You And What Army?

RedState.com ^ | 6 May 2008 | .cnI redruM

[4yearlurker]

Oh great. Maybe Madame President can do the same for the oil companies as she did for our flu shots. If the Beast get elected expect gas lines again!

[bill1952]

R-P is used more often in the petroleum trade than Sherman

domestically.

Do you really think the Saudis and Venz would give a bleep about either one ?

If it is never on the table, of course not.
Simply remove it from international law then.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

R-P could apply to the Venz and Saudis. Both have operating companies in the US. Both offer favorable pricing to some of their customers, which is at the heart of Robinson-Patman.

[.cnI redruM]

1) Look Einstein, I don't have to qualify other people's arguments as quaint, nor demean their motives to feel confident in what I believe. Your total lack of courtesy and respect for the intelligence of others is what leads me to call you a jerk. I feel this is well within the the accepted informal definition of the term. Should you not appreciate being called a jerk; try not behaving like one. 2)It's not a point of whether The Sherman Anti-Trust Act is accepted by law-abiding nations, the question is enforceability against Hugo Chavez and his ilk. Does anyone in their right mind believe the following: A) A Hillary Clinton Administration, and the Congress that would ride in on her coattails, would sign off on the scale of military action required to bring Iran and Venezuela into compliance with our interpretation of international trade laws. B) The American public would willingly sign off on another occupation/rebuilding scenario to go along with Iraq and Afghanistan. The answer to both questions is clearly no.

[Prokopton]

Hillary does not have a clue. OPEC would be happy to sell plenty of oil to China and turn off the tap to the US.

China already gets all of the oil it wants. Loss of U.S. purchases would be devastating to OPEC.

[bill1952]

R-P could apply to the Venz and Saudis

Hmm. Not a bad point about Chavez. - I assume that you are speaking to the sweetheart deal that some democrat/socialist governor got on heating oil from him?
I can see how you could legally argue that one.
To do any of these things would take some real balls, and I am surprised that Hillary spoke up about it.

Don't know of any like actions by the House of Saud.

Thank you for the post. - and the idea. 8^) - bill

[.cnI redruM]

The Fed is a cartel...but so is the government.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Believe me, I know my Robinson Patman backwards and forwards.

[mrmargaritaville]

hey Hillary opec just called-they said you have no “gravitas”

[mrmargaritaville]

hey Hillary opec just called-they said you have no “gravitas”

[SusaninOhio]

I see in the interview that hillary has replaced ‘you know’ to ‘well’ to start all her sentences.

not an improvement.

[.cnI redruM]

After looking at her in the infamous pants suit, how can say she has no gravity?

[.cnI redruM]

In she loses too badly in NC, it could usher in the “well, you know” era.

[4woodenboats]

From Socialist to bald-faced Communist.

What's the difference between her and Hugo Chavez?

She's literally talking about nationalizing a percentage of the the oil industry!?

And for what? Where's the biggest profits in the history of the world? When is she going to qoute the numbers? The oil stocks I own haven't been gushing like say, Google's 50% increase over the last few months - hey, maybe we should nationalize 50% of Google while we're at it!

Once this train starts rolling, it doesn't stop until we go the way of the USSR, China, Cuba, Venezuela.....

Fortunately this is all a stunt, unfortunately there are many millions who believe in her.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

What's the difference between her and Hugo Chavez?

Plumbing.

[4woodenboats]

It’s not OPEC she’s after. “Big Oil” has always been American companies. She doesn’t say squat about OPEC.

[lexusppd]

So then you advocate a war against the oil producing nations in the ME?

[mbynack]

I had a conversation with my aunt a few months back. She forwarded me an e-mail about how the rich oil company owners were manipulating prices at the expense of the poor. I asked her if she had an IRA and she said yes. I asked her if she had any oil company stocks. She said she wasn’t sure, but might have some. I told her that she was one of the rich oil company owners and needed to go to the next stockholders meeting and demand the company stop making a profit and start selling oil at cost.

[anoldafvet]

When she ran for the senate in New York she promised 250, 000 jobs to the upstate area. I think the last time I read anything about it, they had lost an additional 200,000 jobs.

[.cnI redruM]

It’s like trusting a Kennedy. They always drive you off the bridge. (Or leave you for the buzzards in Fort Marcy Park)..