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Liza Porteus VianaObama Camp Hits McCain on Energy
Barack Obama advisers today slammed John McCain's energy stances - saying the Arizona senator has flip-flopped on issues such as CAFE standards, and that his support for drilling in the Outer Continental shelf is just one example of energy solutions that merely "tinker around the edges" of our very expensive problem of oil dependence.
"He just has rhetoric but doesn't back it up with any substance," Obama's economic policy director, Jason Furman, told reporters during a conference call.
Despite all the "rhetoric" on how it's vital to our national and economic security to reduce the United States' dependence on foreign oil, McCain "looks the other way when the tough decisions come," added senior energy adviser Jason Grumet. They called his gas-tax holiday proposal the "perfect storm of political pander."
Advisers were asked about an article today that looks at the close relationships some of Obama's advisers and supporters have with the domestic (corn-based) ethanol industry. Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, for example, is an adviser who serves on the boards of three ethanol companies and works on renewable energy issues at a Washington law firm.
Obama's people said the candidate has always stressed that corn-based ethanol is a "transitional" fuel and has argued that we need to accelerate to a new suite of advanced ethanols. They hailed his past work on CAFE standards as brave, given the fact that the issue used to be a political hot potato, and noted that the fuel economy bill Congress passed last fall was almost exactly the same as what Obama introduced the year before. See how Obama wasn't afraid to "roll up his sleeves" to tackle tough issues? That's the kind of president he would be, they argued.
At the same time, McCain today released a new TV ad entitled "Energy Security." View below
McCain also today outlined his energy plan in Fresno, Calif. He criticized current CAFE standards, saying they aren't effectively enforced, and slammed the government for its current practice of subsidizing corn-based ethanol while still collecting tariffs on sugarcane-based ethanol from Brazil.
He said:
"Instead of playing favorites, our government should level the playing field for all alcohol fuels that break the monopoly of gasoline, lowering both gasoline prices and carbon emissions. And this can be done with a simple federal standard to hasten the conversion of all new vehicles in America to flex-fuel technology -- allowing drivers to use alcohol fuels instead of gas in their cars. "
Also:
"And if I am elected president, they will. Whether it takes a meeting with automakers during my first month in office, or my signature on an act of Congress, we will meet the goal of a swift conversion of American vehicles away from oil."
McCain also said he would issue a "Clean Car Challenge" to American automakers in the form of a tax credit based on the reduction of carbon emissions. For every automaker who can sell a zero-emissions car, the McCain administration would commit a $5,000 tax credit for each customer who buys that car. For other vehicles, the lower the carbon emissions, the higher the tax credit.
He also proposed offering a $300 million prize for the development of a battery package that has the size, capacity, cost and power to outperform plug-in hybrids or electric cars.
AP has a good piece today on the promises and pandering from both sides.
"He just has rhetoric but doesn't back it up with any substance," Obama's economic policy director, Jason Furman, told reporters during a conference call.
Despite all the "rhetoric" on how it's vital to our national and economic security to reduce the United States' dependence on foreign oil, McCain "looks the other way when the tough decisions come," added senior energy adviser Jason Grumet. They called his gas-tax holiday proposal the "perfect storm of political pander."
Advisers were asked about an article today that looks at the close relationships some of Obama's advisers and supporters have with the domestic (corn-based) ethanol industry. Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, for example, is an adviser who serves on the boards of three ethanol companies and works on renewable energy issues at a Washington law firm.
Obama's people said the candidate has always stressed that corn-based ethanol is a "transitional" fuel and has argued that we need to accelerate to a new suite of advanced ethanols. They hailed his past work on CAFE standards as brave, given the fact that the issue used to be a political hot potato, and noted that the fuel economy bill Congress passed last fall was almost exactly the same as what Obama introduced the year before. See how Obama wasn't afraid to "roll up his sleeves" to tackle tough issues? That's the kind of president he would be, they argued.
At the same time, McCain today released a new TV ad entitled "Energy Security." View below
McCain also today outlined his energy plan in Fresno, Calif. He criticized current CAFE standards, saying they aren't effectively enforced, and slammed the government for its current practice of subsidizing corn-based ethanol while still collecting tariffs on sugarcane-based ethanol from Brazil.
He said:
"Instead of playing favorites, our government should level the playing field for all alcohol fuels that break the monopoly of gasoline, lowering both gasoline prices and carbon emissions. And this can be done with a simple federal standard to hasten the conversion of all new vehicles in America to flex-fuel technology -- allowing drivers to use alcohol fuels instead of gas in their cars. "
Also:
"And if I am elected president, they will. Whether it takes a meeting with automakers during my first month in office, or my signature on an act of Congress, we will meet the goal of a swift conversion of American vehicles away from oil."
McCain also said he would issue a "Clean Car Challenge" to American automakers in the form of a tax credit based on the reduction of carbon emissions. For every automaker who can sell a zero-emissions car, the McCain administration would commit a $5,000 tax credit for each customer who buys that car. For other vehicles, the lower the carbon emissions, the higher the tax credit.
He also proposed offering a $300 million prize for the development of a battery package that has the size, capacity, cost and power to outperform plug-in hybrids or electric cars.
AP has a good piece today on the promises and pandering from both sides.
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2:22PM Jun 23rd 2008
OTTAWA — Call it campaign growing pains. Or bad luck. Or a combination of the two.
By any name, Sen. John McCain is hampered by missteps and self-generated controversy in the early days of the general election campaign for the White House.
Take his most recent trip through several states and the Canadian capital, a five-day span during which he courted conservatives and independents alike, raised more than $10 million and began detailing his considerable differences with Sen. Barack Obama on energy policy.
Still, on Tuesday, he criticized his rival for proposing a windfall profits tax on the oil industry. The attack was complicated by McCain's earlier statement that he would consider the same thing.
The following day, he met with a group of Hispanics in Chicago. Aides who had kept word of the event secret were placed on the defensive within hours after one participant criticized some of McCain's comments.
On Thursday, the Arizona senator flew to Iowa, a likely battleground state in the fall, where he expressed sympathy with victims of severe flooding and pledged support for federal recovery aid. The event was overshadowed by President Bush's appearance elsewhere in the same state on the same day.
Friday's trip to Canada brought more controversy.
McCain arrived aboard his chartered campaign jet, yet told reporters at a news conference, "this is not a political campaign trip." The senator added he didn't feel it was appropriate to have the government to pay "while I am the nominee of my party."
The centerpiece of the six-hour visit was a speech to the Economic Club of Canada that amounted to a cross-border political attack. McCain criticized Obama, without mentioning him by name, for his opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement.
"Demanding unilateral changes and threatening to abrogate an agreement that has increased trade and prosperity is nothing more than retreating behind protectionist walls," he said.
McCain's schedule also included mention of an unspecified "finance event." While that is customarily campaign jargon for a fundraiser, foreigners may not donate to U.S. candidates, and one aide was quoted in advance as saying that money from $100-per-person event would simply defray the cost of the earlier luncheon.
The non-fundraiser, which may or may not have cost $100 to attend, was held on the top floor of a building with a commanding view of the city skyline. McCain said he knew some of those in attendance had homes in Arizona in the cold weather, and at one point, referred to his campaign themes of "reform, peace and prosperity."
Even some Republicans have cringed in recent weeks at the campaign's efforts to ramp up for the fall campaign, although they will speak only privately.
McCain's aides minimize the difficulties.
One top aide, Mark Salter, said if McCain had not gone to Iowa, he would have looked indifferent to "a great natural calamity and the suffering it has caused." The senator has frequently criticized Bush for his administration's response to Hurricane Katrina.
Salter also said McCain had told the Hispanic audience nothing about immigration that he hasn't told dozens of town hall audiences. He blamed the dustup on a member of the Minuteman organization that opposes giving illegal immigrants any path to legal status.
Salter noted that the speech in Canada contained no overt mention of Obama.
McCain himself told reporters late in the week he remains opposed to the windfall profits tax.
Not that Obama and the Democrats weren't trying to stir controversy at every step.
By the time the sun fell on the day of the Iowa trip, an aide to Gov. Chet Culver said the Democrat had privately relayed a request to McCain to cancel his plans to avoid diverting law enforcement personnel from recovery efforts. Salter said the visit had been cleared in advance by local officials.
And McCain was still on Canadian soil when the Democratic National Committee announced it was filing a Freedom of Information Act request for State Department records detailing the involvement of Ambassador David Wilkins during the trip.
That sort of guerrilla tactic is routine in any presidential campaign. Republicans spent much of the week, for example, drawing attention to Obama's announcement that he would reject public campaign funding for the general election, a major reversal.
And in truth, no candidate can expect to make it through a grueling presidential campaign without suffering one or two self-inflicted wounds _ the most grievous of which are far worse than anything that has happened to McCain.
Republican President Gerald Ford's declaration in 1976, at the height of the Cold War, that there was "no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe" was a memorable one.
Or more recently Democratic Sen. John Kerry's decision to go windsurfing in 2004, an event that Republicans turned into a metaphor for a politician who shifts with the wind.
Obama himself spent days in the Democratic primary race trying to explain away remarks he made at a closed-door fundraiser that small-town Americans who were bitter over their economic plight turned to religion.
Republicans took notice of that one, and Obama can expect to hear more about that moment in the fall.
Arguably, McCain has yet to make that kind of gaffe despite enduring a candidacy of remarkable adversity in which he went from front-runner to the campaign cellar and back again.
And for all the talk his critics like to stir about his temper, he never betrayed a hint of displeasure as he made his campaign rounds during the week.
Not even when one man at a Minnesota fundraiser upbraided him for opposing oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
"Thank you for that question," McCain replied.
By any name, Sen. John McCain is hampered by missteps and self-generated controversy in the early days of the general election campaign for the White House.
Take his most recent trip through several states and the Canadian capital, a five-day span during which he courted conservatives and independents alike, raised more than $10 million and began detailing his considerable differences with Sen. Barack Obama on energy policy.
Still, on Tuesday, he criticized his rival for proposing a windfall profits tax on the oil industry. The attack was complicated by McCain's earlier statement that he would consider the same thing.
The following day, he met with a group of Hispanics in Chicago. Aides who had kept word of the event secret were placed on the defensive within hours after one participant criticized some of McCain's comments.
On Thursday, the Arizona senator flew to Iowa, a likely battleground state in the fall, where he expressed sympathy with victims of severe flooding and pledged support for federal recovery aid. The event was overshadowed by President Bush's appearance elsewhere in the same state on the same day.
Friday's trip to Canada brought more controversy.
McCain arrived aboard his chartered campaign jet, yet told reporters at a news conference, "this is not a political campaign trip." The senator added he didn't feel it was appropriate to have the government to pay "while I am the nominee of my party."
The centerpiece of the six-hour visit was a speech to the Economic Club of Canada that amounted to a cross-border political attack. McCain criticized Obama, without mentioning him by name, for his opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement.
"Demanding unilateral changes and threatening to abrogate an agreement that has increased trade and prosperity is nothing more than retreating behind protectionist walls," he said.
McCain's schedule also included mention of an unspecified "finance event." While that is customarily campaign jargon for a fundraiser, foreigners may not donate to U.S. candidates, and one aide was quoted in advance as saying that money from $100-per-person event would simply defray the cost of the earlier luncheon.
The non-fundraiser, which may or may not have cost $100 to attend, was held on the top floor of a building with a commanding view of the city skyline. McCain said he knew some of those in attendance had homes in Arizona in the cold weather, and at one point, referred to his campaign themes of "reform, peace and prosperity."
Even some Republicans have cringed in recent weeks at the campaign's efforts to ramp up for the fall campaign, although they will speak only privately.
McCain's aides minimize the difficulties.
One top aide, Mark Salter, said if McCain had not gone to Iowa, he would have looked indifferent to "a great natural calamity and the suffering it has caused." The senator has frequently criticized Bush for his administration's response to Hurricane Katrina.
Salter also said McCain had told the Hispanic audience nothing about immigration that he hasn't told dozens of town hall audiences. He blamed the dustup on a member of the Minuteman organization that opposes giving illegal immigrants any path to legal status.
Salter noted that the speech in Canada contained no overt mention of Obama.
McCain himself told reporters late in the week he remains opposed to the windfall profits tax.
Not that Obama and the Democrats weren't trying to stir controversy at every step.
By the time the sun fell on the day of the Iowa trip, an aide to Gov. Chet Culver said the Democrat had privately relayed a request to McCain to cancel his plans to avoid diverting law enforcement personnel from recovery efforts. Salter said the visit had been cleared in advance by local officials.
And McCain was still on Canadian soil when the Democratic National Committee announced it was filing a Freedom of Information Act request for State Department records detailing the involvement of Ambassador David Wilkins during the trip.
That sort of guerrilla tactic is routine in any presidential campaign. Republicans spent much of the week, for example, drawing attention to Obama's announcement that he would reject public campaign funding for the general election, a major reversal.
And in truth, no candidate can expect to make it through a grueling presidential campaign without suffering one or two self-inflicted wounds _ the most grievous of which are far worse than anything that has happened to McCain.
Republican President Gerald Ford's declaration in 1976, at the height of the Cold War, that there was "no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe" was a memorable one.
Or more recently Democratic Sen. John Kerry's decision to go windsurfing in 2004, an event that Republicans turned into a metaphor for a politician who shifts with the wind.
Obama himself spent days in the Democratic primary race trying to explain away remarks he made at a closed-door fundraiser that small-town Americans who were bitter over their economic plight turned to religion.
Republicans took notice of that one, and Obama can expect to hear more about that moment in the fall.
Arguably, McCain has yet to make that kind of gaffe despite enduring a candidacy of remarkable adversity in which he went from front-runner to the campaign cellar and back again.
And for all the talk his critics like to stir about his temper, he never betrayed a hint of displeasure as he made his campaign rounds during the week.
Not even when one man at a Minnesota fundraiser upbraided him for opposing oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
"Thank you for that question," McCain replied.
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D. L. GRAHAM
2:28PM Jun 23rd 2008
A PROSTEST VOTE INDEPENDENT ALTERNTIVE!
The Question was once asked of where do I sign up for the New Era Non-Partisan-Independent Movement. Well that point in it ultimate party hasn't been reached.
But, the good news for those who WILL NOT VOTE, for the B***H! (D-NY) US/Senator Hillary Diane Rodham-Clinton, OR, the Black-Afro-American Presumptive Democratic Nominee (D-IL) Barrack "Barry" Hussein Obama, or "THE DREAM TEAM", and really don't want to vote against your own interests by voting for the Presumptive Republican Nominee (R-AZ) US/Senator John Sydney McCain III, THERE IS ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE!
A PROTEST ALTERNATIVE VOTE AGAINST BOTH PARTIES AND THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM"
(I/R-GA) US/Senator Bob Barr!! Now, I am not going to blow smoke up you black-side and tell you its a warm southern breeze, or piss on your shoe's and say its a warm summer rain. (I/R-GA) US/Senator Bob Barr, has no chance of winning, that's just the way it is at this time in the beginning of a new movement. (I/R-GA) US/Senator Bob Barr, is only getting about a (5%) slice of the cake.
But, its not about getting (I/R-GA) US/Senator Bob Barr, elected it's about sending a message to both the Democratic and Republican Parties that times they are a changing. It's about sending the message that a new kid is on their way to town, and the town is Washington, D. C.
It's about sending the message that no longer will the game be played as usual.
THE BEST THING IT'S A PROTEST VOTE AND NOT A LOST VOTE!!
The Question was once asked of where do I sign up for the New Era Non-Partisan-Independent Movement. Well that point in it ultimate party hasn't been reached.
But, the good news for those who WILL NOT VOTE, for the B***H! (D-NY) US/Senator Hillary Diane Rodham-Clinton, OR, the Black-Afro-American Presumptive Democratic Nominee (D-IL) Barrack "Barry" Hussein Obama, or "THE DREAM TEAM", and really don't want to vote against your own interests by voting for the Presumptive Republican Nominee (R-AZ) US/Senator John Sydney McCain III, THERE IS ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE!
A PROTEST ALTERNATIVE VOTE AGAINST BOTH PARTIES AND THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM"
(I/R-GA) US/Senator Bob Barr!! Now, I am not going to blow smoke up you black-side and tell you its a warm southern breeze, or piss on your shoe's and say its a warm summer rain. (I/R-GA) US/Senator Bob Barr, has no chance of winning, that's just the way it is at this time in the beginning of a new movement. (I/R-GA) US/Senator Bob Barr, is only getting about a (5%) slice of the cake.
But, its not about getting (I/R-GA) US/Senator Bob Barr, elected it's about sending a message to both the Democratic and Republican Parties that times they are a changing. It's about sending the message that a new kid is on their way to town, and the town is Washington, D. C.
It's about sending the message that no longer will the game be played as usual.
THE BEST THING IT'S A PROTEST VOTE AND NOT A LOST VOTE!!
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(0) D. L. GRAHAM
3:20PM Jun 23rd 2008
MAJORITY MAY FAVOR INDEPENDENT PARTY????
OK Gang! Let's look at this from another point of view! There was an article posted concerning the former (R-GA) US/Representative Bob Barr, who is running on the INDEPENDENT Libertarian Party Ticket.
Which will not win the nomination, but it WORKS FOR A PROTEST VOTE, but what was a very interesting poll showed the following;
The Question basically was:
Are third-party candidates good or bad for the political system?
Good 49%
Somewhere in between 27%
Bad 24%
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
So, let’s just go one step beyond and just for arguments sake say spit the somewhere in between from (27%) to (13.5%) and just use the Good and Bad figures!!
Good (62.5%)
Bad (37.5%)
Now, these percentages show that in fact the present TWO-PARTY SYSTEM, which is not to far from being (300) years old maybe ready for an upgrade. You can’t Grid-Lock with Three Parties.
So, a Protest Vote for (I/L) Former (R-GA) US Representative Bob Barr, looks like a double win for those who just can’t go along with either Party or its Presumptive Nominee’s and (62.5%) say’s a lot of voters are inline for a New Era Independent Party, by (2010) it could be born, and by (2012) it could be up and running.
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(0) Katherine
3:39PM Jun 23rd 2008
"He just has rhetoric but doesn't back it up with any substance," Obama's economic policy director, Jason Furman, told reporters during a conference call."
--LMMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
McCain has my vote.
PUMA!
--LMMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
McCain has my vote.
PUMA!
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(0) Katherine
3:48PM Jun 23rd 2008
That ad is fantastic BTW.
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(0) David S.
4:02PM Jun 23rd 2008
Just curious - where is McCain's going to get the $300 milliom bucks to pay someone to come up with this miracle battery for cars to run on?
And barring a miracle, McCain (if he is elected) will have a Congress run by Democrats. May not be wise for him to make such promises.
And barring a miracle, McCain (if he is elected) will have a Congress run by Democrats. May not be wise for him to make such promises.
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(0) anag
4:37PM Jun 23rd 2008
That was a great ad for McCain, new ideas for the new president.
Maybe - Obama should start paying off Hillary's debt to get some new ideas instead of recycling old ideas.
Maybe - Obama should start paying off Hillary's debt to get some new ideas instead of recycling old ideas.
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(0) anag
4:45PM Jun 23rd 2008
David S.- Don't bet your last dollar on Democrats controlling Congress. Raising 300 million would not be a problem, a good start is the 85 mil that Fraud-Aboma declined from Federal Funding.
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(0) Bob Connelly
4:58PM Jun 23rd 2008
DRILL HERE & DRILL NOW is the election clinching issue for McCain to seize, expand upon, and absolutely promise. We have more than A TRILLION untapped reserves under our territory and waters. Do the math. At 25 million barrels of use a year (more than our current use of 21.5 million per yr.), we have over 4,000 years of own oil available to us. We can solve all of our economic problems by extracting this oil. WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?
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(0) AL MCRAE
5:15PM Jun 23rd 2008
ETHANOL IS THE ULTIMATE ANSWER=='POLITICIANS >
FOLLOW THE LEED OF BRAZIL
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(0) DAVID WIKOFF
5:22PM Jun 23rd 2008
THIS IS THE DUMBEST IDEA I HAVE HEARD IN THIS WHOLE RACE !!! YOU CAN OFFER A BILLION DOLLARS. YOUR BOUNTY IS FOR THINGS THAT ALREADY ARE. THE OIL COMPANIES OWN THEM, AND WON'T ALLOW THERE PRODUCTION. OPEN THE PATENS ON THESE INVENTIONS AND WATCH THEM PROSPER. IF, NEXT YEAR THIS COUNTRY WOULD BAN NEW CARS TO BE SOLD WITH GAS MOTORS, MANUFACTURES WOULDN'T MISS A BEAT, OR A DOLLAR.
QUIT ASKING PERMISSION TO PASS LAWS FROM BIG MONEY, AND "GETT'ER DONE"
QUIT ASKING PERMISSION TO PASS LAWS FROM BIG MONEY, AND "GETT'ER DONE"
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(0) DAVID WIKOFF
5:36PM Jun 23rd 2008
YES, YOU ARE WRONG, YES I HAVE THE ANSWER.
NOTICE: THE COUNTRY WILL BE GOING THROUGH SOME CHANGES, WHILE TRYING TO AVOID FILING FOR CHAPTER.
WE WILL BE IN A HIRING FREEZE FOR SIX YEARS. AS JOBS BECOME OPEN WE WILL NOT BE FILLING THEM. ELECTIONS WILL RESUME IN 2014, (IF WE ARE STILL HERE ).
NOTICE: THE COUNTRY WILL BE GOING THROUGH SOME CHANGES, WHILE TRYING TO AVOID FILING FOR CHAPTER.
WE WILL BE IN A HIRING FREEZE FOR SIX YEARS. AS JOBS BECOME OPEN WE WILL NOT BE FILLING THEM. ELECTIONS WILL RESUME IN 2014, (IF WE ARE STILL HERE ).
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(0) DAVID WIKOFF
5:41PM Jun 23rd 2008
YES, YOU ARE WRONG, YES I HAVE THE ANSWER.
NOTICE: THE COUNTRY WILL BE GOING THROUGH SOME CHANGES, WHILE TRYING TO AVOID FILING FOR CHAPTER.
WE WILL BE IN A HIRING FREEZE FOR SIX YEARS. AS JOBS BECOME OPEN WE WILL NOT BE FILLING THEM. ELECTIONS WILL RESUME IN 2014, (IF WE ARE STILL HERE ).
NOTICE: THE COUNTRY WILL BE GOING THROUGH SOME CHANGES, WHILE TRYING TO AVOID FILING FOR CHAPTER.
WE WILL BE IN A HIRING FREEZE FOR SIX YEARS. AS JOBS BECOME OPEN WE WILL NOT BE FILLING THEM. ELECTIONS WILL RESUME IN 2014, (IF WE ARE STILL HERE ).
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(0) bill Maguire
8:11AM Jun 24th 2008
Bush and Cheney were both oil company CEOs. When Dick Cheney formed his "energy task force" he got all the oil company execs(including Enrons kennyboy lay) together in the same room. I believe the purpose Dick's "energy task force was collusion/price fixing to raise the price of what we pay for oil and gas. Enron and the speculators colluded to rip off california utility customers and joked about low income old people being forced to choose between medications and electric
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(0) bill Maguire
8:21AM Jun 24th 2008
The oil companies and commodity traders are making each other SUPER rich tag teaming up on us. THATS THE PROBLEM.
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(0) john
11:51AM Jun 24th 2008
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