Comments on: Politics: The revolution will be Twittered

By: maubs

maubs — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:41:56 +0000

(insert upside-down exclamation point here)Viva la Revolucion!
I’m fed up with the Republicans, though, who wouldn’t push through their agenda when they had both houses and the presidency. We should be drilling in ANWR by now.
BJ is correct about refining capacity. Would reduce the swings in price when any refinery loses capacity.
Another thing that would help is to standardize the formulation across the state, and maybe across the MidWest, to help stabilize prices. It’s ridiculous that different mixes are required in different counties. Let’s just all adopt the same standard (the most stringent one, even!) and make things simpler.

By: Peoria Pundit Â» Media: Boy, the left wing really hates free speech

Peoria Pundit Â» Media: Boy, the left wing really hates free speech — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:19:27 +0000

[...] The other day, I wrote about how the Democrat-controlled Congress went home and tried to turn off the lights on debate about energy policy. Dissident Republicans staged a Twitter revolt. [...]

By: Ian Schwartz

Ian Schwartz — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:38:08 +0000

I figured as much Billy…but boy does oil get people hot.

By: Knight in Dragonland

Knight in Dragonland — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:07:12 +0000

So the Republicans never shut off the Dems on topics they wanted to debate when they held the reigns of power? {SNORT} I’m not saying that was ever right – it’s tyranny of the majority – but that’s how the House rules work. The temper tantrums of the Repubs ring a little hollow when most of them gleefully participated in such antics before 2006.

Besides, it’s not like the idea of offshore drilling isn’t getting air time. The Republican candidate for POTUS has it as the center of his proposed energy policy. It’s an essential pandering point of the McCain campaign.

By: Billy Dennis

Billy Dennis — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:39:50 +0000

The point to this post isn’t the positions of the participants. It’s the use of technology to bypass the whims of arbitrary authority and to shed light on the inner workings of government.

By: Ian Schwartz

Ian Schwartz — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:03:58 +0000

haha…the post took on a life of its own.

By: anotherexjser

anotherexjser — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:55:49 +0000

Any idea that Republicans are fiscal conservatives is now officially dead.

By: Knight in Dragonland

Knight in Dragonland — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:16:06 +0000

Increasing domestic oil production is as much of solution to the energy crisis as increasing domestic production of cocaine and heroin is a solution to the problem of drug abuse in this country.

3% of the world’s oil reserves … 25% of the world’s oil utilization. Republicans are supposed to be the fiscal conservatives. Do the frickin’ math.

By: BJ Stone

BJ Stone — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:52:46 +0000

I hate typos. That word was obviously supposed to be “completely”. My bad.

By: BJ Stone

BJ Stone — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:52:01 +0000

We don’t need any more DRILLING (although I, for one, am NOT opposed to ANWR), and we have plenty of land available for them to drill on anyway.

What we need is more REFINING, and this again is where the oil companies and GOP lie to us. NO ONE is keeping them from building new refineries. They simply refuse to meet simple regulations designed to keep big oil from completly ruining our air, land, and water.

Big oil turns in more record profits every quarter in part because they refuse to spend any money on infrastructure, instead preferring to continue to use aging refineries and purchasing oil from elsewhere.

The entire “the Dems won’t let us drill!” argument is another silly GOP ruse to make it appear that Dems and Liberals are the enemy. We are not. Period.