Congratulations on a long well fought race. Now, “fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.” The classic line from Betty Davis seems appropriate. No matter who won this race, they were inheriting a hell of a mess. No need to go into detail, just the list is daunting enough.

The lastest oil advance was what I call a “melt-up.”

Rotten, no-good Members-of-Congress. In America, the Senators haul oil executives in front of Congress to insult and belittle them.

With a great demand for a change in our energy consumption, the U.S. has been quick to follow in the footsteps of some of our international friends and adopt new and cutting edge fuels. Unfortunately, we may have adopted a project that was doomed to fail from the beginning.

US truckers have started an ad hoc protest across the country over recent hikes in fuel prices, reports AP.

Some truckers, on CB radios and trucking Web sites, had called for a strike Tuesday to protest the high cost of diesel fuel, saying the action might pressure President Bush to stabilize prices by using the nation’s oil reserves. But the protests were scattered because because major trucking companies were not on board and there did not appear to be any central coordination.