those 100 million dollar sheiks are destroying the lives of down home Americans
By Ben Smith of the Politico:
Clinton: OPEC 'can no longer be a cartel'
Clinton's attacks on oil prices as artificially inflated, Enron-style, keep escalating, and today she appeared to threaten to break up the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
"We’re going to go right at OPEC," she said. "They can no longer be a cartel, a monopoly that get to gether once every couple of months" at a hotel in "some plush place in the world" to set prices, she told a crowd a volunteer fire house in Merillville.
It's a potent message, like the attack on "Wall Street money grubbers," with deep roots in American politics. It's also very hard to figure out what exactly she means by the threat to break OPEC.
I love this part from her "some plush place in the world". When she was running in IA, it was reported that she and her 500+ staff raided all the high end hotels there and were just burning money away on frivolous items...this is, of course, at the time when they assumed she bagged the nomination (I am sorry, coronation) and all that corporate donated money was just there to be enjoyed.
BTW, where does she camp when she on the trail? at Super Motel 8?
Why doesn't she hold the US oil companies to account, who to this day get government subsidies for oil exploration and refinery infrastructure, at a time when they are making record profits? oh wait, I forgot, they are big contributors to her campaign. she cant get angry at them.
Why didn't Bill see this coming? the rise in oil prices? he and his wife didn't have any moral qualms when the State Department allowed Taliban representatives to come to Texas and discuss the building of oil pipelines via Afghanistan. Where was the discussion of energy sustainability from his administration then? why wasnt Hillary at the forefront then? why didnt she do anything about dealing with oil companies when she was in the Senate? So much for long term planning.
Those sheikhs, and Chavez, must be having a ball because they know she won't do jack against them if she is President. she will nuke Iran, but that will just help drive oil prices up.