Our Tanks Are On Full

There's an old English folks song, called the "Vicar of Bray" which was about Newt's spiritual predecessor.

"Oh, whatsoever king may reign, still I'll be the Vicar of Bray, sir...."

Newt has no convictions, except that all possible situations can be used to provide him with income and advantage. You have to admire him. Like the cockroach, he is far more adaptable than civilized human beings, whose behavior is circumscribed by principles and scruples.

Still, you have to ask yourself: --why would a human being listen to the opinions of a cockroach? You can pretty much be certain that nothing it advocates will be in YOUR best interest.

Newt Gingrich thinks he can become president. What more do you have to know about him to understand he's not credible?

The concern with Mr:Gingrich is they will lose alot of money along with his budy Mr:Bush that is way his acting like that, some people see this coming some don't,.
The other issue with this small and economic vehicles, any body know what is the rate of safety? just I wonder if they will be visible for the 4x4's on the highway!......

He could not be more right.. except about the hydrogen car.. that is almost as likely as a flying car, I mean get serious its not really a viable option

I totally disagree with Gingrich. Currently there is no energy crisis. Infact there is surplus of energy that the price of oil has dropped to uneconomic levels; the oil has become "worthless". It is the correct policy of the US to refrain from exploiting its oil thus prventing damage to the environment and effectively forced the energy industry to find other sources of energy instead of oil and the risky nuclear power. Furthermore this has directly resulted in manufacturers to produce more energy efficient and environment friendly products.

In they long run, the US will benefit most from this policy because by the time oil has depleted in other areas in the world, the US will still have a vast amount of oil on its soils thus the US will be the energy superpower. Gingrich lacks vison.

By the way it is not the that the countries are hostile to the US, it is simply because the US was trying to steal their oil form them. Why can't the US buy oil like everbody else?

I live in a western state, work in industry and drive an American diesel truck but I do not share Mr. Gingrich's ideas of so called energy independence. I have personally witnessed the effects of "drill baby drill" and its not all high fives and new American jobs. In fact many ranchers are bearing the brunt of this mentality and many of our average citizens are not seeing the immediate benefits of the ever growing drilling territories. If you have not seen the burgeoning Johna gas fields or the western slope of Colorado I suggest googling it before you put us to the peril of the same old rhetoric. Air and water quality is being adversely affected and in the city I call my home we are told not to exercise in many of the winter months because our air quality is so poor. That my friends is a real problem. I am not saying end all drilling but we must move forward responsibly and consider future generations. Putting all political views aside answer me this; how is it possible we have have built an "international space station" where each different node has been built in a different country then assembled in space with no margin for error, but yet we can not solve our most basic domestic problems? There are smart enough people out there, but unfortunately they do not reside in congress. I say damn the tree huggers they gave green a bad name. A whole new sector of American ingenuity and jobs can grow if we just let go of some outdated ideas and views.

The same old rhetoric is getting a little tiresome. I live in a western state, work in industry, drive a large diesel truck, and generally vote republican, but I still love the outdoors. The idea that western states can save us from oil dependence is preposterous and nieve. For starters ,oil shale aside from the expense, will forever alter the natural environment. The desert is a fragile ecosystem and I have seen plenty of expansion in the oil and gas industry and not everybody is cashing as many people want us to believe. In fact ranchers are now bearing the brunt of the so called "drill baby drill" mentality. A nice tidbit for Mr. Gingrich, the city I live in tells us not to go outside in the winter for fear of contracting respiratory problems from the air we breathe. That is a REAL problem. I pose a final thought to all regardless of political standing; how can we assemble a "space Station", where each different node has been assembled in another country and the newest attachment has the ability to transform astronauts urine into drinkable water, but yet we can not figure a way to build a zero emission vehicle or better utilize solar technology. That my friends does add up. We are the greatest nation on earth and we should be in the fore front of creating new American jobs in a greener industrial revolution. Tree huggers be damned they gave this idea a bad name from the start.

If we drop the Republic vs. Democrat and Save the Planet political nonsense and bring together Newt's ideas for better utilizing our resources and ideas for "Green technology", we might actually have a good energy policy that will work and we can implement over the next 20 years. Seriously, I want energy independence. But all I hear this political talk. Why aren't we drilling in ANWR AND seeing quality Green technology already? We need both and I'm eagerly awaiting both.

Sometimes I wonder if Newt can do math. We are using a finite resource - where most of the reserves are not in the US (even if we kick out the tree huggers and drill baby drill) our grand children will be fighting over diminishing supplies in the Middle East. It does not add up.
I am afraid Republicans are loosing their intellectual integrity and working backwards from rhetoric to policy - just opposing ideas because it is not orthodox GOP so called conservative then working backwards to have made up facts fit . And the nation will be the looser if this continues.

Sometimes I am literally amazed at the extent of the hold environmentalists have attained upon Democrats.

Sometimes I am really amazed at the extent of the hold on Democrat politicians that environmentalists have achieved.

Mr. Gingrich as well as many other Republicans continue to try to push an energy policy that is not based on facts but on false concepts. The US began drawing down on its known reserves of Oil about 1972. Please go check the facts on this. It is very easy to do. Since then the US has been relying on foreign oil, to our detriment to fuel our growth. No matter how much US oil we tap it will equal less than 1/10 of the foreign oil we import.

Bottom-line we much go to something else. Natural Gas is certainly an alternative. Coal at this point is not, because there is no such thing as clean coal. In the end we need to be moving to non-carbon based energy, using natural gas as a bridge. First, in our national interest we must get off foreign oil. Second, in our world interest we need to get off carbon-based fuel.

Let's quit arguing and start innovating.

I wonder if Thomas Friedman thinks Newt is dumb about energy . . .

Gingrich hasn't been right about anything since before he delivered divorce papers to his cancer-stricken wife in the hospital. The man does not have an intellectually honest thought in his head.

Newt, your comment about 1300 additional dollars for each family, is false, has been repudiated, and for some reason, only those of the republican ilk either can't read or have truly taken a liking to just out and out lying. Further, I believe that the law that made the least amount of sense is the one the made it ILLEGAL for municipalities, governments, even our federal, to use solar on any of its buildings. What a ridiculous was of congressional authority! Why would you make it illegal?! I notice you don't mention that one.

But, since I'm not on the side of the repubs, I am willing for those like you to continue to dig the hole you're already in. I am sorry though for the innocent and ignorant who will be mislead by you.

Newt gingrich could get laid in a cathouse with a fist full of fifties.

Here's all you need to know about newty to allow you to admit to yourself, he's playing with a full deck.

He really thinks a majority of americans would elect him President.

End of story.

I mean, this is what gets me. The oil industry would be lionized the world over right now if it had actually made an effort to develop production methods that are less polluting, that put less carbon in the air and et cetera. Who doesn't love oil power? It's portable, it's dependable, it's powerful - and it's polluting. But the last one can be worked on, and could have been. And if the oil industry didn't have such an awful record of not doing so, and trampling over property owners' rights via lobbying for acquisition of development lands, and not looking out for the public interest in general, nobody would be complaining right now. Everybody would love oil and agree that we ought to go get more of it and support the drilling and et cetera. I would be right along with them if oil technology had been developed in more selfless ways.

But it hasn't been. Big Oil, instead of a record of looking out for the people, has a record of looking out for its lobbyists and its share prices and its bottom lines, and screw any poor people anywhere in the world who happen to be downstream or downwind from a mine or a processing plant.

And THAT is why people yell and scream at Newt for saying this kind of ***, and that is why people are going to continue to scream at him and the petrogiants. It blows my mind that people still don't seem to understand the opposition to development unless that development agrees not to salt the *** out of the Earth (metaphorically) in most places that it tries to operate.