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New Refineries for Iran but Nothing for Us

Jimmie | June 12, 2008 | Comments (2)

Hooray, seven new refineries will be built and online by 2012! They’ll increase gasoline production by about 1.5 million barrels a day, which is not exactly chicken feed. The only hitch to the story is that the refineries will be in Iran and they will, according to the Fars News Agency, make it so that [...]

Pedantry and Another Hatchet Job from McClatchy.

Jimmie | June 12, 2008 | Comments (6)

The leftist McClatchy News Service has an article today that tries to prove that China is, in fact, not looking for oil within 50 miles of Key West. The article has a lot of quotes from people who apparently don’t know anything about China doing anything in the water off of Cuba which is offered [...]

Democrats Vote to Drive Gas Prices Higher

Jimmie | June 11, 2008 | Comments (7)

I realize that today looks like Oil Day at The Shack, but the stories are rolling in and I really have wanted to comment on all of them. Here’s the latest that may well make your head explode. You may want to grab some duct tape before you read on. Today, Democrats refused to allow [...]

An ANWR Flashback

Jimmie | June 11, 2008 | Comments (0)

I really wish someone in the McCain campaign would give their boss a copy of this article. Jonah Goldberg visited ANWR in 2001 and his report is everything that most media portrayals of the area are not – factual, blunt, and realistic. Goldberg is a very entertaining writer. I recommend you also read the whole [...]

John McCain, Just As Unserious and Marxist as Obama on Energy

Jimmie | June 11, 2008 | Comments (1)

Can any John McCain supporter tell me a fundamental difference between his energy policy and that of Barack Obama? Today he addressed our energy problems in two different venues. Here are the main points of what he said. 1) Oil companies make too much money. They should give that money back to consumers and spend [...]

Chris Dodd, Marxist Thief

Jimmie | June 10, 2008 | Comments (0)

Senator Chris Dodd is a would-be thief: Co-host Joe Kernan called the Connecticut senator on the idea, asking if he was going to apply the same strategy to other types of businesses. “Are you going to go across industries across the board and decide what Congress thinks is a fair amount of profit and drawing [...]

Shut Up and Drill!

Jimmie | June 10, 2008 | Comments (8)

Gallup has released a poll on gas prices that shows the American public is pretty much all over the place on the issue. On one hand, there is a healthy majority in favor of drilling in the US for more oil even in places where drilling is currently prohibited (which, by the way, is pretty [...]

Democrats Came to Give a Lecture, But Went to School Instead

Jimmie | May 22, 2008 | Comments (6)

Yesterday, the panjandrums of the Senate summoned the executives of the oil biggest oil companies to them to explain why they were inflicting such suffering on the American people. They didn’t get what they expected. Though they were appropriately meek, the executives took the opportunity to school the Senators in basic economics and how the [...]