Solving the Problem Means Correctly Identifying the Problem First. 

We here in America have a problem.

It is a major problem. There are large number of people in this country, indeed I begin to suspect majority, who are sensing danger and destruction in our near future if this problem

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• (Shake of the head) What you need to understand, Billy,

Welcome dear reader, to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere… BitsBlog’s Nightly Ramble.

• Over at Q&O, Lance points out that our tastes in women tend to change with the economic conditions. It’s called the ‘ Environmental Security

• 08-08-08. Not sure it means anything, but it’s interesting.
• Just about mid-summer. The Telegraph reports what I told you about at about mid-spring would happen at Mid-summer: The great oil Bubble has burst.
  

  The market’s conviction that oil prices were

These Nightly Rambles are all things I’ve found during the day. I input them all day long and auto-post whatever I’ve collected at around 4 to 430 eastern. I put things in here that catch my eye but that perhaps

• I have to wonder if the mostly manufactured response over Gramm’s comments as I mentioned this morning, isn’t an effort to squelch the noise over Jessie Jackson’s call to castrate Obama.
• Ya know, speaking of Jackson… I had a passing

Bruce explains the reaction of Congress to our gas prices very well, indeedL

Why do you suppose Congressional leaders are spending all their time blaming current oil prices on speculators, price gougers and OPEC?

Because if they addressed the

(RTTNews) – Oil production in Saudi Arabia will be raised, although officials in the oil-rich nation are expressing doubts as to its affects on the rising price of crude in the global market.

After an oil “summit” Sunday in Jeddah,

Ben Castlemen at the WSJ this morning points out that lifting the drilling ban would not be an immididate fix for our situation.

If the bans were lifted tomorrow, it would be at least seven years — and likely as

I’m to the point where I can draw no other conclusion than our government isn’t interested in solving the problem of high gasoline prices. The evidence for this goes back well prior to the current wave of price hikes, and

Tiger Hawk answers a question I quoted VDH as asking earlier today, when he said:

And why are Republicans, who voted in overwhelming numbers for off-shore drilling, ANWR, nuclear, shale, tar sands, liquid coal, etc—and were opposed by Democrats on

Got lots of mail last night on my “How to raise fuel prices” post of yesterday. Actually, that’s why my posting was a little lighter than usual, this morning… I was pouring over the mail. Some of it was pointing

Judith Klinghoffer over at The American Thinker, asks a timely question: What do the Saudis want?

Slowly but surely it is beginning to dawn on a world mesmerized by the Democratic primary contest that an oil cartel has been picking

“We’re going to go right at OPEC,” she said. “They can no longer be a cartel

Ben Smith.

Sure Mre. Clinton.   While you are at, why don’t you repeal that pesty law of gravity.   Serious times, require serious presidents.  

The audacity of stupidity and being too young to remember the Carter Administration.

May 1 (Bloomberg) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama‘s proposal for a windfall profits tax on oil companies could cost $15 billion a year at