If you want to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and therefore improve our national security situation, you can’t do it if you’re a Republican because you are too wedded to the oil companies. We have two oilmen in the white house. The logical follow-up from that is $3 a gallon gasoline. There is no accident. It is a cause and effect. A cause and effect.
How dare the president of the United States make a speech today in April, many, many, many months after the American people have had to undergo the cost of home heating oil? A woman told me she almost fainted when she received her home heating bill over this Winter. And when so many people making the minimum wage, which hasn’t been raised in eight years, which has a very low purchasing power, have to go out and buy gasoline at these prices? Where have you been, Mr. President?
The middle class squeeze is on, competition in our country is affected by the price of energy and of oil and all of a sudden you take a trip outside of Washington, see the fact that the public is outraged about this, come home and make a speech, let’s see that matched in your budget, let’s see that matched in your policy, let’s see that matched in and you’re separating yourselves yourself from your patron, big oil, cut yourself off from that anvil holding your party down and this country down, instead of coming to Washington and throwing your Republican colleagues under the wheels of the train, which they mightily deserve for being a rubber stamp for your obscene, corrupt policy of ripping off the American people.




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Let the pandering begin (from both sides)
Wonder if Al Gore sold his Occidental Petroleum stock?
If that’s pandering, keep it coming; that is unless you’re the kind of hypnotized tool who LIKES oilmen and arms merchants in the White House bringing you higher oil prices and endless wars.
The only ones getting richer are them and their friends.
And I LOVE that cute little “I’m fair” parenthetical coupled with a strawman Al Gore slam.
Nice to see YOU’RE not a partisan hypocrite.
Check out Lawrence Wilkerson (amazingly a republican!) in the Baltimore Sun for another barn burner:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.radical23apr23,0,7907127.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines
I will only tell this story once. My Uncle worked for Atlantic Richfield during the 70’s. He was in a position to know and to know were money was and what and where it was coming and going. The oil embargo was orcestrated to increase profit by ALL the parties involved. Oil and goverment was completly involved it was done to increase everyones profits. But this knowledge was not enough to make him leave. It was the knowledge of the illegal laundering of drug money and the lie of the war on drugs. And it had been going on for a very very long time. With the same parties all happy to play together. OIL,DRUGS and mostly Republicans( it was Texas).
So why not start a lovely war in the Opium Den of the world and then increase oil profits with anouther lovely mess in the middle east. Everyone involved no matter how much they protest is very involved and will continue to do wharever. Because they are in on it together. And it is very scary that these people are in charge of our world.