The Bush Oil Administration

Bush and Cheney are oil men tied closely to the oil industry. Actually, Bush is a failed oil man, who had to be bailed out by his daddy's friends. But together, the prezident and his sidekick, Cheney, represent the oil industry.

Buzzflash points us back to a Drudge report of June 2000. In the year 2000, the price of oil was on everyone's minds. In 1999, it hovered around $10 a barrel. By the spring of 2000, it had doubled. Whose fault was that? George W. Bush said the blame had to be place squarely on Bill Clinton. Al Gore said it was the fault of the oil companies.

It is now 2008 and Bush has been in office over seven years. The price of oil is over $140 a barrel and heading up. Exxon-Mobil, along with the other major oil outfits, are posting record-high earnings.

The other day an energy summit was held in Saudi Arabia where the oil producers blamed market speculators for the rising costs, while consumers complained there isn't enough oil being produced.

Ironically, when the Saudis pledged to increase their production by 200,000 barrels a day, because the speculators expected that pledge, the price of oil went up!

This is called gouging and it is happening because of the U.S. energy policy put in place by the Bush/Cheney gang of oil gangsters.

It really isn't hard to figure out. Ask yourself who profits under the Bush/Cheney energy policies. Follow the money.

Or, as Buzzflash puts it: "Bush has failed all of us, but he is the toast of the town as far as Big Oil is concerned, still protecting their right to gouge us and profiteer away, as we suffer at the pump.

Of even more concern, is that after seven years of Bush mismanagement we still have no viable policy in place to develop alternative energy sources, other than increasing the number of dirty coal plants and that is not a policy, that's simply a gift to the coal industry at the expense of the environment.