Bush needs to address nation "We have a national oil crisis"

[Jeanette in FL]

He needs to tell the American people due to this disaster, we all need to sacrifice and conserve. He should be telling us to be carpooling, limit our driving, raising our air condition temperatures.

[phusion]

1. That would require humanity and leadership...

Sorry, but there's no profit involved in this crisis.

[flakey_foont]

2. should have been done long ago

but then his cronies would not be making the obscene profits that they are now.......he's gotta look out for his base

[Hugin]

3. What? Sacrifice?

What about the stupidity of getting us in a war in the
middle east taking away most of our National Guard?

Jeeze.

[durablend]

6. If we sacrifice, the terra-ists will WIN

Can't have none of that anti-American garbage now!

[terrya]

4. At the beginning of his first term, Cheney said that...

conserving energy was a "virtue", not a necessity.

Nice idea, but you won't be hearing anything about conservation from this crowd.

[durablend]

5. Um, this is BUSH in office, not Carter

Hate to inform you of this.

The only finger * will lift is his middle one (to the nation)

[Jeanette in FL]

8. Oh, I sure do know

This was my moment of zen for this misguided president. Of course, I know that Bush and cronies are smacking their lips in anticipation of the profits that they now will reap. LOL

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. And he can start by keeping his sorry ass in one place and not

burning fuel in AF1 for stupid reasons like fake town hall meetings to sell his fucked up policies to the masses of bush zombies! Good start in my book! Lead by example Vacation Boy! :grr:

[eallen]

9. What's national about it?

If I have to repeat this until everyone on DU starts thinking whispering "world economy" in their sleep, I will keep doing so:

(1) Oil is traded on a global market. Oil is a fungible commodity that is regularly shipped across oceans to connect its sources to its uses.

(2) The US imports about two-thirds of the oil it uses.

(3) The unique characteristics of the US, with regard to oil, are (a) we use more of it than any other nation, in aggregate and per capita, and (b) our gasoline prices are substantially lower than other oil importing nations, because we put less taxes on it.

If you're thinking about this as a national crisis, you're thinking about it falsely. China is buying oil companies. Venezuela is distributing cheap oil to the Caribbean. Canada is profiting from the rise in oil and gas prices, though some of their energy trusts are owned mostly by American investors. The energy markets are global. The US does not own them. The US does not control them.

[The_Casual_Observer]

10. That won't happen until it's too late

just like 9/11

[NickB79]

11. Kinda like passing out buckets on the Titanic

Too little, too late, IMO.