Drilling here, drilling now has no impact at gas pump
Remember when “Drill here, drill now” was supposed to solve our energy problems?
Well, we are drilling here. We are drilling now.
As the Wall Street Journal reports, crude oil production in the United States is expected to jump 12 percent in 2012 and another 8 percent next year. Domestic crude-oil production through the first seven months of 2012 — July is the most recent month for which numbers are available — is 21 percent higher than it was in the same period in 2008.
That influx of oil onto the American market has driven the price of West Texas crude, the benchmark for U.S. oil, down by 7 percent. But as the WSJ also notes (subs. req.):
… gasoline prices currently average nearly $4 per gallon nationwide. Rising U.S. crude production may seem like an attractive antidote, but it is proving ineffective on its own at a time when the world’s appetite for energy remains voracious and Middle East tension is a reminder that supplies could be disrupted.
“Even the significant increase in U.S. production is a small part of the world oil market,” said Severin Borenstein, co-director of the Energy Institute at the Haas School of Business.
Refiners that process the cheaper crude are selling gasoline and diesel into a global market driven more by higher international prices for crude, which are up around 7% in 2012.
Some are benefiting. Refiners in the Midwest—near where much of the new oil is produced or stored—can often pay less for the raw crude than do rivals in U.S. coastal areas and abroad, but can charge market prices for the sought-after gasoline and diesel they churn out.
HollyFrontier Corp., which owns refineries in Oklahoma, Kansas and elsewhere, saw net income jump 149% to $502 million year over year in the second quarter. Tesoro Corp., which operates a refinery in North Dakota, where crude production has roughly quadrupled in four years, reported a 77% leap to $393 million in the same period.
In other words, significant, sustained increases in domestic oil production have had and will have little or no effect on the price of gasoline at the pump, because gasoline at the pump is sold at the world price for that commodity. In fact, the financial benefit from increased domestic drilling is being enjoyed almost exclusively by refiners in the form of considerably enhanced profit margins.
Because that’s how the oil markets work.
– Jay Bookman
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Normal Free...Pro Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
October 15th, 2012
12:47 pm
USMC,
That was uncalled for and shows your utter lack of manners.
Common Sense
October 15th, 2012
12:47 pm
“considerably enhanced profit margins”
The oil sector has some of the lowest profit margins in the US.
2012 Net Profit Margins
BP 5.4%
Chevron 9%
Exxon Mobil 8.4%
Hess 5.2%
Marathon 3.4%
Murphy Oil 4%
For comparison’s sake
Apple: 28%
Gannett Co 9.5%
getalife
October 15th, 2012
12:47 pm
drudey is out of poo to sling so he went national enquirer on American Idol.
Rightwing Troll
October 15th, 2012
12:47 pm
” all you liberals tried to blame Bush when prices were somewhat high at times during his two terms? You guys are so predictable.”
“Somewhat”??? Try an ALL TIME high in July 2008… of course gas prices rebounded (as W’s economy crashed) to a low in Jan 2009 that bashiite crazy wingnuts, like you, like to point to and scream about… as if $1.81/gal gas at the time was some sort of good economic indicater…
Wingnuts are so predictable…
USMC
October 15th, 2012
12:47 pm
“Homophobe much bigot?”–Getalife
Not at all Getalife “some of my best friends” are Homosexual.
Paul
October 15th, 2012
12:48 pm
getalife
The attempt at ripostes reveals a great deal about some bloggers, doesn’t it?
Thulsa Doom
October 15th, 2012
12:48 pm
Pencil neck convert
Im in a great mood. Tanks for asking. Sport.
Nothing like seeing the same kamspam over and over. Drudgey card. There’s your sign. You would think the guy could do some original thinking and come up with some new material. You would think the…
barking frog
October 15th, 2012
12:48 pm
Brosephus
charts
http://alternativeenergy.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=001797
USMC
October 15th, 2012
12:49 pm
“That was uncalled for and shows your utter lack of manners.”–Normal
What was uncalled for Normal.
There is nothing to be ashamed of by living in Dallas!
Paul
October 15th, 2012
12:49 pm
Normal
Thanks. I agree. There’s absolutely no excuse for insulting the gay residents of Dallas in such a manner.
TiredOfIt
October 15th, 2012
12:49 pm
US Marine Corps supports the proud tradition of lying to get new members. Worst than use car salesmen.
getalife
October 15th, 2012
12:50 pm
marty,
I accept your surrender.
Try the truth with facts like Biden next time.
Marty Huggins'
October 15th, 2012
12:50 pm
getalife
October 15th, 2012
12:39 pm
I don’t that’s why I’m not voting for Obama again.
He told us these same lies last campaign and the rich are richer than when he took office and the poor are poorer.
The middle class is also poorer than they were when he took office.
So why you voting for the rich folks?
Appleseed
October 15th, 2012
12:50 pm
Thelma weaned on a dill pickle.What do you expect.Orifice erupting again,must be the metamucil.Glut in natural gas, prices continue to climb.Why would you think oil would be different.
DannyX
October 15th, 2012
12:50 pm
“Apple: 28%”
Liberals are much better at capitalism. Remarkable. Wow.
Thulsa Doom
October 15th, 2012
12:50 pm
Common sense
Lowest profit margins? Facts don’t matter in kook land. Only kamspam matters.
Rightwing Troll
October 15th, 2012
12:50 pm
“The oil sector has some of the lowest profit margins in the US.”
Yet in spite of Obama having his boot on their collective necks, and all those horrible regulations to contend with (that protect you and me…and the gulf…) they still manage to rack up record profits….especially when gas prices are really high…
Child, please
October 15th, 2012
12:51 pm
OK, back to high school economics class and the law of supply and demand. I know, high level stuff.
We (the US) don’t have sufficient supplies to pump so much oil that we can drive down the world price all by ourselves. It would take a Saudi Arabia, etc. to do that. But without increased production (even the small amount of US increase on world scale) prices would rise even more (gas would be $4.00 here now instead of $3.60). Even liberals can follow that, right?
The world price is far more sensitive to changes in supply (even when about 86-87 million barrels a day are consumed) than I give it credit for. It only takes an attack on an embassy (who punted on security, the State Dept or Exec Branch, where has the finger pointing pointed to today), a bombing here or there, a refinery fire, etc. that knocks a few hundred thousand barrels off line and price of crude can move 5-10% in no time flat (sometimes much more). Announce tomorrow that the increased production of crude by the US will be turned off to a level a few years ago and I guarantee gas will be $4.00 a gallon within a week, if not a few days.
getalife
October 15th, 2012
12:52 pm
Paul,
Those who scream the loudest turn up at gay bars but it really does not matter if he is gay.
It is 2012 not 1950.
Get Real
October 15th, 2012
12:52 pm
Jay, if we had started 4 years ago and then more recently added the pipeline from Canada we would definitely be seeing a difference….spare me the latest directive from the Obama re-election committee….do you and Ms CutteR have a conference call every Monday to get the weekly marching orders?
Thulsa Doom
October 15th, 2012
12:52 pm
Lib sock puppet parade!!!! Appleseed equal sock puppet!
Marty Huggins'
October 15th, 2012
12:52 pm
getalife
October 15th, 2012
12:50 pm
Biden didn’t exactly score a 100% on honesty during the debate either.
He ain’t as drunk he only had 10 drinks not 13 let him drive.
Back to those 5 million green jobs?
Morality?
October 15th, 2012
12:53 pm
Mama – I understand your concern about depending on one source of energy and would agree except for the fact that if the sun is not there to generate our energy we won’t have a need for energy since we will be extinct. There will be a major break through in solar power some day that will “save” the world’s economy and doom the sheik’s empire’s in the middle east. The technology will have nothing to do with solar panels or batteries. All we need is another Edison to discover it.
willydoit?
October 15th, 2012
12:53 pm
Gas may well get to $10 per gallon in our life times…but I would much rather pay Americans to work and produce that oil that fuels our vehicles.
We’ve heard over and over how drilling here won’t help. I bet if you ask a guy that supports his family working on an American drilling platform if it helps, he’ll tell you differently.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 15th, 2012
12:53 pm
It’s like Saved by The Bell.
There’s your sign.
getalife
October 15th, 2012
12:54 pm
marty,
Show me where the gop voted to help the middle class.
I watch them on C Span so don’t lie.
barking frog
October 15th, 2012
12:54 pm
Most bars are gay and
merry. Bright, not so much.
DannyX
October 15th, 2012
12:54 pm
“Those who scream the loudest turn up at gay bars but it really does not matter if he is gay.”
Or most likely Craig’s list, rest stops, and/or a mega church.
moonbat betty
October 15th, 2012
12:55 pm
Why hasn’t Obama pushed natural gas? (not from himself personally, mind you)
We could have had thousands of CNG stations all over the US by now.
Nothing has changed in his tenure.
Time to clean house(s).
Erwin's cat
October 15th, 2012
12:55 pm
Danny X – Apple: 28%”
Liberals are much better at capitalism. Remarkable. Wow.
China and FoxCon thanks you
USMC
October 15th, 2012
12:55 pm
“Thanks. I agree. There’s absolutely no excuse for insulting the gay residents of Dallas in such a manner.”
Where is the insult Paul. Unless you feel insecure, that’s your problem. I don’t think it was an insult, but I guess you did; something you might want to think about.
Paul
October 15th, 2012
12:56 pm
getalife
“It is 2012 not 1950.”
You’d never know that by some of the things you read here -
Rightwing Troll
October 15th, 2012
12:58 pm
Why do wingnuts hate “green” so much??? Green jobs, Kermit the frog, ethanol created from algae… I don’t get it…
Oil is finite, that’s a fact. Our energy has to come from something other than fossil fuels at some point. For all your crocodile tears shed over leaving a national debt to our grandkids… where are those tears for the grandkids left devoid of any viable source of energy and no plan B for the country?
TiredOfIt
October 15th, 2012
12:58 pm
willydoit?
October 15th, 2012
12:53 pm
Gas may well get to $10 per gallon in our life times…
++
It my be now, if you figure in all of the military costs to keep the middle east “open”.
Morality?
October 15th, 2012
12:58 pm
Thought for the day: If Edison had been conceived during Obama’s term would he have been aborted?
Marty Huggins'
October 15th, 2012
12:59 pm
getalife
October 15th, 2012
12:54 pm
Never said the GOP did.
Not voting for the GOP, I’m voting for Romney.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 15th, 2012
12:53 pm
Is that a sign I get at Drudge? Cause that’s what you seem to post about most.
barking frog
October 15th, 2012
12:59 pm
Paul
Can this be explained to
USMC that you were self
deprecating in your remark?
I don’t think so.
moonbat betty
October 15th, 2012
12:59 pm
getalife,
Own it lib.
Man up and admit dems care nothing about creating jobs.
Their interest lies in creating a society that suckles from the teat of government.
Udder failures….
Thulsa Doom
October 15th, 2012
12:59 pm
Moonbat
Obama hasn’t pushed his voluminous personal stock of natural gas because he is still powering along on all that hot air.
getalife
October 15th, 2012
1:00 pm
Moonbat,
You can thank President Obama for natural gas buses, higher fuel mileage ratings, electric and hybrid and self driving cars.
The bailout of the auto industry came with strings attached unlike w bailouts of the banks with no strings attached.
barking frog
October 15th, 2012
1:02 pm
Morality?
October 15th, 2012
12:58 pm
Thought for the day: If
Edison had been conceived
during Obama’s term
would he have been
aborted?
……….
That would have been his
mother’s choice, not
Obama’s.
stands for decibels
October 15th, 2012
1:02 pm
The attempt at ripostes reveals a great deal about some bloggers
That’s just the sort of thing I’d expect a sub-$30K salaried, scooter-riding, Trader Joe’s-employed homosexual Texan to say.
Morality?
October 15th, 2012
1:02 pm
Guess waiting for the “next” Edison under Obama’s reign is problematic since theoretically he could be aborted.
Paul
October 15th, 2012
1:02 pm
Get Real
“ay, if we had started 4 years ago and then more recently added the pipeline from Canada we would definitely be seeing a difference”
There’s a reason that pipeline terminated at Texas on the Gulf coast. First to refineries, then to a terminal where it’d be loaded onto tankers to be sent around the world. In other words, it wouldn’t be shipped back north to points in the US. So it really doesn’t affect US supplies.
moonbat betty
“Why hasn’t Obama pushed natural gas? (not from himself personally, mind you)
We could have had thousands of CNG stations all over the US by now.
Nothing has changed in his tenure.
Time to clean house(s).”
Point of clarification: are you saying Republicans are prepared, under Romney, to intervene in the market and grant taxpayer support to one energy industry to ensure its price competitiveness?
moonbat betty
October 15th, 2012
1:02 pm
“You can thank President Obama for natural gas buses, higher fuel mileage ratings, electric and hybrid and self driving cars.”
All those things were around way before Obama.
Except for the self driving cars…
getalife
October 15th, 2012
1:02 pm
Paul,
“You’d never know that by some of the things you read here -”
We have to drag them into the 21st century like dead weight.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 15th, 2012
1:03 pm
“Morality” — “Term limit under normal circumstances for the President of the U.S. is four years and he/she can, if reelected, serve two terms. You know that it takes an act of Congress under emergency circumstances to extend the term of the President – ala Roosevelt during WWII.”
Yep. And the Constitutional limit is TEN YEARS. Up to two years SUCCEEDING someone else and then two terms elected in your own right.
“Term limits for Obama is 4 years. If reelected? 4 years or 8 years total. Thank goodness. Do your own googling and prove me wrong.”
As I said, smarten yourself up and read the Twenty-Second Amendment, pal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Paul
October 15th, 2012
1:03 pm
barking frog
Well, you’re never going to get 100% understanding of some remarks -
willydoit?
October 15th, 2012
1:03 pm
“Our energy has to come from something other than fossil fuels at some point.”
But for now, fossil fuels are the cheapest and are still in huge supplies. Until we can figure out how to run “everything” on rainbows…Oil is it!
Tonto
October 15th, 2012
1:03 pm
We need an energy policy that is balanced and logical. We can’t go back to the radical republican policy of drill, baby, drill because that leads to spill, baby, spill when we don’t take the time to safely drill and transport the oil through pipelines. We also cannot afford to just burn, baby, burn every thing we produce without efficiency standards like CAFÉ and other policies that conserve our hydrocarbons including renewable energy. We can all agree that we don’t have a discovery problem, but a spending and wasting problem when it comes to our natural resources. If we adopt an energy policy that is spend, baby, spend our children and grandchildren will have no natural resources to live on.
USMC
October 15th, 2012
1:05 pm
Steven Chu’s Europe gas quote haunts President Obama
Steven Chu said, “we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/73138.html
The Bolshevik in the White House does NOT want lower gas prices at the pump!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 15th, 2012
1:05 pm
Is that a sign I get at Drudge?
No.
stands for decibels
October 15th, 2012
1:05 pm
Morality?, here’s a news report you and your
sexist cretinsantichoice buddies can suck on.Adolescent girls who get the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine are no more likely to show signs they may be engaging in sexual activity than girls who do not get the vaccine, according to a new study that challenges a widely held belief.
HPV is the most common sexually transmitted virus, and some strains of the virus can lead to oral and genital cancers. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend the HPV vaccine for girls and boys as young as age 11.
Previous surveys have found that some parents are concerned their daughter may be more likely to engage in sexual activity if they receive the vaccine.
“Some parents are concerned that saying ‘yes’ to the HPV vaccine is also encouraging teenagers to say ‘yes’ to sex,” said Dr. Carol Ford, chief of the Craig Dalsimer division of adolescent medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
The new findings, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, are the first clinical data to study the concern, and found that HPV vaccine does not lead to increased sexual activity among adolescent girls.
Rightwing Troll
October 15th, 2012
1:06 pm
“Guess waiting for the “next” Edison under Obama’s reign is problematic since theoretically he could be aborted.”
Apparently he would’ve been aborted, since Obama is forcing abortions on everybody… or by using the same incredulous stretch and idiotic connotation, had he been born under Nixon’s, Ford’s, Carter’s, Reagan’s, Bush’s, Clinton’s, or W’s reign the world world have been denied Einstein’s genius…
barking frog
October 15th, 2012
1:06 pm
Paul
Sometimes that works out
better.
Paul
October 15th, 2012
1:06 pm
stands
Well, I try to be accommodating -
TaxPayer
October 15th, 2012
1:06 pm
Cons do not really believe in or support capitalism given their complaining about the free market price of gasoline.
moonbat betty
October 15th, 2012
1:07 pm
Paul,
I would hope the most viable solution would be taken advantage of by whoever is in charge at the time.
Normal Free...Pro Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
October 15th, 2012
1:07 pm
Paul,
When USMC said “some” are his best friends, he wasn’t lying. I’ve personally known more than a few gay Marines. He might have been showering with them…
Joe Hussein Mama
October 15th, 2012
1:07 pm
“Morality” — “Mama – I understand your concern about depending on one source of energy and would agree except for the fact that if the sun is not there to generate our energy we won’t have a need for energy since we will be extinct. There will be a major break through in solar power some day that will “save” the world’s economy and doom the sheik’s empire’s in the middle east.”
It doesn’t take a huge breakthrough to do it. All it requires that that we get started doing it and that we be persistent and assiduous in adding solar and wind to our national energy mix.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
October 15th, 2012
1:08 pm
I’m a sentimental old gal.
Stood in the hot sun for an hour with approximately 200 at the early voting center in Larrytown.
They had been expecting 800 people for the day but had hit that number
about 11.
Great crowd, nice people, wonderful Americans.
I am so proud to have cast another vote for Barack Obama for President.
God Bless America.
getalife
October 15th, 2012
1:09 pm
moonbat,
Have see seen natural gas cars?
DownInAlbany
October 15th, 2012
1:09 pm
AJC headline today: Romney tops Obama in Georgia as economy dominates campaign
We are all wasting our time on here…unless you really believe anyone other than Georgians pay ANY attention to this blog…
Marty Huggins'
October 15th, 2012
1:10 pm
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 15th, 2012
1:05 pm
Where can I get one then?
Or are you just using the old very old and played out Bill Engvall bit?
“1997…. Paging 1997 please report to the front of the store, your ride is waiting”
They BOTH suck
October 15th, 2012
1:10 pm
“Thought for the day: If Edison had been conceived during Obama’s term would he have been aborted?”
Are you incorrectly making the assumption that no abortions occurred at the time Edison was conceived?
DownInAlbany
October 15th, 2012
1:10 pm
So, Granny, did you get BOTH of your votes in for O? grin
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 15th, 2012
1:11 pm
We are all wasting our time on here…
Toodles.
Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.
GT
October 15th, 2012
1:11 pm
The real answer to all this is to be less dependent on foreign oil period, but that is socialism to some people. Everything that does not agree with Romney is a communist plot. If we had told people they can’t get 125% mortgages on their houses, we would be told we are social engineering. This individual freedom trumps all except when it comes to buying liquor, prostitution, gambling or drugs. And notice how the red states that have the most poverty have now found a way to have gambling, the very states that were key to prohibition. As Will Rogers use to say, they will keep prohibition out as long as voters can stumble to the polls to vote against it.
Now we tell the country they need to worry about global warming or we need alternative fuel sources or we do something about the medical crisis, they either have a better plan that has not been introduced since 1864 when the Republican Party was organized, or our plan, the only one on the table is all wrong, with them having nothing. Then when the fuel prices are 10 dollars a gallon and their constituents are the ones getting rich off of it, they then convince the dull minded in this country it is the very people who tried to prevent it in the first place.
Rightwing Troll
October 15th, 2012
1:11 pm
“It doesn’t take a huge breakthrough to do it. All it requires that that we get started doing it and that we be persistent and assiduous in adding solar and wind to our national energy mix.”
And some bad investments and failures… yeah that’s all part of it too… the sooner we get those done and out of the way the sooner the technologies can move forward. Solar isn’t too far away considering where it is now, compared to where it was ten years ago.
getalife
October 15th, 2012
1:11 pm
“I am so proud to have cast another vote for Barack Obama for President”
Thank you.
I will chant four more years in line and watch the look on the cons faces.
Morality?
October 15th, 2012
1:11 pm
So if you are “personally” opposed to murder, for example, should you vote for it to be legal because yo don’t want to stand in the way of those that think it’s O.K.? That is exactly what Jivin’ Joe said when he was asked how he felt about abortion. That’s just the politician in Jivin’ Joe – you know, I’m against it but I’m for it.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 15th, 2012
1:12 pm
Where can I get one then?
Where can you get “one” what, sport?
Brosephus™
October 15th, 2012
1:12 pm
I’m saying any decrease in our dependence on oil from countries that aren’t truly allies…is a good thing…
That is a good thing. The ultimate question is how do we get to that independence. We don’t have enough oil reserves to fuel our appetite, so what options do you suggest we use to cut our dependency on foreign oil?
straitroad
October 15th, 2012
1:12 pm
And in other important news, Obama, who admitted to being ignorant of the security situation at all U.S. installations across the globe, answered hard-hitting questions about American idol…
USMC
October 15th, 2012
1:13 pm
“When USMC said “some” are his best friends, he wasn’t lying. I’ve personally known more than a few gay Marines. He might have been showering with them…”–Normal
That sounds a little Homophobic there, Normal.
We hope you were just daydreaming on a Monday and went off on a tangent.
DownInAlbany
October 15th, 2012
1:13 pm
Kam: you’d like that wouldn’t you? Don’t have to deal with the truth that way!
Paul
October 15th, 2012
1:13 pm
moonbat betty
“I would hope the most viable solution would be taken advantage of by whoever is in charge at the time.”
So do I, but that position of setting up the natural gas industry for success and embarking on a program to bring down the cost of natural gas vehicles and expand the infrastructure does seem to run counter to Republican denunciations of Obama’s energy policy and actions.
Normal 1:07
what happens in the foxhole, stays in the foxhole -
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 15th, 2012
1:13 pm
So if you are “personally” opposed to murder…
“Murder” is a legal term.
Since abortion is a legal procedure, it cannot by definition be “murder.”
moonbat betty
October 15th, 2012
1:14 pm
getalife,
Yes, I have seen natural gas cars.
DownInAlbany
October 15th, 2012
1:14 pm
Where can you get “one” what, sport? Keep up, there Kam and you won’t have to ask stupid questions.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 15th, 2012
1:14 pm
Don’t have to deal with the truth that way!
(sigh)
And which “truth” is that, sport?
Joe Hussein Mama
October 15th, 2012
1:15 pm
“Morality” — “So if you are “personally” opposed to murder, for example, should you vote for it to be legal because yo don’t want to stand in the way of those that think it’s O.K.? That is exactly what Jivin’ Joe said when he was asked how he felt about abortion. That’s just the politician in Jivin’ Joe – you know, I’m against it but I’m for it.”
It doesn’t matter how he would vote in regards to it. Abortion’s a legal right in this country as a matter of settled law.
USMC
October 15th, 2012
1:15 pm
“Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.”
Somebody tell Kamspam there are no doors on INTERNET blogs.
(drudgy spam…..)
Paul
October 15th, 2012
1:15 pm
straitroad
“And in other important news, Obama, who admitted to being ignorant of the security situation at all U.S. installations across the globe”
You may want to look at how certain issues are bumped from agency or cabinet level to being deemed necessary for direct presidential involvement and decision.
DannyX
October 15th, 2012
1:15 pm
“Don’t have to deal with the truth that way!”
What is there to deal with if this blog is a waste of time? And why are you still here?
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
October 15th, 2012
1:16 pm
DownInAlbany
Oh heavens! You are one silly goose!
getalife
October 15th, 2012
1:16 pm
Our President will destroy mitt on Libya because mitt freaked out and called our President a terrorist sympathizer and played politics after a attack.
The debate will be another fun one to watch but don’t think he will beat the Vice President’s performance.
DownInAlbany
October 15th, 2012
1:17 pm
sport? I think that’s section B. This is the editorial page.
Georgia
October 15th, 2012
1:18 pm
Downstairs, the same commenters who were experts on the deficit, are now here equally informed about domestic energy resources and the effect of globalization on the price of oil.
What brain drain, eh?
Marty Huggins'
October 15th, 2012
1:18 pm
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
October 15th, 2012
1:12 pm
My sign.
Or is it the old tired Engvall joke?
Erwin's cat
October 15th, 2012
1:18 pm
you want green energy…nuclear is the only current option, and CNG vehicles…viable wind and solar are still very far away to be taken seriously on a national scale
a smart grid of home based wind and solar on the other hand could greatly supplement overall energy demands
DownInAlbany
October 15th, 2012
1:18 pm
October 15th, 2012
1:16 pm
Our President will destroy mitt on Libya because mitt freaked out and called our President a terrorist sympathizer and played politics after a attack.
As opposed to the president that flew to Las Vegas for a fund-raiser! smh
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
October 15th, 2012
1:18 pm
getalife
October 15th, 2012
1:11 pm
“I am so proud to have cast another vote for Barack Obama for President”
Thank you.
I will chant four more years in line and watch the look on the cons faces.
.
.
.
There didn’t seem to be many Romney supporters out today….
That was an Obama crowd…..laughter, chatter and lots of smiles.
Two old white couples behind me talking about how much they
admired FLOTUS.
A great voting experience.
getalife
October 15th, 2012
1:18 pm
“Yes, I have seen natural gas cars.”
Really?
Where?
moonbat betty
October 15th, 2012
1:19 pm
Obama is going to try to over compensate for the last debate and pull a Jennifer Ganholm or Howard Dean tomorrow night. lol
Brosephus™
October 15th, 2012
1:19 pm
frog
Thanks for the chart. I’m curious as to what the current percentages are.
Halftrack
October 15th, 2012
1:19 pm
Drill here, drill now, is not the substance of the slogan. This really means for the government to get out of the way and let private enterprise alone to do its job. Captalist will solve the problem. There is a lot of oil, etc. in Alaska and a Pipeline needs to be laid. Instead of regulations galore, a Government reward or prize for inventing or discovering _____________? would benefit all of us, maybe everyone in the world.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 15th, 2012
1:19 pm
USMC — “Somebody tell Kamspam there are no doors on INTERNET blogs.”
It’s actually a series of tubes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
straitroad
October 15th, 2012
1:19 pm
Paul, why does it matter? The terror attack was really an organic reponse to a video, correct?
stands for decibels
October 15th, 2012
1:20 pm
Abortion’s a legal right in this country as a matter of settled law.
but it won’t be if Romney is elected President, and replaces a Justice or two.