| As for releasing oil from the National Reserves to help reduce prices, it didn't work last time and I doubt it would work now. When Clinton opened up the reserves some years ago for the very same reason, the Wall Street Journal reported that oil companies shipped roughly the same amount of heating oil to Europe, because the price was higher there. Net effect to the U.S gasoline situation, 0.
As long as the fools in this country remain deliberately ignorant to the fact that big money owns the government this will continue. Remember, the big campaign contributors want something for their money (many give to BOTH sides in an election) and they invariably get it.
If memory serves, Jimmy Carter's so-called "windfall profits tax" on big oil during the oil embargo was shot down by a Demosrat Congress. Equal opportunity whores, the lot of them, and I believe BOTH parties ought to get their asses kicked out of Washington ASAP!
Not a day goes by that I don't see something that reinforces my belief that people are idiots. |