House of Eratosthenes

As Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., kicks off a week focused on energy, his campaign will on Monday begin running a new TV ad that attacks Sen. John McCain as “in the pocket of big oil.”

“Every time you fill your tank, the oil companies fill their pockets,” the narrator says as the screen reads: “$143 Billion in Profits Over the Last Year.”
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As the camera pulls back from the photo of McCain to reveal him standing with President Bush, the narrator says, “After one president in the pocket of big oil, we can’t afford another. Barack Obama: A windfall profits tax on big oil to give families a thousand dollar rebate. A president who’ll stand up for you.”

I’m missing something here. This is supposed to be Barack Obama’s election to lose? And he’s going to win it by doing what President Bush has been doing, right before the democrats got particularly nasty in criticizing him?

When do they start apologizing for saying these tax rebates wouldn’t do anything? Bad when he does it, good when they do it?

Doesn’t the Irony-O-Meter burst a gasket at some point, if the challenger is continuing the policies of the current President, bragging about doing so, and in the same breath comparing his opponent to that incumbent?

And, of course there’s the million dollar question: How does making a product more expensive for companies to sell, make it any cheaper for that product to be purchased?

I’m sure those questions will be asked. Harshly. On live television. By someone with the balls to say “I’m sorry Senator, that doesn’t answer the question I just asked you.”

Big Oil is making a lot of money because prices are high. Prices are high partially because speculators can see that restrictions on increasing supply have reached the point of being debilitating as world demand has increased to that point.

Big Oil hasn’t raised the price of oil. Bidding wars have.

I’m on board with the Republicans’ “All Of The Above” plan. Which includes alleviating the supply deficit by drilling.

The Democrats plan is to use less. Decrease our standard of living. They are using alleged AGW as their big hammer.

With $4 gas, the hammer just might not be big enough. Here’s hoping.
- philmon | 08/04/2008 @ 12:28
I’m sure those questions will be asked. Harshly. On live television. By someone with the balls to say “I’m sorry Senator, that doesn’t answer the question I just asked you.”

Heh. Talk about “wide-eyed optimism…” 😉
- Buck | 08/04/2008 @ 14:28
Big oil.
Kinda like national football teams.
I root for Shell, Exxon Mobile, and go out of my way to disparage Citgo.

I suppose I could actively protest “Big Oil”, but I don’t want to fly on public transportation to Abu Dhabi, Dubai, or Quatar. Perhaps the Clinton family could act as “unofficial emissaries”.
Oh, wait….
- CaptDMO | 08/04/2008 @ 17:56
Buck: Hey…a fella can dream, can’t he?
- mkfreeberg | 08/05/2008 @ 09:49

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