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By El Guapo

April 30, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

Peak oil will drive us to find a solution. It will hit Atlanta particularly hard due to our obession with driving. We need rail lines and we need to start planning them now. Gas will only get more expensive. WAKE UP

By Iranian National

April 30, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

Operation Ayatollah: Bush invades, Opec reduces output, Bush sees Putin’s soul but not his end-game, Evil-doers prevail. Enjoy the tumbleweed George.

By American in traffic

April 30, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

The transportation bill was changed and presented to the Senate with 4 minutes left in the session - and few knew what was in it.

The Senators who voted NO did the responsible thing. Olens can be upset…but not at Senators who refused to vote for something they had not been given time to read.

IDEA!

To cut down on traffic…enforce our immigration laws. And stop hiring illegals.

By GAconservative007

April 30, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this

If the liberals and tree hugger/Democrats would let us drill for our own resources we would not have this problem.

By Copyleft

April 30, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this

Yes, we would. We’d still be basing our entire infrastructure on a single, finite resource: oil.

That will always be a problem until we get off the oil addiction. Wanna guess how big a priority that is for Texas George and the Oil Patrol?

By Whatajoke

April 30, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this

Lt. Gov. Cagle is a wishy washy idiot who ruined any opportunity for this season to be productive. He stands for nothing.

While I may disagree with the Speaker, at least you know where he stands, and what he is trying to achieve.

By Jeremy

April 30, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this

Please explain to me what exactly illegal immigrants have to do with our traffic congestion? Sure, taking the drivers off the road will help for a time, but it will come barreling back as current jobless folks take over the jobs that immigrants once did. The traffic problem won’t be any different.

On another point, we actually get the majority of our oil from sources other than the middle east. The issue isn’t where we’re getting it from at all. It’s that for most people, using cars is the only viable option in the mix. Oil or no, congestion is a problem. Lets assume that every car on the road is electric. Does that change the problem at all? I can’t see how.

One day, people will be fed up enough to change the way they live. Unfortunately, most of us haven’t gotten there quite yet.

By GAconservative007

April 30, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this

Copyleft, we have just discovered tons of oil in SD. We could drill off our coasts, heck the Chicoms and Cubans are, we have resources to tap. We could build more refineries, we haven’t built one in over 25 years. We could go to Nuclear power. But you see, you libs do not want us to. And this cunard about the environment is wearing thin with me.

You guys do not want the national economy to grow, and the best way for you guys to prevent that is with your idiotic, suicidal no-growth energy policies. If OPEC knew that we were making an effort to become energy ind., then I believe that their policies would change too. If we could use the finite resources we have here at home, while working on alternatives, things would be better. But you guys have traveled so far down the road of environmentalism that if you gave some ground it would be like giving up part of the lib identity. So when I hear folks, libs in particular,complain about energy prices, I say you have only yourselves to blame.

I remember in the 1990’s when B.J. Clinton vetoed ANWAR (By the way we would have that oil now, if it had been supported by Clinton), that you libs thought we paid too little for fuel. In fact, that stupid BTU tax was one of B.J. ideas. Anyway, rest easy McCain will side with you guys on this.

By Jeremy

April 30, 2008 6:06 PM | Link to this

GAconservative007 - I’m not sure where you get the idea that a liberal doesn’t want the economy to grow, or that nuclear power is undesired by liberals. Europe has more nuclear power than we do by far and I dare you to suggest that Europeans are more conservative.

As for people thinking we once paid too little for fuel - that idea came from the fact that the whole rest of the world was paying multiple amounts more per liter than we were, and in the process, they were building commuter rail systems, light rail, and bicycle infrastructure. Meanwhile, Americans were buying bigger cars with poor gas mileage and moving further away from where they worked. Rest assured none of it is going to change until people decide they want to live differently, and they won’t so that until they become miserable enough with the congestion and degenerating quality of life that they currently face.

It seems you’re inclined to blame a lot of things on liberals yet the problems we face don’t much care about party lines. Liberals and Conservatives both need to quit thinking about politics and dogma and start solving problems before we completely lose our ability to compete in the world.

By GaConservative007

April 30, 2008 6:18 PM | Link to this

Libs nix Nuclear Power. Libs prevent exploration. Libs block the construction of refineries. Libs want higher taxes, all the time. That is why I know that libs do not want the economy to grow. I look at the outcome of libs policies, not their intentions. After all, we live with the consequences of gov’t policy, not the intentions.

By Dr. Genius

April 30, 2008 6:59 PM | Link to this

Moving sidewalks interconnected from here to there, as for guns I suggest making small guns obsolete, require a gun weigh about the size of your wives say 200 lbs. Everyony gets one when their 18. Who’s with me.

By jewcowboy

April 30, 2008 10:32 PM | Link to this

GaConservative007 -

wow. i’m absolutley amazed with your ability to bury your head in history without opening your eyes. let’s see, before 2006, republicans controlled both houses of congress for 11 years and the the white house for 6. now i will grant you the current brand of republican are not conservatives, but yikes. you give them a free pass for all of that time?

i know you may be afraid of the big scary world around you, but closing your eyes won’t shut it out.

By Copyleft

May 1, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this

GaCon, I notice you’re still ducking the bigger question… our continued dependence on a single, finite resource: OIL.

Care to address that, instead of whining about “liberal environmentalists” getting in the way of the oil industry? How, exactly, will more drilling and more refineries fix our oil problem?

By GAconservative007

May 1, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

I am not ducking your question. Oil is the single resource that we have that can power the engine of our national economy. Like it or not. It is a fact. Yes, we should push to find alternative, renewable sources of energy. But how long can we do that research if the national economy is in shambles (we are no where near shambles now, contrary to the media/democrats). The fact that libs/democrats and some Republicans do not understand how our economy works only make the matter worse. We need oil, evil as it is.

If we are allowed to drill here at home it will:

Create Jobs

Stimulate micro/local economies

Decrease our thirst for foreign sources of energy.

Give our markets a boost.

Reduce the price of energy to American consumers.

By Copyleft

May 1, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

You left out

*Prolong our oil dependence

*Keep the oil and auto lobbyists happy and contributing

*Squelch any motivation to develop those alternatives

But hey, as long as we can keep buying the crack, who cares if we have to sell off our possessions?

By GAconservative007

May 1, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this

Do not do crack, Copyleft. It is bad for you. Stop with the crack and your thinking may change. I have repeatedly agreed with the need to develop alternative resources of energy. I postulate that we will not be able to conduct that research if you starve the national economy for the fuel it needs, now. Think about it.

By Copyleft

May 2, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this

We don’t need to drill to satisfy our current fuel needs, GAcon. We need to finally pass the CAFE standards that the oil and auto lobbyists have been fighting so very hard, for so VERY long.

The reduced consumption would eliminate our need for Iraqi oil entirely, and more cheaply and quickly than any attempt to drill in ANWR and build refineries here would… and it would be a PERMANENT savings rather a short-term prolonging of the problem.

The ones doing crack are our so-called “leaders” who don’t have the backbone to quit their addiction to lobbyist money. And the idiots who keep voting for the, of course.

By Don

May 2, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

The rasist Republican’s will never help the Atlanta area because that would help “black people”!