How to Lower the Price of Oil and Gas
We need longterm solutions to our energy problems and it requires something Washington doesn't do very well six months before an election: do its job the way it's supposed to be done—meaning comprehensive and wide open hearings on energy and a real debate on our future using real facts. But there is something Bush can do immediately to get the energy speculators off our backs. And it won't cost the average American a thing.
But first, let's go to this article in Think Progress about Don Rumsfeld:
Cheney, of course, doesn't bother these days to put himself in a position to answer questions but he's of the same ilk as Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld and Cheney have numbers even lower than Bush. So Bush has in his power a solution to the high energy prices: get rid of these two clowns. Replace them with Republican moderates or even ordinary conservatives who aren't bent on starting World War Three out of some ideological quirk. The price of oil and gas will drop immediately. We may not see prices at the gas pump fall under two dollars and, to be honest, it may be not be long before prices start drifting back up because, after all, George W. Bush has no energy policy. But it would give our country time to have a sane discussion.
If Bush is unwilling to fire Rumsfeld and force Cheney to resign, then it's up to Congress to deal with these two incompetent hawks. Congress, for example, has the authority to cut Cheney's staff budget in half; cutting Cheney's staff down to two or three people would send an even more powerful signal to the energy markets. And Congress has the authority to cut some of Rumfeld's favorite projects. And if that isn't enough, there is plenty to investigate when it comes to these two. If Congress finds some backbone and holds hearings, that alone might begin to inch energy prices down, though the big price break will come when Cheney and Rumsfeld are gone.
If Bush or Republicans in Congress are unwilling to act, voters know what to do this fall.
But first, let's go to this article in Think Progress about Don Rumsfeld:
Speaking in Atlanta today, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was sharply questioned about his pre-war claims about WMD in Iraq. An audience member confronted Rumsfeld with his 2003 claim about WMD, “We know where they are.” Rumsfeld falsely claimed he never said it. The audience member then read Rumsfeld’s quote back to him, leaving the defense secretary speechless.
Cheney, of course, doesn't bother these days to put himself in a position to answer questions but he's of the same ilk as Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld and Cheney have numbers even lower than Bush. So Bush has in his power a solution to the high energy prices: get rid of these two clowns. Replace them with Republican moderates or even ordinary conservatives who aren't bent on starting World War Three out of some ideological quirk. The price of oil and gas will drop immediately. We may not see prices at the gas pump fall under two dollars and, to be honest, it may be not be long before prices start drifting back up because, after all, George W. Bush has no energy policy. But it would give our country time to have a sane discussion.
If Bush is unwilling to fire Rumsfeld and force Cheney to resign, then it's up to Congress to deal with these two incompetent hawks. Congress, for example, has the authority to cut Cheney's staff budget in half; cutting Cheney's staff down to two or three people would send an even more powerful signal to the energy markets. And Congress has the authority to cut some of Rumfeld's favorite projects. And if that isn't enough, there is plenty to investigate when it comes to these two. If Congress finds some backbone and holds hearings, that alone might begin to inch energy prices down, though the big price break will come when Cheney and Rumsfeld are gone.
If Bush or Republicans in Congress are unwilling to act, voters know what to do this fall.
posted by Craig at 2:53 PM
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