Gasolene prices over $5.00 a gallon.

Yes, gas prices today hit the $5.00 a gallon mark for the first time in history. Due to the resent storms effecting the gulf coast and the lack of refining capability, "we had to move the pries up to try and slow demand" an oil company spokesman said today. "It is the only way to insure a consistent flow of product all across the nation", he concluded.

When asked for comment, the President said.. "I will look into this matter, I will leave no stone unturned, and if there is gouging something will be done about it."

"That something is more than likely him calling buddies in the oil business to congratulate them in their stellar profits for yet another year." Al Franken was head saying on Air America shortly after the president’s speech.

We say, we here ya’ Al.. of course we are two of the 16 that actually can hear you.

Later today, it is suspected that Natural Gas prices will be doubled again for the second time since hurricane Rita made landfall late in the evening of September 23, 2005.

And as predicted fuel oil prices have hit another all time high, despite the large quantities of free heating oil supposedly delivered to the states from Venezuela.

It would seem that George Bush not only would like to drown, and starve poor people, he also would like them to freeze to death.

"Thank you sir, where would we be without you." Was the response of Jabber Eatins a dislocated black Cajun we found freezing to death in a Detroit suburb, where he was left to fenced for himself after his $2000 FEMA ATM was taken from him at gun point earlier this week. (Of course we could have given him a ride back to the south which is warm enough to survive in. but it is more fun to report this way. And just let him freeze)
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Of course the above is satire and a fictionalized account of the coming weeks.
It is not meant to e humorous, just insightful.. at least it pleased me when I wrote it.

I am praying to my pagan god that lives are spared, and that Rita does only damage to things and not people.
I hope and pray too, that we can learn from the mistakes that we have made that have led up to the difficulties we now face after one storm and waiting for another to arrive. I really truly wish that we as a nation can pull together and help the people that will be and have been effected by these two storms, and hope that we realize that it is only matter of time before we go through these same scenarios again.


I really feel it should be the responsibility of the State and Local government to take care of it’s population, in time of emergency. The Federal Government should help the state in extreme cases, but the feds cannot know all the details of every situation or in every location, nearly as well as the locals can, and do. Perhaps there needs to be a shift in where tax dollars are going? Perhaps there needs to be more local level accountability? Perhaps the feds should stay the hell out of the way, other than providing interstate infrastructure and facilitating communication between state governments. I don’t know what the answer is, but I do not think the system that is in place is at all efficient of even working.

I was surprised to find out that the states that are in disaster areas waiting to happen, do not have food and water reserves? It seems silly to ship ice from Maine to Texas? Why is there not ice in Texas already? How about MRE’s? (Meals Ready to Eat) where are the state stock piles of those? (Much less the local level reserves?) It all seems just to centralized? Why do we let the Federal Government be out parent? Why do we expect it from the Feds? (and then complain about our taxes?)
It would seem to me that the expense of living in a place in time of need, should be shouldered by those that live there. NOT FAIR YOU SAY! Well keep in mind that local economics is always relative, If you and to pay much higher taxes to live in Florida, wages would be higher, and property costs would be closer to something resembling reality all through the sunshine state.
This would also discourage what we saw in New Orleans, if taxes were so high that the poor could not afford to live in low lying areas, then the poor would not have been the ones living there, and the people who were would have been able to evacuate, using their own private transportation.

It bothers me to see the Feds pledging money to the recovery, even though I did donate money and even helped create a few successful fund raisers. It is just that I know how poorly the government track record is for money management. And I hate to see my tax dollars get wasted, because those in charge of them, do not care how wisely they are spent. And in some cases only want to see those that helped them gain their power benefit.. it is like robbing from the poor and giving to the rich all over again, only this time, I don’t see a National Robin Hood anywhere in the near future.

Again I do not have the answer to Governmental waste.. It has always been around, at least as long as there has been government. It is perhaps incurable, because waste to one person is a necessary favor to another. What I see as Pork, someone else sees as the necessary redistribution of the national monies. Hwo do you stop it?

People ask me if I am a Republican or a Democrat, a conservative or a liberal, my only answer is that when it comes to politics I am an agnostic. (I don’t believe any of it)

It is a shame that our government has such a bad reputation in the eyes of the people, I blame a great deal of that on the divisiveness of modern politics, and a lack of genuine care for the people by those who lead us.

I cannot say that our government is “Of the People , By the People and For the People “ anymore. And honestly cannot tell you if it ever was. That may have only been a nice pitch man’s saying when it was first written.

So what is a person to do? Move to Canada? Move to Venezuela? Nah, it ain;t that bad here, but it could be so much better , don’t you agree?

DeRex solves America's energy problems...

DeRex solves America's energy problems...

Here is my step by step solution to the fuel crisis. (long term)

Open drilling in UT, CO, AK NOW!
Build refineries , and lot’s of them
Allow further building of nuclear power plants. As well as new coal technologies power plants.
Make a single standard for Gasoline formulation, keeping environmental impact in mind.

I know that a number of the suggestions above do not sit well with the environmentalists, so let me continue.

Give tax breaks to Oil / Energy / Other companies when they invest in alternative fuel/energy source research.

If tax breaks are big enough there should be no need for the government to step in with taxation and direct funding of alternative energy technologies, other than perhaps in assisting with the final infrastructure and regulations, the government should keep it’s hand out of the pie. (Look at how badly they manage money everywhere else.. I don’t want them helping)

I have heard numbers that say we currently have more oil than Saudi Arabia under our soil. We need to break away from foreign oil dependence and using the guidelines above, we can, and can forever with the investment from the private sector in alternatives. In the mean time, this week I have heard that global warming is a. irreversible at this point, and b. caused primarily by the sun.. lets have a gasoline and desiel driven party to celebrate.. I will bring the hot dogs.

If the environmentalists cannot get their minds around the big picture above, I cannot help you.. you simply need to step aside and let the doers do.

Passed on to you.. viddy well me little droogie woogs

DeRex Wrote: Here it is kids, the first alarm bell.. the warning of what is to come in the next weeks and months. I hope he is wrong.
This was passed onto me by secret sources.. make of it what you will.

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article to come soon http://www.angelfire.com/mi2/hottubs/without getting into the details of what I am currently doing in the spa industry, let me tell you this. In the last 30 days I have seen a 25% increase in the cost of some materials used to make our spa shells. I am told that if the right part of Texas gets hit my Rita I mat not be able to get some raw materials I use in spa manufacturing. Due to shortage and diverting to rebuild.. government gets theirs first ya know.

As a result I see a 15% or greater price increase needed to keep everything flowing and to keep margins at a level that will be needed to keep a float over the next 18 months. (I am painting a worst case scenario, but there really may be a shortage of spas here and soon!)If you are a spa shopper , my suggestion is to BUY NOW!Like gasoline many of the products used to make your spa are petroleum and energy dependent. If you believe that gas prices are not going back down any time soon, you must then think the same about spas.Do not wait to buy, if you go past January I promise you will see an increase in any of the three brands I am closely associated with at this time, and I have to assume that this will likewise effect the entire industry.

The UN.. move it now.. punish the guilty, or close up shop and make the building condos.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168591,00.html

Here we go some more.. UN scandal.. bribes.. Russians.. oil for food.. yada yada yada..

When will we finally admit that the UN is broken.. and perhaps broken beyond all repair.

It’s okay,, the League of Nations failed too.. it is not a first.. it is only a case of history repeating itself.

I just do not believe that he UN can succeed, human nature is too corrupt. When countries that are known to torture and kill it’s own people are put in charge of human rights, the system is broken.. when officials can get rich taking bribes, with very little consequence.. it’s broken.
I think a big part of the problem is the size of the UN.. I man have you seen the building? It’s HUGE! Time to downsize.. and look where it is.. If you converted it to condos the money that could be made in tax revenues rather than spent by NYC in protecting these arrogant dick-heads!

I think if ever there was a case for Eminent Domain taking “private” property because the revenues would go up to the city, this is the case that America could stand behind.

The UN just ticks me off.. I feel like what have they done for me lately.. I am sure may more people feel the same.

So here is my proposed solution.. Cut the size of the UN in half.. put the UN on a 4 year rotation.. every 4 years the UN headquarters is moved into the most impoverished place on the planet, make the UN building complex out of mobile home trailers.. this way they can be broken down and moved with the UN every 4 years. If in the 4 years they are in the Hell that they are sent to, they do not make marked improvements to that area, they are all fired, and the next group comes in , the ones who are fired however, must now stay where they failed, on their own, no help form their mother country.. just them.. no jobs.. no food.. just the clothes on their back.. and a note that says “Thank you for your service.. you are on your own”.

Then we could take the kind hearted countries like The Congo.. and put them in charge of the UN prison.. if you are a member of the UN and you are convicted of a crime, especially stealing from the UN, you get to go to UN prison, where the kind humanitarians of the Congo will “take care” of you for your sentence.

Power corrupts.. the UN is a corrupt institution.. and either needs to clean it’s own house, or be burnt to the ground making way for a new and improved version.

(Even if the UN were to get itself in order, I feel it needs to be somewhere else.. and the 4 year rotation is a valid idea once you remove the sarcasm)

Dear FEMA... grab a hold of both ears and pull until you hear a pop and see light again...

http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/1978720.shtml

$800 / day to babysit ice.. in MAINE!

Dear FEMA, I will gladly sit with this truckload of ice for only $500 a day. I will even allow you to run the refrigerated trailer off of electricity supplied from my own home, at only a slightly higher rate than the electric company bills me for it.

I have enough room for 5 refer trailers here at my home, and will give you a discountd rate of only $400/day (a full 50% discount from what you are currently paying) each if you can send me no fewer than 5 truck trailers to keep here in storage for you.

I am closer to the gulf coast than Maine is and feel that this measly $2000/day income is a sacrifice I am willing to make for the good of my fellow countrymen.

You may continue to store ice trailers here at my house for the remainder fo the season (about 60 days) at the above rates.. it is the least I can do.