Harry Krause wrote:
wrote:
Harry Krause wrote:
Heheh. There's just no limit to the lengths some will go to rationalize
away the raping of the American public.
"Nothing is wrong; everything is wonderful. Those WMDs are just around
the corner."
Cool it, Harry. There is no correlation between observing that even a
doubling of fuel prices
won't price most people out of boating (unless they're looking for an
excuse not to boat) and
"rationalizing the raping of the American public". Everything isn't
political all the time.
A. Baloney or, if you prefer, bologna.
B. The recent surge in oil prices is political. It wouldn't have
happened with a different administration in Washington.
We get a chance to shift the dominant party in congress in a few
months- assuming that's what the majority of people want. Then we'll
have to "stay the course" until the next president, of whatever party,
takes over in 2009. No real choice.
I have to disagree that the surge in oil prices wouldn't be happening
with a different administration in office. While it's true that the
Bush family fortunes, and those of most of the Bush family friends, do
extremely well when the price of oil becomes insane it's hard to
imagine that the guy the R's should have run in 2000 (McCain), the guy
who most likely actually won in 2000 but didn't get to take office
(Gore), or the unfortunate choice the D's ran in 2004 (Kerry) would
have had the political horsepower to jawbone the oil companies into
making less than the astonishing profits they are currently piling up.
Bush doesn't currently have any political HP to jawbone Big Oil- but
neither does he have the will to do so.
It occurs to me that the price of oil and refined products has been
rising for the last 40 years, during periods when we have had Democrat
as well as Republican administrations.
Personally can't wait to get my boat out of the shop and start burning
$6-8 an hour in fuel. :-)