From The Madison Capital Times, 5/12/06:
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/index.php?ntid=83700&ntpid=0

Bush's words on oil are utterly devoid of meaning

By Joel McNally

The current political speechifying over rising gas prices may not
accomplish anything to ease the financial pain of paying $3 for a
gallon of gas, but at least it's providing us with laughs by the
barrel.

There stands oilman President George W. Bush, presiding over the first
government of the United States of oilmen, by oilmen and for oilmen.

Lately, every time the president opens his mouth, the most bizarre
things come out.

And, for a change, it's absolutely intentional.

One day, Bush is extolling the virtues of running our cars on cooking
grease, sugar, grass, soybean oil, corn and wood chips.

The next, he is talking about cracking down on Detroit automakers to
force them to start building more fuel-efficient cars.

For a brief moment, I thought the CIA had tortured the Bush family
into publicly confessing to all the vote fraud they committed in
Florida and Al Gore had been installed as president after all.

Then you realize that the things George W. Bush says in public are
totally meaningless.

He will literally read anything that is placed in front of him,
whether it is "My Pet Goat" or a stern speech against price gouging by
his oilmen fraternity brothers.

They're just words.

Some words are bigger than others and easier to pronounce.

But the words uttered by this president on oil prices are utterly
devoid of meaning.

George Bush has always been the Manchurian Candidate, placed in office
by Texas oilmen and other multimillionaire robber barons for the sole
purpose of cutting the personal income taxes of Texas oilmen and other
multimillionaires.

So don't hold your breath waiting for that big federal initiative to
develop automobiles that run on Crisco.

This is the same Republican-led Congress that has awarded the oil
companies more than $10 billion in tax incentives, allegedly to
encourage more drilling.

If anything gets greased in the current Republican Congress, it will
be even more huge tax breaks for the oil companies to encourage them
to open up some more refineries.

Why is it that there is a critical shortage in oil refineries in this
country contributing to the high price of gasoline, you may ask.

Simple.

As the oilman administration of George Bush lovingly oversaw oil
company mergers reducing competition from 20 companies in the late
'90s to six today, those merged behemoths began shutting down
refineries to increase their profits.

It worked like a charm.

Now those companies will be needing billions more dollars in tax
incentives to jolly them into re-opening refineries.

They call that free enterprise because our government keeps showering
oil companies that are making record profits with more free money
ours.

It's almost as if the entire energy policy of the current government
was worked out behind closed doors in oilman Vice President *****
Cheney's office by a secret energy task force made up of oil company
executives.

Consumers who want to deny the most corrupt multinational oil
companies and their corrupt government co-conspirators from laughing
at us all the way to the bank should consider buying their gasoline
from Citgo.

It's frequently the smartest move anyway.

The station near my house is consistently four or five cents lower
than BP, the world's second largest corporation, or ExxonMobil, the
world's third largest.

Even more important, Citgo is owned by the government of Venezuela,
headed by President Hugo Chavez, who is definitely not a crony of Bush
and Cheney.

Instead, Chavez is the democratically elected leader of Venezuela with
the overwhelming support of the poor and the undying enmity of the
wealthy classes and corporations that have been shut out of power in
that country.

The money you spend on gasoline at Citgo will support democracy and
uplift the poor in South America instead of filling the already
bulging pockets of the Bush family's favorite sheiks in Saudi Arabia,
the country that supplied most of the terrorists who attacked the
World Trade Center.

Actually, some of your money also will go to uplift the poor in our
own country as well.

Chavez recently began providing low-cost heating oil to some of the
poorest neighborhoods in America, including hurricane-ravaged New
Orleans.

No wonder the Bush administration considers Chavez such a dangerous
man.

If the president of another country starts taking action to assist
poor people in our country, pretty soon the poor will start expecting
their own president to do the same.

Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle and other Democrats already are agitating to
place a limit on oil company profits and use all those obscene excess
profits to cut home heating costs.

It will take more than a little anger over gas prices to bring about
such a radical political change in this country.

It would require a government that served the people instead of the
oil companies.

______________________________________________________

I'll buy that

Harry

From The Madison Capital Times, 5/12/06:
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/index.php?ntid=83700&ntpid=0

Bush's words on oil are utterly devoid of meaning

By Joel McNally

The current political speechifying over rising gas prices may not
accomplish anything to ease the financial pain of paying $3 for a
gallon of gas, but at least it's providing us with laughs by the
barrel.

There stands oilman President George W. Bush, presiding over the first
government of the United States of oilmen, by oilmen and for oilmen.

Lately, every time the president opens his mouth, the most bizarre
things come out.

And, for a change, it's absolutely intentional.

One day, Bush is extolling the virtues of running our cars on cooking
grease, sugar, grass, soybean oil, corn and wood chips.

The next, he is talking about cracking down on Detroit automakers to
force them to start building more fuel-efficient cars.

For a brief moment, I thought the CIA had tortured the Bush family
into publicly confessing to all the vote fraud they committed in
Florida and Al Gore had been installed as president after all.

Then you realize that the things George W. Bush says in public are
totally meaningless.

He will literally read anything that is placed in front of him,
whether it is "My Pet Goat" or a stern speech against price gouging by
his oilmen fraternity brothers.

They're just words.

Some words are bigger than others and easier to pronounce.

But the words uttered by this president on oil prices are utterly
devoid of meaning.

George Bush has always been the Manchurian Candidate, placed in office
by Texas oilmen and other multimillionaire robber barons for the sole
purpose of cutting the personal income taxes of Texas oilmen and other
multimillionaires.

So don't hold your breath waiting for that big federal initiative to
develop automobiles that run on Crisco.

This is the same Republican-led Congress that has awarded the oil
companies more than $10 billion in tax incentives, allegedly to
encourage more drilling.

If anything gets greased in the current Republican Congress, it will
be even more huge tax breaks for the oil companies to encourage them
to open up some more refineries.

Why is it that there is a critical shortage in oil refineries in this
country contributing to the high price of gasoline, you may ask.

Simple.

As the oilman administration of George Bush lovingly oversaw oil
company mergers reducing competition from 20 companies in the late
'90s to six today, those merged behemoths began shutting down
refineries to increase their profits.

It worked like a charm.

Now those companies will be needing billions more dollars in tax
incentives to jolly them into re-opening refineries.

They call that free enterprise because our government keeps showering
oil companies that are making record profits with more free money
ours.

It's almost as if the entire energy policy of the current government
was worked out behind closed doors in oilman Vice President *****
Cheney's office by a secret energy task force made up of oil company
executives.

Consumers who want to deny the most corrupt multinational oil
companies and their corrupt government co-conspirators from laughing
at us all the way to the bank should consider buying their gasoline
from Citgo.

It's frequently the smartest move anyway.

The station near my house is consistently four or five cents lower
than BP, the world's second largest corporation, or ExxonMobil, the
world's third largest.

Even more important, Citgo is owned by the government of Venezuela,
headed by President Hugo Chavez, who is definitely not a crony of Bush
and Cheney.

Instead, Chavez is the democratically elected leader of Venezuela with
the overwhelming support of the poor and the undying enmity of the
wealthy classes and corporations that have been shut out of power in
that country.

The money you spend on gasoline at Citgo will support democracy and
uplift the poor in South America instead of filling the already
bulging pockets of the Bush family's favorite sheiks in Saudi Arabia,
the country that supplied most of the terrorists who attacked the
World Trade Center.

Actually, some of your money also will go to uplift the poor in our
own country as well.

Chavez recently began providing low-cost heating oil to some of the
poorest neighborhoods in America, including hurricane-ravaged New
Orleans.

No wonder the Bush administration considers Chavez such a dangerous
man.

If the president of another country starts taking action to assist
poor people in our country, pretty soon the poor will start expecting
their own president to do the same.

Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle and other Democrats already are agitating to
place a limit on oil company profits and use all those obscene excess
profits to cut home heating costs.

It will take more than a little anger over gas prices to bring about
such a radical political change in this country.

It would require a government that served the people instead of the
oil companies.

______________________________________________________

I'll buy that

Harry

From The Madison Capital Times, 5/12/06:
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/index.php?ntid=83700&ntpid=0

Bush's words on oil are utterly devoid of meaning

By Joel McNally

The current political speechifying over rising gas prices may not
accomplish anything to ease the financial pain of paying $3 for a
gallon of gas, but at least it's providing us with laughs by the
barrel.

There stands oilman President George W. Bush, presiding over the first
government of the United States of oilmen, by oilmen and for oilmen.

Lately, every time the president opens his mouth, the most bizarre
things come out.

And, for a change, it's absolutely intentional.

One day, Bush is extolling the virtues of running our cars on cooking
grease, sugar, grass, soybean oil, corn and wood chips.

The next, he is talking about cracking down on Detroit automakers to
force them to start building more fuel-efficient cars.

For a brief moment, I thought the CIA had tortured the Bush family
into publicly confessing to all the vote fraud they committed in
Florida and Al Gore had been installed as president after all.

Then you realize that the things George W. Bush says in public are
totally meaningless.

He will literally read anything that is placed in front of him,
whether it is "My Pet Goat" or a stern speech against price gouging by
his oilmen fraternity brothers.

They're just words.

Some words are bigger than others and easier to pronounce.

But the words uttered by this president on oil prices are utterly
devoid of meaning.

George Bush has always been the Manchurian Candidate, placed in office
by Texas oilmen and other multimillionaire robber barons for the sole
purpose of cutting the personal income taxes of Texas oilmen and other
multimillionaires.

So don't hold your breath waiting for that big federal initiative to
develop automobiles that run on Crisco.

This is the same Republican-led Congress that has awarded the oil
companies more than $10 billion in tax incentives, allegedly to
encourage more drilling.

If anything gets greased in the current Republican Congress, it will
be even more huge tax breaks for the oil companies to encourage them
to open up some more refineries.

Why is it that there is a critical shortage in oil refineries in this
country contributing to the high price of gasoline, you may ask.

Simple.

As the oilman administration of George Bush lovingly oversaw oil
company mergers reducing competition from 20 companies in the late
'90s to six today, those merged behemoths began shutting down
refineries to increase their profits.

It worked like a charm.

Now those companies will be needing billions more dollars in tax
incentives to jolly them into re-opening refineries.

They call that free enterprise because our government keeps showering
oil companies that are making record profits with more free money
ours.

It's almost as if the entire energy policy of the current government
was worked out behind closed doors in oilman Vice President *****
Cheney's office by a secret energy task force made up of oil company
executives.

Consumers who want to deny the most corrupt multinational oil
companies and their corrupt government co-conspirators from laughing
at us all the way to the bank should consider buying their gasoline
from Citgo.

It's frequently the smartest move anyway.

The station near my house is consistently four or five cents lower
than BP, the world's second largest corporation, or ExxonMobil, the
world's third largest.

Even more important, Citgo is owned by the government of Venezuela,
headed by President Hugo Chavez, who is definitely not a crony of Bush
and Cheney.

Instead, Chavez is the democratically elected leader of Venezuela with
the overwhelming support of the poor and the undying enmity of the
wealthy classes and corporations that have been shut out of power in
that country.

The money you spend on gasoline at Citgo will support democracy and
uplift the poor in South America instead of filling the already
bulging pockets of the Bush family's favorite sheiks in Saudi Arabia,
the country that supplied most of the terrorists who attacked the
World Trade Center.

Actually, some of your money also will go to uplift the poor in our
own country as well.

Chavez recently began providing low-cost heating oil to some of the
poorest neighborhoods in America, including hurricane-ravaged New
Orleans.

No wonder the Bush administration considers Chavez such a dangerous
man.

If the president of another country starts taking action to assist
poor people in our country, pretty soon the poor will start expecting
their own president to do the same.

Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle and other Democrats already are agitating to
place a limit on oil company profits and use all those obscene excess
profits to cut home heating costs.

It will take more than a little anger over gas prices to bring about
such a radical political change in this country.

It would require a government that served the people instead of the
oil companies.

______________________________________________________

I'll buy that

Harry