How ironic that US unemployment figures were down to 5.0 last and you barely heard a peep about it. Wouldn't want to have folks that vote think that tax breaks for corporations that employ workers might actually be working.
http://www.dol.gov/index.htm#stats
Oil prices are up? Well, of course as a result of the SUV's folks have gone crazy buying. But now that prices are up, people are buying smaller, more fuel efficient cars which is why if you try to buy a Prius now, whatever you planned to save in gas you'll spend on the price they gouge you for this very expensive little car.
http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyotaprius/
Oh, oh.. beware foreign entanglements, especially the risky, geopolitical kind. Damn, and here I thought we were in Afghanistan and Iraq because of those folks that died in NYC, DC, and Pennsylvania.
Look, I'm teasing, okay (but only a little)? Of course we need alternative energy that's clean and low-polluting. But the lobbying against nuclear energy in this country has been tough to fight even though it's all the rage in France for years.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...gs/french.html
Hey, one thing I've always wondered: You know that foreign entanglement thing and how the non-UK Europeans have avoided it so much more than we have? Why is their oil so much more than expensive than what we pay? Geez, and they're so much closer to it, too... Oops, never mind.. forgot about the tax thing.
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/gaspr....shtml#History
All right, I'll stop. Just messin' around.
ML