Bush on Oil, June of 2000 (NY Times) (rat bastard)

[LanternWaste]

Thanks for the memories, George-- memories of gasoline at ninety cents a gallon....



Gov. George W. Bush of Texas said today that if he was president, he would bring down gasoline prices through sheer force of personality, by creating enough political good will with oil-producing nations that they would increase their supply of crude.

"I would work with our friends in OPEC to convince them to open up the spigot, to increase the supply," Mr. Bush, the presumptive Republican candidate for president, told reporters here today. "Use the capital that my administration will earn, with the Kuwaitis or the Saudis, and convince them to open up the spigot."

Implicit in his comments was a criticism of the Clinton administration as failing to take advantage of the good will that the United States built with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf war in 1991.

As for how he would handle the rise in gasoline prices, he said he would not use the strategic petroleum reserves, saving them for a national emergency.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/062800wh-bush.html

[mediaman007]

1. "9/11 changed everything!" Bush*

[formercia]

2. We all know he's a lying asshole...

All you have to do is go back and read his campaign statements.

[KansDem]

3. F**k Bush and the media horse he rode in on...

I knew something was up when NPR ran Cokie Roberts' "Bush and his 'charm offensive'" stories...

[Supersedeas]

4. i wish that he'd close his bile spewing spigot

[Winterblues]

5. He also said his "base" was the 'haves and the have mores'

I would suggest Exxon is one of the "have mores"