Truth is closer to this, those who can carpool but don't will be the first to whine about gas prices.
nonsense
those who can carpool will try to carpool, when gas hits a hundred dollars a tank (in times like these)
those who can't carpool will...
well, whine isn't the best word for what they'll do
they'll VOTE, is more like it
so will the carpoolers
few of us work at military bases
Your claim is that the Democratic filibuster stopped us every year since 1971 from prouducing more oil than we did in that year?
Within a one mile radius of my house in Virginia Beach, VA lived enough people for a 4 person carpool.....in the late 70's.
We all worked at the Navy base in Norfolk.
My first civilian job had a large carpool, we rode bus for 60 miles each way.
My next to last civilian job, at a nuke plant west of town, there were 12 to 15 people per vanpool.
Truth is closer to this, those who can carpool but don't will be the first to whine about gas prices...
Can everybody car pool? No.....
nor does everybody have to drive a 4x4 truck with one person in it every day to and from work...
President Barack Obama's relationship with environmentalists sits on thin ice after a major league meltdown over whether he will really defend their biggest demand: EPA climate change rules.
Tensions have crossed into the danger zone between the two camps after a year of cross-ups, including the failure to get a cap-and-trade bill through the Senate and Obama’s embrace of what historically have been green no-no’s like oil drilling and nuclear power.
Angst grew this week after Obama failed to use a major energy policy speech at Georgetown University to explicitly back the EPA's global warming agenda. Then, in what might have begun as a misunderstanding over acronyms, the AP reported that the president was leaning on House Democrats to accept a GOP-authored budget rider that would thwart EPA's greenhouse gas regulations.
The White House furiously denied the story, but the fate of the budget debate over the next eight days could govern the relationship between the administration and environmental community through the 2012 election.
No part of the time they had the majority
Ok, let's go with unemployment then.
The U3 unemployment rate under Bush for his first 26 months increased by a whopping 41%, under Obama, the U3 unemployment rate has increased only 14%.
So by that measure, Obama is doing better than Bush.
Damn, proving you wrong couldn't have been easier. :2razz:
Within a one mile radius of my house in Virginia Beach, VA lived enough people for a 4 person carpool.....in the late 70's.
We all worked at the Navy base in Norfolk.
My first civilian job had a large carpool, we rode bus for 60 miles each way.
My next to last civilian job, at a nuke plant west of town, there were 12 to 15 people per vanpool.
Truth is closer to this, those who can carpool but don't will be the first to whine about gas prices...
Can everybody car pool? No.....
nor does everybody have to drive a 4x4 truck with one person in it every day to and from work...
Well, bravo for you! That must make you feel very superior to everyone around you eh? :roll:
Listen, this is America, if you want to force me to ride a bus, or rely on someone else's punctuality, and motivation to get to work on time then you can. I like many others out there don't punch a time clock at some drone job where Johnny, Billy, and Jim from the block all work at the same place, and same time.
I deliver bread, and milk to warehouses for distribution 500 to 600 miles one way, and leave, or get to work, as well as get back at different hours of the day/night. Not to mention what this is doing to the prices of those goods that you HAVE TO BUY. I am truly happy for you that you can afford it, and that you worked in a time when the American dream was such that these things were a reality for you. Times have changed.
And who the hell do you think you are to judge, or tell me what I should, can, or will drive? This is a self imposed shortage of petroleum that we could solve very easily by opening up the permitting process, and obtaining our own resources instead of giving a country like Brazil billions to drill it, and sell it back to us.
j-mac
What are you talking about?
California is the only state that provides lawmakers with a car, gas and maintenance paid largely by taxpayers.
The perk has withstood the recessionary economy and several rounds of budget-cutting, including $11.2 billion in measures the Legislature approved and Gov. Jerry Brown signed in March.
Under a long-standing practice, the state Legislature buys a vehicle of each lawmaker's choosing. Legislators pay a share of costs to lease the vehicle, and public funds pay for gas and maintenance.
The legislative car program requires that the vast majority of travel be for business rather than personal use, but it does not monitor that split.
chill out, dude....
if you want to be part of the regular crowd who knows/does little to nothing about the issue, that is fine. but why complain about it if you aren't willing to help do something about it.
I know times have changed, and now WE have to change our habits.
Maybe YOU can't, but millions of others can, they just won't, because it isn't hurting thier wallets enough yet.
Every source there is will tell you that if we drill for all our easy oil, we will use it up in no time.
Then what? The hard to get oil will cost far more than we are paying now.
on a day when americans learn that the dept of transportation finds that 4 million of us are trapped in "extreme commutes," those defined as exceeding 90 minutes each way...
as tens of thousands of californians stuck in the commuter parking lot that is 680S over the sunol grade are informed by the sacbee via hottalk560 ("driving bay area liberals crazy")...
Car perk will get scrutiny - Sacramento Politics - California Politics | Sacramento Bee
1-800-carpool
Have they ever heard of mass transit in California?
What will Bernanke do now?
Fed Gears Up for Stimulus - WSJ.com
TWO POINT SEVEN TRILLION dollars of public TRUST tied up in mortgage backed junk---UNDIVERSIFIED
worry
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