Our poor earth must once again pay the price.....

So the gas prices keep rising. Exxon and the other fat cat oil companies keep reporting record profits. Exxon pays their chief gouger over $400M in retirement monies. Our price at the pump keeps rising. What is the solution? Drill for more oil in the fragile Arctic and bribe all the tax payers with a $100 refund! This sounds like a great solution to me. I can't wait to get my 100 bucks. I think I can fill my car twice at the current prices for that. By the time I get it, it may be down to one tank?

Here is what the genius politicians are saying...........

"The New York Times

G.O.P. Senators Hurry to Quell Furor Over Gas

By CARL HULSE

Published: April 28, 2006

WASHINGTON, April 27 Senate Republicans tried on Thursday to get the upper hand in the escalating political battle over high gasoline prices by proposing a $100 rebate for taxpayers and by suggesting that they might increase taxes on oil-industry profits.

The Republican proposal also called for opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil production, a provision sure to draw opposition from many Democrats and even some Republicans.

"The American consumer is the one that needs the break today, and we need to be taking steps to make sure that they aren't emptying their wallet every time they fill their tank," said Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota, as the leadership unveiled its legislative response to an issue quickly taking over the Congressional agenda.

The Republican plan includes a provision that could levy a significant tax on oil company profits, a provision that President Bush promised to veto when a version appeared in a Senate bill last year. The proposal came on a day when Exxon Mobil reported a 7 percent gain in its first-quarter earnings."

So we finally actually may consider making the greedy oil companies pay their fare share of the taxes. How about taking back the $4B in research grants that they clearly do not use for energy research and do not need when they are making the outrageous profits they do, and using that to really develop alternative fuels and educating the public on conservation for a change.

But then there will not be any reason to exploit the Artic Oil fields, and who cares about them anyway, they are melting so fast they won't be there much longer to matter. Ironic that is, pulling the oil from the Arctic fields will pump more greenhouse gases into the air to help melt the ice faster! Now that makes sense doesn't it. Oh yes , sorry, I forgot, there is not such thing as global warming, that is just mumbo jumbo from the left wing extremists.