I need a drobo!

You know, I really am getting tired of people beating up on oil companies. We are in a free-market here people and they are able to make as much or as little profit as they want. Everyone thinks their huge profit = screwing the public but consider this. Oil companies were making money when extracting the crude and selling it for $20 or $25 a barrel. Now that were over 5 times that price for the supply, their profits should be five times what they were. They own the supply and if it costs them, for example $10 a barrel to extract, and the fair market price is $130+ then look at that, huge profit margins.

High gas prices suck, but focusing blame on oil companies makes about as much sense as focusing blame on President Bush. There haven't been any new oil refineries built in the U.S. in 30+ years, and fuel subsidies in China and other developing countries keep their fuel cheap and demand up. All of those factors, as well as ones we don't know contribute to high gas. Yes, it is terrible and I hate paying $4 a gallon as much as the next guy, but demonizing oil companies or government will not make the price at the pump go down. If 5 years ago when the Energy Bill going through Congress would have passed allowing exploiting of the untapped oil off the continental shelf and in ANWR, and included promotion of new refinery construction, $4 a gallon gas may not be as much of a reality as it is today. Especially since the Saudis are reluctant to increase production of oil because we have dragged our feet on exploring our oil reserves.

Wooo giveaways!

Ahhh I have the current MX for my laptop and having BT to eliminate the inch long protrusion from my Vaio would have been terrific. Oh well... I guess I could switch the old one to the desktop and go for a BT MX for the laptop considering I'm pointing with an 8 year old intellimouse. Ha.

Awesome!

Wiiiiii!

Neat.

Back in 2004, I went to a Bush Speech at the Lackawanna County Stadium (now home of the Wilkes Barre/Scranton Yankees) as part of his re-election campaign. While waiting for the speakers we were in a crowd on the field packed very closely and twice I recall seeing a large dragonfly fly over our heads, maybe 10 feet from the ground. The weird thing was it flew in the same direction both times. It also appeared larger than a regular dragon fly and I remarked to my friend (avid outdoorsmen and hunter) about it and he agreed. I remember seeing on TechTV (at the time, G4 now) that surveillance equipment has been fit into small animal-like forms but not until now have I heard any other, uh information on it. I guess they were a nice compliment to the snipers in the eves of the stadium and the police in full SWAT regalia at the entrances.

I hope I win!!!!!

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