Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/23/2011 12:48:32 PM PDT by Rufus2007
As gas prices approach $5 a gallon, and some even predict $6 a gallon by summer, the White House has launched an investigation into what is causing the rapid price surge. But on Thursday’s “Mark Levin Show,” George Mason University economist Walter E. Williams said no investigation was necessary since the cause of the spike in energy prices was obviously the fault of Washington politicians listening to “environmental wackos.”
“And actually, you know – collusion, if you look for the source of collusion – it’s in Washington, D.C.,” Williams said. “The federal government is in charge of colluding, you know setting prices and colluding on prices. But the problem with oil – I think it’s a supply problem. The United States, you know off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf and California and then huge oil finds in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming and North Dakota – we have more oil than Saudi Arabia has altogether. And so however, what’s the problem? The government listening to Congress listening to these environmental wackos – they’re stopping us from drilling and so the prices are going up.”
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I’ve always thought the Arabs were subsidizing the whackos and bribing our pols to make sure oil stays on the scarce side.
The upside is - I hope - that right about the time our ‘idealistic’ yutes figure this all out, the arabs will run out and we will still have ours. Timing is everything - hopefully we will still have some money left and a country.
Its allows no dilling in the United States so they can get more money.
Walter E. Williams is a national treasure, and I’d love to see him in a cabinet post, at the very least.
the only upside is they run out before we do. Then they’ll have to drink sand and eat camel meat.
It’s in the best interest of Muslims to reduce US energy production.
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Both are on the same side of every issue.
Would like to see someone demand eco-groups disclose their donors the same way the left demands the Koch Brothers do...
Our fearless leader prevents drilling offshore, and sics the EPA onto onshore producers. Then he expresses shock at rising oil prices, and rounds up the usual suspects.
Where’s the guy with the Claude Raines photo?
Sounds like another opportunity for James O’Keefe and Brietbart.
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