Obama picks Biden for veep

[jem]

Quote from Mercor:

So the complaint is that Cheney drove prices higher and your fact is about some lobbiest meeting that we may never know anything about.

What a paranoid conclusion.

That fact is that the cause of higher oil prices is greater demand.
What did Cheney and his cartel do to cause greater demand?

Let's guess.. Start a war and let the pipelines and fields get destroyed.

Have your saudi friends say the are increasing production while they are not.

Talk about an energy policy but not create one.

on a side note

screw california out of billons when you could have intervened with ferc but instead hold secret meetings with Enron.


I have never voted for a democrat pres in my life. I just know when I have been sold out.

 

[Mercor]

Quote from jem:

Let's guess.. Start a war and let the pipelines and fields get destroyed.

Have your saudi friends say the are increasing production while they are not.

Are you smart?

All your comments lead to the idea that supply of oil is down.
Not true!

The production and supply of oil on the world market is at a alltime high.

It is demand that is causing oil prices to rise.

Again, my question is what did Cheney and his secret meetings do to increase world demand?

 

[jem]

have you considered that supply is lower than it would have been.

 

[Pa(b)st Prime]

Quote from ByLoSellHi:

What scares me most is flaming liberals like Warren Buffett are backing Obama.

I know you think you're being sarcastic but Buffet has been a Democrat for many years.

I suggest you look at his contributions. 6-1 Dem $ to GOP.

And btw Buffet contributed the legal max to BOTH Obama and Clinton this year.

 

[Mercor]

Quote from jem:

have you considered that supply is lower than it would have been.

Boy, you are a slippery character.

You state an opinion, I dispute you with a fact. Then you try to slice a brand new opinion from my fact.

Go read some books and learn how to construct a decent argument.

 

[jem]

slippery my ass. I have an Econ degree I do not think in absolutes... are you familiar with Supply and Demand CURVES?

I was arguing that Cheney and Bush were responsible for the rise in oil prices.

You argued Demand went up.

I do not think either of those statements are inconsistent. However I think the argument you were making was binary and your correction of my argument was either irrelevant or technically incorrect.

Frankly, your argument was independent of mine - I was not being slippery at all. I thought at a minimum Bush and Cheney effected both supply and demand. The war hit supply, the lack of energy policy effected demand. (although we know they were aware because Cheney was one of the first call for new nuclear power).

Now if you want proof the administration also collaborated with their friends to actually drive up the price of oil. I suspect it will be tough to prove in the short term... but that does not mean that I think his Dad and their Saudi Friends became accidental billionaires. (I will bet the Bush family made billions over the last few years.)