Bob McCarty Writes

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• 1 Shawn // Apr 30, 2008 at 2:35 pm

  Everyone will go back to sitting on the stoop outside, bankrupt and poor.

• 2 Jamie // May 6, 2008 at 11:17 am

  We need to have a coux in this country….We need to take back our country from the OVER Wealthy…..They are going to put us in a depression so they can become rich beyond belief.
  We need to corner the executives from these exxon type comanies and beat them with an empty oilcan.
  Greedy Old Fat White Men.
  I would not be surprised to see assination attempts on these jerks instead of presidents in the coming future.
  With foreclosures at all times high and our country in a recession they pick now to screw us as hard as they can. They are NOT GOOD for America and need to be removed from our country.
  Welcome to americexxonmobil corp country.

  Fight Back and find these people…Make there lives uncomfortable like they are doing to us.

• 3 hotoffthepress2 // May 6, 2008 at 11:23 am

  Jamie — Your ire is aimed in the wrong direction. You should vent your anger at those liberals in Congress who have stopped this country from exploring for oil and natural gas in the USA, turned filing frivolous lawsuits into a booming industry and provided aid and comfort to the enemy as we wage a Global War on Terror. — Signed, Greedy Old Fat White Man and Son of an Oilman.

• 4 Disgusted // May 11, 2008 at 5:59 pm

  Every nut in American seems to want to post here:
  We have the liberals blaming the conservatives and the conservatives blaming the liberals.
  You morons, gas prices are determined by supply and demand. While you were asleep or blaming each other for gas prices, China woke up and started buying oil. The US didn’t conserve and instead wants to drill for a trivial amount in Alaska.
  Gang, the days of cheap oil and cheap energy are over and they;e been over while YOU were asleep. Stopping blaming everybody but yourselves. You’re the problem. You caused. You did nothing. Stop whining.

• 5 hotoffthepress2 // May 11, 2008 at 6:23 pm

  Disgusted,

  You wake up! Sure, supply and demand plays a part, but the days of cheap oil and cheap energy need not be over.

  As I’ve stated in many posts here, liberals have prevented us from drilling in ANWR and in several other deposit-rich locations over the past several decades. In addition, they’ve prevented us from being able to construct new, more efficient refineries.

  If anyone’s to blame, its liberals in Congress and wacko environmentalists. For all I know, you might be one of them.

• 6 chip // May 13, 2008 at 8:32 am

  Big oil makes less profit margins than Microsoft. They make about .08 a gallon and they have to find it, bring it to the surface, transport it for production, produce it, transport it for sale and all they get is a lousy .08 a gallon for all of their trouble. The reason their profits are so high is because of the huge volume they do. NOT because they charge too much.

  The liberal democrats in congress and in the trial lawyer circuit working for PETA, etc. are to blame. We have all the oil we would ever need right here in the great US of A but we aren’t allowed to go get it because some salamanders may be harmed.

• 7 Dan // May 13, 2008 at 12:09 pm

  The problem is Jamie, that we in America are ALL OVER wealthy. Don’t you see that? Newsflash – demand has not significantly changed since it was at $2.00 a gallon. And I agree with mr oilman’s son that our dependence on foreign oil and our refusal to harness the resources we have (ie ANWAR) is the reason that we are at the mercy of other oil producing countries. Liberal, tree huggers who believe that the environment would be greatly damaged by drilling oil in Alaska are unaware that oil production facilities there would take up less than one thousand square miles. For those who don’t know the state of Alaska is approximately one third the size of the lower 48)…just over 586,000 square miles. If, 8 years ago, all of Congress would have agreed with Mr. Bush……………. we would not be paying th e outrageous prices for fuel that we are now. I don’t think Bush is a great president by any means, but increasing gas prices will hurt the world much more than terrorists ever dreamed of.

• 8 tim // May 17, 2008 at 10:43 am

  Watch this testimony of a man who worked for the men who discovered the Alaska oil deposits:
  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147&hl=en

• 9 hotoffthepress2 // May 17, 2008 at 10:51 am

  Tim — I check out your video and must warn readers that it stinks of conspiracy theory. Readers beware.

• 10 tim // May 17, 2008 at 11:36 am

  Just for balance:

  I don’t believe in UFOs (at least the Roswell type)

  I tend to think Oswald Shot Kennedy

  There are many Masons in American leadership positions, but there is not any malicous cabal of / by them

  Monopolies and oligachies have most always existed throughout history and DO exist now.

• 11 Jim // May 19, 2008 at 12:40 pm

  Throughout history, a few powerful groups have controlled the masses. They have exploited these people until a point was reached where life was completely intolerable. The result was a revolt, uprising, revolution and eventual overthrow of the system in power. The new system created each time started out equitable and with good intentions, but as the saying goes, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts, absolutely. Today however, we have yet another chance for positive change. The only difference is: the internet can be utilized for a groundswell grassroots movements for this change. In present historical times this point has not been reached but is rapidly approaching. You can blame the greed of the haves in wanting to suck out every last penny and become mega rich on the backs of the poor and middle class. In reality, the fault lies squarely on the people. We can control our destiny. Stop buying gas, demand cars that run on anything but gas. We must become proactive and sacrifice the comfort of our lives to seek improvement in the long run. The alternative is to remain complacent and end up losing every thing we have anyway. The choice is yours to make.

• 12 terraph // May 20, 2008 at 8:39 am

  hotofthepress2, stop spouting talk radio nonsense, and consider what yuare saying. You expect this country to ravage its dwindling natural resources and wildlife so you can keep getting cheap gas. That might work for a while (probably a very short while) but it just delays the problem. There is a lot of debate about when it will all happen but everyone agrees the oil is going to run out sooner or later. You are just unwilling to man up and bite the bullet and prefer to pass the cost on to future generations. You want someone else to pay the bil for your party. It’s because our father’s had the same philosophy that we are getting it now. As time goes on the solutions will only get more expensive the closer we get to cruch time. The fact is gas is too cheap here. They should be doubling the gas tax and using the money to fund alternative energy research, not giving people gimicky “summer tax vacations”. If we’d have done this back in the 70’s during the first gas crisis we’d be sitting pretty right now while the rest of the world struggled to catch up.

• 13 hotoffthepress2 // May 20, 2008 at 8:47 am

  Terraph — Dispense with your America-hating mantra and move to another country…NOW! We don’t have room for doom-and-gloom types like you who would prefer to be taxed into oblivion rather than utilize vast supplies of natural resources available to us. I’m the son of a petroleum exploration geologist, and I can tell you there are vast quantities to be found within these 50 — not 57, Barack — states if only liberals like you will let us tap them.

• 14 John Newman // May 20, 2008 at 8:51 am

  BULLSHIT

• 15 hotoffthepress2 // May 20, 2008 at 10:25 am

  Feel better, John?

• 16 fishon // May 20, 2008 at 11:53 pm

  Bla, bla, bla
  it is what it is! deal with it or buy a bicycle.
  at least that way you could get in better shape rather than have a heart attack thinking about things that we really cant do anything about
  thanks Mr. Bush! tap Alaska!

• 17 Swaroop // May 21, 2008 at 8:21 am

  Americans have long been spoiled by cheap gas. Gas has remained between 2 and 3 per gallon for too long here. That’s why they feel the pinch now.
  Other countries like India paid 3$/gallon rates almost a decade ago. Today its close to 5$ a gallon there.
  Europe pays upwards of 7$/gallon. (Denmark – 7.8, UK – 9$/gallon). Americans will have to be moderate in gas consumption, and reduce those wasteful road trip highway miles. Learn to ride the bus and train in cities.

  A recent article that compares gas prices around the world.
  http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/01/news/international/usgas_price/?postversion=2008050109

• 18 hotoffthepress2 // May 21, 2008 at 8:24 am

  Swaroop — If you’re so content with paying high gas prices, why don’t you move — unless you’re already there — overseas? There’s no need to have these prices. All we need is a lifting of restrictions on domestic oil and gas exploration within our borders and territorial waters.

• 19 rdavis // May 22, 2008 at 5:38 am

  Swaroop…i think you need to take a much closer look at a map! Most Americans live in small rural cities, and have no way to commute other then driving their cars. I would love to by a bike or a vespa, but sadly I connot wake up at 3 am every morning and come home at 8pm…I have a family and its not that easy. It is crazy to think that Americans as a whole are wealthy people…I know people who have a hard time feeding their kids because the price of oil increases the price in groceries. I know people who dont have money to put gas in their tanks to get to work, and they have to either borrow money OR max out their credit cards to do so. This country is in huge trouble, no matter who we put the blame on. It is sad that anyone in America is starving, homeless, or simply cannot work due to high expenses. I think we all need to take a look at what is happening to this economy before placing the blame on liberals or conservatives or anyone else. If gas goes any higher, say up 5 or 6 dollars a gallon, life as we all know it will change dramatically.

• 20 mikev // May 23, 2008 at 7:35 am

  Life has already changed dramatically! And if shit stays the way it is, that shirt up there is going to be more literal than people think! What do I think? Drill in Alaska! Jesus Christ, who cares about Alaska anyways! 99.5% of American citizens who are defending it have never even seen it with their own eyes! So drill, produce, and save us money for crying out loud. I paid 90 dollars to fill my tank yesterday, and I hope the people responsible for that die slow, miserable, deaths, whoever they may be.

• 21 ShellKell // May 26, 2008 at 12:12 am

  This is crap. Why don’t you pansies start building a light rail system, take the bus. Oh no! I can’t drive my big Ess You Vee around and make the little people feel inferior! You fat cats should keep paying up the wazoo for gas, and we ‘liberals’ will hop on the bus or the light rail and go to work while we wait for the demise of our economy! I am nervous for our future, but I think everyone needs an attitude adjustment. Me included. Let’s get some serious economists to discuss a national solution instead of hearing about Britney’s latest lip-inflation.

• 22 4cyl for life. // May 26, 2008 at 5:09 pm

  ShellKell’s got it. Everyone who bought an SUV in the past decade and has not used it for its originally intended offroad utilitarian purposes should be drug into the street and shot. Might help with the looming overpopulation problem as well. Me, well I’m happily getting over 40mpg city driving my 1.5L 4 cylinder.

• 23 aaron // May 26, 2008 at 7:45 pm

  There is not enough oil in ANWAR to last more than a few years at best, and it would take nearly a decade to bring any of it into production, so all the talk about invading one of the last truly wild places in the US is pointless, and would not bring any relief at the pump in the near future Instead we need to face the fact that our supply of cheap oil is running out and we need to get off it as much as possible as soon as possible! Instead of pissing away money on Iraq and the so called war on terror we need to spend these vast amounts of taxpayer dollars on renewable energy research, development, and subsidy Rebuild our rail system that was destroyed to help the big three automakers, and invest in efficient public transportation systems. Face the facts oil production vs demand is running out fast and no new magic bullet of supply is on the horizon to reverse the trend.

• 24 hotoffthepress2 // May 26, 2008 at 7:48 pm

  aaron — Running out of oil? Don’t think so. And the left is certainly not running out of enviro-cool-aid either. How’s it taste?

• 25 aaron // May 26, 2008 at 8:08 pm

  Ok we will not be actually running out of oil yet (there is still lots of oil to be extracted at a much higher price ) but in terms of easily extracted crude vs growing demand we are nearing the point at which demand will exceed supply. Why waste our time and resources in the quest for more costly oil instead of redirecting toward more efficient transportation systems and renewable energy, both of which we have the resources and technology to develop?

• 26 realist // May 27, 2008 at 11:21 am

  you people do not understand why this is happening do you. people need to do there research b4 posting there crap comments here.
  the economy sucks yes. And will get much worse.
  Do any of you have a clue why. First your previous comment to help the rich is obviously true. But there is much more involved here. I will try to explain as simple as possible. The central United States has the lowest of everything wages, prices, realestate so on and so on. What is going on is this. Everything and everywhere will be set as one. in meaning. If your paid minum wage 7.00 per hr in NY you will have the same in california. if gas is 4.00 in chicago it will be 4.00 in dallas. Now lets say now an individual gets paid 20,000 a year in 10 years they will be paid 40,000. There is only 2 ways all this can be done. 1st which would never happen because of the things that would happen I dont have time to explain is drop everything to a certain price. Second is whats going to happen is raise everything. And where do tou suppose it would start, yes people the gas prices. Now when all is said and done it will ultimately help the business owners. But if your a smart individual and not one of the dumb crack head people out there. you will see it will not be that bad just everything will have a higher price but your wages will eventually catch up.

• 27 hotoffthepress2 // May 27, 2008 at 11:25 am

  Realist — Write again when you sober up.

• 28 rdavis // May 27, 2008 at 4:02 pm

  So, Realist, let me get this straight, your telling me that in 10 I am going to be making double the money I make now?…So, what am I susposed to do for the next 9 years? Companies have put freezes on salaries for the next 2 years in Florida. Therefore, does that mean in 3 years they are gonna hike up my earnings by 30% to make up the difference? I dont think so!!! That theory is completely retarded. I think the BIGGEST problem in the country is that noone gives a shit about anyone else, and that alone will be the demise of America.

• 29 HomeGirl // May 29, 2008 at 8:01 pm

  ShellKell and 4cy for life
  I dont have a bus or light rail. I live in the country. I have 3 kids and need to pick them up and drive them around. Even if I drive a station wagon at 20 mpg it is a round trip of 50 miles to pick them up from school (if they get are sick or something) Don’t be such an elitist. Congrats on your gas saving vehicles. And sorry my sweet children are such disgusting addition to the overpopulation problem.

• 30 Anthony // Jun 3, 2008 at 10:58 am

  tell yall what Hilliary is gonna save us all shes gonna cut gas prices end the war in iraq and i got some swampland in arizona ill sell ya cheap too if america dont wake up we are headed for hell not speaking religiously i dont wanna offend any liberals (haha) gas prices are going up food is going up and not to mention the american dollar is going down the america hating corporations that we are making filthy rich are loving us right now wake up america i say we do a nationwide strike on EVERYTHING and then youll see how quickly everything goes back down

• 31 CAS // Jun 3, 2008 at 2:08 pm

  Nuclear Fusion…..contained and efficient nuclear fusion based power is what the world needs in its present state. Extremely low environmental impact with an endless source of fuel available for the world to use. And the waste generated…..the same type of helium that goes into your kids birthday party balloons! Say goodbye to greenhouse gas emissions, and hello to cheaply producing the power the world needs to continue growing at its present rate.

  I feel that we should be directing our spending efforts into getting this accomplished. And if it is found that it cannot be done after a STRONG effort is made by the entire world’s brightest scientists, spending should be directed instead toward alternatives to fossil fuels. Supply is eventually going to fall behind demand in the fossil fuel market…we need something different and we need it soon!

  But it seems that in the past decade we’ve decided to direct our spending to merely apprehending more fossil fuels on foreign lands . A band-aid for the problem at best. What a bummer!

• 32 Independent in TX // Jun 4, 2008 at 9:39 pm

  I was wondering how the liberals in congress have had such control since it has been pretty much a republican congress for the past 7 years. We do need to preserve the environment. But we also need to release some reserves and do more to find alternatives for travel. We have been smug. And Texas is certainly the capital of “I have my SUV and you can’t make me!”, but for those of us who do care, they need to build train stations and put in more public transportation. Working from home should be an option as well.

• 33 bob // Jun 6, 2008 at 3:19 am

  Free trade and free trade alone is responsible for expensive imports (OIL). The trade deficit will continue to rise, or stalemate at 700 billion a year because Americans are still earning more then 50 cents an hour.

  When jobs move to cheap foreign labor sources, the trade deficit gets bigger. When the trade deficit gets bigger OPEC demands more dollars. And since dollars don’t generate interest, buying government bonds to increase the national debt prevents those OPEC countries for demanding even more dollars. So either more dollars are going to be demanded, or the national debt will have to increase. (OPEC countries obviously aren’t very inventive when it comes to domestic industry)

  It could spiral out of control, and get really nasty, especially with Global Warming nutballs preventing drilling or synthetic liquid fuels. Like McCain and every Democrat that ever opened their piehole.

• 34 bob // Jun 6, 2008 at 3:21 am

  “Nuclear Fusion…..”

  Nuclear fusion don’t fit on cars.

• 35 fishon // Jun 7, 2008 at 8:49 pm

  Nuclear fishon?????? beer is way more $$$ than gas, and it tasts better!!! Maybe if they add flavor to the gas it would be easier to swallow, just ask hillary she knows all about that!!!

• 36 chris // Jun 27, 2008 at 9:58 am

  Sure, Europe and other countries have been paying $7 per gallon, but the reason is because they have a more socialist approach to their way of living ie) a large chunk of that $7 is put towards social programs like free healthcare! Why shouldn’t we enjoy the same benefits with our $7 a gallon gas? Why are you, and so many other americans afraid of change? You trust fund baby boomers have never had to suffer, and you never will.
  Thanks for passing the buck,
  chris

• 37 hotoffthepress2 // Jun 27, 2008 at 10:08 am

  chris — So you’re for suffering, socialism and nationalized healthcare? Here’s a suggestion: Move to Europe, so you can start enjoying it now!

• 38 research // Jul 17, 2008 at 2:05 pm

  all i have to say is…look up the profits of exxon and chevron for last year…$40.6 BILlION for Exxon and $18.7 BIllION for Chevron…not breaking even..not slight profit…BILLIONS of dollars…now decide who you want to be mad at

• 39 hotoffthepress2 // Jul 17, 2008 at 2:10 pm

  research — I have no beef against Exxon or Chevron for making a profit. The blame for our energy crisis rests squarely on members of the Democrat-controlled Congress who, for three decades, have worked their tails off to make it difficult for oil and gas companies to explore for resources in this country. ‘Nuff said!

• 40 Billy T // Jul 20, 2008 at 11:02 pm

  It’s so Ironic we just celebrated the 4th of July !
  People forget this country was started by fighting the same basic problems we now face today in a much larger way.
  232 Years ago we were taxed on everything and the money went overseas and people banded together and revolted as they had enough.
  What is really different here ?
  Everything is entirely corrupt. Distractions like Roger Clemens steroid scandal and other small issues tying up our government. The real issues need to be adressed, like where the campaign contributions come from and who gets and gives favors. Let the people investigate every politician, not corrupt government officials keeping everything hush hush.
  You should not be able to buy your way into government. It should be by merit and good deeds and ability not unrighteous riches. No TV ads no big commercial contributions. Our whole government is in office fraudulently and everyone of them has a questionable agenda !
  The rest of the world must be laughing at us. We must have at least someone better to offer than the ones running for office !
  Make the countries(besides US) who sat back and allowed 9/11 and other bad events to happen suffer instead of economically rewarding them.
  No Us Funds should be wasted outside our country. Let Iraq and Afghanistan rebuild themselves, we have our own mouths to feed, hence no more immigration either. We have enough takers already.
  No more money should be printed without some sort of adequate backing(strong economy maybe) although the gold standard has been gone since 1934.
  Senator Obama is in Afghanistan now, and has been busy with his campaign. How does he find time to do his job as a senator while all this is going on ? or is that his job to just promote himself and shaft his nation like all other politicians.

• 41 DB // Jul 29, 2008 at 10:35 am

  Too bad you are just rying to scare people. The reality is that a gas price of even $8 per gallong will have catastrophic effect on world economy so much so that within 12-18 months of this a sustained $8 (>=6 mnths). The gas price will drop to nominal level. The current Open leader ONLY PRODUCES 22% of Oil for the world. Other countries are not that well off. In case of $8 per gallon the chase to the demand will cause a lot of bad decisions for poorer countries of the world that will raise the price of food beyond their reach and will cause a world wide drop in demand. this would result in accelerated adoption of alternatives and over a period of 5 years the price of Gas will be belo $1 a gallon ( I am sure that no one would care about it much before that)

• 42 hotoffthepress2 // Jul 29, 2008 at 11:24 am

  DB — I’m not trying to scare people. Instead, I’m just reporting the facts and offering help in the form of Will work for fuel t-shirts. So take it easy, will ya?

• 43 Dr. Economist // Aug 23, 2008 at 3:01 pm

  Whoever wrote this article shouldn’t have been sleeping during Econ class. Don’t get yourself all caught up in the gas frenzy. Its not going to be $10 a gallon demand for gas will overturn the price if it ever exceeded to that amount.

• 44 hotoffthepress2 // Aug 23, 2008 at 3:17 pm

  Dr. Economist,

  Obviously, you haven’t spent much time learning how to read. If you had, you would know I didn’t make the prediction.

  P.S. Because your second comment contained liberal language unfit for even the blogosphere, it — and any future comments you might have to offer — will not appear on this blog. G’bye!

• 45 Dr Reality // Nov 18, 2008 at 3:20 pm

  1.59 lowest in 3 years …you were close in you prediction

• 46 hotoffthepress2 // Nov 18, 2008 at 3:24 pm

  Dr Reality — Your name is a misnomer. If you took time to read the post above, you would find that I was merely reporting a prediction made by Dan Dorfman in the now-defunct New York Sun newspaper. It WAS NOT my prediction. Now, crawl back into your mom’s basement and write the following sentence on a piece of paper 1,000 times: “I will not post a comment about a blog post without first reading the blog post.” You will be welcomed back after you complete that task. Thanks!

• 47 Sense in Stats // Dec 16, 2008 at 7:04 am

  Whoever wrote needs to learn a few lessons… One predictions were off, big whoop, it happens. As a professional, if that is what he calls himself, he shouldn’t take his position so defensively and instead be apologetic for misleading the consumer. A lesson in business and writing etiquette would definitely help the “Bob” to become a not so novice writer.

• 48 hotoffthepress2 // Dec 16, 2008 at 7:49 am

  Sense in Stats,

  As the author of the error-filled comment above, you have a lot of nerve — or should I call it ignorance — to critique anyone’s writing. I think you, perhaps, are both delusional and insecure. When it comes to your comment regarding me (”Bob”) being a “novice writer,” you are just flat wrong. What I am is an experienced writer who isn’t worried about either being politically correct or satisfying milque toast types like you.

• 49 Sense in Stats // Dec 18, 2008 at 5:47 pm

  Case and point. Lose the attitude and find a job you are good at.

• 50 hotoffthepress2 // Dec 18, 2008 at 6:36 pm

  Sense — There you go again, bad grammar and all.

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