dependent on oil? Come on it will take years to do this and Clinton said this years ago. Does Bush think we are stupid and whats with this 700 club show ? Are they one sided hypocrites or what? We have always had other energy options and why is Bush trying to suck up to us now? Does this tick you off??????
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Nothing that man says has any credibility.  Understand he his at 32 percent in the latest CNN Poll.  Let us wait and see his popularity hit the 20s and keep plummeting. \n\nMeanwhile Bushler and his party followers stay the course...and we and the rest of the world pays the cost.  I understand victory is just around the corner with them Raqis,
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See it started back when GW sr was the vice president. Him and his buddies: Donald "the liar" rumsfield, Dick "dead eye" Cheney, etc got to together. This group made a pack, you know like blood brothers, for world domination. It starts with putting massive quantities of LSD in the the water supply so Americans don't realize they have illegally tampered with poll results in the state of Florida. This continues with the events of 9/11. Thinking they can enrage the populous into a war. Bush and his merry men come up with this WMD story which is helped along when his old good friend Saddam "the mad man" Hussein keeps throwing out the UN inspectors. So the boys realize HEY we could make mad money off this whole war thing. Dead Eye your company haliburton will get crazy contracts for construction and defense. Dad and his oil Barron's will get to make millions of dollars via the stock market and the American people with their non fuel efficient cars. Yeah that's the ticket.\nBut see not all of America drinks water, not every one was so easily fooled and most of us know the deal. \nI think it more like people who don't like \nBeing told "told you so!"\nYou want to bet on it? (and they end up losing)\nAdmitting their were GRAVELY wrong and too many Americans and Iraqis died.\nThe fact the hijackers from Saudi Arabia not Iraq.\nSo it got to be an ego thing?
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Somehow I have this feeling that we are dependent on oil because the powers that be want it 2 be so. Come on, with all the technology that we have nowadays, computers, microchips, space-travel, etc, do u all really believe that by now we couldnt find an alternative 2 oil if we really wanted it? Problem is that oil is the #1 comodity on the market & 2 replace it would mean that there would be a huge shift in the stock market which will cause severe crashes & lost of wealth 2 many individuals & countries.
437039
I'd love to see detailed reports on how Bush is "profiting" from the oil. 6 Years later and your still clinging to your catchy bumper sticker slogans...
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bacause BUSH OWNS THE OIL IN TEXAS...I think we should be looking at how much the gas "went up" over the world...I bet it hasn't and we are the only ones who are dealing with this...It is NOT the oil companies from iraq or overseas...it is from right here in the USA!!
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Just so you have facts. Clinton allowed the 5 major oil companies to buy up all the smaller (not quite a monopoly which is against our laws) Yes he knew why they wanted too. These 5 companies can now set the price and there is enough for all to make big profits. One of the claims they say is they are doing this in case of further shortages (baloney).  This is not silly putty (which no one must have) and the government should be able to have some control on peoples needs (remember our heating depends on this yet alone work needs and hospitals need heat and Police and Firemen need to be able to have fuel to get around). We are stilling getting the same amount of oil as the last couple years -we are using a bit (not much) less-so it isn't a shortage (yet).) Because these 5 major companies have a lot of money they also control some in government (yep-favors another story) . So it seems they can do what they want-they only have to answer to shareholders (be surprise who some of them are). Until the People or Media turns on them they have upper hand. Just thought I would give basics to you.
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Does ANYBODY notice that no matter WHAT a president does, the general public has a problem with it?  Bush is cleaning up the mess that Clinton started.  War with Iraq was imminent, meaning going to happen anyway.  Clinton, not having ANY military experience (He dodged the draft by going to Europe), wanted to stay away from war.  As far as the Katrina victims, they were told a week in advance to leave, that a Cat 5 hurricane would flood a city BUILT BELOW SEA LEVEL. Those who didn't leave are morons.  They got what they were stubborn enough to deserve.  Then they cry for help and shoot at the help?  I'm sorry, but a tv and nikes are not going to feed your family.  I feel he is doing all that ONE MAN can do.  You think all you complaining about everything is helping or making it easier?  1000 people died in Iraq...  In how long?  How long does it take 1000 people to die in America?  No one complains about that, now do they?
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oil not gasoline. according to this blogger, yes\n\nSen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, is demanding that the Commerce Department release detailed reports on which companies are exporting U.S. oil, how much and where it went.\n\nLast year the nation exported 268 million barrels of oil. Shockingly, according to Dept. of Energy figures, that's about equal to the amount of oil we imported from Iraq in 2001, the year before our latest war with that country began. It's also about equal to the most optimistic guesses about production volume from ANWR, if drilling is allowed there.\n\nIn other words, if we simply held onto our own oil, the United States would have no oil interest in Iraq at all. And it would also negate any perceived need to disturb an irreplaceable wildlife refuge in the search for oil.\n\nBut the Commerce Department refused to provide the detail Wyden wants, saying it could only be released to a Congressional committee, not an individual representative. The agency also claims federal law forbids disclosure unless a finding is made that withholding the information contradicts national interests. That sounds like hogwash to me.\n\nWyden's request is of significant interest for two more reasons. First, it is likely that if oil drilling is approved in ANWR, much of that oil will be exported to Asia rather than sold in the U.S. Secondly, the more obvious reason is that every motorist and politician who can warm a chair is concerned about the nation's growing dependence on imported oil. It would seem to contradict our economic and political interests to worsen this imbalance by selling off our own supplies.\n\nIn a letter sent Monday to Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, Wyden demanded release of the information, calling it "directly relevant to the coming Congressional debate on how to address our nation's dependence on imports of oil and other petroleum products."\n\nI'd call that an understatement. But Wyden faces an uphill battle to get a committee to demand the numbers. Though Wyden is a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, it and all other Congressional committees are controlled by Republicans. And as we've seen, Republicans these days aren't very interested in facts, especially if those facts contradict their agenda.
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Nice argument.  It's almost like when you ask:\nOR\nWhy do we have more oil than Iran but can't touch it because environmentalists won't let us drill of the Atlantic or Pacific or in Alaska or off the coast of Florida?\nOR\nWhy did the secret Echelon Program (eavesdropping & call-logging) reach its peak during the Clinton era?\nOR\nHow is it that Bush "didn't do enough" to prevent 9/11 but now he's "doing too much" to try and stop another one?\n\nInteresting, isn't it?
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Americans are lazy and you will do nothing about it.  \n\nWhat is such a shame is that you care nothing for the 40,000 people you have killed in a war for 'freedom' and yet you get upset because you have to pay $3 for a gallon of gas to drive your huge vehicles 14 miles.. whilst most of Europe are driving 50mpg.  \n\nThe fact that you voted in an ex oil company owner shows how little you care. If you think that anything will change, even after the state of the union speach, then it reinforces how foolish you are.  \n\nTell me, where was the outcry when Bush announced his Energy policy?  The same policy drawn up by the energy industry in secret meetings.  \n\nThe American people are so weak..  you lost so much when the hippies went away in the early seventies.  I mean, look at the recent wiretapping, what are the American people doing about it?  nothing.. weak, weak, weak..  \n\nOh.. and the recent Supreme court decision giving big companies the right to take your home, what did you all do about it?  nothing.. weak, weak, weak..  \n\nWithout your military, this country would be ripe for the taking by even Cuba.
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Not that I am for this--But dear it wouldn't matter and why you ask---well here is an article--this is starting to open up a new can of worms--please understand--Anyone in the world could have all the oil in the world..and it really wouldn't matter at this point...\n\n$3-a-gallon gas: Blame Washington, not Big Oil\nWhat's driving up gas prices? It's not just higher crude costs; it's new regulations.\nNelson D. Schwartz\nMay 3, 2006: 2:20 PM EDT\n\n\n(FORTUNE Magazine) - With gas prices roaring past $3 a gallon and consumer fury rising even faster, Congress and the White House are engaged in a Kabuki-like ritual: pointing fingers at each other over who's to blame, while furiously attacking Big Oil for reaping gargantuan profits - as drivers get hosed at the pump.\n\nIf the politicians really want to figure out who's responsible for the latest round of price increases, though, they'd be better off looking in the mirror. That's because the rise isn't only due to higher crude costs. It's also fallout from some little-noticed provisions in the energy bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush last summer.\n\nBuried in the 551-page energy bill - which was supposed to ease energy shortages, not worsen them - were new regulations governing what additives go into gasoline and how it's refined. Corn-based ethanol is replacing the petroleum-derived additive MTBE, but Congress timed this logistically tricky switchover to occur just as demand for gasoline peaked ahead of the summer driving season - right about now.\n\nThe end result is an extra strain on the refining and distribution system when it can least afford it.\n\n"It's too late now, but Congress has consistently failed to sequence regulatory requirements in a responsible fashion," says Bob Slaughter, president of the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association.\n\nAdds Larry Goldstein of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation: "The gasoline crisis is made in the U.S.A., not in Iran or Venezuela or Nigeria. At least half the increase in gasoline prices is due to unintended consequences of the energy bill, but no one in Washington wants to admit that."\n\nIndeed, while crude prices have risen 21% since the end of 2005, gasoline is up 37% - a sign of just how stretched the system is. Congress's mistake, says Goldstein, was setting the new law to go into effect 270 days after it was signed - May 5 - rather than waiting until fall, when gas demand is typically on the downswing.\n\nNow the big question is, How high can gas go? Well, perhaps the only good thing that can be said about paying three bucks per gallon is that it seems to be slowing consumption - which should, in turn, reduce prices. Over a four-week period in April, says oil analyst Jamal Qureshi of consulting firm PFC Energy, U.S. gasoline demand dropped by half a percent, to just over nine million barrels a day. That may not sound like much, but it's a reversal from the 1.7% average annual increase in gas consumption the U.S. has experienced over the past decade. If $3 is indeed the tipping point at which consumers change their behavior and alter their driving habits, it's the one silver lining in an otherwise very dark cloud for drivers.\n\nThe wildcard in this scenario, of course, is the increasing risk of a military confrontation with Iran. If that happens, says Qureshi, "all bets are off." Given that crude oil accounts for 55% of the cost of each gallon of gas (refining accounts for 22%, taxes for 19%, and distribution and marketing for 4%), an upward spike in crude oil would push gas up even if the bottlenecks caused by the energy bill ease this summer.\n\nThat's why Red Cavaney, president of the American Petroleum Institute, says the answer in the short term is conservation. Washington is indeed being turned upside down when it's left to Cavaney, Big Oil's chief lobbyist, to talk conservat
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Ok, the guy who wrote about the US having a secret stash of oil... did you know that everybody KNOWS that the US has there own oil up in Alaska... so it's not much of a secret if CNN has reported on it and congress has asked the President to tap into our own oil reserves. I think what the originator of this question was saying is, instead of the entire world sitting on their hands and letting the Saudi's or OPEC or whoever get away with pretty much robbing the world blind with oil prices the world should fight back with what ever means neccessary.\n\nAnd whoever it was that said it was OPEC that sets the prices not the Saudi's, well you obviously are one of the many many people in the world that are blind to the situatation, OPEC is an organization that is run by man y countries, the list of countries that run OPEC are: Algeria, Indonesia, Iran, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and lastly Venezuala. The last time I looked most of those countries hate the U.S... so what his point was about OPEC is beyond me.\n\nRaise the price of everything, I say do it. What do we have to loose? If the entire world did it what options would OPEC have? I dont care how many countries are using oil, the good thing is that there are ALTERNATIVES to fossil fuel now and they will only become more and more advanced, let's see what OPEC and it's members do when we dont need their oil... THEN the price of everything they import should go through the roof. Fight fire with fire I say, they obviously dont care if the cost to heat out homes this winter is $400 per month, then we shouldn'y care if they starve. DAMN this administration for letting this go on. Kudos to the originator of this post, and I will gladly be your running mate in the next election!!!! God Bless the USA.
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We are importing about half of what we use now. If you would like to choose which half of our nation cannot use oil, then we could quit importing.\n\nIt isn't a matter of how much oil is in the ground. We can't produce it fast enough, or refine it fast enough to more than marginally outpace demand.
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its mere speculation, \n\nthere is just no economics in the way oil prices are moving..there is no supply problem as of now..but still u can see this surge//\n\nthe prices are news based and manipulated, another interesting observation is that since US plan on IRAN is now more real and around the corner..u knw wat i mean..
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There is no agreement on how much oil there is. Therefore, 'peak oil' is a meaningless concept.  Besides, the US media is only interested in attacking their political opponents.  They couldn't care less about facts.
160644
I think the entire energy crisis was created by the oil industry to envoke just such a reaction. They want to get people scared so they are willing to give up their concerns about the environment just as they are willing to give up their civil liberites in order to feel protected. The president sits back and watches it all happen because lets face it he is an oil man from an oil family and somewhere along the line his family and friends are getting richer off all this. I think its all a conspiracy. Our children and our grandchildren will pay the price in an egologically destroyed world
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Your right he did admit it.....he says we can't leave the oil to the  terriorists. Well Mr.Bush it was their oil in the first place who are we to take from their country?!?!?! Not to mention Mr bush has stock in the oil people...yes he is lining his pocket with money that  he makes from the oil. Not a surprise this war is really about making money for all those jerks in the White House and their buddies. Maybe the rest of the people will open their eyes now to the truth!!! Then again the Bush followers ignore all the things he says to prove things like this. Strange people!!!