Very simple why the gouging stopped. Jeffords. Because when the senate switched hands there was suddenly a big powerful cop that they didn't expect with the power to bust them. Look at Lieberman now. He's heading the investigation.
This had little or nothing to do with real supply and everything to do with political corruption and price manipulation in the absence of regulators (cops on the beat).
Bush/Cheney are scared shitless of Lieberman now. At least they should be. Why do you think they refuse to hand over their papers? Just as Nixon at first refused to hand over his papers and tapes? What the papers will prove is that Bush/Cheney let the energy industry dictate their policies. No surprise since Bush and Cheney are both energy cartel big-wigs and so are most of their key staff. Remember, even Condaleeza Rice has a Chevron tanker named after her. This White House might as well have been staffed at the Houston Petroleum Club, and it looks like OPEC is playing right along with them, at our expense, and our environment's, global environment that is. Why do you think they're stone-walling Kyoto and won't give any alternate plans? Because if they had their way there would be no environmental regulation at all. Anywhere. And they could be free to fix prices all around the world too thus grasping the entire world economy by the nuts and gouging it for trillions whenever they wanted to scare us.
That my friends is called absolute power, at least the attempt to grab it. And as we know absolute power absolutely corrupts.
Gore on the other hand (even though he isn't that big an enemy of big oil despite their paranoia) would have stressed common sense conservation, alternative fuels, cleaner fumes, retention of wilderness areas and the gradual weaning off oil as our dominant energy source say over 20 years when we start running out of it globally anyway. Does that make sense? Of course. Can it be done? Of course. Only the Energy Cartel lobby stands in our way.
There will always be an oil business but this may be their last and most damaging grasp at total dominion, like what they had during the Carter years helping replace him with reagan. Which makes me wonder whether his presidency was sabotaged as well. Of course it was, look at the Iran Hostage Situation, released as soon as Reagan took office, negotiated by oil and CIA connections. And if you think the Reagans and Bushes of the world don't have CIA and oil connections you're really naive. I don't mean to sound like Oliver Stone but maybe his words were right. This was a coup d'etat. If it hadn't been for the artificial enegrey crisis GW would have never been elected. Does anyone care? Maybe the majority of Americans who didn't vote for him and those who have lost faith in him? And for you loyal Republicans, you have to think about whether or not you want your party controlled by the oil and pollution industry. Maybe it's better to get behind someone like McCain and cleanse yourselves of this corruption before it poisons your party the way Watergate did. |
