Crude Construction

The American Spectator ^ | 8/12/2008 | Sam Kazman

[Delacon]

When cocaine prices shot up last year, White House Drug Czar John Walters touted it as "the best evidence" that the War on Drugs was working.

So when gas prices were shooting up this year, we ought to have heard cheers from those who claim we're addicted to oil. They should have pointed to those record gas prices as a sign that we're winning the war on oil addiction. But instead of celebrating, they've been gnashing their teeth.

President Bush isn't leaping for joy, even though he gave the oil-addiction phrase its highest imprimatur when he used it in his 2006 State of the Union speech. The metaphor is now everywhere, from the lips of politicians to the covers of national magazines. Tom Friedman has a new documentary titled Addicted to Oil, and T. Boone Pickens uses the phrase to promote his windmill plan.

But unlike our Drug Czar's reaction to high cocaine prices, these people express very little actual joy over the high price of gas. Congress may have embraced the oil-addiction phrase, but when it recessed for the summer it was preoccupied with how to bring gas prices down.

Nor are too many environmentalists dancing in the streets over high gas prices. Al Gore's We Can Solve It campaign is running full-page ads about $5 a gallon gas, but those ads don't celebrate this prospect -- they bemoan it.

Gore himself probably favors high gas prices, but he plays both sides of the fence in his public pronouncements. On the one hand he wants to tax oil for its alleged environmental harms. On the other hand, he pushes plug-in hybrids...

[Delacon]

Every way you look at it, the left's logic falls apart when it comes to energy policy.

[Delacon]

ping

[Tarpon]

The left doesn’t use logic, they use alcohol and other substances. No person in charge of their sense could be a leftist.

[the invisib1e hand]

When cocaine prices shot up last year, White House Drug Czar John Walters touted it as "the best evidence" that the War on Drugs was working.

The war on oil is working.

[mouse1]

Keep supporting our congress heros that are still in Washington!!

We need a vote
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We need emergency session
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John Boehner invited McCain to join them
McCain needs to get his a$$ to Washington where he belongs
It will bring the much needed media attention
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[rbg81]

I chuckle when people say we’re addicted to oil. Oil is a very useful substance for fueling and making things for which we have found no replacement. Without it, we’d be back to the Steam age. An addiction to a substance is something that’s bad for you. The only thing really bad about oil is that we don’t have enough of it and have to import it. You could also make the same argument that we are addicted to food or water.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

If I was “addicted” to oil, I sure as heck wouldn’t be carpooling.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Congress should end the war on drugs AND the war on oil.