Big Oil and Congressional little gray cells
This week, Maxine Waters said that she wants to “socialize” the oil companies if they can’t guarantee lower fuel prices with expanded drilling rights. I don’t think Maxine used “socialize” instead of “nationalize” and therefore spoke a concealed truth. Maxine is simply inarticulate and ignorant, and couldn’t capture the right word in her cranium with a seine net.
Here it’s appropriate to restate Christopher Hitchens doctrine that stupid people have a right to representation, but not to representation BY stupid people. Maxine’s probably also among those brainless Congressional flatheads who plan to sue Saudi Arabia to increase oil production, under some anti-trust mechanism, to increase supply and lower prices at the American pump.
Well, about 15% of our annual oil imports come from Saudi Arabia according to this article, so the court-ordered (laugh line) increase in production would have to be huge, about comparable in size to the parched Sahara of imbecility inhabited by our Congressional doltocracy.
Has it ever been more apparent that we have elected the most debased and incompetent horde of buffoons since…never. Government without expertise, without even furtive glances at reality; and without clarifying perspectives on human nature don’t govern, they rule, and rule in the most fantastic and ludicrous ways.
Check THIS out, and read THIS from Powerline for more realities. I’d send a copy to Maxine, but what’s the use?
Archived in: Congress, Saudi ArabiaMay 24, 2008 at 6:37 pm | Trackback
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Big Oil will bow down to Maxine just like Iran will bow down to Obama! Meanwhile, back in New England…..
What’s $0.44 in Connecticut,
$0.31 in Rhode Island,
$0.29 in Maine,
$0.24 in Mass,
$0.20 in Vermont and
$0.20 in New Hampshire?
http://www.stateline.org/live/.....tId=311383
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Up here in Maine…..”The average price for a gallon of gas in Maine rose to $3.85 on Thursday, up 2.7 cents from the day before and 34 cents in the past month, according to AAA….
….Such statistics, combined with the observations of bus operators, auto mechanics, car dealers and others, indicate that Mainers are beginning to adapt…..
…..Gasoline sales during the current fiscal year are down 3.6 percent from last year. If the trend holds for May and June, it will be the steepest annual decline in at least two decades, according to the data.
http://pressherald.mainetoday......p;ac=PHnws
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In New Hampshire, “Sununu, a Republican, has voted to expand domestic drilling for oil, including offshore and in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve. Sununu also supports suspending the 18-cent federal gas tax for the summer, which he says would provide temporary relief. Shaheen, a Democrat, opposes drilling in the Alaskan refuge and the gas tax holiday, saying that both proposals would do little and carry heavy negative consequences.
Instead, Shaheen calls for ending tax breaks for oil companies, cracking down on speculation on energy markets and increasing pressure on oil refiners and OPEC to increase production, proposals that experts say offer less-than-clear dividends.
http://www.concordmonitor.com/.....043/NEWS01