• Rep. John Larson (D-CT) says President Bush’s speech on oil was “was nothing but a gift to his friends at the big oil companies.” Larson presents his own plan to reduce the skyrocketing cost of gas.
• Could a conservative spoil John McCain’s White House hopes? Alan talks with former Congressman Bob Barr, who’s running for president as a Libertarian.
• Did Michelle Obama’s appearance on The View today help her husband’s campaign?
Republican war spending, massive national debt, market deregulation, and corporate scandal has devalued the Dollar beyond recognition. Demand for oil has risen faster than the supply of oil even with North Dakota and Alaska included in the supply figures. India, China and the other rapidly developing nations are adding to the demand for oil, including US and European thirst for petrol. We are in an Energy crunch combined with the poor management of government which has been under Republican control for the past 20 too 25 years. (Republicans were in control of Congress during Clinton, while they had massive control during 6 of G.W. Bush’s two terms, there was Regan, and there was also Bush Senior’s term of influence) While the Democrats have won back control of the Congress it is only with a slim majority. This slim majority is not enough to end filibusters, or over ride a Party backed Presidential Veto. As well the Republicans have used the filibuster more in the past 2 years than the entire 10 years prior combined. Blaming Democrats for the price of oil is the art of deception. Blaming Environmentalists as the reason why oil is so expensive is the art of denial of the past and the reality of how oil comes to market. Oil has to be bought or traded on the commodities exchange, which is an International Market. This concept that Domestic oil will go from well to pump is not factual. We would have to alter the way oil comes to market through legislation in order for all Domestic oil to remain within the US. I never hear pundits talk about ending the export of US oil to foreign nations. Oil keeps going up, demand keeps going up in the rest of the world while only going down by a few percentage points in the US. The cost of energy is rising while the dollar keeps falling. The Federal Reserve has devalued our dollar further by continuing to print currency and flood the market with loans in order to bail out the US financial market. This has increased inflation and directly devalued the dollar. Oil is traded on the world market in dollars (for now). We are experiencing sticker shock due partly to the fact that it requires twice as many dollars to purchase a gallon of gas while our wages have not increased. Debt and war deficit financing has further devalued the dollar with additional influence from a stagnant or weakening US economy. Supply and Demand is only one of many influences upon why gas is headed to five dollars per gallon. We could subtract over 30 percent of the cost of a gallon of gas by raising the value of our currency, add more percentage points by driving more efficient automobiles, or walking away from gasoline burning engines entirely. Even if we drill off the coast of both coasts and in Alaska, that oil is not required by law to remain in the US for domestic use. All oil ends up on the world market. If we do keep all US oil domestic, it would not be enough to fuel our current or future demand. Has anyone realized that oil, coal, natural gas, even nuclear power is a dead end source of energy (not renewable)? Has anyone thought about the fact that foreign energy suppliers will reduce their output as US companies increase production in order to keep the cost of energy or profit margins elevated? The answer is not more fossil fuel; the answer is the elimination of fossil fuel. We have the technologies now, with more on the way. We need to convert our civilization for compatibility with the new technologies. We must be motivated for the future, our children’s future and act. But we are facing foes that fear change; we face foes that want to continue to profit from antiquated limited forms of energy. We are facing those who wish to use the fear of high-energy costs in order to fuel their businesses need to evade environmental law. This is all about profit motive rather than a genuine concern for the future of energy.
I expect SDR to be more popular. I prefer C2C. But I’m not really fond of either. Also, I think C2C will annoy most people when they call to speak to Alan, not someone else.
the reason the 68 million acres are not being drilled is because the price is not right ..
Alan, you can call your new call in idea a “true, circle jerk” ..
Switching over to coast to coast…
First!
June 18th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
not omega!
June 18th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
i added another comment just to make sure you wouldn’t be last, wfg. you know i got your back, homie. :0)
June 18th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
t, dearie
June 18th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
best radio graffiti last night-
I’ll take 3 lot lizards to go.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
*ty
June 18th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Good evening ….
June 18th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Have they had sudden death radio lately on the Colmes show?That is pure entertainment when a caller gets kicked off in the first second of the call…
June 18th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
where is everyone tonight?
June 18th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Alan was a little hard on the ole boy from Missouri …Oil replaces itself?
June 18th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Yeah Bob, I thought that it ALMOST crossed the line into mean-ness. Alan never tries to be mean, though.
June 19th, 2008 at 12:09 am
I think thats a little bit of that New Yorker in him.How are you tonight Cheryl? I am not a big fan of this caller talking to caller but oh well…
June 19th, 2008 at 12:13 am
I am for alternative fuels but these jobs in the Coal and Oil industry are good paying blue collar jobs.These green jobs will take years before they pay as well especially if they are non-union jobs.
June 19th, 2008 at 12:18 am
I think it has the potential to be cool. It started kind of slow, bc it’s a new format and people don’t really know what to do. I think it’ll have to be done a few times. It’s actually a really cool thing to do.
June 19th, 2008 at 12:25 am
This caller talking to caller is almost as bad as ellis filling in for Alan.I AM BORED TO TEARS….
June 19th, 2008 at 12:26 am
LOL, Bob. You just really like to hear Alan talk. But I’m tired of hearing Ellis, too.
I think he should make this a permanent feature of the show, possibly on Friday’s.
June 19th, 2008 at 12:30 am
so did you hear the guy call Ian Punnitt a demon from hell last week?
June 19th, 2008 at 12:34 am
To each their own Cheryl lol..I like sudden death radio better.I am listening to Alan and watching rememering Tim Russert on MSNBC.Russert was the best.
June 19th, 2008 at 12:36 am
Bob, i think the caller2caller thing will work better if there’s a pre-determined topic, and both callers are on opposite sides of the issue. That way they can get right into it, and then let’s say that something gets said in the first set that someone wants to continue, they can do so. It’ll keep it moving.
June 19th, 2008 at 12:36 am
he truly was. it’s bc he was a genuine nice guy.
i wish my phone was working bc i would totally call in tonight.
June 19th, 2008 at 12:40 am
alan, that last caller was the “lennon murder truth dot com” guy. he really believes it, too.
June 19th, 2008 at 12:43 am
I heard a little bit of the lennon thing.what was up with that Cheryl?
June 19th, 2008 at 12:44 am
this guy has a website called lennonmurdertruth.com he used to call in a lot and say that the media will not report the truth about john lennon’s murder. at first it seemed like he was just trying to plug his site. alan told him to stop calling to plug the site and buy air time. this is the first time i’ve heard him since then, and he didn’t even try to plug the site and he sounded totally convinced by what he was saying.
June 19th, 2008 at 12:53 am
the last time he called alan went to the site to see what the hell was going on. i think the theory is that stephen king killed john lennon.
June 19th, 2008 at 12:55 am
I called to early for radio graffiti and Amy gave me the boot.Couldnt get through after that.Oh well if I would have got through I would of said GOD bless ya Timmy Russert….
June 19th, 2008 at 1:01 am
Amen, Bob.
Nite, man.
June 19th, 2008 at 1:03 am
Goodnight Cheryl….
June 19th, 2008 at 1:04 am
Oh I missed the demon call on Ian Punnett Cheryl,,,
June 19th, 2008 at 1:06 am
Switching over to coast to coast…
June 19th, 2008 at 1:07 am
Alan, you can call your new call in idea a “true, circle jerk” ..
June 19th, 2008 at 2:47 am
the reason the 68 million acres are not being drilled is because the price is not right ..
June 19th, 2008 at 2:49 am
I expect SDR to be more popular. I prefer C2C. But I’m not really fond of either. Also, I think C2C will annoy most people when they call to speak to Alan, not someone else.
June 19th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Republican war spending, massive national debt, market deregulation, and corporate scandal has devalued the Dollar beyond recognition. Demand for oil has risen faster than the supply of oil even with North Dakota and Alaska included in the supply figures. India, China and the other rapidly developing nations are adding to the demand for oil, including US and European thirst for petrol. We are in an Energy crunch combined with the poor management of government which has been under Republican control for the past 20 too 25 years. (Republicans were in control of Congress during Clinton, while they had massive control during 6 of G.W. Bush’s two terms, there was Regan, and there was also Bush Senior’s term of influence) While the Democrats have won back control of the Congress it is only with a slim majority. This slim majority is not enough to end filibusters, or over ride a Party backed Presidential Veto. As well the Republicans have used the filibuster more in the past 2 years than the entire 10 years prior combined. Blaming Democrats for the price of oil is the art of deception. Blaming Environmentalists as the reason why oil is so expensive is the art of denial of the past and the reality of how oil comes to market. Oil has to be bought or traded on the commodities exchange, which is an International Market. This concept that Domestic oil will go from well to pump is not factual. We would have to alter the way oil comes to market through legislation in order for all Domestic oil to remain within the US. I never hear pundits talk about ending the export of US oil to foreign nations. Oil keeps going up, demand keeps going up in the rest of the world while only going down by a few percentage points in the US. The cost of energy is rising while the dollar keeps falling. The Federal Reserve has devalued our dollar further by continuing to print currency and flood the market with loans in order to bail out the US financial market. This has increased inflation and directly devalued the dollar. Oil is traded on the world market in dollars (for now). We are experiencing sticker shock due partly to the fact that it requires twice as many dollars to purchase a gallon of gas while our wages have not increased. Debt and war deficit financing has further devalued the dollar with additional influence from a stagnant or weakening US economy. Supply and Demand is only one of many influences upon why gas is headed to five dollars per gallon. We could subtract over 30 percent of the cost of a gallon of gas by raising the value of our currency, add more percentage points by driving more efficient automobiles, or walking away from gasoline burning engines entirely. Even if we drill off the coast of both coasts and in Alaska, that oil is not required by law to remain in the US for domestic use. All oil ends up on the world market. If we do keep all US oil domestic, it would not be enough to fuel our current or future demand. Has anyone realized that oil, coal, natural gas, even nuclear power is a dead end source of energy (not renewable)? Has anyone thought about the fact that foreign energy suppliers will reduce their output as US companies increase production in order to keep the cost of energy or profit margins elevated? The answer is not more fossil fuel; the answer is the elimination of fossil fuel. We have the technologies now, with more on the way. We need to convert our civilization for compatibility with the new technologies. We must be motivated for the future, our children’s future and act. But we are facing foes that fear change; we face foes that want to continue to profit from antiquated limited forms of energy. We are facing those who wish to use the fear of high-energy costs in order to fuel their businesses need to evade environmental law. This is all about profit motive rather than a genuine concern for the future of energy.
June 19th, 2008 at 6:20 pm