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  • Posted By: getzel @ 04/11/2008 10:58:30 PM

    War ends We win: when we pass a law that makes the minimum price of gasoline at the pumps: $1.75/gallon; billion dollar/million barrel per day ethanol stills will not be built without protection from OPEC monopoly pricing rusting out our new stills.

    The ethanol investors do not build ethanol distilleries because monopoly OPEC would lower the price to rust out their billion dollar million barrel a day ethanol still. Brazil is energy independent: ethanol; All their cars come built running on ethanol; Archer Daniel Midland made millions on $1.00 gallon ethanol in the 1990s; that trumps any canard/invalid objection to ethanol. Use Cellulose ethanol, not corn ethanol.

    This will balance the trade deficit, create full employment, bring down the price of fuel, break the monopoly on the pricing of fuel, balance the USA government budget, create less pollution, make the USA energy independent, and end the war because we will stop funding the bad guys everyday at the gas pumps..

    Intelligence analyst: Getzel

    Sharia people are at war with The West because Arabs, Persians, & Sharia people believe Islam can not survive against a free market, free speech, republic with: womens rights & no honor killing: murdering women is legal in Sharia.

    Arab, if only Israel: is only an excuse, propaganda, for Islamic terror; as we see that wherever the Mohammedans bump against another culture the Mohammedans say the same thing they say about Israel. In India: same thing, in Kosovo: same thing, In Israel: same thing. In Darfur: same thing. In Thailand: same thing, the Philippines: same thing. Wherever the Moslems are contiguous with another people: The Moslems say the same thing they say about Israel: If only: Sharia and no freedom of speech to criticize Islam

  • Posted By: sivere @ 04/06/2008 3:46:49 PM

    The fed and the investmnent banks created this mess, now thety are patetd on the back for keeping it from outright exploding. Ok, the Fed has done a decent job in recent weeks to save us from doom, BUT THEY ALSO CREATED THE MONSTER to start with.

    The Fed encouraged derivatves, which now sit at $516 trillion dollars, dwarfing the world's GDP. When they needed more paper to feed the derivatives monster, they created the subprime crisis. They screamed for paper, and paper, and mortgage lenders gave loans to anyone who cuold sign. This fed the bubble for a while, but then collapsed.

    Please see siv0.com. We need to TakeBackTheFed.com.

  • Posted By: loanmod @ 03/30/2008 4:02:22 PM

    The banks should be outsourcing their loss mitigation efforts to companies that specialize in reaching out to homeowners, like MIZNA ( loanmod.com ) and NACA (naca.org) . These companies can save banks hundreds of millions of dollars by guiding/counseling homeowners, and processing loan modificaitons.

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