On Today’s Program

Congress takes notice

Apparently the thousands of calls you placed to the Congress were heard because not only did the Democrats press the panic button and delay the scheduled vote on drilling the outer continental shelf—President Bush today spoke out about the need to start drilling and producing oil in many different ways. Drilling offshore, using oil shale, and drilling in Anwr. Read the transcript. (Insiders listen here).

If you missed it yesterday, you can read Congressman Peterson’s piece detailing his plan for greater U.S. energy independence here.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Is it a coincidence that all of a sudden, after Glenn talked about it and you acted by calling Congress that there is suddenly political action? No! Here is all the information you need to keep putting the pressure on the politicians. They are hearing you! Keep it going! Find out how to contact your representative here.

March to Socialism

There is certainly no a shortage of examples that this country is rapidly heading down a path to socialism, and this story only furthers that sentiment. A new poll has come out, and the question was ‘do you oppose the nationalization of oil companies?’. If anyone can find a way to lose money in the oil business, it’s the government. But, how many people in the survey were against that idea? The answer may shock you. Read the transcript. (Insiders listen here).

Keep the light on, Al

Al Gore’s Tennessee mansion was the cause of some controversy a couple of years ago when it was discovered that the house was wildly inefficient. Gore’s excuses at the time were that ‘well, the house is four times bigger than the typical house’. Did someone force Al to buy the house at gunpoint? Is he aware there are smaller houses in America? Gore also claimed that the house was very old and that he had to convert it to be green. Al, you didn’t have to buy that one. Well, most of the green renovations are finally done—and the Gore’s were able to save—zero dollars on energy usage. Instead, they actually increased their usage by 10%. But he’s probably got lots of ‘carbon offset’ bumper stickers on his car! Read the article.

Bugs for oil

Kudos to the fine citizens of San Francisco, who are trying desperately to come up with a solution to the soaring cost of energy. The only problem is that the solution they arrived at was to use bug poop in order to create oil. Read the full story. And the factory they would need to build in order to fully implement the technology of bug poop for oil would have to be the size of the entire city of Chicago. Good thing there are scientists working on the bug poop thing instead of something like, solving cancer perhaps? Read the transcript. (Insiders listen here).