisis. Gas was about a buck in 1980 wasn’t it? That’s about 4 bucks in today’s money, isn’t it?

Y dont U people shut the fook up? You dont even have the brains of a snail that turned gay, pretended to run out of gas, and then humped a slug hitchiker it had picked up, okay? . The ignorance of the average blogger is suffocating.

I am the Abundant Pundit. Nobody can say my name fast enough to make me disappear.

NOBODY!

By Jim

July 1, 2008 8:32 PM | Link to this

Anyone who read Al’s post at 7:35 can’t help but know exactly why we are in the mess we are today. Selfish arrogant azzholes like Al. Al could benefit greaty from a huge dose of corporal punishment. The Al’s of the world stand in the way of progress like a big brainless boulder. You’ll get yours one day Al. You idiot.

By Taxpayer

July 1, 2008 8:35 PM | Link to this

Newt needs to stick to his history books or whatever he’s been doing. Oil exploration and extraction, impact of supply and demand on market prices, etc., are obviously not his strong suits.

By Abundant Pundit

July 1, 2008 8:46 PM | Link to this

We have to examine the soul of newt ginrich, his heart and his core. We need only look at his behavior against his vows.

Then we have to look at the logistical aplomb he displayed when he forced his wife to sign the divorce papers, wasting away in a hospital bed, Newt stepping around or into bedpans strewn around the room, IV lines entangled with his redstate tie clinging around his neck and his stammered coaxing to enlist the signature. This man is unworthy.

This man is not worthy of our attention, or respect, or consideration of anything other than backroom wagers on which level of hell this turkey will spend in eternity.

Newt Ginrich is the emblematic and sterotypical poster child epitome of a low rung scoundrel and the living explanation of what happened to the GOP.

Because of fatheads like Newt Gingrich, McCain doesn’t have a chinaman’s chance of winning in november.

Obama by 65-35. Landslide.

Obama 08: America takes over.

By @@

July 1, 2008 8:50 PM | Link to this

Are you being completely forthright on Newt’s position Jay? I think NOT!

Newt Gingrich’s “A Contract With The Earth”

How different is your philosophy from that of the Bush administration?

I think we’re more willing to set strict standards. We have a deeper interest in incentivizing alternative-fuel development. We also take the idea of a national energy strategy more seriously. We need a strategy that’s good for the environment, good for the economy, and good for national security. Unless you can meet those three tests, you don’t have an adequate energy strategy.

So where do you stand on global warming? In a climate-change debate with Senator John Kerry last April, you agreed that it’s real—and that human activities have contributed to it.

What I said was, there is a sufficient preponderance of evidence that it is reasonable—without reaching an authoritative conclusion—to be prudent. Conservatism ought to mean prudence. As a prudent matter, lowering the total carbon loading of the atmosphere, I think, is useful.

Oh what tangled webs you weave when first dem rule is to deceive.

Shame on Newt for wanting to help reduce the cost of gas for Americans NOW.

Shame on you for not caring at all.

I do a 7 mile jog and a 20 minute Pilates workout daily but then that’s none of your business is it?

By Taxpayer

July 1, 2008 9:01 PM | Link to this

I’ll make a bet with anyone out there on which of the following, “1” or “2” will lower gasoline cost for the consumer the fastest:

1) Do as Newt recommends 2) a.Cut driving by any amount 2) b.Buy a vehicle with improved gas mileage but don’t drive more miles 2) c.Share a ride at least once a week 2) d.etc.

I’ll even extend that bet to include which number will provide long-term benefits.

By DaveD

July 1, 2008 9:01 PM | Link to this

Al, ever hear of a thing up in the sky called the “sun”….? It’s that bright yellow thing outside over your head. I guess tapping into that would be much more harmful and expensive than drilling for more oil… stop smoking crack while your watching Fox News. Psssssst… (they’ve been lying to you the whole time…it’s comedy). Kinda like that story book called the bible. Another comic book crack smokers believe to be true. GA: “ALWAYS LAST IN EDUCATION” (and showing the results each and every day)! ;-)

By zeke

July 1, 2008 9:31 PM | Link to this

You idiot! You spout the same old tired agenda of the democrats, liberals, environmental radicals and socialist! First drill, mine or whatever it takes to take FULL ADVANTAGE OF OUR OWN RESOURCES, oil and coal! Second, cut off the environmental radicals in their tracks through federal court orders! Third, build hundreds of new hydro electic projects! Fourth, build 100 or more nuclear power plants! Fifth, explore realistic alternative energy sources through private research and development, not by wasting taxpayer money!

By Skeptic Tank

July 1, 2008 9:33 PM | Link to this

My God, it must be an election year. The right wing fanatics have zeroed in on environmentalists as the target du jour. See, simpleton Fox Newshounds, the ONLY reason that we’re paying so much money at the pump is because those tree hugging liberals won’t let us drill in ANWR or off the coast of Florida.

Yeah. Right. There’s a sucker born every minute.

To be sure, supply and demand plays a huge roll in the price increase. But why are the Saudis telling us that the demand for oil hasn’t really increased worldwide in the past several years…nor have supplies dwindled. Hmmm. Something’s fishy here.

Oil futures speculators are the culprit? Perhaps…except to drive the cost up, they’d have to be HOARDING crude oil…which they haven’t done at all!

Terrorism? Only in your right-wing fear factor minds. Frankly, the terrorism in NIGERIA has more to do with the rise in crude oil prices than anything OBL dreamed of.

Dollar value dropping? Definitely a factor.

But the Newts and Seans and Rushs of the world have come up with the one-dimensional reason for all our problems, and even a SCAPEGOAT: liberals.

Which never really explains why, after 12 years of congressional control, and 7 years of executive branch leadership, they weren’t in the forefront of bringing CHANGE to an impending energy problem.

Sorry, Newt. I’m blaming YOU…and a Republican Congress that would rather spend its time and my money impeaching a president for consentual sex with an adult.

Disgusting.

By AL

July 1, 2008 9:38 PM | Link to this

I’m sorry I want Jim and Bytman and people of that ilk along with the government to tell me what to do. I want some “half cocked” liberal wacko to tell me what is good for me. And for that matter whats good for the planet. B.S. hey wake the F…IN UP! Do you think China or India or Mexico or Indonisia give a crap if our government tells everyone to drive an electric car? Do you for one minute think Mexico is going to cut back on the amount of crap they pump into this environment? Do you for one minute think drilling for oil to make this country a little less dependant on terrorist money machines is going to matter in the long run? HELL NO. I’ve been all over this world many times and I’m leaving for Afganistan in a few weeks. The world could care less if you drive a prius it’s not going to change a damn thing. Wise up! If you work earn a living treat the country we live in with respect raise good productive citizens, fill up your tank and drive like hell. If you can afford it. Your not saving it for anybody. Believe me China will be glad you did.

By hillbilly ragger

July 1, 2008 9:38 PM | Link to this

Oil is cheaper now than during the ‘73 oil crisis. Gas was about a buck in 1980 wasn’t it? That’s about 4 bucks in today’s money, isn’t it?

Wow.

Are you related to that “Observer” guy who was telling me day-before-last that the US had more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia?

By AL

July 1, 2008 9:38 PM | Link to this

I’m sorry I want Jim and Bytman and people of that ilk along with the government to tell me what to do. I want some “half cocked” liberal wacko to tell me what is good for me. And for that matter whats good for the planet. B.S. hey wake the F…IN UP! Do you think China or India or Mexico or Indonisia give a crap if our government tells everyone to drive an electric car? Do you for one minute think Mexico is going to cut back on the amount of crap they pump into this environment? Do you for one minute think drilling for oil to make this country a little less dependant on terrorist money machines is going to matter in the long run? HELL NO. I’ve been all over this world many times and I’m leaving for Afganistan in a few weeks. The world could care less if you drive a prius it’s not going to change a damn thing. Wise up! If you work earn a living treat the country we live in with respect raise good productive citizens, fill up your tank and drive like hell. If you can afford it. Your not saving it for anybody. Believe me China will be glad you did.

By hillbilly ragger

July 1, 2008 9:43 PM | Link to this

I’ve been all over this world many times and I’m leaving for Afganistan in a few weeks.

You’re leaving for a country you don’t even know how to spell?

By AL

July 1, 2008 10:00 PM | Link to this

Good catch hillbilly here’s the ..F for you. Left it out.Is there anything else? I’ve got your back though while I’m gone. No problem. We have a militqary at war and a nation at the mall. Go drive your Prius and feel good about yourself.

By AL

July 1, 2008 10:00 PM | Link to this

Good catch hillbilly here’s the ..F for you. Left it out.Is there anything else? I’ve got your back though while I’m gone. No problem. We have a militqary at war and a nation at the mall. Go drive your Prius and feel good about yourself.

By AL

July 1, 2008 10:00 PM | Link to this

Good catch hillbilly here’s the ..H for you. Left it out.Is there anything else? I’ve got your back though while I’m gone. No problem. We have a militqary at war and a nation at the mall. Go drive your Prius and feel good about yourself.

By DaveD

July 1, 2008 10:45 PM | Link to this

AL, go kill a muslim (as that is what your job will be over there). If you signed up for military duty after we first “invaded” Iraq…you yourself are a terrorist.

If this country was so concerned about terrorists and the war on terror, we would have dropped everything we had on Saudi Arabia a long long time ago. Nah…Bubble Boy Bush is too busy giving King whatever his name is a royal rim job while DICK takes pictures.

By australiahom

July 1, 2008 11:11 PM | Link to this

site all site boy me

By GodHatesTrash

July 1, 2008 11:56 PM | Link to this

Newt Gingrich - pure trash.

By GOPs got to go

July 2, 2008 6:43 AM | Link to this

I did the same thing as James with the same results. I track my gas mileage with every tank and do see a big difference between lead foot and light foot.

It never ceases to amaze me how the ones with the least fuel efficient vehicles are the ones with the heaviest foot on the road. And please do not give me the old “I can afford it” crap. So can I, I choose to try to save some of the non-renewable resources for my kids and grandkids to use. At least until we can get the engineers to come up with a fuel cell car that works and is affordable to the masses.

I know you Yukon, Hummer and F250 drivers think you are somehow superior to everyone else, but could you please try a little for your own kids?

By lovelyliz

July 2, 2008 7:17 AM | Link to this

I thought Newt Gingrich was all about free markets. Oil companies sell their oil at world market prices meaning that even if every drop of U.S. oil was brought out of the ground today (in reality new drilling wouldn’t bring anything to market for another 10-20 years) and if every drop of U.S. oil were to be sold in the U.S. we would still be paying market level prices.

By Mike

July 2, 2008 7:22 AM | Link to this

Stop the presses! Jay Bookman is criticizing a conservative for the 4,561 day in a row!

Somebody wake me up when something non-predictable happens.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

By lovelyliz

July 2, 2008 7:25 AM | Link to this

And even if oil companies found a new and immediately available source of oil, it would have to be refined. The neo-cons love to blame the enironmentalists for keeping refining capacity down when in fact is the oil companies are the biggest problem. They aren’t maintaining the refineries or increasing existing capacity at existing facilities because that would mean take capital $$ out of their bottom line and possible lowering the price they could get for their product. What business would want to do that?

By Country Mouse

July 2, 2008 7:34 AM | Link to this

All you illiterate would-be environmentalists blogging on this venue who think Al is a “selfish arrogant azzhole” must really be proud of Al Gore. That is the epitome of the democrat party, split between those elitists who think the rest of the people are not smart enough to think for themselves and therefore the elitists have to do the thinking for the masses and tell them what to do (but the elitists themselves are special and above the “rules” they would set down for the masses), and on the other hand the idiots who prove the elitists right and wait to be told how to live because they are incapable of thinking for themselves. If the whole bunch of you put all your brain power together you would still not match the intellectual prowess of Newt Gingrich.

By Country Mouse

July 2, 2008 7:40 AM | Link to this

I have an idea. Since discovery of new resources will do nothing to lower gas prices, surely the closing of present resources will do nothing to raise them. So lets stop all the extraction of oil that is now going on in the good old USA. Doing so would surely help the environment.

By DayTrader

July 2, 2008 7:43 AM | Link to this

Sure Newt, I mean Country Mouse, whatever.

By George Hussein Washington

July 2, 2008 7:49 AM | Link to this

Nitwit Newt talks a good fight, but when push comes to shove, he is just a cowardly little chickenhawk, like dusty, rw, and the rest of their ilk. Oil is still dirt cheap relative to its true value as an energy dense fuel….Just try to find a substitute that offers even half of that energy density that you just have to pump out of the ground…by the millions of barrels, specifically 85 million barrels per day, each and every day of the year….Oil is a bargain even at 1,000 dollars per barrel, as we will soon find out….Not to mention the chemical feedstocks that are produced from that barrel of oil….

By Believer

July 2, 2008 7:50 AM | Link to this

I have an idea. Quit bogarting.

By bobfromcanton

July 2, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this

The whole argument is about freedom or the lack thereof. Once the nanny-state begins to tell you all the things you can or can’t do then you are stuck with more things they say you can’t have or can’t be trusted with. (i.e. your own money, your own trans fats, cigarettes, cell phones, SUV’s, more gasoline, more oil drilling, etc.) The reason we broke away from England to begin with was the lack of religious and other freedoms. We are quickly getting more socialistic that many of those countries of Europe. Tell me why France has so many nuclear plants and we don’t?????

By Eric1

July 2, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this

While we’re at it, we should just print more money and hand it out to all those who are struggling to make ends meet. That makes every bit as much sense as Old Newt’s prescription.

By FRANKLEEDARLING

July 2, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this

I grew up on the gulf coast and I gotta tell ya ‘,I dont care if you vote dem or republican NOBODY in Fla. wants offshore drilling.The beach is a bigger economy than oil will bring.Just look at galviston tex the beaches are ruined from oil.The returns will take too long ,be to little and the damage just not worth it .

drop the oil crack pipe

By Matt

July 2, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this

Oil has nothing to do with electricity generation. google US DOE Electricity Gerneration by source to see how many KWH are generated by oil. What you will see is that 50% of our electricity generation comes from coal, roughly 20% comes from natural gas, 20% comes from nuclear, and the rest is comes from oil, wind, solar, etc.

Other myth dispelling statisitics from the US DOE: US Oil Consumption 20 Million barrels per day, 70% of consumed oil is for transportation, Worldwide oil production 85 Million Barrels per day with a Worldwide consumption of 86 Million Barrels per day. More fun statistics: European Oil Consumption 15 Million Barrels per day, US production of oil 5 million barrels per day, Largest importer of oil to the US, Canada at 1.8 million Barrels per day with the Saudi’s being a close second. All of these figures can be found on the US DOE’s EIA website.

By FRANKLEEDARLING

July 2, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this

No lets not let the educated elite make any decisions for us I would feel more comfortable with another drunk hillbilly

Newt cant even make a contract with a single woman let alone a country.Makes me believe he has no sense of judgment.

By BS Aplenty

July 2, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

Jay, I am hopeful that the extraordinary rise in oil prices will cause the private sector to invent alternate, sustainable transportation options and reduces our dependence on imported oil - permanently. This would be a good thing.

But, in the short run, I hope you can face your neighbors in the airline, trucking, chemical and other industries that may experience a severe contraction of profitability and jobs due to this spike in oil prices.

We’ll send them over to your house for “green” counseling. Maybe you can feed their children while they look for other jobs.

Now, let’s get drilling.

By Robin Gibb

July 2, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

How deep is your love?

By bobfromcanton

July 2, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

So, Frankleedarling, are you advocating we bring back Billy Beer Carter?

By CherokeeDave

July 2, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this

Jay: Please make some form of an attempt at “fair and balanced” opinionated editorializing and convey some “complete” picture when opining about anothers work. Newt, for all his human deficiencies, does make an attempt at broad thinking and in building a perspective. This is exactly what we’re lacking in an comprehensive “energy policy”. As a former employee of a major “local energy” company let me make a high level attempt at some common sense. 1.) Regionalized Nuclear Plants in each “planned” sector of the country.

2.) Expanded drilling for our own oil reserves to include Anwar, midwest and coastal regions “on a liimited and controlled basis”.

3.) Long term investment in modernized metro-transit systems

4.) Regional investment in solar and wind power systems “where” environmentally workable.

5.) Expanded investment in refinery facilities regionally located as needed from a global competitive position.

6.) Mandated energy guidelines for every citizen in transportation and energy comsumption OR usage “enhancement” fees for high energy users.

There has been outstanding technology advances in the application of energy generating systems over the past 15 years that are being held hostage and in check by the radical environmental groups. They are holding this country back from moving forward and it’s time that the “silent majority” wake up and tell them and the politically correct leftheads to pipe the hell down and let some commen sense rise to the surface. Lest we forget, one only has to look at those leftwinged democractic bastion of “failed liberal policies” ie the Cities of Detroit and New Orleans, to see where the Bookmans, hillybilly raggers and copyleft’s would lead us!! These cities are the perfect examples of the “liberal controlled experiment” and the word “failed” is too good a description for them.

Get Right, Get Real and this year Vote “less then enthusiastically” Republican! (From a purely partisan perspective, how in the heck can we not generate some really world class candidates for the highest office in the land then what we have to choose from “and that is from both sides of the fence” Obama is not qualified and I don’t trust McCain “yet”!

By FRANKLEEDARLING

July 2, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

Billy is a bastion of anti-elitism

By FRANKLEEDARLING

July 2, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this

Newt reminds me of the tasmanian devil,same build, same IQ, same rabid mentality. The guy is a loony toon, I mean who would let this guy make important decisions.No wonder the GOP is in such bad shape look at the people they put faith in. “Doh”!

By hillbilly ragger

July 2, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

FRANKLEEDARLING @ 10.17, the tasmanian devils called. Said they want you to stop with the insulting comparisons to Newt.

By George Hussein Washington

July 2, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

I can afford to keep my thermostat at 69 degrees in the Summer….so some clown wants to Mandate that I keep it at 78 - Let him try, my hatchet is made for choping, and its gonna chop all over you….Sounded better when Nancy Sinatra did the vocals….boots

By George Hussein Washington

July 2, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this

People who Short USO (United State Oil ETF), Mr. Randy Newman has written a song about you:

“Short People got no reason Short People got no reason Short People got no reason To live

They got little hands And little eyes And they walk around Tellin’ great big lies They got little noses And tiny little teeth They wear platform shoes On their nasty little feet

Well, I don’t want no Short People Don’t want no Short People Don’t want no Short People Round here

Short People are just the same As you and I (A Fool Such As I) All men are brothers Until the day they die (It’s A Wonderful World)

Short People got nobody Short People got nobody Short People got nobody To love

They got little baby legs And they stand so low You got to pick ‘em up Just to say hello They got little cars That go beep, beep, beep They got little voices Goin’ peep, peep, peep They got grubby little fingers And dirty little minds They’re gonna get you every time Well, I don’t want no Short People Don’t want no Short People Don’t want no Short People ‘Round here”

Buy USO….Thank You Mr. Randy Newman

By Goldie

July 2, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this

It’s too bad that Ronald Ray-gun dismantled all of the alternative energy programs that President Carter initiated in the 70’s — we’d probably all be driving our solar-powered vehicles today, instead of importing oil from terrorists.

It’s all about BIG OIL for the RepubliKKKans… they don’t want any new stinkin’ energy sources messing with their BIG OIL COMPANIES’ PROFITS. Oh, and they hate all those stinkin’ scientists, too. You know, the ones who have the knowledge for creating alternative energy sources…

By themadtrader

July 5, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this

We have not come to “accept” airports as a no-rights zones. We have come to “expect” airports as no-rights zones. We “accept” no such thing. I, for one, am still waiting for the return of civil rights stolen from me by the fascists.

By Abundant Pundit

July 5, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

hey, mad, sorry, but UR totally wrong. When it comes to planes, we need a ban on any weapons anywhere near the airport. I’m chicken to fly enough as it is, but if I think that you have a weapon on you, and you’re standing where you could hit a plane’s fuel tank with your pea shooter, (hey, anyone can get off a lucky shot), then sorry, you are banned.

Sorry, freedom lovers, NO Handgunsus AT AIRPORTSUS. (no backs, no viceversas, no changies).

periodus.

UR totally CORRECT, goldie! Carter was a visionary prez, and one of our greatest. Reagan made a deal with the Iranians holding our hostages to defeat Carter. The deal was part of the whole iran-contra thing. It’s treason. The GOP uses treason like bees make honey.

Cheney is from the old reagan daze, U know. So are all those Iraq warmongeres.

Cheney started out as a place setter for white house dinners. (true) He rose to the level of his evil, not so much the peter principal, and the pater (cosa)nostra principle, the dirty rat.

It’s cheney. It’s always been cheney. Bush is a patsy. Iraq is Cheney.

Know it. Believe it. Vote it.