Hmmm, gas still costs the same…

Now, didn’t President Bush, John McCain, Sarah Palin, and a whole cadre of Republicans promise immediate relief at the pump if Dems allowed offshore drilling? Well, it’s been a week since the ban was lifted, and guess what, gas in LA has dropped about $.08/gallon. Not exactly the relief promised, eh?
The reason for the delay [...]

Friedman: W is “Addict-in-Chief”

The brilliant Thomas Friedman wrote this today in The New York Times:
Actually, it’s more sophisticated than that: Get Saudi Arabia, our chief oil pusher, to up our dosage for a little while and bring down the oil price just enough so the renewable energy alternatives can’t totally take off. Then try to strong arm Congress [...]

RepublicLies: “Drilling will lower gas prices”

Earlier this week John McCain made a speech in which he called for ending the 27-year-old federal ban on offshore oil drilling. McCain said lifting the ban would allow for the production for more oil and would thus reduce gas prices.
Before looking at what McCain said, let it be known that the Republican candidate had, [...]

Interesting Idea: Convert the entire US car fleet to electric

Found this post while surfing Current.com:
Instead of sending $400 billion each year to countries such as Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, we could spend it on electric car production in the U.S., Mexico, and China. At current oil prices, it wouldn’t cost us a dime extra to stop importing and burning oil for passenger cars.
The numbers [...]