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This sounds like it should be a no-brainer to me.

As to oil prices, there is this thing called Supply and Demand. Demand (including speculator demand) is high. The speculator part of demand falls dramatically when there is even a glimmer of an increased supply.

Five years ago we were told that increased refinery and oil pumping capability in the US would do no good because it would take five years for those to affect gas pump prices. Query: if we had greatly increased supply over the past five years, would not oil be at about $75/bbl, still high, but not headed to $200? And if we do nothing to increase supply now, where will oil go?

What will happen to the US economy in a time of $7/gallon gasoline and diesel fuel? And how long can we continue to send trillions to the Near East where it is used to buy the most profitable parts of the United States?

Are any politicians actually addressing these problems? Obama would hit the oil companies with new taxes. I do not recall a time when increasing a tax on a business caused a lowering of prices for that  business’s goods.

The US does not need to be crippled. We have enormous energy resources in the US. We need to develop them: or we will soon have a very green, very clean, US — only we won’t own much of it. And as energy prices rise, we won’t commute and we can’t afford to change jobs. Like peasants.

I cannot think of any story that I’ve ever read that is more sad than this.  What on Earth is wrong with people today!?

Wow.  The chief justice of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is into all sorts of nasty things.  And now it’s all public.

This dude just jumped out of an airplane without a parachute.  That’ll go on the list of things you can only do once in your life.

What a way for a Provo kid to make the national news.

A newspaper photographer got a little too close to the action at the state high school track championships — and was speared through the leg by a javelin.

What on Earth were the cops thinking?  It should be common knowledge that a warrant should be necessary to do a forced body cavity search.

Two years ago, Tunde Clement stepped off a bus at the city’s main terminal downtown.

Clement, a black man, was carrying a backpack and coming from New York City. That may have been enough to pique the interest of undercover sheriff’s investigators scanning the crowd with their eyes.

They cornered Clement and began peppering him with questions.

He was quickly handcuffed and falsely arrested. He was taken to a station to be strip-searched and then to a hospital, where doctors forcibly sedated him with a cocktail of powerful drugs, including one that clouded his memory of the incident.

A camera was inserted in his rectum, he was forced to vomit and his blood and urine were tested for drugs and alcohol. Scans of his digestive system were performed using X-ray machines, according to hospital records obtained by the Times Union.

The search, conducted without a search warrant, came up empty.

In all, Clement spent more than 10 hours in custody before being released with nothing more than an appearance ticket for resisting arrest — a charge that was later dismissed.

An 18 year old kid found $100,000 in a school parking lot and returned it to its rightful owners.  Good for him.

An 18-year-old Southern Utah University custodian didn’t think twice about what to do when he found more than $100,000 in cash in one of the school’s public parking lots last month.

He gave it back.

“Right when I found it I kind of knew what I had to do because my dad’s a cop,” Jared Gray said. “He raised me to be honest and do the right thing.”