IQ: Make things up much?   What is the United States national gas tax rate? The United States federal excise tax on gasoline is 18.4 cents per gallon (cpg) and 24.4 cents per gallon (cpg) for diesel fuel. On average, as of April 2012, state and local taxes add 31.1 cents to gasoline and 30.2 cents to diesel for a tot...more

I doubt prices will hit levels they did during the 80's as countries such as China and India are expanding too quickly. Likely if prices dropped the rate of growth would skyrocket. Hard to see the U.S. becoming more self sufficient as any thing but good. Hopefully the authors prediction of growth in renewable areas wil...more

Amazing how those on the right claim Obama has created all this new spending without ever having a budget. Sorry he's just paying Bush's bills. The bills are a lot bigger since the great Bush meltdown. Many democrats agree with less government spending just not in the area's you do. Cut the military and stop the wars. ...more

Romney promised to allow 1.25 million tech workers to receive green cards claiming a shortage. According to unemployment tables there were twice as many tech workers still unemployed since the meltdown than there was before. It's all about cheap labor, not filling shortages. Same as his plan to staple a green card to t...more

It only closes it to you. The comment is still visible to every one else, It is reviewed later to see if it violates TOS. If not, no harm done.

The old you cant time the market argument works on the theory that since it's impossible to catch an absolute top or bottom you shouldn't use common sense. You didn't have to catch the top to know stocks were going insane when dot coms with no product were valued higher than IBM. You didn't need to catch the top suspec...more

It could be worse.     "A Tennessee for-profit, online public school has come under fire this week after an internal email that appeared to be ordering teachers to delete their students' bad grades was leaked. The vice principal of Tennessee Virtual schools allegedly sent the email in December. The email instructed...more

"Any South or Central American immigrant could work circles around you and three of your favorite right-wing loudmouths combined."   I'm sure he works much harder than those working in the fields 12 hours or more a day.

Indeed.