Bush Once Again Fails To ‘Jawbone’ King Abdullah

[laststeamtrain]

Bush Once Again Fails To ‘Jawbone’ King Abdullah At His Horse Ranch Into Increasing Oil Production»

During the 2000 presidential campaign, President Bush criticized the Clinton administration for high fuel prices and said that as president, he would take a much tougher approach — “jawbone OPEC members to lower the price“:

"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."

Last January, Bush went to Saudi Arabia to “jawbone” King Abdullah into increasing oil production in an effort to bring rising gas prices down in the United States. But perhaps because the jawboning session occurred in the comforts of the King’s horse ranch, the King declined Bush’s kind request.

Bush was back in Saudi Arabia today meeting with the King to make a second appeal for the oil-rich nation to increase its crude output. But again, instead of jawboning, Bush took the horse farm approach and failed once again: ...http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/16/bush-abdullah-jawbone/

[hisownpetard]

1. The last time Bush 'jawboned' King Abdullah they were holding hands, and Bush

had his tongue out...

Ugh. (Sorry).

[laststeamtrain]

3. I thought "jawbone" might be fake cowboy code for something else. n/t

[shain from kane]

7. Like "You broke my back, mountin'"?

[murray hill farm]

4. I did notice that.....

there was NO hand holding today. Nope! Guess their are no longer hand holding good friendsies.

[hisownpetard]

8. Just not in public.

[The Blue Flower]

2. The headline I saw

The headline I saw said "Saudis Reject Plea from Bush." Can you imagine the President of the United States being in "plea" mode? Clearly, he is now seen as so weak and irrelevant that he has no leverage even with his dad's business buddies.

[Bluebear]

6. Pathetic.

[Bigmack]

5. The Saudis are over a barrel... (pun intended)...

The Ghawar oil field has peaked, and it's all downhill from here, baby. Even if they say they'll increase production, they can't do it for long.

Cantarell in Mexico has peaked, too.... collapsed, some say...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x148742

My Prius is gonna be a gas guzzler in a few years.

We need to invent a time machine and go back to the 1970's and start on a "Manhatten Project" to find energy alternatives. It's too late, now.