Do you think the high oil prices are a ploy by the Bush Administration?
550116
yes and no\n\nyes = he owns a lot of things to do with oil so i think     higher oil prices more money in his pocket...there are also people in his administration also have a lot of stock and thing in the oil company\n\nno = make him look bad with how much he is making the people suffer in he contry with a war that is not going anywhere!
1062595
Wow... You need to chill out a little.\n\nThe oil was in Iraq so George Bush invaded Iraq.
1097047
If it were a war for oil, wouldn't we be bringing all that oil over here?  It is, in fact, a completely oil-less war.  We've gotten no oil out of it.  If we had taken that oil - free oil - prices would be at an all-time low.\n\nAlso, for those that say it's a war for oil because Bush is an oil baron, the last thing an oil baron would do would be anything that increases supply.  That would make the price go down.  So, if Bush were an oil baron, the absolute last thing he would want would be a war for oil.  Simple supply and demand.\n\nThe truly twisted, tinfoil-hat crowd should be claiming that Bush went to war to PREVENT Iraqi oil from getting to the U.S., thus restricting supply.  So, maybe it would be a war FROM oil.  See, the crazy conspiracists can't even get their conspiracies right.
531627
I really dislike George W. as president but the fact is HE doesn't control the gas prices. It is a common misconception, the president is blamed for everything. Ever heard of a concept called "price gouging?" Price gouging occurs when companies quit compeating to undercut each other's prices and simply rise them. i.e., Lets say one oil company raises the price of oil per gallon, usally other companies would try to make a better deal and undercut them. But durring a price gouging conspricy the competition simply raises their prices to. Hence they all make massive amounts of money. Unfortunitly we cant do anything at all about it, considering 80 percent of america's oil comes from forengn contries.. and price gouging is only illegal in america
1147879
Basically it comes down to supply and demand.  There is increasing demand for oil (mostly from developing countries like China and India, but demand in the US is increasing also).  OPEC is already producing near its capacity, coupled with no relatively new oil refineries having been built, this causes the an increasing demand against a slower (negligible) increase in supply of the refined oil used for gasoline.   Hurricane Katrina knocked out some production capacity which is still not completely up and running.  Also there are other less significant reasons such as the changing of fuel additives from mtbe to ethanol (this has been done for environmental reasons).  To put a few non-truths to bed...  The oil companies were NOT found to be doing any price gouging (illegally increasing prices beyond unreasonable economic fundamentals).  Second, everyone wants to blame President Bush for increasing prices when in fact he no longer has any personal investments in oil companies(he did this specifically to discredit these accusation most likely); in fact President Bush has probably more to lose from high oil prices than any other single individual alive.  He wants a strong economy, with little inflation and needs that help for party elections this fall.  If you want a specific group of people to blame, you should look at commodity traders themselves, they are the ones who control the international price changes from day to day and are the ones who fear supply disruptions (such as the one that occured in Africa, threats from Iran and Venezuela recently) and terrorists act which affect the flow of oil (the so called terror premium).
922359
Quite possibly.  Because when Clinton was in office gas prices rose before the elections and dropped right after.... talk about a conspiracy :P
499976
it depends on if the lady had connections to the oil companies... she may like the prices high like the current fellow in office...
548514
bacause BUSH OWNS THE OIL IN TEXAS...I think we should be looking at how much the gas "went up" over the world...I bet it hasn't and we are the only ones who are dealing with this...It is NOT the oil companies from iraq or overseas...it is from right here in the USA!!
211130
Ok, the guy who wrote about the US having a secret stash of oil... did you know that everybody KNOWS that the US has there own oil up in Alaska... so it's not much of a secret if CNN has reported on it and congress has asked the President to tap into our own oil reserves. I think what the originator of this question was saying is, instead of the entire world sitting on their hands and letting the Saudi's or OPEC or whoever get away with pretty much robbing the world blind with oil prices the world should fight back with what ever means neccessary.\n\nAnd whoever it was that said it was OPEC that sets the prices not the Saudi's, well you obviously are one of the many many people in the world that are blind to the situatation, OPEC is an organization that is run by man y countries, the list of countries that run OPEC are: Algeria, Indonesia, Iran, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and lastly Venezuala. The last time I looked most of those countries hate the U.S... so what his point was about OPEC is beyond me.\n\nRaise the price of everything, I say do it. What do we have to loose? If the entire world did it what options would OPEC have? I dont care how many countries are using oil, the good thing is that there are ALTERNATIVES to fossil fuel now and they will only become more and more advanced, let's see what OPEC and it's members do when we dont need their oil... THEN the price of everything they import should go through the roof. Fight fire with fire I say, they obviously dont care if the cost to heat out homes this winter is $400 per month, then we shouldn'y care if they starve. DAMN this administration for letting this go on. Kudos to the originator of this post, and I will gladly be your running mate in the next election!!!! God Bless the USA.
671618
George Bush has nothing to do with the gas prices. OPEC does. He's the US President, not God and ruler of all the world.
993644
Yes. The "rich man" who initiated this illegal and unconstitutional war in Big Dick Cheney because he wants all the oil swimming underneath Iraq's sands so that he and his Halliburton buddies can get richer and richer and richer. Other than the fact that little Georgie Porgie Bush (Cheney's puppet) wanted to 'get even' with Hussein for humiliating his daddy during Desert Storm, OIL is the only reason we invaded Iraq, a sovereign nation that did not  provoke, threaten or attack the U.S.\n\nThe "poor men" fight the war so that the "rich men" don't have to get any dirt or blood on their hands. So we send U.S. soldiers, and what does it matter than 2,500 of them have already died?\nThey were "dispensable". As Donald Rumsfeld once said at a press conference, "Stuff happens". And that's okay with him as long as it doesn't "happen" to his family and friends.\n\nThe Bush administration is the most evil, corrupt, incompetent ever to occupy the White House; the sitting U.S. Congress is the most evil, corrupt and incompetent body ever to occupy the Capitol Building. Consider what Cheney/Bush have done, with the full cooperation of a cowardly Congress, since 2000:\n\n1. Massacred tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens for no justifiable reason;\n2. Condoned physical, verbal, emotional and sexual abuse, unspeakable torture, and even the murder of irresponsibly-incarcerated 'prisoners' without any regard for the rules of the Geneva Convention;\n3. Threatened every other country on Earth,  persuading them all to consider nuclear weapons as a defense against the new "evil empire" - the United States of America;\n4. Initiated failed economic policies that will create a severe depression (or, at the very least, a recession), and that has already put American taxpayers trillions of dollars in debt;\n5. Tarnished America's reputation as a world leader and global peacekeeper;\n6. Dismantled environmental laws designed to protect the world's fragile eco-system and preserve a ecological balance between man and nature for the future of our world;\n7. Turned America into a police state where citizens are presumed guilty until proven innocent;\n8. Neglected the needs of America's poor, disadvantaged, sick, aged, homeless, unemployed, hungry and underprivileged;\n9. Played "Robin Hood in Reverse", stealing from the poor and giving it all to rich individuals, special interest groups, lobbyists, and big businesses who - in turn - make generous (if not illegal) campaign contributions to keep the GOP in power;\n10. Lied to the American public, and leaked information to the news media when it conveniently suits their agenda.\n\nThese "rich men" running this illegal war deserve to be tried for high treason and crimes against humanity. If convicted, they deserve to face a public firing squad. \n\nCertainly, Satan has reserved a special oil-soaked corner of Hell for these evil, wicked anit-Chirsts.        \n\nCheck out a new blog book: BUSHWACKER!\nwww.blogger.com\nhttp://al-aback.blogspot.com\n\nThe "poor men" fighting this illegal war will NOT BE WITHDRAWN FROM IRAQ UNTIL DICK CHENEY GETS A ROCK-SOLID, IRON-CLAD ARRANGEMENT TO STEAL  ALL OF IRAQ'S OIL. \n\nBush and Rumsfeld are Cheney's 'yes men' without any comprehension of the carnage they've created. As Commander-In-Chief and Secretary of Defense, you'd think these two bozos would be on the front lines fighting with the troops for what they believe in; unfortunately they're both sniveling little weasels without a backbone. \n\nMay Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and most all members of the U.S. Congress who supported all this evil spend their eternal damnation rotting in Hell and blaming each other for the mess they made of this world.                                 -RKO-
263132
No, but maintaining the security of the oil supply has been a priority for every administration since cars, trucks and planes became essential to our economy. It would be very foolish not to have this concern, or to allow hostile powers to control too much of the world's oil supply. \n\nThis sort of question is usually asked in reference to the allegation that the current war in Iraq is due to an intention by this administration to control oil. There are several things wrong with this theory. \n1. other countries have high interests in oil supply as well, but they are not involved in the war. For example: prior to this war, the primary customer for Iraqi oil was France. \n2. The US need for oil now is about the same as it has been for some time. This war would have occurred in the 1970s if oil is all it is about. \n3. Controlling oil is an exceptionally simplistic view of the reasons the war occurred. It paints the war in very negative terms having to do with money and greed and corporations, which are reasons much easier to attack than if the war is about more complex issues such as safety, democracy, international politics, etc... \n4. A much more likely reason for the war is that the entire middle east has significant problems which have been spilling out onto other parts of the world for many years. It took a major spillover like 9/11 to push the US to the point where they felt they had to do something.
261433
It may have something to do with oil. \n\nIt would not be the first time that the president misled the people for personal gain.
612883
Yes. He is destroying everything with his need to drill oil. Bush should take that 300 billion, wipe his a$$, and invest in some alternate energy!!
508834
I would just like to start off by saying that Bush has no power over the price of gas.  This last gas spike was calsed by Iran uping the price of there gas.  Becuse they know the U.S. don't want them to have WMD.  So they up our's and give cheaper gas to countrys they want or there side.\n\nWhen the gas price goes up the people who make the gas dont make more monney.
590249
No, probably the 10 with the highest oil prices, because gasoline is going up to $5 per gallon and the energy policy was created in the VP's office, in secret; yes they can.
1129497
Yes, i agree. They did it for greed and oil. Haliburton makes billions a day because we went in. And They are buddied up with the Bush administration. It is sad how much power the big corporations have over our government.