Triple G

Your myopia is showing. There's optimism in the oil industry; not the gloom and doom you state.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

Do you have a link for that? LOL.

CWGordon

Guys: Most countries have had to do new Governments many times. The Constitution type documents that most countries have used are always too strictly written and the rigidity causes major problems w/in just a few short years. Follow history instead of dogma and you will see the need for some flexibility or interpretation. Much of this is done by the Supreme Court. Why have one, if the founding fathers did not intend to give ability to change as times warranted. This worked relatively well for a long time. However, one mistake was assuming “good will and faith” on the part of Presidents. Politics being the current basis for appointments rather than ability and legal acumen has brought about a horrible one-sided political court rather than a neutral apolitical body. Look at the decisions we see. How many Justices do we now have that screwed Gore to the benefit of Bush? Gorsuch, Roberts, Cavanaugh, Barrett. Yep, that’s 4. What else have they done to justify their ascent to the highest Court in the Land? Nada. When, will we pick folks who are brilliant jurists, rather than just political hacks? And you worry about how they interpret the Constitution? Great. Let’s vote for Presidents that don’t promise to nominate only those who are approved by one little think-tank. Let’s not vote for President those that come right out and say they will appoint only those who have already announced one specific position and will vote based on religious convictions and political dogma. Let’s vote for a President that will appoint based on legal acumen instead.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

Really? This is a very twisted view of the function of the court, it was designed to referee, to put the various branches back into the boxes set forth for them by our country's constitution, liberals seem to conveniently forget that there is an amendment process outlined in the constitution for constitutional change and it has nothing whatsoever to do with the courts. The concept of a living constitution is a left wing construct used to engage in shortcutting the process for constitutional change.

Triple G

Prices here are coming down gradually at about $2.59. Stability will take awhile as hurricanes and power grid failures occurred at the same time post-pandemic demand surged. I'm okay with a gradual increase from the 2018 levels to encourage investment in alternatives. Green energy will be expensive for early adopters just as computers and hand-held calculators were.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

I can't speak for where you live but it is not the reality for the rest of the country. Green energy can not replace fossil fuels, they certainly can not produce the levels of energy needed for production processes.... I have nothing against green energy with the exception of wind mills, but it is not realistic to think that we can replace fossil fuels with wind and solar, nuclear energy is a very viable alternative but your side won't allow it. Personally as I previously stated, I see myself driving an e-truck, it is not like I see this as a political argument but rather one of common sense.

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wilpharm Loc: Oklahoma

thats called "blind trust"!!!!....I got some seaside property in Oklahoma if you want to buy some!!!!

Triple G

You can parse it all you want.

https://www.thestreet.com/markets/dow-futures-leap-as-energy-prices-ease-debit-ceiling-deal-emerges

Maybe, optimism can be contagious. Have fun going through the charts.

https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/data/browser/#/?v=8&f=A&s=0&maptype=0&ctype=linechart


Local prices are supply and demand based. I expect price increases the next two months as tourists come to see our mountain views and leaves changing colors. Probably happening on your side of the mountains also.

CWGordon

Blurryeyed: If only you knew what you are talking about and how silly some of what you write actually sounds…

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

Please, educate me. You are nothing other than hot air.

Here is a synopsis of Anti-Federalist XV in which Brutus argues against the Supreme Court, oddly now that it has an overwhelmingly conservative makeup liberals these days are currently making a similar argument to the one that Brutus made across more than one of his Anti Federalist writings.

"This essay continues an argument Brutus introduced in Brutus XIV, where he maintained “that the supreme court under this constitution would be exalted above all other power in the government, and subject to no control.” Here Brutus explains this position and discusses the dangers arising from giving the judiciary its power to review and decide on the Constitutionality of the actions of the other branches. He points out that 1) “There is no power above them that can correct their errors or control their decisions,” 2) “they cannot be removed from office or suffer a diminution of their salaries, for any error in judgment or want of capacity,” and 3) “the power of this court is in many cases superior to that of the legislature.” To prove the last point, Brutus says that “the supreme court . . . have a right, independent of the legislature, to give a construction to the constitution and every part of it, and there is no power provided in this system to correct their construction or do it away.”

Brutus warns: “Men placed in this situation will generally soon feel themselves independent of heaven itself.”

Some of Brutus’s claims seem far-fetched — for example, that the framers designed the judiciary to advance a project “to abolish entirely the state governments, and to melt down the states into one entire government.” He goes on to suggest that Congress and the Court might collude to complete this project. However, in elaborating this theory, Brutus illuminates tendencies of the court on which we might well reflect today: “Their decisions on the meaning of the constitution will commonly take place in cases which arise between individuals, with which the public will not be generally acquainted; one adjudication will form a precedent to the next, and this to a following one. These cases will immediately affect individuals only; so that a series of determinations will probably take place before even the people will be informed of them. In the mean time all the art and address of those who wish for the change will be employed to make converts to their opinion.”

"Undoubtedly, Brutus’s argument about the threat to the state governments suggests some of the reasons that, shortly after the ratification of the Constitution, Congress would include in the Bill of Rights the tenth amendment, which reserves rights to the states or the people." I think it noteworthy however that the court has all but destroyed the rights to the states that the 10th tried to preserve.

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/brutus-xv/

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

"Politicians are Idiots." No, they are not idiots, that is excusable. Politicians pander to many supporters and bribery. They fail to have 5-year plans and in unison work toward goals. Our Democrats vs Republicans system is childlike and the Republicans, especially now, block progress to make the Democrats look bad and there is no regard for the American people. Republicans are infected with Trumpites disease and are not the who I voted for along the way.

McConnell died a few years ago and is still in the Senate animated by Disney. His script is simple, " we will vote in unison and are against everything." Sad but true.

Then there is the Republican who claims to be a Democrat... [Manchin owns a coal company] #9 Coal Baron Manchin who as the song goes, "every day gets richer while You load 16 tons of #9 coal, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt." The truth of the W Virginia economy that he represents.
The song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joo90ZWrUkU

With projects in industry one sets a goal, then lists the steps to the goal, a timetable, to achieve the mileposts along the way and allocate funds and resources. Sad, this is not the way in our government.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

You are so jaded.... Republicans don't block everything simply to make democrats look bad, that is one of the stupidest things that you could possibly say, it makes one wonder about the use of a good education because you are obviously very well educated but dumb as a rock.

McConnell blocks democrat efforts because the 1/2 of the country that supports conservative values, that would be the voters who put republicans in office, do not in any manner support the current democrat efforts.... Stop thinking that your mindset represents the country as a whole.

Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

"Our Republican vs Democrat system is childlike"? Yet here you are acting like a Democrat as usual playing the "childlike" game of politics. Exactly how are the Republicans blocking anything? The Dems have "majority" of the House and Senate with the VP as tie breaker. Yes, many times the Republicans do vote in unison, so do the Democrats...eventually.

WNYShooter Loc: WNY

You are obviously one of those tragic victims of the Democrat Useful Idiot Info Network.

The courts played absolutely no part in Gore's loss to Bush. Gore's loss is due to his assuming he would automatically win his home state, so he barely campaigned there, thus Bush took it because he did campaign heavily there. Had Gore won his home state, Florida wouldn't have mattered at all. Also add the fact that despite all of the official and unofficial recounts in Florida after Bush took office, none of them showed Gore would have won regardless of the court rulings.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

Hey, a while back I put a chunk of my investment portfolio into oil stocks, they always do well when prices skyrocket, and Chevron is paying a 5% dividend, that does not mean that Biden is not doing everything he can to destroy oil here in the states nor does it mean that we will see any relief in the near future.