Comments on: Saudis Rebuff Bush As Oil Hits New High

President's Appeal For Increased Oil Production Again Rejected; Price Of Crude Tops $127

[ranger1948]

tibu987
We need to recriprocate and sell them bushels of grain at the same price they sell oil.

[ranger1948]

alphaa10
Nothing bush could do o gain any sympathy from me. He has screwed up with every decision he has made in office and will leave as the most hated president in history. If he isn''t prosecuted then at least i hop his life is short after leving ofice, if not before.

[ranger1948]

sillywilly4
I live in Thailand and the price of gas has increased about 4 baht in last two months. The last ecchange rate of baht to dollars i checked was 31.52 baht to one dollar. I do not know the prices of gas in China or India. I read last week the price of gas in Saudia Arabia was 12 cents a gallon and in Kuwait it was 40 cents a gallon.

[t_barr]

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[rudy654-2009]

Don''t you all just love the game of bate and switch this man carries on?

[alphaa10-2009]

Asked what thing Bush has done right, prof_s said, "They didn''t try to lift the mandatory term limit on the Presidency..."
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Actually, only the 2006 election stopped that one.

A Bush regime that defends torture certainly could find an AG who would rubber stamp anything Bush does-- including a last-minute scramble to neuter the Constitution under "wartime" conditions.

All the more explanation for why Mukasey, once known for probity, sold his reputation. Inventing a Third Term Circumvention for Bush might have been his first assignment. Even today, Mukasey refuses to go beyond a statement he personally would consider waterboarding torture. (Thanks, Mr. AG-- somehow, you remind me of Shifty Gonzales. Must be the lighting...)

Yes, a Bush-congress gridlock has frustrated hopes of the American people who voted out the GOP majority, but it does have its silver lining... Only gridlock could have stalled a Bush effort at self-coronation (Napoleon-style). Chief Justice Roberts would have insisted on providing his benediction for the event.

[kennedy7955]

Would a President even as stupid as this one, publicly request an increase in oil production from the Saudis without already knowing the answer? I think not. Which begs the question, why?

[jonesforch]

Make that precisely half the voters, many of us never voted for Bush.

Posted by omega39 at 11:11 PM : May 16, 2008

Wow waited long enough to post that.

[jonesforch]

Half?

[omega39-2009]

It is sad that the voters have only themselves to blame.

Posted by Rickstas

Make that precisely half the voters, many of us never voted for Bush.

[stn_sage]

I don''''''''t know why this would come as a surprise to anyone! In other words, the Saudis say---

The problem isn''''''''t SUPPLY! It''''''''s in distribution and related matters---not enough refineries, weak dollar, etc.! And, YOU control that, WE DON''''''''T!

What DID he think the Saudis were going to do, open up the oil valves, like it was Bush, sr.''''''''s wallet, and give ''''''''junior'''''''' a ''''''''few more bucks''''''''?! NO WAY!

We see the GOP has no influence with the oil producers, any relevance left they might have had for the public is DEAD! Vote them out in the Fall!

What is tommorrow''''''''s ''''''''rant and rave'''''''' Bush speech about? I hope it''''''''s good, Reps are beginning to leave the party in a steady stream!! Keep it UP!!

[jonesforch]

Love it we Most of you hate the truth.

[alphaa10-2009]

tbweb said, "Obviously President Bush must have thought a public visit by a U.S. President would put pressure on Saudi Arabia to make a deal. Allowing Saudi Arabia to publicly embarrass the U.S. shows poor judgment by President Bush..."
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(1) Bush wanted the American public to see him "go out on a limb" for them, and a humiliation only garnered more sympathy for Bush-- precisely the point of the exercise. Humiliation of an American president (even a wannabe like Bush) redirects more anger at OPEC, not at Bush for his comatose grasp of energy policy.

(2) Bush knew all along the OPEC leaders have little sympathy for the oil appetite of the world''s chief consumer (however they profit from it), but Bush wanted to force the Saudis into an unsympathetic statement, thereby offloading all blame for the current fiasco of American oil policy into the lap of the Saudis.

(3) Big Oil has been largely left out of public debate, to its great relief, though it remains the Culprit in Chief (along with speculators) for the high prices. To be able to scapegoat OPEC is such a pleasant diversion from reality.

(4) Bush and the GOP believe the American voter is basically stupid, so Bush promptly solicits a big "NO!" from the Saudis, so he can promptly return to Washington to renew pressure to drill offshore, at ANWAR, and everywhere else. Already, the regular Bushbot glee club is singing the Drilling Song-- all on cue, as usual. (The foolish consistency of little minds, at work...)

[haoli25]

Bush should have taken his knee pads with him to Saudi Arabia. A few BJs and gas would be back to a dollar a gallon.

[prinzowhales]

"the Democrats don''t know how markets work''...that is what the Corporatists said about their associates in the SS at Aushwitz where slave labour was housed by the Nazis and abused by the Corporatists...much like the situation in China, where ''communists'' rule and the Corporatists profit.

These are oligopolistic markets...they are not free markets...these prices are administered and driven up by ''traders'' employed in a much grander version of the ENRON energy market hoax.

Nationalize Oil! Devote our tax dollars to alternative energy rather than in the conquest of resources for Corporatist swine who are betraying us!

[prinzowhales]

If you haven''t seen WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR, do so...it will show you just how far technology had taken us around ten years ago and where we could be today if the Corporatist Dogs at GM were not joined at the hip to Big Oil and the Banks.

With Competition, Big Oil is lost! Thus, the importance of the iron combine of government regulation, special interests of oil and automotives and the finance capitalist''s ''dollar'' whose value is largely dependent in international markets on its demand for use in the energy and commodities markets.

There has been and is a concerted conspiracy against alternatives for the simple reason that they would allow Americans to be independent of the Big Oil interests. Both the Democratic wing and the Republican wing of the Oligarchy''s party support high energy prices--from Jimmy Carter, who in 1980 in Atlanta, said that it was important to maintain high energy prices down to the miserable excuse for a man, George W. Bush, who is the abject servant of Big Oil and high energy prices.

[jonesforch]

John R. Lott, Jr.: High Gas Prices Are Not Something New

Ironically, Democrats won the 2006 elections and took control of both the House and the Senate by promising they would reduce gas prices. Yet, with regular gas now selling above $3.67 a gallon, Americans can only longingly remember the average prices of about $2.20 a gallon that Democrats were complaining about in early November 2006. The Democrats%u2019 bigger sin is that they seem to have no understanding of how markets work.

[jw218389]

This is Bush propoganda - nobody at Bush/Cheney/Saudi/Halliburton inc (also known as the current US government) wants more oil or oil prices to drop.

THEY (BUSH TOO) ARE MAKING A KILLING OFF OF HIGH PRICES!!!

Bush doesn''t care if the economy is bad - it just makes his millions and his cronies billions go further.

WHAT A JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tibu987]

DUH!
Why should the Saudis increase production to lower prices in the U.S.?

It is their oil, a non-renewable resource, and the price reflects supply and demand.

Turn the tables and put the U.S. in their position, do you think we would then reduce the price of oil if the Saudi''''s were over-using?

But, the U.S. should not be the ones that defend the Saudis against their enemies, let them do and sell them our weapons at the maximum price.

That the Bush cabal is overly friendly with the Saudis is a known. One must wonder how much money Bush and friends make with each increase in the price of oil.

[tawpdawg11]

McBush is probably over there to arrange thwe "October Surprise". After all, all of the perpetratorsm of 9/11 were Saudi. The oil supply thing being just a smokescreen. Face to face meetings in secret would leave no tracks.

And they try to paint Obama as a terrrrorrist while McBush is having photo ops with REAL terrorists and we pay 4 bux a gallon for fuel which is obviously NOT in short supply.