Energy diversity? Yeah, but Liberals don't like nukular power and they don't like windmills because it blacoks the view. So it depends on the meaning of the word diversity.

Tapping into the SPR right now is stupid. The SPR is in place to avoide SUPPLY shocks not DEMAND shocks.

YEAH!

Naomi Klein did have some very valid points.

I especially thought the part where she said Bush was using extortion during a very real oil crisis. Bush is trying to push thru drilling in ANWAR (not to mention all the rest on big oil's wish list when instead Bush should be figuring out real ways of dealing with it now, not 10 years down the road.

Seems to me whether it's the war on terror, or any other crisis, the entire Bush years have been nothing but extortion of the American people in one way or another.

add to end of first sentence:

"...was a very valid one."

We have high energy costs because people like Naomi Klein have been able to influence policy in Washington.

So, that's fine. The Dems will kill offshore drilling, which will move our energy independence overseas for another generation or two. Law of Unintended Consequences, and all that. Klein wants a world where fossil fuels are increasingly scarce, and expensive. And liberals are signing on, probably just because Bush is on the other side of the issue.

Fortunately I'll be able to afford gas at ever-higher prices. I wonder how the average Obama voter will be, ten years from now? Hope they like trains and buses. I hear all the time about the differences between the "haves" and the "have-nots". Never occurred to me until recently that it would also include ownership of automobiles.

"We have high energy costs because people like Naomi Klein have been able to influence policy in Washington."

YEAH!

Says the Tool who Boasts that "Bush Gets Whatever He Wants"! Was Klein part of the Bush Super Secrete Energy task force

You're stupid.

Fortunately I'll be able to afford gas at ever-higher prices.

Don't be surprised to see shortages and some form of rationing.

Higher prices is a form of rationing. I took a week and just went for a quick trip up to the mountains, and Highlands and Cashiers (NC) looked like they do in the middle of the winter. Hardly anyone out, no pedestrians to speak of. Then it was down to Helen--where no restaurant can manage to get good German brotchen right--and half the parking spaces were empty.

People are driving less, it's obvious when you hit some of the touristy spots. I thought a few months ago that high prices would cause people to just vacation closer to home: Highlands versus Hilton Head, for example. But I'm starting to think that many people have cut back all the way.

Suits me. I hate traffic. I'm elitist that way myself. Now if only I can get someone on this side of the ocean to make a loaf of decent bread.

Now if only I can get someone on this side of the ocean to make a loaf of decent bread.

Without a steam injected oven, it is very difficult to make at home. However, I have come very close and if you are willing to do it, i can teach you how to make a very good French style baguette. Not as good as European (because you don't have the right oven) but still better than store bought, IMO.