Another desperate addict: “Bush Asks Saudi King to Open Oil Spigots”
The President who said “America is addicted to oil“ now begs the Saudis for another fix. Like some binge-drinking, pill-popping starlet — is there any other kind? — the President is prostrate before his top foreign “dealer,” begging for more, even at the risk of public humiliation:
Wow! When even your dealer won’t sell you more, you have got a real problem.
Just one hour later, though, “President Bush made a private visit to Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah to again ask him to open the spigots.”
That is like being turned down by your dealer and then desperately appealing directly to Pablo Escobar.
Anyone for rehab or, say, plug in hybrids?
January 16th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
I had similar thought yours when I heard the news begging the Saudis’ for lower oil prices. America has hit a new low when it has to go begging to the country that supplied 18 of the 19 9/11 hijackers. After 9/11, President Bush could have asked the to strongly support energy conservation energy and renewable energy and we would have done so. If he had, we wouldn’t need to go begging to the Saudis. Its a shame when a once proud American has to go begging. Its a new low for America.
January 16th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Perhaps if AlGore had taken his rightful place in the White House he would have waved his magic wand and replaced fossil fuels with some sort of fairy dust.
The worlds economy runs on coal and oil right now, and none of the promised solutions have even come close to replacing them yet. For the time being we need the oil, unless we go back to hunting whales and cutting trees for fuel. And you just know how that would go over.
January 16th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Beefeater: you need to read the Hirsch Report, i.e., see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch_report
No competent person I known thinks we can suddenly stop using oil. if you read the Hirsch Report, you can get some idea of the economic consequences if we don’t start tapering oil down 20 years before the Peak, and going all-out on that. Unfortunately, we didn’t start 20 years ago, and the Peak might have alraedy hit (in 2006 according to T. Boone Pickens), or will in the next few years.
IF you’re income is strongly derived from oil profits, or if you’re already comfortably well-off, then you can likely do OK in the next decade or two, but if you’re a worker on an average income, you’re about to get run over. Good luck.