Comments by AlaskaCub
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Posted on November 27 at 12:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)
For all you bleeding hearts like Burke...theres a lot of places in this nation where a 14 year old juvenile will shoot you directly in the face and kill you for $20, just as easily as a 30 yar old adult will. Its got nothing to do with age here, its got only to do with lawlessness.
Way to go Jeff!
Posted on November 25 at 10:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)
What many outsiders dont understand is that Alaska is not like the lower 48. We dont have roads or the means to access much of the country these wolves reside in and move through, but nonetheless they kill with a ferocity that not many cant understand until its witnessed. The thing is that as wolves thin an area of ungulates they just keep on moving looking for more food or sport in some cases , and if they arent haulted the results can be disastrous for ungulate populations in many regions. And it takes a long for the ungulate numbers to return to healthy figures.These predator control programs operated the way they are, is the ONLY way to effectively cull these killing machines. We like our moose and our bou and if this is the only effective means of keeping them around, I say good luck to the gunners and pilots!
Oh and to the fella with the comments trying to compare ANWAR to the 40 mile country, these predator control units are a long ways from ANWAR and completely different terrain, not to mention that oil drilling doesn't kill caribou.....Wolves do!
Posted on November 16 at 9:30 p.m. (Suggest removal)
All this is great and dandy to the animal rightist and bear loving fanatics, right up until this old mans body cavity is laying in the yard with his flesh eaten right to the bone, or maybe limbs are missing that have been chewed off. If this old fella wants that for his ending thats his right, but to turn it into another snackwell debacle with visitors and camera crews, then people crying on interviews and a national event made of it when folks get eaten, well that is something else entirely. This will end with a sad ending such as ole Timmys end came. Just keep loooking for it on national news , it may be next summer, or the summer after that....but it will come.
Posted on November 13 at 9:18 p.m. (Suggest removal)
This has nothing to do with the Saudis, Opec, GW, Obama or Alaskans driving trucks and SUV's (with good reason). This is about a few refineries conspiring equilaterally to not lower the price of fuel to their clients ( gas stations). Boycotting a gas station will do nothing, using less gas will do nothing, bitchin and complaining will do nothing. If our state govt doesn't do something about it , nothing will change. They are lowering the price in relation to the cost of crude at a snails pace and obviously our govt doesn't care. I think folks forget that we arent paying a single penny in state tax for our gas too which really makes the price per gallon vastly out of line with the our national average.
Posted on November 9 at 6:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The really sad part is that anyone here might actually believe that there is/was a shortage of oil! Newsbreak folks.....there is no shortage! The rapid jump in the price of crude this summer was a result of speculators and deep pocket folks lieing to all of us. My understanding is that there is fuel tankers parked all over the middle east full of oil that they cant even sell. I'd also like to state that I truly believe that the ridiculously high oil prices that we fraudulently were forced to pay for this year has been a solid contributor to many of our nations economic problems we have now come head to head with. The whole thing is a mess and the bottom line is that greed has been the cause for all of it! Someones laughing somewhere and I would guess that someone lives in the middle east!
On Gas falls 48 cents across U.S. in two weeks; highest prices at Alaska pumps
Posted on October 27 at 2:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Got a friend driving up from the lower 48 and for the first time ever,he's filling up before he crosses the border because gas and diesel are significantly cheaper in Canada than in Alaska. Tell me whats wrong with this picture?
On Gasoline prices below $2 per gallon in parts of U.S.; Alaska prices still high
Posted on October 27 at 10:16 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Giving us the dividend and a rebate does not justify the Alaskan refineries forcing us to give it right back to them, hence them not lowering fuel prices in synch with the rest of our nation. This is the worst case of price gouging I have ever seen on fuel....and its been going on for a while now!
On Alaska gas prices still highest in nation despite decline
Posted on October 24 at 5:54 a.m. (Suggest removal)
If folks werent being taken advantage of by the states oil refineries, some of these prices wouldn't be so high! You realize that a barrel of crude has been valued at below $70 a barrel for sometime now and yet there is no reflection at the pump? Oil is down below $65 a barrel today, when do you think gas will be back down to the $2.20 it costs the last time oil was below $65 a barrel? Highway robbery I tell you, and its being committed by the companies that have the most money......tis very sad!
On Interior Alaska construction firms grapple with rising energy, supply prices
Posted on October 18 at 11:13 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Huffy,
Your argument is baseless, some things need to be governed. I am not asking the government to step in when IPhones retail for $500, or when Plasma TV's retail for $2,000, they are a luxury. The lifeblood of our society isn't (no matter what you say). We have laws and elect government officials to "Govern" our society and when something as critical as the black stuff that pours out of the ground that makes everything in our lives go varoom is being overpriced illegitimately , yes I do expect someone in our government to step in. We recieved big dividends this year and these inflated gas and diesel prices almost appear to be a punishment for it. BS is BS , no matter what you lable it, it still smells the same. And these inflated prices are just that.....BS! If they decide tomorrow that the rest of the U.S. has an average of $2.75 gasoline and ours unjustifiably cost $10 is that okay? No...ethically, morally, and economically. There is no competition, the two major providers are conspiring together and every move they make is in synch with each other. What is happening up here is the largest scale of price gouging I have ever seen, and its been happening for months across our entire state. But what the heck its a free market right?
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Posted on November 27 at 11:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)
All I can say is thank god we live in a state where one can use the means neccessary to protect his or her property or life without having to worry about a judicial system that will reverse the blame and crucify you for it. Tis one of the beautiful things of living in Alaska! Me thinks thats also why we have so little violent crime here.
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