It's hot now, but winter fuel bills are coming

At least Paterson is being pro-active. The final result if nothing is done will be this: "There will be no Christmas"! Faced with staying warm and the credit crunch thats in place already, people will not spend nearly as much as they have in years past. The kids always come first but that will be toned down. Stores that are marginal at best that depend like most other stores for holiday sales will go out of business. Lost tax revenues will hurt the tax coffers, etc. Across the country this will be the case where oil is needed not to mention gas prices that have gone up 100% at the pump since January of 2007.

One of our best prospects is Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which geologists say contains billions of barrels of recoverable oil. If President Clinton hadn’t bowed to Wilderness Society demands and vetoed 1995 legislation, we’d be producing a million barrels a day from ANWR right now. That’s equal to US imports from Saudi Arabia, at $50 billion annually.

Drilling in ANWR would get new oil flowing in 5-10 years, depending on how many lawsuits environmentalists file. That’s far faster than benefits would flow from supposed alternatives: devoting millions more acres of cropland to corn or cellulosic ethanol, converting our vehicle fleet to hybrid and flex-fuel cars, building dozens of new nuclear power plants, and blanketing thousands of square miles with wind turbines and solar panels. These alternatives would take decades to implement, and all face political, legal, technological, economic and environmental hurdles. It’s a far better bargain than producing 7 billion gallons of ethanol in 2007 from corn grown on and area the size of Indiana (23 million acres). It’s far better than using wind to generate enough electricity to power New York City, which would require blanketing Connecticut (3 million acres) with turbines.

What about our local govt fuel ,dont they go up the same and who and how is paying those increases. Is'nt there a dire need for cut- backs before they slam the people when it's too late.

Tell the Democrats to stop suing OPEC , and open ANWR and the rest of America to exploration ! Democrats are using lawyers to try and supply us with oil , Rebuplicans say , DRILL ! Until new sources of power are developed we NEED oil to maintain our way of life ! Vote Rebuplican , vote to help end our dependence on foreign oil ! DRILL,DRILL<DRILL

If ANWR is opened up for drilling we will never see alternative fuels or sources of power. As long as the oil companies are making their money for Bush and his ilk, we will be the ones to suffer the costs and dependency on oil.
Even if we manage to get off our foreign oil dependence, how long before the costs of our own oil go up to crises levels? Do you think the oil magnates won't come up with some reason to keep the prices increasing?

Democrats Kennedy and John Kerry are against WINDMILLS on Cape Cod , and against more drilling , whats up with that ? Meanwhile that "evil" George Bush , has had a GEOTHERMAL system in his home for years ! Democrat Senator Carl Levine has consistintly voted against higher fuel milage laws for the Auto Makers , yet is against more drilling , whats up with that ? Find and develop alternitives ? YES !!!! In the meantime America needs to DRILL,DRILL,DRILL !!!!

Pellet stoves folks. It's about $2200 for a stove and around $1000 for a winters worth of pellets. They are cleaner burning that oil or gas. You'll pay
$4-$5K for oil alone this winter.

Sure, poor people on social services will have their oil paid for...rich people can still afford it. What about the middle income people? They are, once again, the people that are not going to recieve any help. They will struggle to pay their bills, struggle to put food on the table, and struggle to heat their houses.

middle income, those people that go to work, most of the time have two or three jobs....do you see or hear anybody looking help those people......of course not!

Once again Newsday your editorial is focusing only on a small fraction of the population; the poor who will get the increased benefits from HEAP. What about the middle class who have kids in college, mortgages that they actually pay and now have to pay twice as much for heat than last year. Your editorials never address the problems of the largest section of your readership. How about thinking about them for once?

Thank a liberal for the high cost of gasoline and home heating oil. We need to start drilling offshore, in ANWR, and federal lands NOW.

Hey Paterson, Bush.. How about letting us "Write off" our oil bills against our state and Fed income taxes this year. That could be a start. Right???????But I know your all talk and only worry about illegals and Iraquis. This IS ONE thing you can do to help us , and all you all need is a sign with the PEN.

I am working on a way to turn Democrat promises into fuel it is sort of like burning cow pellets but the crap promises come out of their mouths instead. If I am sucessful I will be able to heat 8 Northern states and most of Canada on Hillary Alone! Add in the Democrat lawsuit machine and we are covered on fuel for about 36,000 years.:-)

A lot of households love to crank up that heat during the winter...

I spent last winter on a farm in europe where they had a very little indoor heating system....the houses were made of concrete blocks and they had a new born....

It basically came down to this...wear heavy clothing during the winter, pile on the covers onto your bed, wear thermals under your pjs and keep your thermostat low (between 60-65)...

It's a hard fact of life but oil is never going down in price again....sacrafice/conservatio n is your best bet....and when that really brutally cold day/night comes, you wont be penny pinching to stay warm

I just signed a contract for oil at $4.79 a gallon. Four years ago it was $1.51. I will be buying electric heaters and using them as much as possible.

I have a feeling we're going to see a lot of house fires this winter because of altenate heat sources like electric and kerosene.