Friday Champ Blogging (Category: Divided We Fail)
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July 4, 2008 |
10:34 AM
We're starting a new feature here on ShAARP Session: it's Friday Champ blogging!
If you don't know him, Champ is the official spokesperson for those tired of partisan gridlock in Washington. And he's going around the country to talk about the importance of health care and financial security to all Americans.
Last week, Champ was in Unity, NH to help spread the Divided We Fail message amidst the media frenzy.
You can see more pics from Unity from our DWF team in New Hampshire. And check out the Divided We Fail Events Calendar to see where Champ will be next!
Tags: AARP, Champ, Divided We Fail
Comments
Gerald Behling says:
Oil Prices
If we can remember back 7 to 8 years, there was a big flap about Dick Cheney not releasing meeting minutes from discussions he had regarding an energy policy. Is it possible that Cheney sat around with the rest of his oil friends, including the Saudis, devising a plan on how to drive up the price of oil, making them all richer?
How would they accomplish this?
1. Create a shortage. If the demand is greater than the supply price increases. The developing nations, India and China will do their bit in creating the demand and we can put most of the blame on them. By going to war in Iraqi on the pretense that there are weapons of mass destruction we can further destabilize the Middle East. (As a side note: you may have not agreed with Saddam Hussein’s politics but he held Iraq together and he kept the Iranians at arms length, essentially stabilizing the region.)
2. We know that the stock market reacts quickly and negatively every time there is news of a potential conflict in the Middle East causing the price of oil increase. How better to drive up the price of oil but through a war, such as the Iraq conflict or saber rattle with the Iranians.
3. Iraq has been producing less oil for years now ever since the conflict began. In a world of emerging nations where the world demand for oil is high and Iraq, along with a few other oil producing nations, Venezuela, Mexico and Nigeria not producing oil to their capacity, the supply is low, further adding to the increase in price.
4. What would be the obvious alternative to low supply; it would be increase oil production or to look for more oil, preferably at home, where Cheney’s and Bush’s oil cat friends would profit. Early in Bush’s presidency he tried this in Alaska and was turned down. Now he is looking elsewhere, our coastline.
May be this would not be so bad if the oil we found would stay in the US, but it doesn’t. Even today a portion of oil found in the US is not sold in the US.
People might think me paranoid for thinking how could a few people get us into so much trouble, causing a large national debt, high prices for oil and gas. I cannot believe that the Bush administration is so stupid not to realize what they where doing. Therefore this must have been their plan.
Frustrated citizen
07/16/08 9:56 AM