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The (oil) spot where business and politics intersect

A frustrated Richard Anderson, top dog at Delta Air Lines, may just have served up the quote of the day.

With oil oozing past the $108-a-barrel mark, Anderson on Monday condemned the Bush administration for its failure to restrain fuel costs.

“We don’t have an energy policy in this country, and we need one,” Anderson said. “Jawboning OPEC is not an energy policy.”

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By Will Jones

March 11, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

Atlanta, Dr. King’s hometown, knows the truth. We must weed out the “leaders of misdirection” yet “in bed” with Bush and his fellow traitors.

Time to for those with “elite” pretensions to choose sides…Natural aristocracy, grounded in honor, probity, merit and patriotism, as Our Founder described; or, the philistine false-elit…ravening wolves worshipping Mammon and the Devil with treasonous perverts Bush and Cheney and the Roman Catholic Rockefeller Fifth Column they serve - which killed Kennedy and King, financed Hitler and the Holocaust, sent us to Vietnam and committed 9-11.

Time for all Americans to recognize the Slayers and the Unrighteous among us. Tories must go now just as we eradicated them in 1776. Expropriate and extipate the Fifth Column: to pay off the unconstitutional Debt and to re-establish America as the prophesied Land of Promise.

By Grace

March 11, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

Do Republicans get a discount on gas? The Christian Right wing that helped get Bush elected a 2nd term can go ask their pasters for financial help. It’s no longer about black or white. The United States is about rich or poor. It will take about 20 more years before poor whites realize their gov’t don’t give a crap about them either. Unfortunately by then their 401ks will be a joke & social security will be gone.

By D

March 11, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this

the only people serving in Iraq and the only people that should pay for high gas prices are the ones that voted to put two of the worst people this world has ever known, Dick Cheney and George Bush, in the White House. this has nothing to do with politics, this should all be about what is best for America. you wouldn’t elect either one of them your student body president! did they help your kids, like they said they would? no. did they act like Jesus, like they said they would? no. and have their actions hurt this country? yes. and deliberately hurting this country for selfish reasons is unpatriotic. so they aren’t good Americans either. I wish every voter would stop playing the politician’s games and start doing what is best for America. and if you have made a mistake that hurts this country, don’t keep blaming others to hide the fact that you are human, admit to it and then we can start trying to fix it. it’s obvious what these two guys have done, yet people still try to paint over their mess. America first! lying, manipulative, and greedy politicians last.

By MrLiberty

March 11, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this

This country absolutely DOES NOT NEED AND ENERGY POLICY. What this country needs is a free market in energy. A government energy policy is exactly what gets us backroom deals, high prices, subsidies, and the destruction of real opportunities for alternative sources of energy.

Start with oil. Oil companies have free security, courtesy of Uncle Sam all over the middle east. They should be paying the entire bill for Iraq since oil is the only reason we are there.

Look at ethanol. It costs more to produce from corn than it is worth, but midwest farmers are receiving yet another subsidy for this waste. Hemp on the other hand may show real promise as a fuel source, but the alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceutical industries make sure this wonderful plant never becomes available AGAIN. It was poised to be the first billion dollar plant according to Consumer reports in the early 1900’s.

Coal, wind, solar, and other potential sources are also hurt by our current policy.

All sources of energy need to pay their own way - including nuclear. Then let the most effective win in the marketplace. There is no reason why oil deserves a preference. It pollutes, and frankly I really don’t care what I put in my tank so long as it gets me where I am going. And so long as you demand government intervention, you are only giving power to the scumbags who are controlling you.

By D

March 11, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this

does anyone really believe that if Cheney and Bush wanted a new refinery they couldn’t get one? they could even drill in Alaska for oil if they wanted to, no one was able to stop them from doing something as big and as stupid as the Iraq War, why would anybody think they couldn’t get a little refinery built. but if they build refineries and if they drill in Alaska, the price of gas goes down, profits go down. wait and see, prices for gas will continue to go up all summer so that Cheney, Bush and friends can milk all the profits from oil before the worst President we have ever had, a President that makes Carter look like a Saint, gets the boot out of the White House. then a month or two before the election the price of oil will drop in an attempt to get the people in this country that have such short memories to vote Republican, and most of them are just dumb enough to do it. we can’t handle 4 more years of this type economy. I hope everyone has finally opened their eyes and realized that taking care of rich people first and then waiting for them to take care of us later with trickle down just doesn’t work. and if the idiots buy in to that ‘fare tax’ crap, this ship is sunk. muslims? hell, is anybody else worried as mush as I am about China? worried that our manufacturing plants are leaving. where are our children supposed to work in the future?

By the Joker

March 11, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

a little off subject but a good joke i wanted to pass along about conspiracy theories on 9/11, no saddam wasn’t behind it, we now know that. and on the other side neither was bush, you know how you can tell bush didn’t have anything to do with 9/11? IT WORKED…and it involved planning, that guy couldn’t plan a fart!

By dinosaur

March 11, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this

My precious bones turned to stone and then to oil for I serve at the pleasure of the PRez

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