While one could say there is plenty of blame to go around but that line of thought ignores degree of blame. The dems share of the blame is so great as to overwhelm the Republican’s share for being gutless and ineffective. The dems have intentionally by design got us to where we are.
Mort Kondrake - master of the “on this hand, on the other hand” moral equivalency school of political analysis.
Blame is for God and small children
Who cares? Will determining and assigning blame drop the price at the pump? We need to start drilling now.
Newt Gingrich for the VP nomination.
propaganda.
few pubies want to destroy our free market economy.
There you have it. Mort is an idiot. Democrats tried like hell to take our own oil away from us, make us stop using oil with no viable alternative. Republican liberals tried to have it both ways, let the Democrats keep taking our oil while devaluing the dollar to keep the economy going and ultimately driving up the price of oil. Republican Conservatives lacked even one leader among them with half the cojones of Rush Limbaugh, and certainly lacked the skills of leadership to educate the public at large as to the nearly superhuman idiocy of our government in virtually every endeavor it makes. And in the end we have two nitwits, Obama and McCain competing for power over what little is left of the country.
Okay, I can understand (and it can even be documented) how DemoRats have consistently refused to increase supply, but please, Mortimer, pray tell, how is it possible to affix blame on Republicans for the responsibility in not curtailing demand among the populace.
Sheesh, what a moronic nutjob!!
Without reading I’ll say it is both repubs and dems who are at fault. When the repubs had both houses all they had to do was vote for drilling. The other repub, W, could simply pull a Jackson and tell Congress to go to hell and sign an EO to start drilling. And he could have done that on day one of his presidency. But, he didn’t want to go against his daddy.
“McCain’s fellow Republicans also are to blame for $4 gas. It took ex-oilman Bush six years to discover that America is “addicted to oil” and begin promoting conservation and alternative energy sources.”
They are both to blame, but the Dems. are significantly more to blame. But, Mort is so intent on blabbing about his take on the Republican failure to promote conservation and alternatives that he doesn’t mention their biggest contribution to $4.00 per gallon gasoline:
The Republicans also supported drilling bans everywhere the Dems. did except for ANWR. It’s been said many times on FR that GHWB was president and concurred when all our offshore areas except four Gulf states were put off limits. And W never mentioned lifting those bans in seven and one-half years, and he sided with Jeb to keep Florida off limits.
Except for ANWR, Republican presidents and many other Republicans are very recent converts converts to the drill here, drill now mantra.
Looks like the globalist vision of the death of the combustion engine will come to pass.
IMO, one pretty good test of how soon Americans are ready to talk sense about energy policy is how soon a majority of voters will come to understand that irrespective of how often and how deep we drill potential US production of liquid petroleum is such a small fraction of world demand that it can only move the price of oil a few percent in either direction - that though there are good reasons to support or oppose drilling, they have almost nothing to do with the price of a tank of gas either today or a decade from now.
You can’t “curtail” demand!!!! How about demand for food? Want to “curtail” that?
Mort you’re an idiot. Read and learn,
Who’s Responsible?
ANWR Exploration:
House Republicans: 91% Supported
House Democrats: 86% Opposed
Coal-to-Liquid:
House Republicans: 97% Supported
House Democrats: 78% Opposed
Oil Shale Exploration:
House Republicans: 90% Supported
House Democrats: 86% Opposed
Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Exploration:
House Republicans: 81% Supported
House Democrats: 83% Opposed
Refinery Increased Capacity:
House Republicans: 97% Supported
House Democrats: 96% Opposed
SUMMARY
91% of House Republicans have historically
voted to increase the production of American-
made oil and gas.
86% of House Democrats have historically
voted against increasing the production of
American-made oil and gas.
So the next time you pay high prices for energy be sure to thank GOD for allowing Democrates to increase your energy costs and lighten your wallet. Also to continue to have a lighter wallet be sure and vote for the Democrates every chance you get.
So as I said, Mort you’re an idiot. The democrats are traitorous scumbags who have stabbed America in the back and have up to now had scumbags like you in the ratmedia to lie for them because the increases were small and slow, but of course steady. Now the increases are coming at a rate of one penny a day at the pump and the ratmedia can’t lie fast enough.
Mort is still peeved that working Americans (and that’s mostly conservatives) don’t want to pay for his illegal cook, illegal houseboy, illegal lawnmower man, illegal roofer, illegal leaf blower, illegal painter and illegal driver.
Driving to Home Depot and needing to pay illegals to polish his doorknob is really irritating him.
Blame Iammadjohn over there in Iran. Every day he does the Death to Israel and Death to America theme. Oil should not be over $100. Not that it matters.