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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ColtonGang who wrote (161723)	7/17/2001 1:39:09 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<< Hatred should be reserved for murderers, tyrants, dictators, and molesters.>> How about rapists?

To: ColtonGang who wrote (161723)	7/17/2001 2:02:30 PM
From: J.B.C.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

>> Criticizing someone cannot be equated with hatred.<< I'm sorry I don't see criticism, he is outright continuing a campaign against Bush/Cheney for colluding conspiring to artificially raise the cost of energy in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. He has called national newspapers in his quest, it just doesn't matter what the facts are. A conspiracy theory is quite a stretch yet he has not taken a moment to think it through, or is not intelligent enough to do so. There are hundreds, maybe more than a thousand, providers of energy in this country. One day the dumbest President in the history of this country secretly called all of the CEO's of those companies and told them to just add a 40% price increase to their prices, yeah right! Two gas stations across the street from each other can't seem to collude and keep from a price war. Why? Because the moment one drops his price by just 1 cent, he makes tons more money! The inelasticity of energy prices is such that everyone goes to the cheapest supplier. It's the same at the wholesale level. Even OPEC has been unsuccessful in reigning in its members to maintain artificially high prices and what are there, 12 members? Yet the dumbest President ever has been able to do this with hundreds maybe thousands of suppliers. I'm sorry AS's theories are based on hatred not facts. Jim