Reply #13: Bush Urges OPEC to Pump More Oil

[paparush]

Source: AP

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - President Bush urged OPEC nations on Tuesday to put more oil on the world market and warned that soaring prices could cause an economic slowdown in the United States.
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"High energy prices can damage consuming economies," the president told a small group of reporters traveling with him in the Mideast.

"It's affected our families. Paying more for gasoline hurts some of the American families, and I'll make that clear to him," said Bush, heading into more talks with Saudi King Abdullah. Shortly after Bush spoke, the Saudi oil minister said the kingdom, responsible for almost one-third of the cartel's total output, would raise oil production when the market justified it.

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Bush's Answer to the Holocaust - We should have bombed Auschwitz.
Bush's Answer to Peak Oil - Pump More Oil.

Incredible that during this man's window of history, Global Climate Change came to the forefront (in the rest of the world). Instead of leadership what do we get? Eight years of denial and focus on fossil fuels. What a colossal waste of an opportunity