Comments for Our Voice at http://tracypress.com , comment 1 to 10 out of 10 comments http://tracypress.com Fri, 16 May 2008 06:32:42 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14531/2244/#comment-45356 "There has been speculation in recent days concerning the oil price, one of the most authoritative predictions so far has the price of crude oil at $200 within as little as six months. The prediction by Goldman Sachs was made as benchmark US light crude passed the $123 mark for the first time. Surging demand was increasingly likely to create a “super-spike” past $200 in six months-to-two years’ time, said Goldman Sachs. Oil prices have now risen by 25% in the last four months and 400% since 2001. Soaring global demand for oil is being led by China’s continuing economic boom and, to a lesser extent, by India’s rapid economic expansion...." http://priceofoil.org/2008/05/08/oil-price-may-hit-200-a-barrel/ The price of oil is rising faster than Sach Goldman Sachs' predictions. - amy Thu, 08 May 2008 15:03:34 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14531/2244/#comment-45347 Sure wished the price of gas is 14 cents a gallon...Venenzuela's price! - amy Thu, 08 May 2008 13:58:47 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14531/2244/#comment-45309 These companies import Middle Eastern oil: Shell........................... 205,742,000 barrels Chevron/Texaco........ 144,332,000 barrels Exxon/Mobil.............. 130,082,000 barrels Marathon/Speedway.. 117,740,000 barrels Amoco............................62,231,000 barrels Citgo gas is from South America , from a Dictator who hates Americans. If you do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18 BILLION! (oil is now $90 - $100 a barrel Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil: Sunoco.................0 barrels Conoco..................0 barrels Sinclair.................0 barrels BP/Phillips.............0 barrels Hess.......... ...........0 barrels ARC0.....................0 barrels - DEMOCRATDAD Thu, 08 May 2008 09:07:32 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14531/2244/#comment-45240 The important takeaway from calculators is that there should rightly be a cost associated with anything that affects the commons (air and water, for instance). If you attach a cost to the use of the commons, then you can create a marketplace that will result in efficient use of that resource. There are some interesting ideas built into this like changing tax structures to no longer tax productivity but instead to tax the impact of productivity on the shared commons (hang on to your hats for what that would do to airline ticket prices!). For the individual, though, they are primarily an awareness builder as a source of moral reasoning about one's impact on the commons. - Mark Davis Wed, 07 May 2008 15:50:01 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14531/2244/#comment-45219 Right! Dave, even hypocrisy is evident in Hollywood. I found hypocrisy in the Presidential candidates showing concerns for the carbon footprint, greenhouse, global warming and climate change..and use these jets frequently.... (am waiting for new political jargon to cover this environmental change.) The elite, what is their contribution when using their planes and jetboats, Hummer...as well as the Hollywood Stars have been doing? You see, I was making reference to what the politicians say and practice the other ... like you said, Dave. Liked your writings! I even turn off all the power at the fuse box except for the refrigerator when I go to work, you'd be amazed how much you will save in cost. - amy Wed, 07 May 2008 12:05:12 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14531/2244/#comment-45208 amy Not just the politicians running for president either. It seems that many of our "green" supporters, IE the Hollywood croud, also have tremendously high carbon foot prints as a result of flying all over the world to tell the rest of us minions how bad things are. Don't tell me, show me. Don't preach to me unless you are following the perscription yourself. In other words, "Physician, heal thyself." Personally I believe this is one of the biggest problems in this "global warming" fiasco. Dave Hardesty - Dave Hardesty Wed, 07 May 2008 10:56:38 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14531/2244/#comment-45193 When will we, the people, show the corporations and Wall Street that they do not have a monopoly on "natural resource-people"? Every decision they make affects us, OPEC, for example. Gas prices are hurting everyone. The people campaigning for presidential office sure used their "jets" alot? - amy Wed, 07 May 2008 09:56:16 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14531/2244/#comment-45187 Earth day is a holiday for commies, hippies and liberals! Whoever wrote this article must be somekind a commie, tree hugging, liberal! I know there's know such ridiculous claim like climate change and everything's fine. I listen to Rush Limbaugh and he says that these are claims are what Obama Clinton supporting tree hugging, commies want to shove down our throughts! I watch Bill Oriley and he never made any ridiculous claims like this! Why should I believe commies, liberals, tree huggers outrageous claims that there's some kinda "global warming". Until Rush Limbaugh and Bill Oriley says so I'm not gonna believe no stinkin lies that I'm doing something to add to somekinda fairy tale like "pollution" and "global warming"! I'm gonna smoke my cigars, drive my SUV and truck and in fact I'm gonna drive more and keep my house as cold as I want in the summer just to make you commie, liberal, tree hugging hippies happy. Rush and BillO never talks about carbon what the heck is that? As a matr fact, I think those commie scientists that are talking about this stuff are smokin that stuff that's why they're getting these "fairy tales". Let's face it, it's not gettin any hotter and we don't need to do anything, everything's OK! I dare any liberal, tree hugging commie to come tell me that Rush Limbaugh or Bill Oriley supports these "Fairy Tales!" You know why these commies,liberals and tree huggers wants to tell you this lie? Because their communists and they want us to live like we're in good ol Commie Soviet Union! I'm gonna eat more burgers and red meat and when I go to the grocery store I'm gonna make sure I double bag my groceries with double plastics and paper and I'll go to the store in my SUV and drive more! Stinkin liberal commie tree huggers can't tell me what to do! - JOE CONSERVATIVE Wed, 07 May 2008 08:56:42 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14531/2244/#comment-45168 kierkegaard I have to agree with you on this. I just completed running the "calculator guntlet" using the calculators recommended and the majority of the calculators listed on the first page dump derived by Google searching "carbon footprint calculators." The results of all of those calculators wasn't of much use as it appears my personal carbon footprint is anywhere between 3.5 to 14 tons with a total average of all becoming 9 tons. The interesting thing is the article's statement that the Average American generates 20 Tons per year. Actually I consider myself to be the Average American so I am wondering why my carbon footprint, at it's maximum, is still significantly below that much larger number. And given the fact many of us have been conserving for many years, as a result of higher and higher prices we pay for energy and food, I am wondering how much further the Average American can go. What next? Hold our breath until we pass out and quit eating entirely? Dave Hardesty - Dave Hardesty Wed, 07 May 2008 06:09:25 +0100 http://tracypress.com/content/view/14531/2244/#comment-45166 This article is trite. Our lives is based on economics and the point of economics is production, so we produce things from the profound to the silly. Our peril is more than superficial talk about a carbon footprint. - kierkegaard Wed, 07 May 2008 05:56:03 +0100