Reply #13: I've posted the quote recently myself. I'm looking on my forum, too...

[BikeWriter]

Meanwhile, here's some * flip flops.

CANDIDATE BUSH WANTS TO FORCE OPEC TO LOWER PRICES.
"What I think the president ought to do is he ought to get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say we expect you to open your spigots...and the President of the United States must jawbone OPEC members to lower the price."

…4 years later as president…

PRESIDENT BUSH REFUSES TO LOBBY OPEC LEADERS.
With gas prices soaring in the United States at the beginning of 2004, the Miami Herald reported the president refused to "personally lobby oil cartel leaders to change their minds."

http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=118263