[Ohioan]

Implicit throughout the Congressman's post is the paranoid suggestion that the big oil producers are in some sort of conspiracy against the public weal. This, if it is not a typical Socialist ploy, is seriously delusional. An oil company is not into exploiting the public, any more than any other producer of a product that will be in ongoing demand would do anything so stupid as trying to take advantage of its patrons and customers in a manner that might alienate them. Oil companies serve their customers, and naturally hope to make a profit in doing so--plain and simple.

It is unfortunate that we have a growing subculture, even in America, which chooses to demonize those who succeed; that chooses to embrace Marxist delusions as to the evil of capitalism and capitalists. The reality is, that it is precisely because the ninnys on both sides of the aisle in Washington have embraced so much of Marxist and other Socialist theory today, that we may have a price structure in a state of collapse in the near future; that not only oil prices, but most prices may become unpredictable. It is Socialist involvement in education, health, consumer stimuli--even subsidizing the birth rate among the least productive--at home, and trying to remake the world overseas, that our dollar is completely suspect today.

Of course, the answer is not more of the same. The answer is to boot out of office all the quacks, who seek to buy votes with other people's money--even by passing on a debt to unborn generations of productive Americans.

William Flax

[DJ MacWoW]

His numbers and comments are certainly meant to frighten and as you pointed out, they are Marxist in nature. Talk about spewing the party line! He must believe that John Q Public will swallow it hook line and sinker. Unfortunately, they do.

If there was any oil worth speaking of in that 68 million acres of leased land, oil companies would drill there. And his assertion that prices wouldn't go down is crap. Oil went down $11 a barrel when Bush lifted the Executive Order on drilling.

I also agree with cleaning house in DC.

[rodguy911]

It’s the old Marxian Robin Hood mentality, take from those who produce and give to those who won’t work.It’s one of the worst socialist redistribution schemes created and it’s all the rats know.