From what I can gather by a study of the issue, the declining availability of petroleum in the years ahead, combined with an increasing demand, will soon drive jet fuel prices up to the extent that most people will no longer be able to afford the luxury of flying. So the CO2 emissions problem will pretty much solve itself...no airlines...no pollution.

I have lived in the same location for over 30 years and have noted a precipitous decline in private plane traffic in the last 10 years. Whether this is due to the cost of fuel or not, I haven't any information.

Mr. Bush and his neocon henchmen keep crying "Wolf! Woof!" about terrorists because it worked so well for them over the past five years. It's been their easy path to unbelievable expansion of executive power and opening the spigot of unaccounted government expenditures to full blast. They seem to think the threat of terrorism is a kind of perpetual golden goose, that will lay them another golden egg every time they want to win an election or pass some legislation authorizing billions more for war profiteers.

I'm sick to death of all this. Impeach and remove the whole lot of these crooks and liars and send them all down to rot in Guantanamo. The world will be a much better place without those who have profited immensely through the policy of endless strife.

Let's elect some politicians who will use diplomacy rather than violence to make a world free of war and exploitation. Any "front runner" candidates who are willing to use the "War On Terror" as a tool for political advantage does not deserve our support. The "War On Terror" IS a bumper sticker covering the real wars for global resource dominance and against human freedom.

Rep. Dr. Ron Paul served as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force during the 1960's. Dr. Paul is a man of independent accomplishment, having run a successful medical practice, and is a consistent, fervent, and articulate proponent of constitutional government. He has voted against authorization or funding for the invasion and occupation of Iraq on every occasion and has pledged to bring the troops home immediately following his inauguration.

Republicans do not have to settle for a bloodthirsty hypocrite, but can choose to support Dr. Ron Paul, whose platform embodies the old-fashioned Republican positions advocating small, economically responsible government and a foreign policy based on cooperation among nations without sacrificing national sovereignty.

Most Americans have been conditioned to expect instant gratification, the bait that the corporate globalists have used on the hook of their crooked programmable electronic voting machines. I am reminded of the Cyril Kornbluth story "The Marching Morons", in which the cerebrally-challenged majority are delighted to drive gutless cars with hot paint jobs and loud exhaust pipes, where show is everything and genuine performance is not even imagined.

So now we have these slick, scheister-sold electronic voting machines, the window-dressing of democracy masking the totalitarian state behind the facade. Now every vote is potentially contestable and the winner is decided by who controls the machines, the courts, or who has the resources or will for the longest legal battle.

I've heard that in Canada all votes are registered on paper card ballots and counted by hand. With one poll worker for every 500 voters, the verified results are available within 24 hours, with virtually no disputes as to the outcome.

Which voting method gives results that are fast AND reliable?

Hell, he's got a mission to accomplish. If namby-pamby Democrats want to spin their wheels censuring him, fine! He's gonna love it. Those partisan, divisive Democrats are gonna play in their sand box crying "Shame on you!" while Bush says "Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah" and kicks a little more sand in their faces. He knows they have a great big stick on the ground right next to them, called Impeachment, but thinks they are too wimpy to use it to stop his bullyragging. So outrage follows outrage and revelation follows revelation as step-by-step the Bush "Unitary Executive" becomes a reality and the Constitution is shown to be "just a god-damned piece of paper" after all.

The Republican Party has gotten itself stuck in a blind alley and hasn't had the sense or the leadership to recognize where it went wrong and reverse course. The error was in allowing itself to be hijacked by the neocons, whose promotion of military aggression, intrusive, authoritarian big government, globalism, and runaway deficits is 180 degrees away from the positions espoused by Republicans a half century ago.

The Republican Party has been the party of Big Business since its inception, but this alliance only became toxic to the interests of the United States when Big Business started going transnational. President Eisenhower, the last Republican president to adhere to an ethical code, warned of this change in his Farewell Address with its famous caution about the rising "military-industrial complex".

Republicans need to reexamine their history and the meaning of being a conservative. The philosophy of neoconism is not home grown, but a cancerous import from Europe. It needs to be recognized as such and eradicated before Republicans can once again become a positive force in American politics.

For the health of the Republican Party and the nation the grassroots party organizations need to call for a housecleaning at the top, including ousting Bush, Cheney, Rove, and the rest of their gang from membership. A revitalized Republican Party based on the values of diplomacy, liberty, and economy could once again provide a needed critique in the progress of the American nation.