Domestic Oil - The Truth.

This post has more to do with domestic oil issues than ethanol. But, it shows another example of manipulation by news and other media.

Have you heard of ANWR? It is the orange section in the map to the left, and it is called Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It is a topic of debate for drilling of oil. For wants to drill, obviously, and against do not wanting to save the land and wildlife from the effects of the drilling.

The proposed area is a 2000 acres (3.13 square miles) out of 19 million acres, in between 5 other already drilled oil driling facilities. Now, to understand the ridiculousness of it all, you have to have some perspective of what is really going on here.

The proposed ares is on the ANWR coastal plain, the square dot in the green area in the picture above with the site to its left and the 4 to the right. When the coalition opposing this drilling, consisting mostly of Democrats, liberals, and those that call themselves "greens", protest and start to talk about ANWR, they show pictures like these below.

Now, these pictures do show ANWR and its natural beauty. For all of these are from ANWR, but, look closely at these pictures. . .there is only 1 (the far right) that might be confused with a coastal region. But in fact, the only 1 in question is an inland waterway, probably seasonal at that. But in reality, the area in question for proposed drilling looks like...

The area that they are proposing is not necessarily a haven for the animals. It is more an "ice bridge" in the winter, and rarely used by the wildlife at all in the summer. In fact, we can look at the effect on the wildlife at a nearby drilling facility already in operation. Let's see how depleated the wildlife has become by looking at the pics below.

As you can see, the wildlife does not seem very upset with the production efforts of Prudhoe Bay drilling facility, which is a neighbor of the area that they are proposing to drill at. Oh, and by the way, Prudhoe Bay is responsible for 17% of United States Domestic Oil Production.

Now, why do you think that the Consortium, remember made primarily of Democrats, are lying about ANWR?

Many do not remember, but, there was a time previously that Al Gore said that the Government should work to articficially rasie the gas prices to $5.00 a gallon. Well, Al and his pals appear to have almost completed their goal.

Now if the drilling was allowed and it only made up 10% of Domestic oil, that is still be 3 Times the amount current production of ethanol makes up. Am I the only one that considers that peculiar?

Gasoline Prices: A Scam To End All Scams

Written by Al Hollingsworth

Sunday, 20 April 2008

“Leaders are made, not born. Leadership is forged in times of crisis. It's easy to sit there with your feet up on the desk and talk theory. … It's another thing to lead when your world comes tumbling down.” - Lee Iacocca There was a great joke on Friday’s edition of Information Morning. A guy drives into a service station and said, “Give me five dollars worth of gas.” The attendant farted and gave him a receipt. It summed up the current gouging at the gas pumps to a tee. For years I’ve harbored this deep-seated scorn for members of the regional media who , once a year, prostitute themselves by taking part in the sponsored Atlantic Journalism Awards. I don’t know, or really care, who foots the bill these days, but for many years it was Imperial Oil. It may still be today, for all I know. I’ve never darkened the door. In the days when I was part of the media horde, I avoided the 4th Estate’s annual ego trip with a passion. Think about it. You are asked to submit what you think is an award winning effort. A column. A documentary. A story. A commentary. A cartoon. A…oh, you get the picture…. Sorry, I might have been born with a big head, but the contents inside were somewhat diminished. Especially the ego. The egotism aside, what really galled me was the fact that the event was sponsored by an oil company, that, even in those early days, were gouging the people. Yet these media types who, for 364 days, pounded away at the oil barons, would on the 365th day sit with these moguls, eating their food and drinking their booze. How hypocritical is that. To paraphrase Johnny Paycheck, they should have been saying, “Take this award and shove it.” Ah, but as my old friend, the late Harry Flemming, was given to say; “There’s no whore like an old whore.” Oh how it pains me to say “the late.” The memories of my personal boycott came rushing back this week when the price of gasoline hit $1.30 a liter. The hedge fund boys and girls are the REAL rulers of this world. Any doubts? Look what their speculation is doing to the price of commodities, grain in particular. We are in crisis and sadly, no one is doing anything about it. We need leadership. The masses are vulnerable and no one is standing up for us. This is not a comment about Stephen Harper and the Conservatives, it is about the system in general. Governments are more concerned about their personal survival and couldn’t give a rodent’s rear about our personal well-being. We are being told that petrol prices could hit the $1.50 a liter level before the tourist season hits, and according to those in the tourism industry, that would spell D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R. Well, enough about the tourists, what about us natives? If we can’t afford to feed ourselves and drive our cars …. somebody, somewhere has to stand up and speak for us. If this doesn’t happen, I’m not sure where this is all going to end. (Al Hollingsworth is a retired journalist and broadcaster who has never accepted a morsel of food or a drop of booze from an oil company) __________________________________________________ Al hails from Canada. He is a well respected journalist and broadcaster. At the time of me posting this, the American Dollar was worth 1.020 Canadian Dollars, for the purposes of this writing, I am going to assume an even 1 to 1 ratio. That means his $1.30 a liter would convert (1 gallon = ~ 3.8 liters) to ($1.30 X 3.8) $4.94 a gallon of gas in Al's Canada. His $1.5o a liter would equal $5.70 a gallon. Although it can make you sort of humble paying only $4.19 (the average around my neighborhood today), it still shows the bottom line that the world, not just the U.S. is suffering. And like the U.S. the rest of the world is being scammed by their Governments too by trying to force ethanol upon them. I like his writing style and humor, but he drives a hard ending point. We ARE in a world crises! The Governments are not helping because there is a profit in what's happening to them. Big Business is not going to help because they are making a killing. The really sad thing is where will these "leaders" be when the working class drops out of society because they lost their house to foreclosure and have abandoned their vehicles because they can not afford to feed them, and so lost their jobs too. But rest assured, there will be a suited business man that will figure out a way to profit off from us in the New World Order Tent City... maybe he'll render the worlds water undrinkable, and then he can sell us drinking water for $2 a liter. The problem is, how are we going to buy that either without money asshole! Anyway, come on by and talk about it. I'm the 4th "blue tarp" tent on the left. The one trying to figure out how to boil enough of this undrinkable water to make a cup of coffee...

Interesting Idea Of Saving You Money - Not!

America's Shrinking Groceries
By Kate Pickert - TIME - Friday, Jun. 27, 2008

NOTE: Below is only an excerpt, but you can read the whole article by clicking the link above.

"American supermarkets are epics of excess: it often seems like every item in the store comes in a "Jumbo" size or has "Bonus!" splashed across the label. But is it possible that the amount of food Americans are buying is, in fact... shrinking? Well, yes. Soaring commodity and fuel prices are driving up costs for manufacturers; faced with a choice between raising prices (which consumers would surely notice) or quietly putting fewer ounces in the bag, carton or cup (which they generally don't) manufacturers are choosing the latter. This month, Kellogg's started shipping Apple Jacks, Cocoa Krispies, Corn Pops, Froot Loops and Honey Smacks containing an average of 2.4 fewer ounces per box.

Similar reductions have recently happened or are on the horizon for many other products: Tropicana orange juice containers are shrinking from 96 ounces to 89; Wrigley's is dropping its the 17-stick PlenTPak in favor of the 15-stick Slim Pack; Dial soap bars now weigh half an ounce less, and that's even before they melt in the shower. Containers of Country Crock spread, Hellmann's mayonnaise and Edy's and Breyer's ice cream have all slimmed down as well (although that may not necessarily be a bad thing).

"People are just more sensitive to changes in price than changes in quantity," says Harvard Business School Professor John Gourville, who studies consumer decision-making."
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Food prices are rising faster than anticipated (Well, at least per serving or per unit price). We at TheE85Scam were not expecting major reactions until early fall. That would seem like the logical time frame from the lack of corn and other crops. But, as you can see, anticipated minimal crop returns and other issues like flooding is starting to affect consumables, especially food.

But our ingenious corporate giants have found a way to make everything all right! The article is probably right, most of us would not realize a volume change as much as we would a price increase. Although I believe it would depend upon the product. Changing a gallon for less to sell make would probably be noticed.

If they try to start selling gas by the liter. . .well, I guess just say you read it here first.