Many of the protestors were late, stopping their Winnebegos along the way, picking up cans to get gas money to attend.

Truly sad what they have been through.

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Insanity on display...delusional twits all...

Drill Often...Drill Everywhere!

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Fricking liars! 

These are the same brain-dead morons who, for decades, have been telling us we're not paying enough for gas.

If any group of people deserve a lightning-bolt from heaven it's these frauds.

This rag tag group reminds me of the few pieces of flotsam and jetsam that used to stand on corners at the start of the Iraq war and ask people to honk their horns in protest. The media would dutifully turn out each week to film the pathetic bunch until even they got tired and stopped showing up.

McNotObama '08

Words can't express how left-leaning the Times Union is.  I cancelled my subscription to the TU over ten years ago.  You should check out their blogs pages at http://blogs.timesunion.com/ , especially the Read & React area.  Any conservative post or post bashing a lefty will be deleted faster than you can spit.  The TU's local coverage is always slanted towards treehuggers, gays, and police bashing.  There will be a local death in Irag and the story will have three paragraphs about the dead soldier and another 20 paragraphs about Code Pink's effort to end the war.  I'm glad to see a national wbe site such as Newsbusters expose the Marxist TU for what they are.

 Who is responsible for high energy prices? The blame can be laid at the feet of Congress; mostly the Democrats in Congress beholden to the environmental lobby, although the Republicans share the blame because while they controlled both houses of Congress and the Presidency they did nothing to alleviate the problem.  Congress has put every viable source of affordable energy out of reach by government policy and mandated that we burn the food supply instead. They have been the problem not the solution. No nuclear power, no new refineries since the 70’s, no new coal fired plants, no new economically viable energy production period.  No drilling in ANWAR, no drilling on the Rocky Mountain Front, no drilling in the eastern Gulf, no drilling on 85% of off shore US even though the proven reserves are there and Viet Nam and Cuba are currently drilling with in a stones throw of Miami. The current vilification of Big Oil and a call for Win Fall Profits taxes are insanity. The profit of the 5 major oil companies according to the latest information I can find on line was 8.3% in 2006 that is less than the 10% average of all US corporations.  The Oil companies who have hundreds of billions of dollars invested are not the problem, government regulation is. The federal tax on Gasoline is 16.5% and the state tax in Montana is 24.5%, no doubt they are higher elsewhere. I don’t hear anyone talking about their Win Fall Profits and they have invested not one cent. According to the Energy Information Administration, solar energy is subsidized to the tune of $24.34 per megawatt hour and wind energy by $23.37. Wind and solar, despite all their subsidies, contribute less than 1% of our total electricity generation. In stead of supporting development of more efficient nuclear energy, we are converting generation facilities from coal to natural gas instead of liquefying both for motor fuel. Because of government neglect and regulation, alternatives are year’s away form meeting our needs. The world runs on oil and will for the foreseeable future whether we like it or not. Without a reliable energy supply economic disaster awaits us.  It is, in my opinion, time for a house cleaning. When I go to the poles in the next election all I need to know is who the incumbent is so I can vote for the other candidate.                              Won’t you join me?

Add the IQ of all seven of them, you still come short of the required minimum for Moron status.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

What the hell is an "oil free president"?

I will start to listen to these people when they become totally and completely oil free.

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Wow - they make a Code Pink protest look revolutionary and dangerous.

 If I were to tell all seven of those knuckleheads that there is a job paying $58K (starting pay) per year waiting for them in a refinery in Texas. I wonder how far they would throw those signs?

Yeah, sure, it was McCain's fault that we have $4 gas. Dream on.

Today I rode my bicycle 15 miles to picked up some local produce and
have some fun on the way. Tomorrow my wife and I are taking a bus to
the Phillies game.
I'm eyeballing a Honda Rebel 250. I feel so green.

"Burn that mother down." -- Jimmy Ellis

I did my graduate work at SUNY there over 3 wonderful years (that actually looks like the Mobile station at the corner of Lark St. and Washington Ave, right around the corner from my old apartment on Willet St.) and can vouch for the importance of this story for the region: Seven people in Albany who are not related doing anything together on a Saturday afternoon that doesn't involve public intoxication is actually quite a remarkable thing. Though that guy on the far left looks like he'd already been to the Palais Royale just down the block on Jefferson St. for a couple. What a place!

It should be clear, to anyone looking at our country right now, just how much our economy is based on oil.  I believe President Bush's comment that, "We're addicted to oil." wasn't quite accurate.  There's a difference between addiction and dependence.  We depend on oxygen for life, not addicted to it.  We can't wean ourselves off of oxygen, but we can wean ourselves off of oil, but it's going to be a difficult process.

I'm not sure what the figures are, but take your local power plant, run on oil, gas, or coal, and look at the amount of land it takes up.  Now, think about how many windmills it's going to take, and the land it will use up, to give the equivalent amount of electricity. 

They talk about cars running on nitrogen, in the near future.  How many people know they plan on getting the nitrogen from natural gas? (Another product congress won't let us drill for.)

Someone talked about running cars on LP gas.  I asked if he knew what LP meant and he pleaded ignorance.  When I told him it was Liquified Petroleum Gas, he began to understand why the Democrats are so wrong about our energy policy. 

I can't believe that no network will call the Democrats on their energy stance.  Instead, we have the sheep giving the Democrats every opportunity to put out their story with no negative comments or questions from the media.. How, in hell, are the people going to be educated about the problems facing us, with the media we have?

Democrats: Stuck on Stupid since 2000.

We have a congress ran by clowns that are doing their best to make us oil free. The way they have raised prices (through their stupidity) will make us all oil free since we won't be able to buy any. How much oil can we get out of the bodies of the democrats if we run over them with a pavement roller or boil them?  I'm up to either one. 

No one on this planet is really too stupid to know 'who' caused the rapid increase in oil prices, are they? If I was holding a rope with you hanging 500 feet off the ground and you threaten to sue me, guess what, we'll see how fast you travel to the ground. OPEC just retaliated on the dumocrats in congress. I would do the same.

Old, Retired and glad of it.

Don't know if the price of gas in the U.S. is more expensive per gallon than hops-and-barley beverages, but before you cry in your beer, consider this: A gallon of gas in the Tokyo metropolitan area is currently going for about $6.48 per.

1 gallon = 3.785 liters

$1.00 = 105 yen (as of today)