Blow up on the price of home heating oil? Time for the new 5x Efficient Geo-Thermal Heat compressors. And freedom from Oil Speculators.

Prediction: Mr. McCain will not win One east coast state, Home Heating Oil prices will sink the Republican party in the northeast for how many generations?

If the CFTC won't protect Americans from Energy Fraud, close the CFTC as well.

Is Exxon being run by crazies? How much shareholder money is Exxon wasting on Global Warming Propaganda campaigns? And why aren't our Mutual Fund Managers voting to get Exxon to join the year 2008?

Is Texas short of coastline? Is the US short of coastline or mountains?

Should Exxon be put on the Corporate Death Watch list? You can drop Exxon now, or hold on until it fails, and fail it will if it sticks with just oil.

"As the soils warm, snow molds will have less water and will produce less carbon dioxide, which may sound good in terms of global warming, but the trees in this system also depend on snow melt water and will ultimately die under extreme drought, thus leading to an overall decrease in carbon fixation by the system. The trees may die. Overall, its probably going to be bad,”� says Schmidt.

Electric/Battery Grid-to-Motor Efficiency: 86%

Hydrogen/Fuel Cell Grid-to-Motor Efficiency: 25%

So, no one in the auto( oil )-industry knows this? Or is hydrogen just being used to BS the public and Stall an Electric Car Revolution?

Mother Jones OUTs Foreclosure Phil.

So, this is capitalism? Kill the country for a bunch of Greedy Insane Rich Bastards? But, the truly fantastic feature of Capitalism is it's willingness to transfer wealth by bankrupting the individual, and buying up the political class for legal protection.

Health Care: throw you out on the street, if you aren't covered, if you are we Will Find your "Pre-existing Condition", so we can Drop You.

Housing: throw you out in the street.

Energy: can't afford to heat your home, freeze in it.

Autos: Sell ONLY guzzlers, and make you PAY.

Jobs: Move to India, if you want your job.

Looks like housing's economic collapse has more then Alan "Bubbles" Greenspan to blame.

Senate Banking Chair, Gramm consistently weakened federal regulations, his deregulation of energy commodities, first helped his wife's employer( Enron ), then killed it.

Great reporting by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann: McCain Economic Policy Shaped by Bank Lobbyist - Phil Gramm.

Who does Phil Gramm represent, America or Swiss Bankers?

Still think Federal Funded Elections is a bad idea?

But, how about this, we demand that those companies with vast executive pay, nowhere near a correlation with company performance, be DROPPED from our index funds and 401K plans. Now, That would be a safe long term investing strategy.

As a matter of fact, an "Adjusted" Index Fund, that dropped the top 3 biggest Executive Pay companies by sector, might also give us much better rates of return then a normal Index Fund. Is this the Avoid the Wacko's Business Rule?, because Greed really does change a companies direction from success to thievery.

Here's an interesting Link from the Daily KOS.

"Bad Money" by Kevin Phillips

How to Cook a Graph in 3 Easy Lessons

Some interesting quotes:

So why does Roy's graph look so much better than mine? As Julia Child said, "It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it."

For those time constrained:

Lesson One: Jack up the radiative forcing beyond all reason.

Lesson Two: Use a completely unrealistic mixed layer depth.

Lesson 3: Pick an initial condition way out of equilibrium.

Note, this guy has been selling BS to the WSJ for Years! It's as if the business community is actively attempting to kill the planet, for what? a little extra green-profitable oil consuming years? Capitalism, the only system designed to build Kings of Broken Kingdoms.