oh, there are lots of choices other than Randy. Lots more. A ton.

There's plenty of blame to share. Enviro tinkering by fireman Randy and the difficulties of building new refineries in part because of enviro rules are among the reasons for higher fuel costs now. I don't think the cost is all that unreasonable. It's a hint that we are buying too much oil from abroad, that petro fuels are a finite product with limits (peak oil?). The price is a nudge to consider that we may be heating up our planet more than we ought to (climate change/global warming?)

And of course the oil companies are looking out for themselves just as we are when we demand lower prices. This piece in the NY Times is PR. So are our demands for lower prices.

(Disclaimer: This retired guy owns COP stock directly, other oil companies indirectly through my pension and mutual funds. The profits buy my groceries and allow me a little fun too. Thank you.)

if the greens have their way a loaf of bread will cost more than a gallon of gas since we will be turning our food supply into fuel. Would you rather import oil from the mid-east or feed your baby food imported from china?

Would you rather import oil from the mid-east or feed your baby food imported from china?

neither. i'd rather not use oil and not buy food from 7,000 miles away.

if the greens have their way a loaf of bread will cost more than a gallon of gas...

a good loaf of bread has, in fact, nearly always cost the same or more than a gallon of gas. even now.

there are plenty of others to blame.

I dont pay $400.00 for a haircut or more than two dollars for a loaf of bread. I guess I live in Edwards other america

neither. i'd rather not use oil and not buy food from 7,000 miles away.

Good for you. Dont use energy. I imagine you live in a tent somwhere in the middle of the forrest living off mother nature.
For the rest of us that live in the real world we have to make a choice. You can't have your cake and eat it too. We are going to consume X amount of energy and X amount of food.Turning our food supply into food for our cars is insanity

Dont use energy. I imagine you live in a tent somwhere in the middle of the forrest living off mother nature.

nope, i live in the city. but, i think there are energy choices other than "oil" and "living in a tent". i'm working towards other choices.

i'm with you on not having cake and eating it too. using oil is having our cake and eating it too--but we're almost out of cake, and we're forgetting to prepare food for a post-cake world.

Turning our food supply into food for our cars is insanity

i agree, except i'd change it a little--dedicating our land to providing fuel for our cars is insanity.

Wow, oh-fer-three, whiff whiff whiff -- you ace'd. Out.

# the One: 'Haircutgate' and Other Silly-Season Nonsense: We're in for a Long Year of Right-Wing Smears, By Paul Rogat Loeb, May 25, 2007.

# the Two: 'We' are NOT "... going to consume X amount of energy and X amount of food ..." when tic-tac-toe, there's O - O - O ! !

The ecological footprint of a person is a measure of the amount of land that a person needs to produce everything that he or she consumes: food, clothing, energy, shelter, the tools that are needed to make the clothing, etc. Under contract by the United Nations and the Swiss Government, Mathis and his team calculated the average per capita ecological footprint of many nations on this globe. [ see Graphic ] Mathis then took the entire available arable land of this planet and divided it by the current population of 6.5 billion people. This produces an available per capita footprint of ... look it up. "Facts are stubborn things." -- Ronald Reagan

# the Three: We ALL are 'living off Mother Nature.' And after we suck 'er dry, there ain't no "us that live in the real world we have to make a choice." The only choice then, is between You Not Live. Or live in the limits of you sharing Real World. Get the picture, HERE.

A little guide that helped me see straight in a lot more situations, is learning there's a difference between 'fuel' and 'energy.'