What is really going on here?  It seems like somebody needs to use
scare tactics to keep us from utilizing our own energy resources.  Dont
you think we are more ecologically responsible than any of our Arab or
African friends?

Our gas prices will go down ONLY when the world market understands
that America is serious about becoming energy independent.  Before that
can happen, we need an energy plan other than "Sue Opec, free SRO, tax
oil companies, and stop drilling".

Government has had at least 20 years to work on this.  What have
they been doing other than conspiring to raise taxes, kill babies, and
placate the homosexuals? 

Wait - i dont want to know!

Go on his website and he has his whole policy laid out already, but where does that funding come from? Obama wants to create a Windfall tax on major profits to provide a $1000 dollar rebate to American families as well as fund his policies. One of the few things that most people will remember from history class is their professor stressing that we learn history so we learn from our past in order to make the correct decisions in the future, so why try to recycle a failed Carter admin policy at all?

If we let the past teach us anything its that Obama's energy plan will cause investment to shift to distrubution of oil rather than production, increasing our dependence on foreign oil. Sorry to say, but today's world, thanks to the government created infrastructure, is designed for oil. It really doesn't make sense to me, oil companies take 90% or more of those profits and invest it back into the company which is a far better alternative than letting that money sit in foreign hands.

Moving on, with reduced investment comes reduced dividends from the Windfall tax, Carter's program reported less than 20% of its projected revenue, if thats the case this program is going to be very underfunded and Americans won't see that tax rebate. Also, wheres the funding for alternative energy research and implementation going to come from when this Windfall tax fails? Escalating the nightmare would be a spike in lawsuits, which occured during the Carter administration. Lawyers are going to be lining their pockets with some of thsoe remaining Windfall tax dollars.

If anyone thinks that the current Bush champions Conservative thought, you're sadly mistaken. I'm not going to argue about Iraq, a lot of government officials have a lot of ties and contracts riding on Iraq.

And I'm not arguing that increasing taxation on individuals won't hinder productivity much, but for energy at least, Obama wants to fund it with Windfall taxes, a failed Carter policy. It's stupid to say that somebody wouldn't be working as hard for a few million dollars less, but when you target the corporations and not the individuals in that corporation, those profits don't go back to the company, so investors look elsewhere.

Moving on, I'll go by your estimates $40,000 dollars, that means some people in the top 1% would be making nearly 50 billion a year.

Also, blaming economic shortfall on Conservative though it completely misguided, the market works in cycles, what comes up must go down. Anyway, its not that we can't find any of that in Democratic presidential terms. Lets look to the father of the modern Democratic party, Mr. Carter. Gas prices were astronomically high and inflation was running rampant. Not to mention Carter aided the North Korean nuclear program outside of his presidency (spurred by gore and later backed by Clinton) and he abandoned the Iranian Shah which could be given some credit as to the rise of radical Islam.

Blaming shortcomings on Conservative thought is completely misguided, both have posted outstanding economic records (Reagan, Clinton) whereas both thoughts have produced glaring disappointments (Nixon, Carter).