NVMakz,

I apologize for the GW Bush crack; it was snide in the slyly disparaging sense. I was doing to you what is being done to Obama by others (something I've complained about loudly). Namely, I was attributing the faults of others to you despite the fact that you've displayed none of those faults yourself. Sorry.

If you saw Obama on Meet the Press last week, you would know that he said the reason he's against a gas tax "holiday" now is because he voted for it in Illinois and it didn't work. I believe his exact words were, "I learned from my mistake."

Would you have Obama continue to do the wrong thing, knowing it's the wrong thing?

Oh, yeah. I forgot. You're a GW Bush fan, so I guess you would.

Leave it to Helen to cite a Review-Journal opinion piece as legitimate proof of something.

Hello! McFly!

If you honestly believe that drilling in ANWR will lower prices at the pump I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.

If you honestly believe that drilling for more oil anywhere is going to enhance the security prospects for our nation I'll sell you the Golden Gate as well.

Those who tell us that continuing to rely on oil as our main source of energy is in our best interest are either stupid or "treasonous" themselves.

The people running the major oil companies certainly aren't stupid, but their loyalty isn't to us or even to the United States; their loyalty is to their bottom lines. These are the very people that Vice President Cheney invited in during the early days of the Bush administration to formulate our national energy policy. So tell me, please, how it is that we've spent the last eight years living with a national energy policy set by the major oil companies and yet our energy problems are somehow the fault of the Democrats.

Helen,

Do you think that somehow this technology was developed without assistance from the government?

As the price of oil continues to go through the roof the cost of alternatives, relative to oil declines. That is why alternatives are more cost effective now than they ever have been. Drilling more oil will not bring the price of oil down.

Once you develop a renewable energy source your fuel cost is zero and will remain zero. That's why renewable energy is the way to go.