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President the lame duck Bush lays the blame for high gas prices--hold on to your oil rig hats, everyone--on the high price of oil. Yes, it's now seven fold what he was when Bush Cheney, oilmen forever, took office, and two and half wars, much global warming, free trade with China, and record profits for the Bush Cheney friends in the Persian Gulf and the big oil companies later, the solution--are you listening John McSame?--is more of digging the deep hole he got us in to. How awful and eeerie it is to have such a dufus for commander in chief. Worse though, is the outside chance--Bush's cynical poltical assessments of corportate greed and short term self interest have always been on the mark--that the Congress may allow itself to be panicked into believing this barrel sized crock. Even the cleanest, most accident free production of oil, and coal, and shale will take decades, and suck the investments needed now for clean alternative energy into hundreds of newly created black holes in earth and sea. Only a man who truly cares nothing about his country, his fellow citizens or the world could stand before us and take no share of the blame for the fix he has put us in. To allow this President to end his term by opening up oir natuaral areas to oil, coal, and gas instead of investing in the future is a Christmas gift that evry American will pay for for decades to come.
