Hi Buddy..You are right shale oil isn't cheap, also the increasing demands from developing countries make gas prices higher.

Maybe in 2016 the Republicans will get some cojones and run somebody like Ted Cruz. At least you know where he stands on the issues and he doesn't flip-flop like Rmoney.

>Unfortunately, the current Liar-in-Chief was elected by the new Moron Majority who think with their collective anal canals.< I just wish you sore losers would just be quiet. Obama won because all the Republicans could come up with was boring, humorless, Mormon clone Mitt Rmoney. And given his reputation as being an Etch-a-Sketch, who knows what you would have gotten had he got in the White House? Rmoney has done more flip-flops than the Teva sandal company.

I thought it was a runner on a nature trail in California that met her demise from a big cat,but I might be remembering that wrong. There have been tales of big cats here in the Catskills also. A few years ago on a trail I met a few hunters who claimed to have seen a mountain lion the prior week on that same trail. Even a deputy sheriff claims to have seen one, as have quite a few other citizens. But I remain a skeptic. Although if you notice that I am no longer posting on GB, ... then maybe I will have been wrong to be a skeptic. In any case I like my somewhat ambiguous screen name.

Hi buddy. That was a good comment on the BP refinery delay, it was one of the few with common sense.....Les

Hi Buddy Thanks for the link. It is quite informative. and really helps to explain the complex problem of oil and gas prices. It is really a shame that so many people just blame the government and are blind to the facts....Les

You wrote: "Fossil fuels are the only reliable sources of energy. Everything else is either variable, noisy or expensive...". You are right. Which is scary. But not nearly as scary as it will be in a hundred or two hundred years.

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