RussSpencer's Blog

Oil companies gives people the ability to get to work and fly to chicago .

Coca cola on the over hand , only makes one obese and addicted to caffeine!

Mcdonalds makes people obese and unhealthy,which then bog down our health care system.

Microsoft - I love what they've done,but over the years ,their profits have been absolutely stupid!!(high)

Google- has made so much doe,they can conveniently pay for the employee's lunches (every day) and set the place up like an amusement park! Are you kidding me?

But check it, None of those companies are under any obligations to give back to the american people - just their services.

Why are oil companies treated differently, especially when oil companies give us what WE NEED and seriously can not do without. We can ,however, do without Mcdonald's and even Microsoft to a certain degree.

I simple don't get it! That CEO, who left the stock exchange commission, got 119 million dollars and you didn't hear a peep our of congress. You don't hear them ever go after other business ,who's CEO's have a key to the -banks and pay nearly no taxes!!!!!!

There is something else going on here! DEMOCRATS WANT AMERICANS TO PAY FOR HIGHER FUEL -just that simple!!!

It is true that there were some people that didnt let the fuel prices affect their activities, and in fact increased the useage out of spite. And, some people still INSIST on buying brand new gas guzzling suv and trucks because they feel safer and comfortable in them.

If there is a suggestion that we created our own problem by using fuel for our needs, you must then ask why, besides amusement, we have to drive long distances to make a living. Why are companies laying off people left and right or closing shop and moving out of the country because of the heavy taxes imposed on these companies?

Its a huge, vicious and complicated circle that makes THE PEOPLE both the victim and the offender at the same time.

I agree. I have little sympathy for those who buy one of those gas guzzling suv and trucks.

I have a friend that a few months ago bought a dodge 1500 with a hemi and he commutes from college park to norcross every day. He complains about the gas it takes and gets mad when you ask him why he bought it when the gas prices were high....thats why I love my honda.
I bought my honda used when gas was getting up to $2.50 a gallon because I was afraid it was going to get out of hand...and it did. Lucky me. I just wish I had more foresight to get a motorcycle or scooter back when I had the money to do so.

But, the folks; like my friend- who MUST have a gas guzzling vehicle in spite of it all AND complains about the gas prices, are both the offenders and the victims. The others are ones who have a paid for vehicle and simply cannot afford a car payment and has to make-do with what they have.

I see your point. Did you see mine? The point is that while there are very fuel efficient cars out there, there are those who insist on buying the latest and greatest gas hog 6.0L engines that get about 15 miles to the gallon and Bitc$h incessantly about how much the fuel costs them....DUH! My friend spends $80 a week on fuel, and another spends $160 a week; both with payments to boot, and it never occured to them that they had another option when they bought those vehicles in the last year. If you just have to have an SUV, then get the hybrid...if you can afford it. You have to run the numbers with fuel and gas to see if it can be afforded. We all need to buy gas, but how much? I am all for drilling in the US, and have been for some time, but it is still imperative for consumers to be smart and work within the confines of our current economy and their own budget to make lemonade out of lemons. And, its the liberals that are blocking the topic from going to the floor now that the moratorium has been lifted from drilling on our shores, and its gonna be a fight. Almost every democrat with a position of power is against it, and they need to be voted out of office, and term limits should be put in place. But that is another subject....

I just cant get over how miserably and pessimistic many Americans have become. WHY??? We were the inventors of standard oil , mass modern transportation, Trans Atlantic Aviation,Computer technology, space exploration, defeating world fascism.

Today? Today,We have become the most pessimistic people on the planet. The BIGGEST whiners!!!! During world war one ,we increased oil production nearly 500% . We build machines that help defeated Hitler in less than 2 years!!. We changed the way the world thought, by sending a man to the moon and did it in less than 8 years!!!!!!

Many of you have completed lost it-Your will. Now we tell Americans they can't dirve a big vehicle ,because it uses more fuel (although China is buying them like they are going out of style). The reason why gas and SUVs are a problem in the good ole U.S.A. is because Democrats, eviromentalist and American pessimism has made it that way!

It's like me telling you,you cant live in a big house. It takes up too much energy, so I am going to increase your electrical energy bill by 400% to encourage you to get a two bedroom or a flat ,like that do in socialist Europe and communist china.

Here is a plan. Why don't congress start mandating a true alternative to BIG SUVS-if they dont like them !! . Investing in afordable public -fast - high tech -light rail, more sub way in cities that dont have them ,and fast speed train technology that goes in surburban areas!!.

We are the leaders of world technology ,it's a no brainier!!!!! Oh wait , that would solve the problem folks - Congress don

I agree w/u Russ. This is another Obama promise to further redistribute wealth/profits in another socialist shell game. It's a reminder of how J.Carter managed to cause a gas shortage ontop of high fuel prices and create one of the worse recessions in history. Meanwhile, people gripe about companies leaving the country and taking jobs w/them... we already have the *highest* corporate taxes in the world -higher taxes on them- will only mean higher prices for us ! The richfolk pay 40% of their income in taxes already - how much more can be called 'fair'?
The semi-rich people the democrats loathe, are the very ones who are small buisness owners- the *biggest employers* in the USA ! Wreck them and you wreck the country(create a depression out of a recession). Communist China is more capitalist then we are ! The democrats don't give a damn about high gas prices anymore than they care about fixing social security."Let the oil companies drill on the leases they already have"- the dems-H.Reid & N.Pelosi say! But hey! Why throw millions$$$ away on geological surveys, build roads to get expensive drillrigs&crews into a promising place and then if you do find what your looking for...??? Sorry, no energy production here...it's a threat to the environment! Companies are in buisness to make money not blow it on boondogle democratic catch22's ! (Now watch a blogger come on and say we can't drill our way out of this! NO- I'm not saying we don't forgo going green!).Congress won't even think about giving a solar utility company a 10yr tax break to setup a power generating plant. Democrats w