Have you called your oil man lately? In the Northeast, few if any oil companies are offering fixed price plans because they don’t have any idea what the price of home heating oil will be in the fall and winter. “People are trying to figure out what they are going to do,” the nice lady said. How much money to put aside? “Whatever you spent last year, plan on doubling it,” she replied. It’s difficult to know how most people are is going to be able to do that.
John McCain’s good deal…
Here we go. We get to keep the war until it’s won. We get to drill for oil in protected areas. We get to build more nuclear power plants and generate more radioactive waste. Hello. He’s John McCain and he’s a Republican. It’s a good thing. Running against this guy, Barack Obama should be able to raise enough campaign money to retire the national debt AND become president. Where do we send the checks?
This week’s specials…
So it seems if John McCain gets to be president we get to keep George’s war until we “win” the thing, hand over Iraqi oil to a coalition of big oil companies, go a-drilling off shore and, oh, yes, build 45 new nuclear power plants? Did we miss something here? Has someone solved the nuclear waste problem while we were out? Well, that’s pretty clear, at least. Isn’t that something to which we can all look forward?
Remember the song…
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam…. from Monty Python
Today’s version from Barack Obama, “Change, Change, Change, Change…”
OK, it IS the economy, stupid. More American than you know are in big trouble here. Barack Obama has one chance to get this right on the road to the White House. Hope he does.
Otherwise, “change” will most certainly come to mean, “Hey, buddy. Can you spare a dime?”
Read the news…
It’s good that the New York Times keeps its fingers on the pulse of America. Today, we can learn that gasoline at $4 a gallon has a real bad impact on low-wage rural folks. What took them so long? One day they may figure out that’s where food comes from. After you put the cash in the tank, you don’t go out to eat or rent a movie or buy a new shirt. You don’t buy a new car. Those dollars are long gone.
Dick and George have really done it this time, setting speculators and oil-producing country free to slam all of us with petroleum. You do not need a PHD to figure out how to hurt America. What is Barack Obma going to do about this? We need some answers — now.
100 percent solution…
Right here and right now it seems that the best thing for the Democrats is to team Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to create a super candidate. Craft a peace policy, craft an economic policy and craft a winning ticket for the fall.
The hip bone connected to the…
Our perilous economy relies, when it is working well, on interconnectedness. Truckers drive freight to stores where people who need goods can make their purchases. In between, mechanics and gas pump jockeys and employees of a myriad of service companies each get their small share. Truckers and motorists alike are driving less and that is driving down the cash flow of mechanics and gas pump jockeys who drove less and perhaps shopped less as heating oil prices rose last winter. At the top end of the economy, the folks who like to benefit from making the decisions, are still claiming an ever-larger share. At the low end and now even in the middle, folks who were formerly pretty much OK are counting miles, trading for smaller cars, purchasing fewer items. It’s all connected, each part to the other, as if there were only one dollar in the world passing with blinding speed from hand to hand.
