Off Topic!, Let the gas companys burn in HELL Options

[justdrive914]

WTF gas here in asheville NC is up to 5.10 a gallon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Something must be done
914's get good mileage we are tryin here!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ar15.gif)

no more of this for me (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif)

how did it come to this? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

[DBCooper]

Yes, sandbox for sure.

Was that article an op-ed piece? It has a definite partisan feel to it that sounds pretty silly in retrospect, but it is always interesting how people can see the same thing and have totally different interpretations.

In any case the article doesn't contradict what I said. Carter stated that we Americans are addicted to oil and we needed to make fundamental changes. That's a fact. Folks didn't like that idea, they preferred "don't worry, be happy" and "don't think, buy!" consumerism. No question about that. So that's the road we've gone down, nothing really changed, and the country's energy independence has deteriorated a bit more in every subsequent administration. Another fact.

To illustrate the "don't worry, be happy" aspect, do you know a real irony? Remember the Bush-Gore debates in 2000? One of the questions was how the candidates were going to deal with the huge ongoing budget surpluses. Seriously, a trillion dollars of surplus by 2010. And in the last eight years instead of a surplus we've added two trillion dollars to the national debt. Like falling off a log. So those surpluses didn't end up being such a big problem after all, did they?

It is what it is, so learn to love it. Or do something about it.

Sandbox, please.