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I am working on it... honest! £60 per week is really starting to piss me off

Yes. I am. I like the quote I heard last week. "If you're a Republican at age 20, you have no heart. If you're a Democrat at age 40, you have no brains."

Speaking of which, it wouldn't be smart for our government to allow drilling in ANWR or to allow anyone to build more refineries. More refineries would mean less gas prices which means less taxes from the oil companies. Screw the 18.9 cents per gallon tax.. let's take that $3 billion tax off the oil companies.

New refineries do need built.. but its not a long term solution, nor a short term solution. I think it was around 8-10 years to get a refinery up and running.. which does us no good because we should be 25% off oil by that time.

I'm cold hearted and love it. I like the system because I can play within it.

I don't doubt that new refineries need to be built but it is the oil companies who won't do it because they aren't immediately profitable which is the real reason why they won't do it. Why lose a boatload of cash on a 4-5 billion dollar new refinery when they can just run the p!ss out of the existing ones, create their own supply problem and then hide behind it and use it as an excuse to ramp up prices to the consumer. Government red tape or environment groups aside, these companies own politics. If they want or need something, they will get it when they want it done.

25% off oil in 8-10 years? I'd like to read about that.

@ AV

A&E for a car crash? You fcuking girl. I ploughed into the central reservation of the M65 on Monday morning after a tyre blew out. I never went to hospital, my niece never went to hospital and neither did Lottie. Obviously my ten year old niece is harder than you, pansy.

what sort of injuries did you have? any bones sticking out?

on a serious note, if that is true your a focking idiot.

I have a bone sticking out.

It's true. I was lucky, I was nearing the end of the M65 and already braking when the tyre went. I bounced into the rail and then steered the car onto the hard shoulder. I was doing less than fifty at the time and still braking. Air bags never deployed and the car was drivable after I'd changed the wheel. It sounds, and was, a lot more scary than it was hazardous. Had it happened a bit later I'd have been in real trouble. I would have been on a duel carriageway and went into on-coming traffic, that would have been a lot worse. The car is fcuked right down the right hand side, probably a write off as the rear wing is creased and also part of the roof section.

The main thing is that my niece, Lottie an I are all without a scratch. I have to admit that it was brown trousers time for a good ten seconds.

[quote]I would have been on a duel carriageway[\quote]

christ, what are those, sort of like jousting between cars?

still, i wan't really bothered about you, just the child and the dog, a little check over wouldn't have hurt.

Its not that oil companies can't build refineries. They're actually trying to get legislation passed so they can build more. Currently, they expand their existing refineries becaues they can't build new ones. Why can't they build new ones? Because some dumbass people in Congress passed legislation tightening environmental laws.. and we know who would do something asinine like that.

Refineries would be profitable down the line and would allow them to be more efficient. They're making all this money and can't do anything with it.

Marathon lost $1 billion in an investment that went south in February alone. They're throwing their money around trying to find better alternative fuels and losing a good portion of it since they can't build new refineries. Either way they'll continue making a profit because the gas consumption is there. Prices go down, people buy more, maintaining the level to some degree.

The 30 year ruling that they can't build new refineries and drill in ANWR was stupid. It made people happy back then but it is screwing us over now. Oil companies are pushing to build more and some Republicans are trying to get the law repealed to build new, more efficient refineries. I know some Democrats are pushing for it too but they're also attaching other stipulations to it like no exploratory drilling in ANWR because it would hurt the carribou population or whatever animal is up there. Though, statistics have shown that since the Alaskan Pipeline was build, the animal population up there has skyrocketed since the pipeline is heated, melting snow and allowing more vegetation to grow up there, which in turn allows the animals more breeding time and food.

It seems a lot of the stuff holding this country back are based on unfounded 'facts,' 'opinions' and other things that can easily be dispelled if someone would look into them instead of telling the public they know all about it.. *cough* Mr. Gore *cough*

Good article on it as well that explains a lot. Good thing that Kyoto treaty wasn't accepted by Bush, otherwise gas prices would be a lot higher.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6019739/

"christ, what are those, sort of like jousting between cars?"

Yes, my point exactly. I can't, fcuk knows why, use the 'postreply' link and can't get to the formatting buttons. I could have manually put in the italic tags, guess I was a little lazy. I can reach the formatting buttons if I post first and then use edit, I'm defiantly too lazy for that. About as lazy as Fredy for not only not getting around to fixing it, but also not even replying to my few month old PM.

hmm, so i ain't the only one, i though it was some cookie or something i hadn't enabled, only way i can get to the formatting button is by quoting someone first.

Quoting works for me too.

@Tom

It was a head on crash on a non restricted stretch of road on Anglesey. We had been cycling in Betsy then went down there for a spot of surf canoeing. We were just heading back home doing about 50mph when some dumb old bitch coming the other way clipped a curve on the corner and swerved into our side of the road. Despite breaking the impact speed was fairly serious as she was going a fair lick herself. The car behind us went into the back of us to round off the effect.

We were in an old 80's style transit and the gear stick actually hit the roof of the van. I braced on the dash with my left hand and the force of the impact actually ripped the seat mounting bolts clean out. Both our van and her car were totalled and I spent 8 months in physiotherapy for the damage to my wrist and shoulder. My mate who was driving ate steering wheel and lost his front teeth. As they go it was actually quite a nasty one.