Better Fill up today

[Diane Amberg]

Honest, it really is!  You go down a hill to the bottom of my street, around a left turn and up a steep hill to the main road. The little shopping center is across the street. I'd have to walk up hills both ways.   Do come for the  summer crabs, but bring your fat wallet. If you have to buy them they are $200.00 a bushel for fat jumbo males. (jimmies) 

[sixdogsmom]

   Do come for the  summer crabs, but bring your fat wallet. If you have to buy them they are $200.00 a bushel for fat jumbo males. (jimmies) 
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Wowzer, probably won't come for crabs afterall! 

[Diane Amberg]

That's OK, I can get you some for free. I know where those yummy fat crabs live.

[sixdogsmom]

WooHoo!! Goin' fishin' for crabs!! BTW we just got ANOTHER nice rain! Any rain received in July and particularly the latter part of July is nice indeedy! Supposed to be upwards of 100 tomorrow; we can steam those crabs on the sidewalk Diane! Wish I could come back there to tour. My aunt and cousin went back east to Maine for a tour and before we knew it they had pulled up stakes and moved there! She loved the ocean; just talked about it all the time. Glad she found it before the end of her life, she was a favorite aunt.

[Diane Amberg]

I like the rugged Maine coast too, but we rarely go up there. Frankly, getting around New York City is a pain. We have to really time it right to not catch rush hour traffic on the Tapanzee Bridge or you just sit there. I keep kidding Al that I want a good lobster roll from one of the coastal lobster shacks, but now the gas is too high, plus we just spent our money for now.

[sixdogsmom]

Teds' transplnt coordinator went to Maine for vacation this year. She said she ate lobster for every meal and it wasn't any less expensive than it is here. But she said it was soooo good! I'd like to try it sometime.

[frawin]

Sept 08 Crude is trading at $123.70, up $0.44 and Aug 08 Natural Gas is trading at $9.105, up $0.021. I have been out of my office all morning and just got the chance to open my laptop and check the markets.

[frawin]

Sept.08 crude closed at $124.73, up $1.47 on the day, Natural Gas closed at $9.163, up $0.079 on the day. The back months were pretty much in line with the front months on Crude and gas.

[frawin]

Below is a description of the "Republican Energy Plan" that has been proposed by the House Republican Committee. Democrats are trying to keep anything from passing that will make it look like Republicans did something good, and/or reduced our independence on Foreign oil.. Nancy Pelosi is without a doubt the worst  Speaker of The House in my lifetime, bar none. I think what the Republicans are proposing is good, and we could ad to it as different options develop. To sit and do nothing as the democrat controlled house is doing is just taking us closer and closer to disaster.

The American Energy Act:
Reducing the Price at the Pump through an "All of the Above" Energy Strategy
House Republicans have transformed their "all-of-the-above" energy strategy into
a single piece of legislation: the American Energy Act. The bill – a product made
possible by energy policies proposed by Members throughout the House Republican
Conference – will increase the supply of American-made energy, improve conservation
and efficiency, and promote new and expanding energy technologies to help lower the
price at the pump and reduce America's increasingly costly and dangerous dependence
on foreign sources of energy.
Bipartisan passage of the American Energy Act would demonstrate to the world
that America will no longer keep its rich energy resources under lock-and-key. Not only
will it help bring down the price of gasoline now, but it will make needed investments in
the alternative fuels that will power our lives and our economy in the future. Following is
a brief summary of the American Energy Act:
To increase the supply American-made energy in environmentally sound ways,
the legislation will:
• Open our deep water ocean resources, which will provide an additional three
million barrels of oil per day, as well as 76 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, as
proposed in H.R. 6108 by Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC). Rep. John Peterson (R-PA)
has also worked tirelessly on this issue.
• Open the Arctic coastal plain, which will provide an additional one million barrels
of oil per day, as proposed in H.R. 6107 by Rep. Don Young (R-AK) ;
• Allow development of our nation's shale oil resources, which could provide an
additional 2.5 million barrels of oil per day, as proposed in H.R. 6138 by Rep.
Fred Upton (R-MI); and
• Increase the supply of gas at the pump by cutting bureaucratic red tape that
essentially blocks construction of new refineries, as proposed in H.R. 6139 by
Reps. Heather Wilson (R-NM) and Joe Pitts (R-PA).
To improve energy conservation and efficiency, the legislation will:
• Provide tax incentives for businesses and families that purchase more fuel
efficient vehicles, as proposed in H.R. 1618 and H.R. 765 by Reps. Dave Camp
(R-MI) and Jerry Weller (R-IL);
• Provide a monetary prize for developing the first economically feasible, superfuel-
efficient vehicle reaching 100 miles-per-gallon, as proposed in H.R. 6384 by
Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT); and
• Provide tax incentives for businesses and homeowners who improve their energy
efficiency, as proposed in H.R. 5984 by Reps. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), Phil
English (R-PA), and Zach Wamp (R-TN), and in H.R. 778 by Rep. Jerry Weller
(R-IL).
To promote renewable and alternative energy technologies, the legislation will:
• Spur the development of alternative fuels through government contracting by
repealing the "Section 526" prohibition on government purchasing of alternative
energy and promoting coal-to-liquids technology, as proposed in H.R. 5656 by
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), in H.R. 6384 by Rob Bishop (R-UT), and in H.R.
2208 by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL);
• Establish a renewable energy trust fund using revenues generated by exploration
in the deep ocean and on the Arctic coastal plain, as proposed by Rep. Devin
Nunes (R-CA);
• Permanently extend the tax credit for alternative energy production, including
wind, solar and hydrogen, as proposed in H.R. 2652 by Rep. Phil English (R-PA)
and in H.R. 5984 by Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD); and
• Eliminate barriers to the expansion of emission-free nuclear power production, as
proposed in H.R. 6384 by Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT).

[sixdogsmom]

I have two questions? How many barrels of GASOLINE do we export every day? And why don't the oil companies drill in the areas they already have access to?