GAS PRICES ALSO FALLThis evening while watching (or rather listening to) Geraldo, Mike Huckabee stated that he has sources who are saying the “economic meltdown” we are experiencing is based on economic terrorism.  For days I have been saying so…

Busy day today, but I want to leave you with a variety of interesting links. First, US national politics: Did you know that criticizing the policies that lead to mortgage and credit crises is racist? Democrat Barney Frank (one of……

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NoDonkey on October 6, 2008 at 3:53 PM

You are about the same size as my BF. I drive a 2000 Ford Exploder, 4.0 V-6 with 4×4 and electric everything that fits me just fine. He was NOT comfortable driving my truck and I have to adjust a bunch of things due to his height.

You aren’t joking about taller people getting those small ass vehicles. It is death behind a wheel for those who are 6’0 or above.

Have you ever tried to put one baby and two adults in a Prius?

I’m 6’3″ and 220 and there’s not a sedan under $30,000 in this country that will hold me and a back seat child carrier.

And that’s before I load up the stoller, etc.

Anyone who thinks that we can all drive around in environmentally friendly go-carts, has no idea what it is they’re talking about.

Unless they’re going to force us to go back to the days when babies rode in cars in their mother’s arms, that is.

factoid on October 6, 2008 at 12:36 PM

Dude, great moonbat channeling!

Have you ever tried to transport a 4′x8′ sheet of plywood from Home Depot in a Prius? NO! And smart people won’t even try… they know that different types of vehicles satisfy different needs.

And out where I live, most of your yuppy ideas would get laughed at! I think that you’re forgetting that a lot of your ideas require a high-density population to be feasible.

Harpoon on October 6, 2008 at 2:10 PM

I like the Nitro. Mine even has 4WD.

Next step: Vulcan Cannon mounted on the roof

“A price of US$100 and below is not suitable for anybody, neither oil producers nor oil consumers,” he told reporters. “OPEC members need to respect their output quota to avoid a worsening of the oversupply,” Nozari said.

Let’s listen for the sound of a camel’s back snapping, somewhere around 60 a barrel. When we hear it, then it’s time to take part in a good old fashioned Middle East wedding tradition…Roast camel.

Failing that, I’ll settle for a country full of ticked off Iranians using their president as a cuspidor.

Ahmedinajad? His best friends are the absolutely worthless Democrat Party along with the Marxist environmental groups.

Without them, oil would be $20.00 a barrel and that’s if we were all riding around in Hummers.

For them, it’s like buying a house at the top of the market and then the bottom falls out.

Couldn’t happen to a better country.

Let’s help them get to the bottom quicker.

emphasizing the national debt relief we’ll get from tax revenues, I read it’s about 6 trillion, IIRC…

hippie_chucker on October 6, 2008 at 12:34 PM

It’s closer to 11.

I just bought an ‘08 Dodge Nitro with a V6 engine. It replaced the ‘05 Saturn with a V6 engine that I totaled a week and a half ago.

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 6, 2008 at 12:25 PM

How do you like it. I’ve been looking at Jeep’s and Nitro’s.

Several gas stations in Delaware were selling gas at #3.19 yesterday. Time to dust off the dogsled upi.

fogw on October 6, 2008 at 12:04 PM

I was in southern NJ last week where it was going for $3.11. We are around $3.40 in north Taxes because of Ike, but someone told me they $3.12. Gasoline futures are telling me that we could see another $.50 drop.

We need some goals for domestic production regardless of the market price. Just like Japan protects it’s rice market.
A country that can feed it’s self is doomed.

There is a definite connection between energy supplies and food production.

That’s great, dude. Ahmedinajad needs more people like you to keep up his cashflow. Those centrifuges are pretty expensive…

factoid on October 6, 2008 at 12:36 PM

hey reject, does it bother you that I LIKE oil and gas? Or is it the damn tree you are hugging so hard trying to block out the “BAD PEOPLE”. I also live in Alaska, I don’t get any of my gasoline from the middle east… so you shouldn’t assume!

FYI everything you are using is made of oil, it doesn’t matter where it is from since no one outsources the information on what products made of oil are from. Don’t believe me? Show me what isn’t on this earth right now that isn’t made out of oil and natural gas or byproducts of it and then show me a label where they get the oil to make these items! Bet you won’t find one.

Just a little fact there little factiod, you may want to check your FACTS since I have busted you out on other occations as well. Wiki is NOT your friend! And you spewing environmental propaganda via “save the oil” BS is seriously getting on my nerves and it seems everyone elses.

Get a clue and come up with something original we haven’t heard or better yet, keep hugging that tree!

Iran was spending every penny at $147 a barrel and now that their income has gone down, some expenses will have to be cut.

gstrickler on October 6, 2008 at 12:39 PM

This is probably also true for any oil-state that has gone socialist (Iraq may just see less surplus). It could topple some of the governments that use socialist spending to buy support. If they are stupid/desperate, they may try to increase production to offset the loss in revenue. Not only will this likely give them safety and wear-and-tear problems, it also inverts the supply curve (which is always a possibility when there is a trust or monopoly involved).
Granted, prices could go right back up, but, if not, then some very bad people could be in very big trouble.
…
It may well be that the world is overdue for a contraction to burn off the dead wood. The problem will be if socialists use it to come to power and drive us into Great Depression II.

The client’s stock price is down $20 from last week, not good. My consulting company can always reassign me elsewhere, but other clients are probably doing some belt tightening too.

Common Sense on October 6, 2008 at 1:07 PM

In other words…… normal free market fluctuations….

Except of course what’s not normal free market stuff…. like government intervention.

Still fluctuations as usual, and, a government bailout will never cure that in the end result.

The client’s stock price is down $20 from last week, not good. My consulting company can always reassign me elsewhere, but other clients are probably doing some belt tightening too.

And CO has the stupid Amendment 58 which will negate a severance tax deal created decades ago to relieve double taxation on oil and gas companies and keep some revenues locally to pay for the impacts of drilling. It’s winning at the moment thanks to morons like Gov Ritter who want to soak “Big Oil” and their “obscene” profits. Maybe Ritter was asleep back in the early 80s when the bottom dropped out of the oil and gas business here in CO. I remember and it wasn’t pretty.

Iran’s Oil Minister said Saturday that it would be “unsuitable” for both producers and consumers for oil to dip below US$100 a barrel.

Other things the Iranians find “unsuitable”:

Women wearing make-up.
Women showing their hair.
Women having custody of their children after a divorce.
Israel.
Jews.
Christians.
Homosexuals.

Seems to me, if the Iranians find it “unsuitable” it can’t be a bad thing.