The Bucknuts Hot Spot

IF i could give you three up votes on this post I would. Big +1 for you, sir.

Hey Buckeyewarrior check out my avatar. Its from Operation Safe Passage in Panama in January 1995. Our unit deployed to transport Cuban refugees from Panama back to Guantanamo Bay. The origins of Guantanamo Bay prison was built to keep these refugees then it changed after 9/11. It's my favorite picture from the military.

Fucking sweet!

It is actually you cons who are just making absurd comment after absurd comment. We currently have more wells pumping overall and are producing more oil than we have in years. The market doesn't set a price based upon whether the oil is from private or public lands. As i have posted elsewhere, "The U.S. exported more gasoline, diesel and other fuels than it imported in 2011 for the first time since 1949." Our production is the highest in 8 years and our consumption is down due to the recession, mild winter, etc.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-29/u-s-was-net-oil-product-exporter-in-2011.html

So perhaps your remark of "but your bozo President has been intervening in the economy, penalizing the use of capital, stifling job growth and fossil fuel production ever since he came into office" is the ignorant comment because if that is true how is production up, use down, and exports exceeding imports for the first time in over 60 years?

Gas prices have gone up as the price of a barrel of oil on the world market has gone up. Speculators on Wall St. have exacerbated what OPEC is doing. And then there is the horrendous profits by the oil companies. As I have posted elsewhere:

"Feb. 2009; cost oer barrel on the world market (CPB) $31.04; gas $1.91 a gallon.

March 2009 CPB $40.13; Gas $1.94

June 2009 CPB $61.7; Gas $2.67

March 2010 CPB $72.90; Gas $2.80

Dec. 2010 CPB $81.01; Gas $2.86

Jan. 2011 CPB $84.47; Gas $3.05

May 2011 CPB $92.92; Gas $3.96

June 2011 CPB $87.92; Gas $3.65

Table stopped at Sept 2011 CPB $77.31 Gas $3.60 http://www.ioga.com/Special/crudeoil_Hist.htm

Inspection shows a direct relationship between the price of oil and the price of gas. Given that OPEC not Obama controls the price, how are the higher gas prices his fault?

Then there is also these figures to consider. Profits from the top 5 oil companies:

2009 - 64.77 billion dollars
2010 - 76.24 billion dollars
2011 - 137 billion dollars"

So once again the facts do not support the Right's asinine criticisms of Obama.

I have only scanned in a handful. I have several albums still waiting. Something to get to eventually.

I insulted YOU the person, don't really care. and still don't believe( personnal opionon....................................................)you even serve as a boy scout.....ok Mr.Powers.....

it's only been 17 years........

$4.10 in central Illinois today, and an economic slowdown is on the horizon with less disposable income in people's pockets, and just wait until higher transportation costs make their way through the supply chain for anything that is transported. Thank you, Fed, for giving us a worthless dollar, which is as much to blame as anything for high gas prices - oil's benchmark pricing currency is the dollar, and a less valuable dollar is a prime contributor to higher oil and gasoline prices.

You know as much (really as little) about oil as you do about the law and the Constitution. The price is higher because world demand is higher (isn't that hard to understand?)--we have enough oil on public lands to make a huge dent in the price of oil, but your bozo President won't authorize additional drilling. You conveniently ignore the fact that production on public lands is down--but when did facts ever actually shape your view on anything? You've proven time and again to not be a worthy interlocutor--you simply ignore inconvenient truths and go on your merry way. Stay happy in dream land.

Do people really believe the President has much control over gas prices? If that were the case, don't you think he would purposely lower them since it is an election year?

Give me a break.

You are so naive and blinded by your own racist views that it wouldn't matter what facts and/or evidence anyone presented to you. The opposition to this president has nothing to do with him being black for the significant majority of people (Again, there are just as many people who will vote for him for the exact same reason and I'm sure you don't have a problem with that)... It has everything to do with his liberal policies which are not consistent with the views of many Americans and his abysmal record. I voted for Ken Blackwell for governor instead of Ted Strickland (I would also support someone like Condi Rice on just about any ticket which shatters two of your false conservative narratives)... I'm guessing you did not and he just wasn't "black enough" for you or perhaps even an "Uncle Tom" by the left's racist characterizations.

You feign intelligence by using terms such as "fear" and "hatred" as some sort of pseudo rationalization... You are partially correct in that we do fear Obama's policies because they are bad for our future and our children's. However, the hatred component seems to emanate more from you and your ilk ("scumbag").

Drilling takes time. Unless the President used the reserve supply (a wildly irresponsible move), you would not see a change in gas prices for a few years. Even then, that doesn't solve any long term problem. It's a band aid. We still would need to import oil and there still is the issue that we don't control the supply.

People still erroneously believes the President can wave a magic wand and whatever action they want goes in to place. Congress would be the more appropriate body to act in the manner you are speaking of. The only area where the President has clear executive power is foreign policy. These poor policy decisions have more to do with the incentives in our government structure than one man.

Everyone is looking for simple solutions to complex problems. Since there is either no clear answer or not one that people are willing to accept, they'd rather complain.