Posted on 05/22/2008 3:11:38 PM PDT by antonia
May 22, 2008
American Thinker
How much have the Democrats cost you at the pump?
Marc Sheppard
Senator Chuck Schumer claims that coercing Saudi Arabia to increase oil production by 1 million barrels a day would drop the per barrel price by $25, saving Americans 62 cent per gallon at the gas pump. Yet, somehow, that same amount of oil coming from Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would only ease oil prices by a penny.
In a Senate floor speech he gave on May 13th, the New York Democrat insisted that:
"If Saudi Arabia were to increase its production by 1 million barrels per day that translates to a reduction of 20 percent to 25 percent in the world price of crude oil, and crude oil prices could fall by more than $25 dollar per barrel from its current level of $126 per barrel. In turn, that would lower the price of gasoline between 13 percent and 17 percent, or by more than 62 cents off the expected summer regular-grade price - offering much needed relief to struggling families. "
Schumer repeated these words almost verbatim when grilling oil company executives during yesterday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearings.
Yet Schumer's daily magic number of 1 million barrels is the exact increase experts believe we would today be pumping through the Alyeska pipeline had Bill Clinton not vetoed ANWR drilling back in 1995. And even the most rabid anti-domestic-drilling Democrats don't take issue with that figure.
So then, the increase he demands of "Bush's friends," the Saudis - which he claims would reduce prices by up to 25 percent -- is the exact amount he argued earlier this month would only "reduce the price of oil by a penny" were it coming from ANWR - eco-sacred breeding ground of the Porcupine Caribou.
It doesn't take a Ph.D in economics to know that both figures can't be right.
Nor one in Poli-Sci to know why they're so starkly different nonetheless.
They could be guests on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC... but they're gutless, spineless cowards.
Someday OPEC and China will own us.THEY WILL DRILL WHEREVER THEY WANT. We will be their prole slaves. And the polar bears won’t lift a bearclaw to help us.
You know more about the market than I, so my question:
Is there any way these market manipulators can be exposed? I believe some have an ideological motive. Although motive can’t be proven, I’d love to see some names.
Agreed that under normal circumstances one could expect the next dem. pres. to be portrayed as a savior, but conventional politics may be over as we know it.
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