chefdennis
Veteran Expediter
Ok, i have been hanging out, reading and reading for a little more then 6 months. I have a friend who manages one of the Expediting companies in the toledo, ohio area and have talked to him about getting into this business. He told me to hang here for a while, so I have done just that.
I can say that for the most part the information here has been exceptional in most areas. I also think a few of the posters here ted to be a bit "self serving" when telling others that the business is not a good way to make a living. I think each person needs to make that decision based on their own wants and needs. Now that being said, I will be waiting for another 6 months to a year to possibly get into this business, and that decision was based on the great info found here, THANK YOU ALL.
So with that out of the why, I also understand the issue of fuel cost for all of you and everyone else. I recieved this as an e-mail today and thought I'd post it for you all to 'do with as you see fit". This is not an endorsment of this e-mail, just information for you to do with as you please. So here you go, and again, "Thanks" to all of you that take the timeto post and share your experiences.
Liberals Holding Us Hostage to Gas Prices
I can say that for the most part the information here has been exceptional in most areas. I also think a few of the posters here ted to be a bit "self serving" when telling others that the business is not a good way to make a living. I think each person needs to make that decision based on their own wants and needs. Now that being said, I will be waiting for another 6 months to a year to possibly get into this business, and that decision was based on the great info found here, THANK YOU ALL.
So with that out of the why, I also understand the issue of fuel cost for all of you and everyone else. I recieved this as an e-mail today and thought I'd post it for you all to 'do with as you see fit". This is not an endorsment of this e-mail, just information for you to do with as you please. So here you go, and again, "Thanks" to all of you that take the timeto post and share your experiences.
Liberals Holding Us Hostage to Gas Prices
"High [gas] prices have been the prod that the left has favored to persuade Americans to abandon their SUVs and minivans, use mass transit, turn the thermostat down, produce less consumer goods and services, and stop emitting those satanic greenhouse gases."
-The Wall Street Journal
Are you really tired of paying close to $4 dollars at the pump? Do you really want to do something about it?
And while we're at it, did you know that gasoline costs 45 cents a gallon in Saudi Arabia, 35 cents in Iran, and less than a quarter in Venezuela?
Here in the United States, prices are already ABOVE $4.00 a gallon in some areas of the country!
Why does gasoline cost so little in these third-world countries and so much in the United States of America? Because Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Venezuela harvest enough oil to take care of their own people, and WE DON'T!
What can we do about it?
Let's face it, the only real solution is to increase the supply!
Perhaps that's why President Bush called for opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil exploration.
Geologists tell us that ANWR sits on top of enough oil to give us the energy-independence we once enjoyed... Independence we frittered away through years of cowardly kowtowing to Greenies and Liberals.
Conservative estimates by the U.S. Geological Survey confirm that ANWR would produce at least 10.4 billion barrels of new oil!
So what does that figure mean to us ordinary folks who drive cars?
It means we'd have...
Enough oil to replace 15 years of imports from Saudi Arabia and 58 years of Iraqi oil!
Enough oil to run 29 U.S. states for more than a century!
Enough oil to cut a major chunk out of the $150 BILLION the United States spends every year, buying oil from our enemies, who -- out of envy and hatred -- hold us hostage and gouge us.
And here's the kicker: Some experts predict the ANWR yield could run as high as 27 BILLION BARRELS!
So who's stopping us? Who's holding us hostage? The Democrats and RINOs on Capitol Hill -- frantically kissing the feet of crazed Greenies -- who would prefer to see you and your family suffer than inconvenience one polar bear or walrus or caribou.
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President Bush and the GOP leadership in the House and Senate. Tell them that the American people are sick and tired of pandering and want REAL LONG TERM solutions when it comes to lowering the price of gasoline at the pump. Tell them that solution is to increase the supply.
Tell them the American people are fed up with artificially high gas prices. Tell them the American people are fed up with their lack of action! Tell them that if they want to reclaim the support of the American people that they MUST STOP kowtowing to Greenies. Demand that they ram through the American Energy Production Act of 2008. Demand that they open up ANWR and the Outer Continental Shelf to drilling... PERIOD!
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Did You Know?
The total acreage of ANWR is a whopping 19.6 million acres.
And under previously proposed legislation drilling in ANWR was only limited to a 2,000-acre plot of land.
That leaves 19.598 million acres for the walruses and polar bears and caribou.
Let's put that in greater perspective: Oil exploration would be confined to just 0.01% of the 19.6 million acres.
That's 1/15th the size of Disney World and 1/4th the size of O'Hare Airport in Chicago.
If ANWR were the dimensions of the floor of the U.S. Senate, the 2,000 acres would be about the size of an angry constituent's letter.
If ANWR were a tennis court, the drillable part would be the size of Time magazine.
If ANWR were the size of a football field, oil companies would be drilling on a 2 x 3-foot patch of land.
And federal regulations would be so strict that the polar bears and walruses and caribou would probably wander over, squat on the ice, and watch the men in their heavy fur-free coats putting the pipes together.
Honest environmental scientists admit that this activity would pose little or no danger to these animals.
Nothing but crisp, pure air and white snow and the all-but-silent chug-chug of oil pumps.
Legislators who have opposed this win-win venture KNOW they are voting against their own constituents -- exposing lower income folks to heart-breaking deprivation, risking the lives of the very old and very young, who too often can't tolerate extreme weather.
Let's make them do the right thing for their constituents and for their country.
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President Bush and the GOP leadership in the House and Senate. Tell them that the American people are sick and tired of pandering and want REAL LONG TERM solutions when it comes to lowering the price of gasoline at the pump. Tell them that solution is to increase the supply.
Tell them the American people are fed up with artificially high gas prices. Tell them the American people are fed up with their lack of action! Tell them that if they want to reclaim the support of the American people that they MUST STOP kowtowing to Greenies. Demand that they ram through the American Energy Production Act of 2008. Demand that they open up ANWR and the Outer Continental Shelf to drilling... PERIOD!
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But Wait... There's More...
Several GOP senators are currently sponsoring the American Energy Production Act of 2008.
This bill -- authored by Senator Jim Bunning -- would, among other things, allow oil exploration on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and in certain now-restricted areas of Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah.
It would also suspend for six months the filling of the Strategic Petroleum Reserves -- that is, storing up oil for a rainy day. (In case politicians in Washington haven't noticed, it's raining so hard now that some folks are building arks.)
And just how much oil could we recover from the Outer Continental Shelf?
The Minerals Management Service (MMS) estimates the quantity of recoverable oil at -- are you ready for this? -- 66.6-115.3 BILLION barrels! Take a middle figure of 85.9 billion barrels and you have more oil than lies under ANWR.
In addition, we could harvest 326.4-565.9 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
So why aren't we already pumping the stuff and thumbing our noses at Saudi Arabia and Iran and Hugo Chavez?
Blame it on Greenies and Liberals and RINOs.
But -- most of all -- blame it on our political leaders who know better and have not forced this agenda.
You can bet, if offering real help to the American people was an earmark... a "bridge to nowhere" for the folks back home... it would pass without objection!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President Bush and the GOP leadership in the House and Senate. Tell them that the American people are sick and tired of pandering and want REAL LONG TERM solutions when it comes to lowering the price of gasoline at the pump. Tell them that solution is to increase the supply.
Tell them the American people are fed up with artificially high gas prices. Tell them the American people are fed up with their lack of action! Tell them that if they want to reclaim the support of the American people that they MUST STOP kowtowing to Greenies. Demand that they ram through the American Energy Production Act of 2008. Demand that they open up ANWR and the Outer Continental Shelf to drilling... PERIOD!
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Your Choice: Shut Down America Or Ruin The Planet!
If the Left had plotted to destroy the United States of America, they couldn't have come up with a better plan or a better slogan.
Have you ever noticed, by the way, that just about every agenda pushed by the Left also weakens America?
Of course, the Left has always thrived on disaster scenarios.
In the late 1960s, Paul Ehrlich -- in his book The Population Bomb -- predicted that America would be so overpopulated by the 1970s that New Yorkers would be fighting each other in the streets for scraps of food. Today Mayor Bloomberg is publicly worried that New Yorkers are too fat.
During the Cold War, left-wing ideologues were calling for unilateral disarmament to avoid "nuclear holocaust." Thankfully Ronald Reagan continued to arm America, and -- abracadabra -- no Soviet Union!
Now the same Chicken Littles are saying that global warming will lead to the destruction of all life on earth -- unless we turn the world over to Al Gore by Friday. So have you heard the latest? The polar ice cap isn't melting. It's getting thicker! We're all going to freeze to death!
Because of Greenies, Liberals, and RINOs, unemployment is rising and the economy is teetering on the brink of recession.
Independent truckers are shutting down operations or barely breaking even.
Major corporations are laying-off thousands of workers.
Grocery prices are headed toward the moon, and senior citizens on fixed incomes are barely getting by.
This has all happened, in part, because of our dependence on foreign oil. Yet Washington politicians STILL worry more about polar bears and walruses than about people.
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President Bush and the GOP leadership in the House and Senate. Tell them that the American people are sick and tired of pandering and want REAL LONG TERM solutions when it comes to lowering the price of gasoline at the pump. Tell them that solution is to increase the supply.
Tell them the American people are fed up with artificially high gas prices. Tell them the American people are fed up with their lack of action! Tell them that if they want to reclaim the support of the American people that they MUST STOP kowtowing to Greenies. Demand that they ram through the American Energy Production Act of 2008. Demand that they open up ANWR and the Outer Continental Shelf to drilling... PERIOD!
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Misery May Love Company But The Left Loves Misery.
The truth is, Liberals are insanely, passionately in love with high gasoline prices.
Greenie websites feature articles with titles like: "More Taxes Please: Why the Price of Gas Is Too Low."
The Wall Street Journal made the same point: "High [gas] prices have been the prod that the left has favored to persuade Americans to abandon their SUVs and minivans, use mass transit, turn the thermostat down, produce less consumer goods and services, and stop emitting those satanic greenhouse gases."
It's time to take a stand!
The time has come to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil -- and quickly.
Ethanol and wind-mills won't make a dent in the problem. In fact, folks around the world are starving because too much corn is being used to make fuel.
Gas tax holidays won't do the job.
And yes, as unpopular as this may sound, punishing the "evil oil companies" isn't going to help either. Admittedly, some folks will feel better in their misery because someone richer and more powerful is being made to suffer too... but it's not going to lower the price of gasoline that you and I pay at the pump significantly -- if at all.
The only real and permanent solution is to INCREASE THE SUPPLY!
We must immediately open up ANWR and the Outer Continental Shelf and tell Saudi Arabia, Iran and Hugo Chavez to gouge someone else.
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President Bush and the GOP leadership in the House and Senate. Tell them that the American people are sick and tired of pandering and want REAL LONG TERM solutions when it comes to lowering the price of gasoline at the pump. Tell them that solution is to increase the supply.
Tell them the American people are fed up with artificially high gas prices. Tell them the American people are fed up with their lack of action! Tell them that if they want to reclaim the support of the American people that they MUST STOP kowtowing to Greenies. Demand that they ram through the American Energy Production Act of 2008. Demand that they open up ANWR and the Outer Continental Shelf to drilling... PERIOD!
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David A. Keene
The American Conservative Union
