Oil Speculators Are The Blame?
The left has broken away from their evil oil talking points and attempting to throw the oil speculators under the bus. Here’s the problem as I see it, why hasn’t congress taken on speculators before now? I mean if these people are the reason that oil prices are high, don’t you think congress would have squashed them yet? I would think so.
Who benefits by an oil crisis? The democratic party of course. The fact that we have a Republican president now and they want us to associate high gas prices with Republicans. Now, I don’t usually mention conspiracy theories on my blog but to me that makes me suspicious. I’ll tell you why.
George Soros has been attempting to buy a president. Coincidently, George is a speculator. An expert as manipulating markets. I have no doubt that if the left’s accusations are true, it can probably be traced back to George Soros, thus it can be traced back to the leftist. I think it would be more than fair to try the culprits for treason. There are no limits on what such fanatics would do to ensure their candidate wins. George is probably pissed off because his efforts to get Kerry nominated didn’t work out as well as he’d have liked. If the lefties are correct, I’m sure Soros will stop manipulating the market as soon as Obama wins the presidency. I wouldn’t be surprised if half of the democratic party was in on this.
If in fact speculators are to blame for high gas prices, there will incredible changes if a house bill is passed that will require speculators to store the oil they purchased at their expense. Right now, the only expenses incurred by a speculator is a piece of paper that says how many barrels of oil they purchased. The oil isn’t sent anywhere. It sits in a warehouse stored with their name on it.
Before you dismiss this as a conspiracy theory, George has a long reputation for wrecking economies to the point there are countries that won’t allow him in their country because of his manipulations of their economy. He is touted as “The Man Who Broke the Bank of England.” So if Oil Speculators are responsible then they can be traced back to the left. It’s something that the left would do and then try to act innocent about it after they get caught.
Otherwise, republicans are right. It is a supply and demand problem. It’s time for the leftists to shut their mouths and do something about the problem instead of touting how we aren’t paying as much for oil as Europe. In other words, the left needs to lead or get the hell out of the way of others who are trying to fix the problem!
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June 30, 2008 at 11:47 p
Wow – I couldn’t disagree more. The speculators remind me of ‘Enron’ and sounds like a Karl Rove led manipulation of the market? Why? So that they can eliminate environmental protections that prevent drilling in ANWR and the coastal areas. Hmmm? Should we let them? NO!
It indeed is not a supply and demand issue – ask Chevron, they have plenty of oil, demand has gone down and made the supply even larger. If the market wasn’t being manipulated we wouldn’t have a problem. I personally don’t want to have oil regulated, but I do think that the speculators should take an ethics class and practice fair business…and the Republicans should be disgusted that these Enron-type deals are tarnishing their party!
As a Californian who has heard all this hype before with our so-called Energy Crisis, I refuse to be scared into allowing off-shore drilling. America needs to curb it’s heroin-like addiction to oil and conserve….and not fall for these back room scams. Eliminate Corruption!
July 1, 2008 at 9:18 p
Well in case you missed it, I was being sarcastic in the article. Honestly, I think the speculators have very little pull on the market. Even if they regulated speculators, then the prices wouldn’t come down right away. Obama openly admits this.
THIS is a Democratic talking point. To put it another way, if congress knew the speculators were out of control then why didn’t they do something before we had 4 dollar a gallon gas? Because the Democrats don’t want to reign in on the price of gas. They feel the more we pay at the pump the better because most people like yourself will blame Bush for it. Yeah that’s the peoples party trying to hurt you to make a political point. Don’t you think that is child-like?
I’m all for drilling because we need to eliminate our high dependence on other countries. Don’t get me wrong we should still draw about a 15-20 percent of our oil from other countries. Your arguments are old and stale. Your going to tell me what about the wildlife in the area we’re drilling in right? Maybe in the early days of pumping oil it could have hurt wildlife but today? Give me a break. The oil rigs in the gulf did not drop an ounce of oil when katrina hit. I believe they can get oil without hurting the wildlife. In Canada, Moose that are sick move towards the oil pipes because they provide heat and help them survive when they probably wouldn’t have survived very long.
You can say we have a heroin-like addiction to oil but you and your party don’t like the alternate. Democratic party members use the fear mongering that the movie “The China Syndrome” invoked when it comes to the only viable alternative energy out there and that’s nuclear energy. In case you didn’t know it, people are conserving but conserving does nothing to replenish stockpiles. I’m in West Texas, I have to have air conditioning to survive out here. Temps reach 100+ for most of the summer. I’ve got a AC unit that has the latest technology that uses less electricity but I still have to have electricity to make it work.
This weekend is the 4th of July, I’m driving to Dallas to see my kids. Do you think 5 dollars a gallon gas is going to deter me from going? It is not, it’s going to hurt me but I’m willing to spend the extra $20 to go see them. Now I drive with a purpose, however, unlike in California, Texas does not have viable public transportation out to where I work. Even if it did, I work 4-10pm and by 10pm the public transportation would not be running. Walking to where I work would take me about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Do you think I’m going to walk to work in the Texas heat? Do you think I’m going to ride a bike? Hell no, I’m not. By the time I’d get to work, I’d need a bath because I’d be hot and stinky. I run a computer room and am around people the whole time. I will never walk or ride a bike to work!
The only scam I see is the Democratic party trying to make things worse instead of doing what they have been paid to do and that is to watch out for public interest. Instead they are watching the public get hurt by the rising gas prices all in the name of politics. You should be asking yourself how far with these idiots go to hurt the country to gain political favors? Feel free to criticize the Republicans as they are doing what they can to fix the problem. Your side doesn’t want to fix the problem because they want the country to hurt more. Nancy Pelosie, FROM YOUR STATE, vowed to fix gas prices. How’s that working for the people that elected her there? That’s been over 700 days and she’s not yet proposed a plan to fix prices in case you have not been counting. The sad part is that she’s done absolutely nothing to fix anything except put way too much drama into trying to get her way. Drama queens will NEVER fix anything.
Lonnie