Gee, not even a reach around...where's the love?
Posted on 05/16/2008 8:09:29 AM PDT by old-and-old
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - The White House said Friday that Saudi Arabia's leaders are making clear they see no reason to increase oil production until customers demand it.
President Bush was in the oil-rich country to appeal to King Abdullah for greater production to help halt rising gas prices in the United States.
But his national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, said Saudi officials stuck to their position that they already are meeting demand.
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Why do we count them as allies? Remind me. Nevermind...
Time to cut Saudis off!! Let them defend themselves with whatever weapons they make there; sticks and stones! Al Qaeda wants them destroyed as much as the West. In other words, up theres!
Demand is being met.
The problem is not any of the usual causes mentioned. The True Cause is ignored or ridiculed.
We Freepers and fellow conservatives will be far better able to sustain and prosper while our national policies have allowed petroleum prices to skyrocket, G-d willing.
Just DOO!
Drill Our Own.
I am sick and tired of watching our President crawl on his belly before these degenerate despots, wailing and begging for a few drops more of their oil. Reminds me of the craven junkie, out of money for having pawned his mother’s jewels and silverware, begging his pusher for “just one more fix.”
It’s disgusting, absolutely disgusting!!!!!!
someone farted.....oil went up....we are screwed and at the mercy of all big corporations...gov’t is in all the big companies backpockets making thier money so they do not need to worry about the lowly citizens....simple as that....things will not change until the people stand up and take back thier country....AGAIN.....
we took out Saddam, and they can handle Al Qaeda on their own IMO. They can buy an army in a week with their cash.
Gee, not even a reach around...where's the love?
why should Saudia Arabia increase production to satisfy demand in this country when we do not even utilize our exploration and production capability\capacity. Until we start exploring and drilling for oil in this country (ANWR and offshore among other locations) why should the Saudis or any other oil producing country “over produce” which would in turn drive their profits down. Maybe OsamaObama, pelosi and reid can get Iran or Veneauela to increase prodctuion of this fungible resource in order to drive prices down, their anxious to talk with them, this gives them something to talk about.
Where would one go to buy a fully equipped and trained army? Syria, Iran, China, Russia?
Uh, wasn't that exactly what Bush was doing?
Why should they pump more for us when we refuse to do it for ourselves?
The President knows the oil price is not supply and demand related. There is enough oil. It’s a dollar value issue.
The begging in Saudi Arabia is a diversion to keep the rubes back at home fooled.
(Pssst, don’t tell anybody, but the dollar is being devalued.)
And the sad thing is all three of the idiots that we have running for POTUS will do nothing towards increasing our own domestic production.
“we can’t lower the oil prices, but where do you plan on building your library again?”
“W”, how ‘bout we worry about OUR oil production.
The idea was kicked around back in - ready for this? - the 70s.
We published a paper on the concept and execution for such a plan.
All that was needed was a strategic reason to do so, and now that oil is considered a strategic part of US defense, we have it.
Want 33 cent gas?
time to reduce our military facilities there, send their many, many college and university students back home, etc. If they can’t scratch our back, why should we theirs.
That is after we start domestic drilling and refining.
Our love for the Saudis (how long now, 30+ years?) is strictly a one way affair. We will do anything for them, they do nothing for us. That is not love!
Want to buy a refinery? Got a dandy fixer upper with stable market. 220,000 barrels a day capacity.
Because they buy dollars in exchange for defense. You think the dollar is weak and oil high NOW? Imagine if the Saudis started using Euros.
It’s PARTLY the dollar.
However, the dollar has had a good couple weeks, yet oil CONTINUES TO RISE.
I just hit me: If we put them them on the “terrorist” list, no one but Russia /China would help them. China would probably be happy to drop 50,000 troops. They are partnering with everyone to secure access to oil.
Of course all these scenarios are unlikely. We will keep paying until we wake up and figure a way to survive without oil
OPEC is keeping the supply at just what is needed even at a cost of $125 a barrel. If we had additional supplies here at home we would have a surplus in inventory and the prices would lower based on that inventory.
The White House said Friday that Saudi Arabia’s leaders are making clear they see no reason to increase oil production until customers demand it.
I thought the president spoke for the people of the United States. Is he waiting for a postcard from 300 million people?
Until we drill for our own damn oil and bring to justice those that have brought us to our knees over this, nothing is going to change for the better.
Why should your drug dealer cut the price of your drugs once you’re hooked?
My opinion is somewhat different than those here. I think the rejection is a good thing, so Americans can see more clearly that unless we have our own oil (or alternative) resources soon, Americans will be held gas-price hostages by the Saudis/OPEC.
Until a cost-effective substitute is found and can be efficiently distributed, drill here now for the future. Build nukes where gas price complaining is rampant. Tell companies they have to let more employees work at home more often.
“Drilling is the failed energy policy of yesterday that has brought us record gas prices today.”
Several financial broker/dealers have told me that 30 to 40% of the current cost of a barrel of oil is the result of
actions by speculators and commodity traders.
So...why did he go to Saudi Arabia in the first place?
Thanks, liberals, thanks Democraps, thanks radicals, thanks mainstream media, thanks spineless DC "representatives of the people", thanks always-playing-defense White House, thanks homegrown socialists and commies, thanks academia, thanks ACLU, thanks Hollyweird, thanks Clinton-appointed justices and judges, thanks left-wing GOP and Democrap party leaders and operatives .....you're all doing a fine job in contributing to the degradation of our country and forcing it to its knees.
The President could spend a thousand and one nights in Arabia and these ME countries will still stick it to us. He evidently has no clue after almost eight years that "the New Tone", "compassionate conservatism", "reaching across the aisle" and other effete actions have not worked and never will.
Bush III (McCain) is more of the same.
I want to frow up.
Leni
You're way more optimistic than I am about Boobus America. I figure if they haven't seen it clearly with $3.00 gas, and then $3.25, $3.50 and now almost $4.00 gas, they're never going to see it.
With that said the US problem is not with importation it's with refining capacity.
What we need is a full court press,WWII like program to build about 8-10 refineries Now the real deep dark secret... we lack the production capacity to build the refineries
Why would they increase production? We’re still buying it aren’t we?
Doesn’t anyone think commodities speculators are partly to blame?
The dollar held on after the Fed’s kept up appearances with the, “credit crisis is over” happy talk. It didn’t work.
But the dollar did not go up much and is falling some today.
Oil prices will continue to go up.
Besides, why should the Saudi’s up production when our very own Senate has just voted down more drilling?
And don’t we rely on the Saudi’s to buy our federal debt?
We are only kidding our selves if we think they are helping us. They OWN us.
Demoncrats are not good chess players, are they?
We lack the production capacity to build refineries?
How so?
Can’t we disable all of their (U.S.-made) aircraft with a single code?
Well then I guess there’s no need for us to supply them with the spare parts for all the military aircraft they’ve purchased from us.
I want to frow up.
I think I will join you. Barf!
Want to buy a refinery? 220,000 barrels per day, good market. Make offer.
We are hardly the only arms dealer out there. And North Korea may have something to sell them as well.
Of course, Bush could always say that because of the high cost of oil, we can no longer maintain a military presence in Iraq. That will mean, in all likelihood, that the Saudi Wabbists’ little nutjob friends, the Iranian shiites, will move into Iraq and then start playing games with the Saudis on their border. Ask them how Mecca would look with an Iranian guard of honor around the Kabbah instead of Wahhibist military forces there.
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