$4 for a gallon of gas

(excerpted from Investors Business Daily.com)

"For the well-off in this country," Obama said in May 2008, "high gas prices are mostly an annoyance, but to most Americans they're a huge problem, bordering on a crisis."

In August that year, he declared rising energy costs to be "one of the most dangerous and urgent threats this nation has ever faced" and that gas prices "are wiping out paychecks and straining businesses."

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...and the gas prices are supposed to go up this summer. THAT is stunning. Obama was right, back in 2008, when he spoke about the effect of high gas prices on the economy. However, he has no plans to try and do anything about it. Keystone Pipeline? let the Chinese get the fuel. Let the American economy suffer.

Earth Day, which is now a part of Earth Week?

really? why not just go for the entire year? Earth Year. Just cut out Hispanic history month and black history month and take the other 10.

Let’s see: global corporations destroy the environment on a regular basis while extracting oil. Some key examples: Gulf of Mexico, Nigeria, and Ecuador. Governments destroy the environment with nuclear pollution, like Japan with the Fukushima explosions that deposited plutonium into the atmosphere that by now has spread worldwide (one micron in lungs = cancer). U.S. military spreading depleted uranium all over the world with their illegal wars. U.S. Army operating “burn pits” polluting our air with toxic smoke in the war zones with no oversight. The U.S. Navy killing marine life on a massive scale in the Pacific ocean on their five year weapon system testing drills. The U.S. Air Force blocking out the sun with the ongoing “chemtrail” spraying program with the exact reason “classified”. The several hundred thousand square mile plastic island floating in the Pacific, killing ocean life on a huge scale. We have the last remaining old growth forest going down worldwide in the interest of global profits. On and on it goes but it’s illegal for us to burn a few leafs and use more than a gallon to flush our toilets. And soon to be illegal to use incandescent lightbulbs. Something don’t seem right here.

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The number of toxic components in diesel exhaust listed as "Toxic Air Contaminants"

The scientific evidence is clear: diesel exhaust is a complex mixture comprised of hazardous particles and vapors, some of which are known carcinogens and others probable carcinogens.

Diesel exposure poses a significant increase in human health risks.

Compelling evidence from dozens of well-designed studies supports the conclusion that diesel exhaust causes cancer.

In addition, fine particles from diesel exhaust aggravate respiratory illnesses such as bronchitis, emphysema and asthma and are associated with premature deaths from cardio-pulmonary disorders.

The evidence of health effects is derived from extensive studies of human workers as well as some studies in animals, and observations of various kinds of mutagenic activity in culture systems.

The only reasonable conclusion one can draw from the massive scientific evidence is that exposure to diesel exhaust significantly increases human health risks.

Funny how the 'environmantally conscious" around here all see to live in 5000sf McMansions and drive their kids 5 blocks in the Escalade.

Dan-- One think is certain everyone is a downwinder but some have been affected in worse ways like TPARTYERS who approve of Ammoland making depleted ammo and thinking it is only killing Arab kids throwing rocks at tanks or they know something about the god particle that the other 1% don;t nor care about?

@Dan don't u love it, the Chinese Red Army partners of Twit Robme getting the gas from keystone and the Mormons in Salt Lake the pollution! Twit's partners have no place to build the tar sands refinery the air is too polluted now with the sweet crude, too bad the POTUS could not do something about the KOCH BROS looting the resources on the Indian reservations never mind lower the price of gas that is pegged ion the BAINLAND economy now! U should be selling CARNIVAL cruises with the poop u post!

@ what year are u in?pick a year we can talk about the revisionsist history and tidbits AIPAC and the TPARTY that does not exist but want the the Americans who are not downwinders to KNOW NUTTIN ABOUT! OB better be campaiging the TPARTY is giving us the same budget trying to steal the same SSA-MEDICARE trust funds for the banksters that was and is still repudiated by everyone but AIPAC the !% Cayman islander MOOCHERS and nitwit downwinders!
POTUS OBAMA has everything to do with everything and everyone now more than ever, The party is over and now thanks to the TPARTY obstructionists the final decision will be from the shareholders I don't think they wanted it to go that way,
U never heard of TWIT'S PARTNERS the Red Army oversees oil drilling corp doing biz in IRAN ,u did not mention them? That's how the revisionists get away with the Carnival cruise poop they peddle , there is no history to talk about, REAGAN is a demigod, Martha Mitchell, Colby, plumbers, CIA boss replaced by GHW BUSH and the chief of staff of the POTUS was none other than ?? nothing ever happened that changed the paradigm, CLEAR CAHNNEL and MURDOCH ALWAYS OWNED THE MEDIA.

@Dan yer concerns for VET'S is heart warming! Who is the RIGHT WING looter who swindled 500, 000 from the left coast PARALYZED VET ORGANIZTION! Was it u?

http://enenews.com/hidden-noaa-animation-shows-ocean-all-along-u-s-west-coast-wtih-fukushima-cesium-by-april-2011-video

Nuclear power is dangerous and deadly

Butch, Sue. You two were probably up at city hall last summer when mister electricity took a vacation for twenty four hours, screaming at Troy because their ground beef was thawing. I'm not crazy about running out of storage space for spent rods, or the possibility of accidents, but do you have realistic ideas to replace nuclear power? I'm all ears. I kind of enjoyed the power being out, quiet, gas lamp, read a book instead of staring at a tube. Could you?

I'm gonna let my diesel truck idle all day on "earth day" after all it's burning fossil fuel!

See the link below. Great idea and will lessen our dependence on foreign oil. Good for the environment and good for our economy.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-pn-obama-alternative-fuel-research-20130315,0,4015057.story

And Dan, the president doesn't set the gas price, the economy does. And the Keystone pipeline is to take Canadian oil to the gulf to be shipped to other countries. That oil is not for us and will not help our fuel prices. Most people are aware of that. Stop watching Faux news

@Dan--on that I agree, if he is the big enviornmentalist on climate change while at the same time the continuation of the Cheney energy policy! It is past time to open the str. Reserve (unless there are forces the Intell community are warning him of) Harry Truman would be a model on these Koch-and East Tex and now Dakota oligarchs exporting gas and petrochemicals and driving the prices up here or being the refinery for the Chinese and other places where they do not pollute the air and water, the best ex is Iran who allowed Helliburton acess to the Export platforms at Kharg island but would not allow them to build a refinery in Iran, and how does Helliburton get this special exemption on trading and or doing biz with the Mullahs? Ben Afleck should do a follow up on the hostages -- Israeli arms -contra columbian and other drugs etc what say u?
lmao

@ Rev u mean there is no clean coal? Laird it really don't matter if the spent rods are heating up the core all the way to Fuki or u r eating mutated salmon with yer Kool Aid and having yer thyroid craving sttronium 90, the solution is throw out all that info on free energy aka Tesla and the rest of the bio and stuff that god or Helliburton don't want u to know about just keep reading the comics, NewsMax and Drudge!

What would make the best subject for discussion
1-The sons and daughters of TPARTY moralists coming out of the closet, Or their next door neighbors kids being ridiculed and ostracized because they are not related to the hypocrites.
2-Portman-Cheney Haggard -log cabin hypocrites vs Charlatan religous Politician hypocrits waging war on women and gays that are not log cabin or Zionists!
3-- The merits of clean coal and safe nuclear vs HIGH GAS PRICES or better abortion?
Any discussion for the wing nuts is based on abortion and now high gas prices that is the fault of the black guy the bad news gas prices are falling look for another 20 anti abortion bills unless the POTUS and his blue dog advisors gets weak kneed on the big 3!

@Doremus jessup--special thanks was not aware of strikedebt, it seems the AG wants to strike prosecuting the Banksters this would also make a great discusion
who is too big to jail-banksters or millions of Americans!

Don't need to worry about the side effects it is the effects that kill u slowly first it's the thyroid then the memory then who cares just take another Kool Aid!

laird are u a bankster?

@laird for the record I do use solar and the Tesla secret in Fla but at the moment I am not in Fla, I would not expect a supporter of vulture Capitalism and The Chinese Catholic Patriotic Assn ( the very Communist RED ARMY ) the Assn is Chinese Commie Catholics the Bishops that are RED ARMY appointed not the Vatican, for any aveage Kool Aid drinking downwinder to comprehend this is simply the same as the monopoly of Commonwealth and all the Edisons are and were and why Tesla patents and inventions have been as popular as the Book of Enoch!
No need to fret much longer, the partners of TWIT and also the Bush family in Bainland China or as u say Bainskyland are most likely be the first to use TESLA patents it also means they will start junking their hundreds of newly built Coal plants which are dirtier than anything in Europe and here combined they will do it because thanks to u and all the TPARTY supporters demanding Wal mart shoddy shite they can. If they do not they lose their magnificent rivers that is the life blood and about 70% of their population from pollution,that's the good the bad news is the radiation from 1-2-3 reactors across the pond will negate much of the good news but the day of reckoning comes at least they can see theiir way home which on many days now is impossible. Thanks for asking? Are u by chance a log cabin GOP ER?

President Obama: "The private sector alone will not invest in this sector, because it is too expensive and too risky." #obama #argonne. .....O k a y........

Nuke or alternative? depends on what's at stake? profits of the Empire or the Planet!
We know where yer black 666 heart is!

Screw veterans, screw democrats & republicans!! Live off the grid. Stockpile ammo and moonshine. Give everyone dirty looks when you drive into to town. Stop saying 'please' or 'sorry'...live like its a free world.

@ Rich wow! like to add to DAN A screwt AEI, AIPAC who u obviously are parroting and or the banksters who stole recieved and are still getting TRILLIONS and now are targeting the BIGGIE SSA, not the big 3, the market only crashes under GOP, and the Banksters think it will be faster under TPARTY-GOP and so they have never been happier despite the lies and bs

Just stop! You don't even have a bottle return law like Detroit, Chicago. Those glass bottles are often smashed all over your streets and, if still intact, are often found in former flower beds along Belmont to clock each other over the head with at the CTA train station ----- next door to your Alderman's office!

Get real!