Back Talk

You remember Pathetic Pat, sometimes called leaky Leahy because he was kicked off the Senate Intelligence Committee for leaking secrets, a crime for which any of us would have gone to jail. Every time I watch one of these shows, I ponder whether committee members Leahy, Shumer, and Durbin are really ignorant about the oil market or if they are merely lying lawyer-politicians trying to gain favor with the public. We know that Senator Biden mostly just loves to hear the sound of his own voice. Committee members, practiced at demagoguery as they are, always accuse the CEOs of price gouging although not once, after many attempts, has the committee ever found any evidence of price gouging. These political shows are a disgrace. Big Oil is not our problem; big government is our problem. Leaky Leahy and his Democrat colleagues, who make scapegoats of the oil companies, are themselves the reason that we are faced with the high oil and gas prices. They have repeatedly voted against any American oil exploration or any new refineries for 30 years. One of the oil executives pointed this out but, of course, nobody listened; too busy thinking about their next chance to preen before the cameras. A curious fact that came out of the hearings: Attempting to spin his votes to block oil exploration in ANWAR, Senator Schumer claimed that coercing Saudi Arabia to increase oil production by 1 million barrels a day would drop barrel price by $25, saving Americans 62 cent per gallon at the gas pump. Yet, if we took a million barrels from Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge it would lower the price by only a penny. Say what?
Aside from pressuring Saudi Arabia to pump more oil, the only suggestion these ignoramuses have is to sue OPEC. I’m not sure who they mean by “we” nor do I know in what court, but I imagine the OPEC nations are getting a kick out of it.