Hoarding is exactly what the government is doing right now by filling the SPR, and frankly it's the best thing that could happen. It drives prices up. High prices encourage demand destruction. They also finance new well development. The hoarded oil gives us a buffer to fall back on once shortages become more prevalent. High prices are what we need in order to adapt to what's coming, and the sooner they happen, the better.
Does the Bush Administration Sincerely Think It Is Acting In The Best Interest Of The Majority Of Americans?
Absolutely. These people are selfless servants of the American People.
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Yes. They may not be perfect, but they are lead by the desire to benefit the average American.
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Yes, but like any politicians, they're somewhat beholden to special interests.
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No, they serve their base, e.g., the religious right, and aren't very concerned with the needs of the majority.
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No, they serve their corporate masters, how the American people fare is an afterthought.
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No, they make the robber barons looks like a bunch of Mother Teresas. They are doing everything they can to fleece the American people.
31%
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0mar Light Sweet Crude
Joined: Oct 12, 2004 Posts: 1648 Location: Davis, California
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:32 am Post subject: Re: Bush claims broad new powers
You're Fark no matter where you go. Simple as that. _________________ Joseph Stalin "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. "
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:02 pm Post subject: Re: Bush energy advisers clarify his statements on Mideast o
Big Oil will never allow the puppet to change our national agenda of massive consumption.
We're all cash drones like the pod-people in the movie Matrix, only in our case we don't produce energy, we subsidize it, pay for it and consume it as fast as we can. All else is incedental. Do you want the red pill or the blue pill?
Joined: Jan 29, 2006 Posts: 309 Location: Fort Collins, CO
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:25 pm Post subject: Re: Bush energy advisers clarify his statements on Mideast o
Is anybody old enough to remember Carter's speech in the early 70s asking Americans to conserve bu carpooling, biking, etc. I remember seeing people who never rode a bicycle in their adulthood, commuting by bicycle. I believe it was short-lived, as the conservative media has a "field day" with it.
Joined: Jun 28, 2005 Posts: 326 Location: san jose CA
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:23 pm Post subject: Bushs approval numbers at a new low
Well I dont know who has AOL or not on here but the main news headline was Bushs approval ratings at a record low. 34% for Bush and 18% for Cheney. Looks like the UAE port deal as well as the impending civil war in Iraq as well as the rest of the laundry list of scandals and failures are really bringing W down.
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:31 pm Post subject: Re: Bushs approval numbers at a new low
sicophiliac wrote:
Well I dont know who has AOL or not on here but the main news headline was Bushs approval ratings at a record low. 34% for Bush and 18% for Cheney. Looks like the UAE port deal as well as the impending civil war in Iraq as well as the rest of the laundry list of scandals and failures are really bringing W down.
Well, it should've been obvious to the neocons that the ports deal would be toxic, as most of the xenophobic base wants nothing to do with the 'ay-rabs,' especially in sensitive areas like national security. I'm against the ports deal myself, but for other reasons, chiefly the fact that the company in question is state-owned, ostensibly the reason (non-reciprocity) we shot down the CNOOC/Unocal deal. _________________ “I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.” George Carlin
Joined: Oct 22, 2005 Posts: 705 Location: European Capital of Kulcha 2008
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 3:10 am Post subject: Re: Bushs approval numbers at a new low
In the normal run of events, these sorts of figures are usually a precursor to something 'happening' to take the public's eye off the ball.
So what will it be this time? Disclosure of a foiled terrorist threat at DisneyWorld back in 2003? An intelligence report of a planned ricin attack on the NY underground - or maybe the invasion of Iran?
President Bush, on an unannounced visit to
Afghanistan, vowed Wednesday to stand by this emerging democracy and "not cut and run" in the face of rising violence. He also predicted
Osama bin Laden would be captured despite a futile five-year hunt.
"I'm confident he will be brought to justice," Bush said, standing alongside Afghan President Hamid Karzai outside the presidential palace.
_________________ The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:55 am Post subject: Re: Bushs approval numbers at a new low
waegari wrote:
"I'm confident he will be brought to justice," Bush said, standing alongside Afghan President Hamid Karzai outside the presidential palace.
Flashback Bush quote on Bin Laden, just for reference , March 2002:
Quote:
“So I don’t know where he is. You know, I just don’t spend that much time on him. … And, again, I don’t know where he is. I — I’ll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him.” Link
I think I agree with 2002 Bush here. What's the use of a captured Bin Laden? Global boogeyman in custody, assuaging fears of terrorism and softening the White House's grip on global events? That's not the Bush I know. No, Bin Laden must remain in eternal hiding for the 'war on terra' to be successful. _________________ “I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.” George Carlin
Joined: Sep 06, 2004 Posts: 5315 Location: Smalltown New Zealand
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:07 am Post subject: Re: Bushs approval numbers at a new low
Perhaps that is why Bush is going to India, so he can personally 'find' UBL. _________________ "Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers." - Henry Louis Mencken
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 1:25 pm Post subject: Re: Bushs approval numbers at a new low
untothislast wrote:
So what will it be this time? Disclosure of a foiled terrorist threat at DisneyWorld back in 2003? An intelligence report of a planned ricin attack on the NY underground - or maybe the invasion of Iran?
Close, this time it is a foiled attack in Jordan:
(probably a red herring, though)
_________________ “I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.” George Carlin
Joined: Sep 28, 2005 Posts: 42 Location: Durham, NC USA
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 1:52 pm Post subject: Re: Bushs approval numbers at a new low
I attended a meeting last night in Chapel Hill where civil rights atty Al McSurely made a compelling case for impeachment, and made it sound not just necessary (which seems self-evident) but practical, even in the face of Congressional collusion. For what it's worth, here's a link:
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