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OPEC strangling American economy

Sun, 25 May 2008 01:57:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I can't really agree with this. Our Congress has done more to "strangle" us than any foreign agency. IF we allow this to continue, we will be the object of our enemies manipulation and blackmail. Like every other *serious* issue, Congress has sat on it's hands for several decades...promoting band aid solutions instead of acting responsibly to make us energy independent. Lay the blame where it belongs; at the Halls of Congress.

Clip Source: www.washingtontimes.com

OPEC strangling American economy

As oil prices continue to top $120 a barrel, it is time for Congress to take definitive action to break the OPEC cartel, which is taxing the United States into a depression.

Make no mistake: OPEC is responsible.

OPEC leaders, including Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, are already openly discussing raising the price of oil to $200 a barrel or more.

Who Is Really Responsible For the High Prices You Pay for Gasoline?

Tue, 13 May 2008 06:12:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: When will the American people stand up and say enough!? Why weren't we insistent *before* we arrived at this point? So typical of human nature...let's just wait till things are really bad and then we *have* to do something.

FTA: "It's wake-up time for America. Maybe we should investigate the blame-throwing investigators in Congress." And a more "blame-throwing" Congress I have never seen.

Clip Source: www.ibdeditorials.com

Who Is Really Responsible For The High Prices You Pay For Gasoline?

For the past 31 years, Congress repeatedly prevented us from building any new oil refineries that we now badly need.

Democrats defeated and discouraged any bill that would let us drill in the deep sea 100 miles out. However, it's somehow OK for China to drill there.

Congress, since the 1980s it has continually stopped all building of nuclear power plants while France, Germany and, yes, Japan, plus 12 other major nations, did build plants and now get 20% to 80% of their energy from their wise and safe nuclear plant investments.

Under the eight Clinton years alone, U.S. oil production declined 1,349,000 barrels per day,

It is a national disgrace that all they now know how to do is relentlessly criticize, complain and condemn. They always attempt to blame, investigate and scapegoat someone else, in this case U.S. oil companies, when Congress is the true villain of ineptness

Drilling for Oil..in Downtown L.A.

Sun, 11 May 2008 19:35:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is soooo interesting. I had no idea this was going on.

FTA: "California is the nation's biggest consumer of gasoline and is fourth among oil-producing states behind Texas, Alaska and Louisiana..."

Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

Drilling for Oil … in Downtown L.A.

Record prices are prompting oil prospectors to renew interest in drilling in Los Angeles, where urban sprawl, environmental opponents and decades of production make for one of the world's toughest oil fields.

"We're more active than ever," says Tim Marquez, CEO and founder of Venoco, which is running wells and reviving old ones in the city and elsewhere in California.

Oil has been produced in Los Angeles since the early 1900s, directly offshore as well as along city streets. To meet the demands of environmental opponents and gain needed permits, oil drillers have come up with a variety of methods to disguise oil wells so that most passersby don't even know oil drilling is going on.

The wells are drilled diagonally for miles out to sea.

"It's built to resemble a resort island (and) blend in with the surroundings,"

home-brew biodiesel is fuel of the future

Sat, 10 May 2008 23:24:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Here we go!! Let some ingenuous people lose, give them some incentives, add the rewards of profit and you've got people lining up and OPEC over a barrel!!

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

home-brew biodiesel is fuel of the future

Every few weeks Gordon Elliott drives 22 miles to the Hare and Hounds pub in Marple, Cheshire, collects a barrel of waste cooking oil from his stepdaughter and takes it back to his personal oil refinery in his garage

The retired construction site manager then decants the liquid into a machine and adds a few chemicals.

Twenty-four hours later the waste oil has been purified, filtered and refined and is ready to be used in one of his family's two diesel cars.

Companies making biodiesel "reactors" report booming sales and demand for cheaper diesel is outstripping anything they can produce.

David Taylor of Ecotec Resources, the Lancashire company which sold Elliott his machine and which also makes 100,000 litres a year of recycled fuel.

He is selling 15-20 biodiesel machines a week and has sold 800 in under a year to taxi firms, hauliers, restaurants and others.

Senate Democrats Offer Energy Plan Amid Price Surge

Thu, 08 May 2008 00:28:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Now, why would they want to "...consolidate previous failed attempts"? :~(

No real solutions here; just bandaids, blaming, and blustering. How long will it be before Congress gets the message that WE are serious about these energy problems? Just like everything else, our legislative branch of government talks forever and all the while accomplishing nothing until it's a Crisis? Then they look to their typical scapegoats instead of looking towards themselves.

Clip Source: www.bloomberg.com

Senate Democrats Offer Energy Plan Amid Price Surge

Senate Democrats unveiled a legislative plan to harness record oil and gas prices in a proposal that consolidates previous failed attempts.

a limited halt to Strategic Petroleum Reserve contributions, a so-called windfall tax on oil companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp., a crackdown on price gouging, a plan to allow antitrust suits against OPEC, and new over-the-counter commodity exchange regulation,

The Republican measure would open the federal outer continental shelf and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to development. Like the Democratic plan, it also would suspend oil shipments to the strategic reserve.