No he's not. The lack of refining capacity in America, a problem to be sure, and further reductions in same means that our contribution to world crude prices should be downward pressure not upward.
Now if had said we were putting upward pressure on the worlds crude market because we lost some crude production capability due to the hurrican, he'd have a point.
But being an idiot socialist, he didn't say that.
33 posted on 08/31/2005 8:11:38 PM PDT by jwalsh07