posted on March 16, 2005 02:39:55 PM new
Does anyone that posts here really think that the war in Iraq is about oil? (Other than the three numb nuts I have on ignore)
That our gas is cheaper today because we have spent well over a Thousand American lives and $100 billion dollars on action in Iraq?
The price is spiking at $56 a barrel? If we paid $1.20 a gallon when it was $40.00 a barrel, common sense says it should be $80 a barrel if we are paying $2.40 a gallon. Ahem.
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The Islamofascist fig-puckers are fighting to spread their culture and religion, and to destroy ours
posted on March 16, 2005 02:43:35 PM new
No...but it goes right along with their argument that there was NO coaliation in Iraq....and now they believe that same non-coaliation is crumbling.
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Four More Years....YES!!!
Edited to add Senate action today:
U.S. Senate backs opening new Alaska oil spigot
16 Mar 2005 22:09:38 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Adds oil company comment, edits)
By Tom Doggett and Chris Baltimore
WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - As U.S. oil prices soared to a record high on Wednesday, the Senate gave President George W. Bush's energy plan a major boost by voting to open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling.
Republicans have tried for more than two decades to open ANWR to oil exploration. The Bush administration, which views ANWR as the centerpiece of its national energy plan, was blocked the past four years by a Senate coalition of moderate Republicans and Democrats.
Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, led the fight to defeat a Democratic effort to strip ANWR drilling language from a budget resolution to fund the federal government. The vote was 51 to 49 in favor of keeping the drilling provision in the bill. However, the Republican plan to give oil companies access to the refuge is far from a done deal.
[ edited by Linda_K on Mar 16, 2005 02:53 PM ]
posted on March 16, 2005 03:34:24 PM new
KD, ya hoisted me by me own petard!
pe·tard Pronunciation Key (p-tärd)
n.
1. A small bell-shaped bomb used to breach a gate or wall.
2. A loud firecracker.
[French pétard, from Old French, from peter, to break wind, from pet, a breaking of wind, from Latin pditum, from neuter past participle of pdere, to break wind. See pezd- in Indo-European Roots.]
Word History: The French used pétard, “a loud discharge of intestinal gas,” for a kind of infernal engine for blasting through the gates of a city. “To be hoist by one's own petard,” a now proverbial phrase apparently originating with Shakespeare's Hamlet (around 1604) not long after the word entered English (around 1598), means “to blow oneself up with one's own bomb, be undone by one's own devices.” The French noun pet, “fart,” developed regularly from the Latin noun pditum, from the Indo-European root *pezd-, “fart.”
