Gas Prices ( Archived) (60)

If you had half a brain you'd be dangerous. If it weren't for people who cared about the environment you wouldn't be able to go cross country skiing without carrying a bottle of oxygen. Maybe you aren't old enough to remember the polluted 60's and before when creeks and streams in many places would periodically catch fire becaues they were used as a dumping ground for used engine oil or how rural municipalities would routinely spray crankcase oil on dirt roads to keep the dust down and thus contaminate all the wells in the area. Or that a nuclear plant in Hamilton Ohio (Fernald) was releasing radioactive dust up the smokestack giving people surrounding the plant all kinds of cancers. Who do you think is leading the fight against wholesale whaling? Or destruction of the rain forest? Or who got DDT banned before it sent our national symbol, the Bald Eagle into extinction. Certainly not people like you who call good dedicated selfless people who are trying to preserve the health and beauty of our mother earth for futures generations including yours, "whackos".

You're also ignorant about ethanol. You're making the same mistake that the general public is making that ethanol requires vast amounts of prime farm land from growing food to growing feed stock for ethanol production. This is ONLY true for GRAIN based ethanol, it is NOT true for celulosic ethanol which can be made from ANY CELULOSE BASED PLANT MATTER, including weeds, corn cobbs, wood chips, old wood construction material etc. This is known as 2nd generation ethanol. Don't lump corn ethanol in with celulosic ethanol. If people want to get angry about rising corn, hence food prices they need to direct their anger at the DOE for dragging its feet to authorize PROMISED loan gaurantees which 2nd generation ethanol producers have been waiting literally years for to begin construction on celulosic ethanol plants all over the US. Instead of getting angry at ethanol producers and oil companies for blending it with gasoline you all might want to do a little research on cancer causing MTBE which is what ethanol has replaced.

......just the same lies and garbage from AAA and the oil companies and their stockholders......we heard the same lies 4 years ago......libya sells none of their oil to the usa......none......they all drive the price per barrel up- and then automatically dump the stock at a huge profit......all planned......BP stations have the highest gas in cleveland......why worry....???????????????..........the billionaires will not let prices skyrocket- because the the mall store owners will lose money when people do not want to drive to these malls............'whatever the market will bear'......the cootie, obama could well cap gasoline prices in the national interest......but he has oil stock of his own......AND- it is a common government trick to try and scare the hell out of citizens with lies.....then they are so consumed with fear that they have no energy left to challenge the politicians on other matters......stop worrying.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.........AAA rots.