Hey they already blamed Bush for the hurricane, global warming, etc.
Ignoring the little fact that over geologic time the Earth has cooled and heated up many times...but, hey, when have the Germans let the facts get in the way..
The Germans ceased to be relevant 65 years ago.
Tell us something we don't know, Sigfried.
The concept was we need more refineries, I agree.
How is it the administrations policy about refineries? Where does this puke get his information.
Democrats' inaction and catering to special environmental interests has started America sliding towards 3rd world status.
Maybe now Americans will wake up and just say no to Democrat stonewalling energy independence.
Build refineries, don't emit C02, no war with out UN approval, help us in Bosnia, etc, etc.
Do these people realize they are making enemies with the most powerful nation on Earth?
Keep funding Russia's emerging fascism, guys.
memo to germany: if you had an economy, you might use some oil too.
"Germany has accuses the US and "hedge" funds"
OH PUT A F'ING SOCK ON IT!! ughhhhh, I'm so sick of those bastards kicking us when we're down!
Why did the United States government construct a bunch of huge oil storage depots with no method of refining the stored product? Why didn't they construct some refineries to go along with these depots? If the private sector didn't want to build them for one reasons or another, so what? If the federal government doesn't belong in the refinery business, then why do they belong in the fuel depot business? Looks like another case of government incompetence to me. Perhaps the Germans have a point.
Blaming speculators is nonsense. Commodities can be very volatile. When something happens to disrupt production prices go up. We may as well blame economics. Was the rise to 70 speculation? Maybe. If so, oil prices will come down hard and we will have relatively cheaper prices. I just don't get why government leaders are so willing to use to slander "price gouging" on oil producers but not say clothing manufacturers, or Californian produce growers.
Scroeder will take a dive in the election in a few weeks so why not desparately spew crap to the hate America crowd? A vote for Schroeder is a vote against Bush and the US.
I think we better keep an eye on Germany. Some of the lunacy coming out of there sounds familiar. Next the Japanese will start blaming us for stuff.
Wait a minute. I thought we had the oil situtation under control when we "invaded" Iraq? You know, the Bush family, the Saudis, the Halliburton connection, etc.
Get the last G.I. out of that sixty-year old European "quagmire" and let them rot when we take our money with.
And why has refinery capacity not been expanded? Because of econazis and excessive regulations imposed by democrats.
It takes decades and huge amounts of money to get a refinery approved by local state and federal goverments.
The odds of even getting approval to build a refinery are small.
No one with a brain would spend millions appling for something they had a very little chance of getting approved.
The enviornmental and endangered species laws produce only one result.. If you want to build a factory of any kind, you can do it a lot better and a lot cheaper overseas.
One good thing about all this -- in the future, it should be some serious shock therapy that innoculates the stock market from being so jumpy about oil supply speculation. Just get all the bad news over with, and things can only get better from here.