when bu$h* took office oil was $38 bucks a barrel...this morning $110.00

[spanone]

wow, you'd think he was an oil man or something

[dhill926]

1. mission accomplished.....n/t

[spanone]

2. yep

[NewJeffCT]

9. that was my initial thought as well

when I saw the subject line - Bush's true mission has been accomplished.

[OwnedByFerrets]

3. While this is important....

its probably more crucial that when he stole the office, we didn't openly torture people or invade and occupy sovereign countries. The crimes of this admin are unprecedented

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Smirk." - Commander AWOL & corrupt reublicon homelander oil cronies

[DeeDeeNY]

5. The US economy was also doing well

People had jobs and we had a surplus.

[predfan]

6. Occupations, wars, and rumors of wars all accomplish the same thing,,,,,

increases the price of oil.......add to that the incredible profitability of the military contractor business, and the last 7 years have become a bonanza for this group of criminals.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

7. What happened to the spigot?

And yeah, he's an oil man alright. Oil men look to make exorbitant profits from oil. Mission accomplished.

[chat_noir]

8. In 1999, Candidate Bush Attacked Dems on Gas Price at $1.64, Demanded Clinton ‘Jawbone’ OPEC

In 2000, George Bush, the failed oilman, quickly piled on in the criticism of Gore and the Clinton administration, as CBS News pointed out in 2004:

Mr. Bush was critical of Al Gore in the 2000 campaign for being part of “the administration that’s been in charge” while the “price of gasoline has gone steadily upward.” In December 1999, in the first Republican primary debate, Mr. Bush said President Clinton “must jawbone OPEC members to lower prices.”

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/03/08/in-2000-gop-trashed-dems-over-gas-prices/


June 28, 2000 Bush Would Use Power of Persuasion to Raise Oil Supply

WAYNE, Mich., June 27 -- Gov. George W. Bush of Texas said today that if he was president, he would bring down gasoline prices through sheer force of personality, by creating enough political good will with oil-producing nations that they would increase their supply of crude.

"I would work with our friends in OPEC to convince them to open up the spigot, to increase the supply," Mr. Bush, the presumptive Republican candidate for president, told reporters here today. "Use the capital that my administration will earn, with the Kuwaitis or the Saudis, and convince them to open up the spigot."

Implicit in his comments was a criticism of the Clinton administration as failing to take advantage of the good will that the United States built with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf war in 1991. Also implicit was that as the son of the president who built the coalition that drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait, Mr. Bush would be able to establish ties on a personal level that would persuade oil-producing nations that they owed the United States something in return.

"Ours is a nation that helped Kuwait and the Saudis, and you'd think we'd have the capital necessary to convince them to increase the crude supplies," he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/062800wh-bush.html

[NewJeffCT]

10. Didn't Cheney say, "High gas prices are the sign of a failed presidency"

back in 1998 or so?

[WinkyDink]

11. Heckuva job, Exxon!

[spanone]

12. i drive by a mapco everyday to work - for the last 3 weeks - up 2 cents each day

[mtnsnake]

13. When Bush took over our dollar was worth 1 1/2 times the Canadian $. Now it's worth LESS than theirs

I can't understand why no one ever brings this up. Our dollar was flying high until Bush entered the picture and ruined EVERYTHING from the economy to our dollar to relative peace we were enjoying.