"On August 29, 2005, 7:39 pm Anonymous@7218 said :
when clinton was president gas was $1.19
when Bush was president gas is at$2.79
good job Mr. President,not bad for a corprate Oil man who failed at his own oil endevers. Its a good thing Dick Cheneys old oil company Halburton is there to do all the oil work."
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Tiny leetle bit of education here for you folks who don't get around much....the price of oil is quoted in American dollars and is GLOBAL (look this fascinating word up in your dictionary). The prices that American refiners pay is the SAME (another word to look up) as some refiner in Romania or Indonesia or Peru. The suppliers offer their product in a global marketplace and sell to the highest bidder and they don't care one whit who it is as long as they have money.

The price of oil has gone through the roof because of the economic expansion in China and India who now consume many times more oil than when Clinton was president. And yet, this is Bush's fault. Al Gore would have done what? Nuked China?

By the way, Halliburton is not an oil company, it is an oil services company. They manufacture, sell, maintain and distribute oil industry machinery. Go to their website for a list of products they sell. Oil is not one of them. They also have acquired a number of other companies in related fields such as Dresser and Kellog, Brown and Root.....KBR pretty much runs the mess halls in Iraq, does laundry, whatever it takes to keep the troops fed and supplied.

Liberals crack me up.