Rising Gas Prices

[bmrigs]

I'm listening to the Neal Boortz radio talk show this morning. He is in London today, and reported the unleaded gas there is $10.00 a gallon. A caller asked if that was a US gallon, or Imperial gallon. Neal didn't know, but was converting litres to gallons. Londoners also have to pay fees to be able to drive on the roads, and have to rent their parking places. This is inside London; we don't know about the countryside.

Yes the cost of living in London is overbearing. Most of Europeans nations get tax out the a** . Its the price you pay for living in socialist countries. America is close behind.

[BankruptPinoy]

Bush will end executive ban on offshore drilling

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/14/bush-will-end-ban-offshore-drilling/

Bush Lifts Ban On Offshore Drilling
Congress Must Still Lift Legislative Ban Before Controversial Drilling Can Happen

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/14/national/main4257757.shtml

Bush lifts oil drilling ban, wants Congress to act

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080714/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

George W Bush just announced on July 14, 2008 that he is lifting the Executive Order ban on offshore drilling and urged Congress to join with him.


Why would he do that now?


Seriously, did it take our decisive "Great Decider" that long to make that decision...or did something just happen and he had no choice?


I submit it is the latter. You decide:


1. Both my instincts and my sources say it is because after almost 30 years of plotting, scheming and conniving, the Caspian Basin is now lost to the US and UK. By hiding their greed and lust for power and control behind a Global War on Terror aimed at Islam, they have now managed to accomplish absolutely nothing in over six years except to blow trillions of dollars in vain and get a lot of people killed, both foreign and American, based on their lies. The US will get some oil but it definitely will not control the Caspian Basin area.


2. Islamic Turkmenistan recently announced that it was going to sell most of its natural gas to China and a pipeline will soon be completed to do just that. In the very near future, Turkmenistan natural gas will be flowing north into Russia, east to China, and southeast into India. All of that natural gas was targeted by the US and UK in their tragically flawed Global War on Terror...to turn it into American and British controlled natural gas. And they failed to to do so by any measure one can define as 'failed'.


This was in a document I presented at '9-11 Confronting the Evidence' - and folks, they still do not have this pipeline done:

> 7 Oct 2001: US attacks Taliban under War Plan designed, practiced pre-9-11.


> 8 Feb, 2002: Afghanistan's interim leader Hamid Karzai said he and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf had agreed to revive a plan for a trans-Caspian gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan.


> 27 Dec, 2002: Central Asia pipeline deal signed; An agreement has been signed in the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat, paving the way for construction of a gas pipeline from the Central Asian republic through Afghanistan to Pakistan.


> 23 Feb 2003: OPEC agrees to fund the pipeline and Bush has guaranteed to protect it with U.S. troops (without telling United States citizens). "23-02-03 Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan (TAP) have signed a protocol for trans-Afghanistan Gas Pipeline Project However, some recent reports had indicated that the United States was willing to police the pipeline infrastructure through permanent stationing of its troops in the region. The US ExIm Bank, the Trade and Development Agency (TDA) and the Overseas Private Insurance Corporation (OPIC) had also shown readiness to finance such a project, if leading American energy giants come forward.


> 9 Sept 2003: Bridas prevails at the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals after years of being jerked around in Texas courts. A $485+ million arbitration award upheld.


> 22 Mar 2004: U.S. Supreme Court denies Writ of Certiorari, upholding 5th Circuit decision. State Concern Turkmenneft v. Bridas, 03-1018


They played a bad hand and lost.


3. We shall all be hearing soon about pipelines where Kazakhstan oil and gas is headed in the opposite direction as the US and UK wanted via the schemes they planned, and lied about, and failed to accomplish. Most of Turkmenistan's energy export has already headed the other direction.


4. Russia and Iran have just signed a major oil and natural gas agreement. Therefore, any planned attack on Iran by the US or Israel will now be viewed by Russia as a direct attack on the interests of Russia. If you do not know how to play chess, that is called CHECKMATE. Game over.


5. Iran is selling $400 billion in oil and LNG to China under a long-term contract. They are also bringing online, right now, 2 million metric tons per year in ethylene capacity at Asaluyeh on the Persian Gulf.


Iran has no reasons whatsoever to close the Strait of Hormuz except in response to a direct attack by the US and/or Israel.


6. Iran, Pakistan and India recently entered into an agreement for the IPI Pipeline that will supply natural gas and oil to India.


Folks, that all adds up to colossal amounts of oil and natural gas that are not going to the US nor with the US or UK be in control of that "distribution and revenues" I recently wrote about.


Did the Great Decider stand before America on July 14 and admit his defeat? Did George W Bush admit that after almost 30 years of deceit and plans to take over the Caspian Basin, that those best laid plans from DC have failed miserably?


Did he share with America, in sort of Christian fashion of truth, that he has failed all his life and, as of just recently, history will record that his presidency failed to achieve anything good? The 'tide of truth' is more like a tsunami as their DC lies are unveiled one after another for the entire world to see.


No, he staged a press conference to state that America needs to find oil and gas...quickly. Somehow, he failed to mention any of the real reasons for such 'urgency'.


Just do the math, folks.


For almost 30 years, our government and the UK have lied, schemed, connived to take over the Caspian Basin and its vast oil and gas resources. They failed.


They have two routes out for pipelines through Afghanistan or across the Caspian Basin and through Georgia to the Black Sea. They have failed to instigate either. Others are getting the pipelines done and the oil and gas is not headed in the direction that the US or UK can control.


They created Al Qaeda all the way back during the Carter Administration, and still failed.


They had to come up with an excuse to attack Afghanistan so they would have the pipeline right-of-way to get that oil and gas to world markets. They failed to achieve that, as well.


What was the excuse they came up with to attack Afghanistan? September 11, 2001...so they could launch the big lie of the fatally-flawed Global 'War on Terror.' I knew on that day that the rattlesnake within our government had bitten itself.


Without firing a single shot, Russia, China, India and Iran now control the vast amounts of natural gas and oil in that part of the world. Even the former USSR states of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan now realize that they can no longer wait on the idle promises and pipedreams of Bush and Blair, or the threats they receive behind the scenes from those governments.


They say the pen is mightier than the sword. Yes, and true, for pens and commercial contracts have just defeated what has to be the dumbest war plan in the history of mankind, the Global War on Terror. The greatest military power on Earth has been humbled, thwarted and defeated by commercial contracts and pens.


What is the lesson that our leaders will fail to learn, fail to admit as their big mistake, the error that started them on their path to being war criminals?


Never, never, start a fabricated war against any religion or any contrived enemy...most especially if the owners of what you are after happen to be Islamic.

...Bush now has to get his butt in gear and start finding oil and gas, and producing it, rather than try to steal it with fabricated, illegal wars of aggression.

More of that piece at:
America - Death By Terminal
Madness And Stupidity

http://www.rense.com/general82/ammad.htm

[AMISLANDER]

Sitting here thinking about whether or not to get rid of my paid off 2000 4Runner at the end of the year, I started checking the mileage of recent honda/toyota products.....well, it's making things hard because, to get 5 miles per gallon better, I would have to incur a car payment & insurance raise...gee, has this gas issue hit anyone else this way? It's like, I might as well do the brakes, keep taking the bus, and not have a car payment...oh the stress of it all....

At least I had oatmeal with a banna & milk for breakfast & felt better than ever....Maybe more oatmeal on the menue as it's cheap and good for you.

[robivi3]

Diesel, $5.01 per gallon, corner of NW 36 st. and 72 Ave. at the Shell Station. WOW

[BankruptPinoy]

lol AMISLANDER! me too! More oatmeal with raisins for us too.

[BK2008]

I paid 3.99 for gas earlier this week, the most I have ever paid.

I've been experimenting with 60MPH cruise controlled commute this last week.

I got an additional 25 miles out of that tank of gas. That brings my MPH overall up to 22mpg.

Of course, people were ticked off because I wasn't doing 80mph, and I was in the slow lane. Nevermind you can't really go too fast for too long, then you hit traffic.

[HRx]

I paid $4.39 for gas this Sunday...luckily I've been averaging 24.3 mpg on my car, and it's a 350hp V8. Yikes!

[BK2008]

I paid $4.39 for gas this Sunday...luckily I've been averaging 24.3 mpg on my car, and it's a 350hp V8. Yikes!

That's pretty good mileage! Better than what I'm getting, and I definitely don't have that many horsies! (I miss those days...)

[HRx]

That's pretty good mileage! Better than what I'm getting, and I definitely don't have that many horsies! (I miss those days...)

This is the best I've done so far...I typically average about 22mpg (mix-driving). Which isn't to bad, but luckily my daily round trip commute is only 42.5 miles round trip.

[NowImDownInIt]

I've been noticing slips in the gas prices here. Seen several 3.79s and 3.71s, I hope this becomes the trend...

[BKOnce]

Yep... hang tight...time for roller coasting down everyone... till Obama time, gas will be less than $1 buck per gallon,... then I will drink & wash my car with it to revenge !!!...

[AngelinaCat]

As of today, the prices have dipped a bit. The place closest to our house which had posted $4.12 for unleaded for almost two weeks is now $4.02. The two cash-onlys are $3.99 and $4.01 respectively and the Citgo across the street is $4.01. I went a different way to work today so don't know what the place closest to my work is.

I never thought I would be GLAD to see $3.99 gas...

[Scott50]

Yep... hang tight...time for roller coasting down everyone... till Obama time, gas will be less than $1 buck per gallon,... then I will drink & wash my car with it to revenge !!!...

your joking right???

[Scott50]

Yep... hang tight...time for roller coasting down everyone... till Obama time, gas will be less than $1 buck per gallon,... then I will drink & wash my car with it to revenge !!!...

$1.00 per gallon. the days of cheap gas are a thing of the past..

[HRx]

The days of cheap anything in this country are long gone now! lol