Understanding the Issues 2008: Energy

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Originally Posted by The Goat

Not sure what you're suspicious about. Anyway, Cheney's energy ceo roundtable that wrote the initial Bush energy policy is classic Big Oil candidate stuff. Way too coincidental that he spends the first years of the term: working w/ oil execs to write a policy, backing an idiotic coup in Venezuela because its government refused to "cooperate" w/ our energy needs, then invading and occupying the most oil rich country in the world that could not possibly defend itself. It was especially amusing when the energy firms out of Texas were caught red-handed cutting supply to California to spike prices (remember the tapes of "Yeah, fuck 'em), after Cheney had spent months defending his buddies and touring the country to tell everyone that the real problem is that we weren't subsidizing oil/gas/coal enough.

Anyway, the real point is that McCain has been right there w/ hardliners like Cheney. The difference is McCain says otherwise, which really makes no sense whatsoever to me because if he talked like other hardliners he'd probably be much more popular w/ the conservative base IMO. I'm just saying I am confused about his positioning. What is he going for?

Well if that was the case then Obama & Hillary would know this and they could just add that to their platform and promise that gas prices would drop if they were elected. They know that is not the case so they are not using this as a means to get elected. Also if Cheney is to blame for our high gas prices why is gas going up all over the world?