Comments on: U.S. Travel Plans Hit The Skids

Oil Prices Top $135; Survey Shows Most Americans Altering Or Canceling Summer Trips

[msay3]

Au_fait is one of those "not in my backyard" people....Whatever the reason, Florida''s main (and only) industry is tourism....What do you think will happen to that state''s economy when the tourists stay home because they can''t afford to drive or fly to Florida?

[tksk53]

If we had started our own oil program a long time ago, isstead of paying people not to pump oil in our own country and drilled more wells - We would not have been in this fix now
Also when Bush got the oil producers to pump more oil he should have said thanks instead of saying this won''t help
TKTK53

[msay3]

For many of us who live in Florida it is not an environmental issue.

Posted by au_fait at 03:22 PM : May 22, 2008
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So, au_fait, what would you suggest?

[dchu76]

We must drill for oil in ANWR and off our coasts. This will help get us by in the short run until we develop an affordable alternative to powering our cars with gas.
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Posted by fairbalance2


It will take apx 10 years for ANWR to start producing, and the expected reserve will produce 5% of domestic use for 15 years. Not a short or long term solution.

[bobnjersey]

[Then where would libs work?]
[Posted by jamesm12341 at 02:55 PM : May 22, 2008]

well ... there''s always all the positions de-programming the myopic fools like yourself.

[goldesprit]

Really take our country back:

Count all the votes.

[goldesprit]

I can only agree:

"Rich and greedy speculators are setting the energy policy for this country and ruining it, and our president and congress won''''t do anything about it.

This country belongs to all Americans...not just a few rich ones.

It''''s time to stand up and take our country back."

Posted by shanev137

[noloyalisti]

In the late 1970''s, President Carter said he would have us generate 20% of our power from solar sources by 2000. What happened to this wonderful liberal and progressive idea. It was ruined starting with Raygun who sold out our country to the oil companies. Now we are really in trouble and it could have been avoided. No more GOP to torture us.

[shanev137]

Rich and greedy speculators are setting the energy policy for this country and ruining it, and our president and congress won''t do anything about it.

This country belongs to all Americans...not just a few rich ones.

It''s time to stand up and take our country back.

[olebd]

Ain''t it funny how the only skid marks we leave these days are in our underwear, not on pavement.

[au_fait]

Drilling off our coast of Florida is unacceptable. There is no where else where our armed forces have to training that is comparable to what our bases in Florida have. The Gulf of Mexico is home to many of our naval and air force bases that test our aircraft as well as live fire tests. Having an oil rig within these testing areas is unacceptable and a liability to whomelver would have to man the rig. For many of us who live in Florida it is not an environmental issue.

[arlt1627]

Then where would libs work?

Posted by jamesm12341

You''re a sorry partisan hack! That is so sad I don''t even know where to begin.....

[Latrocinor]

We must drill for oil in ANWR and off our coasts. This will help get us by in the short run until we develop an affordable alternative to powering our cars with gas.

Posted by fairbalance2
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We already have alternatives. They are now becoming economically viable due to the high gas prices.

The products are already cheap but the infrastructure to get them to us is not and the demand has not been there to support the infrastructure.

If we get cheap oil then they go back on the shelf and don''t get developed as rapidly as they are now.

[fairbalance2]

Fellow Americans we must wake up, our congressional leaders suing OPEC and lecturing big oil will not get us more oil. We must drill for oil in ANWR and off our coasts. This will help get us by in the short run until we develop an affordable alternative to powering our cars with gas. Call your congressmen today and tell them to quiet bowing down to the environmentalists!

[robert95111]

I can certainly see business being establish to assist travelers in facilitating their needs to purchase clothing at their destination, rather then paying for their luggage at check-in. There would be deposable under garments and rental clothing.

[bobnjersey]

[The entire plan was from the Clinton era.]
[Posted by bhoogren at 02:48 PM : May 22, 2008]

what plan was that? to invade w/ 150k troops?

c''mon ... you''re spiralling downward into abusurdity ... and at the same time you reference ''blaming and shaming''?

[Latrocinor]

you can''''t really be serious ... your posts have, for the most part, been lucid and reasonably objective ... but this one is in the category of ''''ridiculous''''.

Posted by bobnjersey
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Coming from you it''s a compliment.

[Latrocinor]

We had to pay for the invasion and occupations for oil. It worked out perfectly for the oil companies as you can see. How are the failed GOP policies working out for We the People?

Posted by noloyalisti
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Yesterday, Clinton signed into law HR 4655, the "Iraq Liberation Act of 1998." In a presidential statement, issued by the White House, Clinton said,
"This Act makes clear that it is the sense of the Congress that the United States should support those elements of the Iraqi opposition that advocate a very different future for Iraq than the bitter reality of internal repression and external aggression that the current regime in Baghdad now offers. . . . On October 21, 1998, I signed into law. . ."
. . . INC WELCOMES IRAQ LIBERATION ACT
INC Welcomes President Clinton''s Signature of the Iraq Liberation Act London (October 31, 1998) Following is a statement by Ahmad Chalabi, President of the Executive Council of the Iraqi National Congress.Let him (Sadaam) know that Iraqis will rise up to liberate themselves from his totalitarian dictatorship and that the US is ready to help their democratic forces with arms to do so."
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The entire plan was from the Clinton era.

If you weren''t so addicted to blaming and shaming you could actually get some reality going in the deluded mind of yours.

You do not understand about continuity and stability in our government.

[bobnjersey]

[It''''s OUR government - not President Bush''''s.]
[Posted by bhoogren at 02:18 PM : May 22, 2008]

only in the text books it''s that way. has anyone actually told gwb this yet?

you can''t really be serious ... your posts have, for the most part, been lucid and reasonably objective ... but this one is in the category of ''ridiculous''.

[Latrocinor]

Posted by gopsoccermom
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You are not who you say you are. You are here just to troll. You''re probably not even a female.''

A 13 year old maturity level making prank posts. Have fun little boy.