Posted by
bobcat on Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:50:10 PM
If our economic situation were a reminder to everyday Americans whenever they see an auto fuel per gallon price sign how energy flows through most places we knowingly and unknowingly, directly and indirectly feel the effects the same as if slapped by a wet towel in a locker room of unfriendly strangers.
BTU's are to calories in food that Mayor Bloomberg requires to be on the menu in NYC restaraunts, run everything on Earth, consequently the reason that you get dinged for a surcharge for plane baggage, grocery deliveries, escalating price increases for UPS or anything that somewhere needed oil or electricity to make or move the item.
The press continues to convince against facts that we are in recession, we're not, yet we are slipping the largest non-ATM that acts like an ATM, the gas pump, (we had the $ but had to choose between what and where to spend) seen or unseen a direct transfer outsourced to a foreign country that fortunate and destructive for us, allows expanded oil production...otherwise called drilling. "... allowed Brazil in 2006 to achieve more than 40% of fuel consumption from sugar cane-based ethanol for the light vehicle fleet,[15][2] and represents almost 20% of total fuel consumption in the road transport sector when trucks and other diesel-powered vehicles are considered.[16] Pró-Álcool program successfully reduced by 10 million the number of cars running on gasoline in Brazil, thereby reducing the country's dependence on oil imports.Due to the lower energy content of ethanol fuel, full flex-fuel vehicles get fewer miles per gallon.
However, the effect on the country's overall oil use was much smaller than that: domestic oil consumption still far outweighs ethanol consumption. In 2005, Brazil consumed 2,000,000 barrels of oil per day, versus 280,000 barrels of ethanol.[35] Although Brazil is a major oil producer and now exports gasoline (19,000 m³/day), it still must import oil because of internal demand for other oil byproducts, chiefly diesel fuel (which cannot be easily replaced by ethanol).(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Special Legislative Session Called For Aug. 19
NEW YORK (CBS) ? New York Governor David Paterson says the New York state budget deficit has gone up $1.4 billion in the last 90 days. The governor delivered the troubling economic news during a live broadcast message shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday.
"Our state now faces increasingly harsh economic times. When I travel across the state, I see communities suffering. Everywhere I go I see people losing their jobs and their homes," he said. "My message to the Legislature is that next year's budget process starts now.
Paterson also said the budget deficit is estimated to grow 22 percent over the next three years and called for a special legislative session on Aug. 19.
"The damage on Wall Street is infecting all of our communities and its effects on New York state's finances are devastating," he said."It is time for New York and other government to cut up our credit cards. The era of buy now and pay later and later is over. The faster we address this crisis, the faster and stronger we will emerge from it."
SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today ordered his administration to lay off thousands of part-time state workers and to work with the state controller to temporarily slash the pay of most full-time employees to the federal minimum wage of $6.55 an hour.(LAT,7-1-2008)
Today Presidential nominee Obama called on Americans to inflate their tires to counter any need to drill domestically for more energy! He believes a few more toxic mercury low heat emitting light bulbs and "just say NO" to domestic energy production will somehow work itself out, the same theory that the tooth fairy will leave money under your pillow? Speaker Pelosi is too busy "saving the Planet" to realize her home state, California' Governor just ditched needed government workers, the NY Governor is facing a crises that if we're honest have roots in ENERGY. Add up the parked planes, layed off pilots, stews, the flights dropped the cars not rented the meals on the road not eaten the beds not rented and....the result will be more Bennigans and Steak and Ale's filing bankruptsy further weakening the banks...a viscous cycle.
The democratic party wants the SPR, the emergency oilpile, to drain a few barrels of oil thinking that will make a daily global draw of 85M barrels somehow take notice of a drip in the scheme of the real world. This akin to sneaking money from the 401k to buy veggies for the barbecue when the backyard garden would suffice, but the dems rather import instead from tomato or jalepeno hell equivlent instead. As little as this is,acceptance of the democrats mention actually states their actual knowng of the serious nature of the costs their political maneuvers they are willing to place on this country....just ask the Governors of CA and NY, those on the extreme front lines of decades of self inflicted democratic owned state houses, complicated by high energy costs running through our collective business to person veins, if this isn't a form of dimentia, what is? Even Brazil as a model of alternative liquid bio-fuel, can only get to 20%, and honestly stipulates that that source will not replace diesel when the real traffic load meets the pavement.