Saudis reject Bush plea for lower gas prices

[HAD IT]

America wrote:

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What?? Whose *** do you think needs kicking? The 'white man' is a wimp? I'd love to hear your solution to our situation...

Take away all aid from our so called allies,watch them become our as--ho --le buddy.Pay off our national dept with the money.Then our dollar will buy a dollars worth of oil,stop printing worthless papper money and then a dollar will be worth a dollar,Show our power to them air power.
Peace comes buy strength. Thats just for starters

[Benny in B]

It's humiliating that Bush goes crawling to Saudi Arabia begging for a break on oil prices. And then the contemptuous Saudis turn him down. How about some more constructive and dignified policies?

[Lance Winslow]

What a BS misleading title "Saudis reject Bush plea for lower gas prices" because that is not what they said, what they said was that they are already at an increased production rate.

[Reader]

I wouldn't let the guy polish my shoes....

[McBush Family Values]

B%tch slapped by his masters! Bush and Cheney are criminals and you GOP stroke are buying it, hook, line and sinker. Chumps. Traitors!

[Biker X]

Bush is a lap dog. Traitor!!! McCain is no different.

[Old Gator]

Crawling to our so-called friends for a little help is a Bush family tradition. Anyone remember the famous 1992 "jobs, jobs, jobs" mission to Japan to beg that country to lower its tariffs a bit so US goods would have a competitive chance in the Japanese retail markets? Daddy Bush crowned this exercise in diplomatic flop artistry by getting sick over dinner and throwing up in Japanese Prime Minister Miyazawa's lap. Of course, if Shrub did a Mr. Creosote impersonation and retched on one of the Saudi princes, it would make our day, but idiot that he is, he'd probably miss and get it all over his own lap.

[ctpjr]

Let me see if I have this right.

The President of the United States who protects the fannies of most, if not all, of the so called leaders of the oil producing "kingdoms" (another oxymoron statement becasue they don't produce a darn thing) went "hat in hand" to ask for help. The former goat herders told him that they could not, actually would not, accomdate his request.

I am confused. Exactly who is the super power here?

[Albert Fournier]

Saudi is the crux of many problems.
Their wealth and manipulation knows no bounds. They have the US and most of the world in their back pocket and everyone wants to cozy up to them because they spread their largesse wisely to get the maximum for their Islamic currency. They encourage extremism and build institutions that spread their brand of radical Islam. In total, Saudi is a destructive force because it has the façade of reasonableness with very dark intentions at its core as explained at : http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2008/...

[Mike Clayton]

Bogus argument. the Refineries (Independents) are losing tons of money now since there has been a reduction in usage and high materials cost. So building more refineries will end up putting more of them out of business. By Ponies I hope you mean the terrorist we are fighting against in the War on Terror.

FER wrote:

The reason we do not ask or order more oil is that our refining capacity is max'ed out. No new refineries built for about 20 years because of NIMBY. Any one of a number of responsible Administration could have solved that problem long ago. And it can be done in an environmentally safe way but the capital costs are huge. Those in this country who want to retaliate against the Saudis should remember who has the hammer (otherwise known as money) in this Econ 01 study of the law of supply and demand. Also, oil prices are high in part to the decline in the value of the dollar caused by this Administration's silly war paid for with borrowed money. The Saudis need those extra dollars to feed their ponies. Bush can thank his own policies for finding himself "hat in hand" begging for a handout.

[Mike Clayton]

he was poisoned.

Old Gator wrote:

Crawling to our so-called friends for a little help is a Bush family tradition. Anyone remember the famous 1992 "jobs, jobs, jobs" mission to Japan to beg that country to lower its tariffs a bit so US goods would have a competitive chance in the Japanese retail markets? Daddy Bush crowned this exercise in diplomatic flop artistry by getting sick over dinner and throwing up in Japanese Prime Minister Miyazawa's lap. Of course, if Shrub did a Mr. Creosote impersonation and retched on one of the Saudi princes, it would make our day, but idiot that he is, he'd probably miss and get it all over his own lap.

[Pedro]

We should have let Iraq take them 18 years ago, the ingrates. They have paid up back by attacking New York and stabbing us in the back every chance they get.

[romeoville woman]

After all the money spent overthrowing Saddam Hussein why do we continue to struggle in the United States with gas prices soaring especially since Iraq has the world’s second-largest endowment of oil they could start repaying their debt to us with oil maybe utilizing more than 17 of the potential 80 oilfields presently producing oil.

[Deerfield Beach]

larry wrote:

we have all the oil we need, start drilling for it and tell the saudis to eat their sand. we had 34 years since 1974 to get our own oil.forget about the tree huggers.

Does anyone know where the oil from A;aska is going?

[snoopie]

What is wrong with the leadership of the U.S.?
We pulled their asses out of the fire when Saddam was going to attack the Saudis. Now that the thret is gone they don't need us any longer. Let's get the hell out of the Middle East and let them fend for themselves. Their next enimy will be Iran.

[Demos]

ctpjr wrote:

I am confused. Exactly who is the super power here?

I'll give you one guess who it isn't anymore. Or at least soon to not be the world's superpower.

[typical US citizen]

Uncle G wrote:

A barrel of oil is priced in "US dollars". Our dollar is "weak" when compared against all the leading world economies. You can thank our Wall Street cigar smokers and our Treasury Secretary's fiscal policies In this country, the price of oil is at an all-time because of the exchange rates. Bush is pleading with the Saudis to keep oil pegged to the U.S. dollar. If oil was priced in "Euros", we would be paying the same high price, and our stature in the world would decline a little bit more.. Do the math on the exchange rates. You'll see....and then shake your head again.

Though Iran has requested that OPEC place the US dollar in a basket with other currencies, the Saudis have resisted -- not because they like the US so much but because they still have stock pills of US dollars. Plus a sudden move away from the USD would place the world’s economies at risk.

Right now the nations that are holding large amounts of US dollars are buying up US properties and businesses -- using Sovereign Wealth Funds; the US is being sold off daily.

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article3239.htm...

[Unreal]

HK SP 89 wrote:

I guess the saudi's forgot about the first gulf war when we rushed troops there so there country would not be invaded by saddam they have short memories and deep pockets!

Here's an idea tell the Saudi's to lower the price of a barrel or we the USA will pull all our troops out of Saudi Arabia who protect THEM tell them we can't afford to leave them there because gas is too high!! They are raking in OUR MONEY AT a RATE that is off the charts. There gallon of gas is only .50 a gallon to the public in there counrty. We need to use or oil here start drilling and build a few more refineries, tell the TREE HUGGERS to park there cars and walk. This counrty has turned into a bunch of wimps we should never have to rely on other countries products when we have plenty here to use and just because all the enviromentlists don't want us to drill for oil or build a refinery they need to understand that another counrty will build there refineries and drill for oil and we will buy from them like IDIOTS and guess what they will pollute 5 times worst then if we built these refineries because we have the technology to do it right and bulid them clean burning. We need to get on the ball and replace every politition that has done NOTHING to help US here at HOME!!!! We are being ran into the ground people!!!!

[oh oh]

sonofagun wrote:

Oh come now.... ex oil exec. Bush could use several means to lower gas prices. First for every gallon of oil we get from OPEC we trade in bushels of grain which they need. From now on , that grain will be ten times the price until oil comes down. secondly. take ONE DAY cost of the Iraq war and give it back to the American people.. That is roughly $300 million. ONE DAY.. and pay off every single persons credit card debt... and all debts.. each citizen over 18 would get 1million. they can spend it as they wish, then we don't care what the cost of gas is.. one FREAKIN day of the war costs that much. Secondly put a billion dollars in fuel cell cars which they already have the know how to do. NO oil. NO gas.. and NO emissions.
And lest we forget.. the MAJORITY of 9-11 terrorists were Saudi's people. SAUDI"S not one was Iraqi and this is why THIS president should have been impeached long ago.. friends with the very people that brought on 9-11. THEIR citizens were responsible... but oil is oil. and its thicker than blood.... oh you still want to talk about the environment, the economy, education. health, on and on. THis is the worst president in the history of this country and he STILL isn't impeached.. maybe if he had oral sex we could impeach him.. ahhh. see the stupidity of it all.

I agree with your post up to the point where you made the fuel cell recommendation. Until we get better science for harvesting hydrogen for fuel cell applications, fuel cells will never be beneficial.

It takes more energy and funding to extract hydrogen than the energy it outputs. It runs along the same lines as Ethanol, it takes more energy to produce it than what you get out of it. Using your food supply to create Ethanol is a bad thing as you can tell by going to the grocery store.

The key to using energy efficiently is to go to the source and use as few conversion processes as possible. Using solar, tidal, and wind power to produce electricity, in my opinion, is the answer to our problems.

[DES]

TO ALL BUSH VOTERS HE SAY'S THANK YOU EVERY TIME YOU GET GAS!!