***** Exploring the Skyrocketing Price of Oil = Senate Judiciary *****

[L. Coyote]

MAY 21, 10:00 AM EDT

Witnesses:

Robert A. Malone, Chairman and President
BP America Inc., Houston, TX

John Hofmeister, President
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX

Peter J. Robertson, Vice Chairman of the Board
Chevron Corporation, San Ramon, CA

John E. Lowe, Executive Vice President
ConocoPhillips Company, Houston, TX

J. Stephen Simon, Senior Vice President
Exxon Mobil Corporation, Irving, TX

[midnight]

1. All these investigations, and nothing changes.

[acmavm]

2. Yeah, but they have to make it look like they're earning those paychecks

and benefits, even though they haven't accomplished one fucking thing that they were sent there to do.

[nadinbrzezinski]

I would not say exactly nothing

even if they are moving at snails pace... correction, a snail moves faster

Anyhow, some days I want to think that something will come out of this... since Watergate didn't happen in a day

Others... only thing that changes is the curtains...

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. I would not say exactly nothing

even if they are moving at snails pace... correction, a snail moves faster

Anyhow, some days I want to think that something will come out of this... since Watergate didn't happen in a day

Others... only thing that changes is the curtains...

[L. Coyote]

9. That is an assault on reason.

Not to mention foul. Using the F*** word just ensures that Google will filter the page and not present it in search results.

The same cannot be said about your post!
You have accomplished one f**king thing,
you besmeared a serious subject with an
inane, false, and ridiculouus comment that does more harm than good.

Meanwhile, our Dem Senators are hard at work within the framework of democracy.

[acmavm]

12. You forgot the :sarcasm: sign. ALSO, do not ever lecture me on

my language. NOT EVER. One would think that you've noticed that word used here before. But then again, who knows what you know (or most likely don't know).

They haven't done one fucking thing they were sent there to do. The bush** admin is still spying on us, the are still looting the Treasury, they are still killing innocent people, and they are STILL IN OFFICE.

Your post was absolutely ridiculous.

[L. Coyote]

5. Like KKKarl Rove wasn't fired, and Gonzolies, McNulty, the list is truely long ...

and they just keep falling.

I guess it depends on your definition of "nothing"

What would you prefer, that they pack it in and go home, or keep dogging these criminals with the tools democracy provides?

[ThomWV]

10. I believe he was referring to the recurring hearings on the rape at the pump, not general criminalit...

[acmavm]

16. Yeah, I would prefer this batch of leeches to go home. And stay there.

And let us send some honest reps with at least half an idea of what the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and a law book are.

No more drycleaning paid by the taxpayers for old Harry. No more free trips for the dependents of Grandma Nancy. No more free healthcare for any of them. Let them do an HONEST day's work for a living. I doubt they'd know how.

And you know what, we have worthless representation in Washington because of people like YOU!

[L. Coyote]

36. Ad hominen is fallacy, flawed reasoning, and indignant.

It is also the recourse of those with no real argument.

[acmavm]

37. My argument is upthread. Your problem is that you don't like being

called an enabler.

[L. Coyote]

44. There you go again, an ad hominem. I define "nothing" using a dictionary

and you use the word without regard to the definition.

I call that a personal reality, and I'm being kind to you at that.

[proud patriot]

3. talk about getting all sides i n the matter

:eyes:

[Subdivisions]

7. That's what I was thinking. n/t

[L. Coyote]

13. Looks like a roast is planned! Or a grilling. Tobacco REDUX ??

[Andy823]

4. Not only do we need change

In the Whitehouse, but we need change in congress as well, on both sides of the isle! It seems like to many democrats also have their fingers in the big oil "cookie" jar!

[L. Coyote]

6. Can you elucidate on that claim. I'd like some actual facts.

[Doityourself]

11. The price just crossed $129 per barrel

[Junkdrawer]

14. Looks to me like people here are getting less and less excited...

about jawboning these criminals with hearings, all the while passing laws to their benefit.

[L. Coyote]

15. Dana Perino "supply and demand" is the problem

"First and foremost" the White House is going to make sure Congress does not exacerbate the problem!!!

One second ago. Perino's Presser ends on that note!!

[acmavm]

17. NO, you're the problem. And people like you who give these parasites

a pass for just showing up once in a while.

[L. Coyote]

18. Dorgan on the Senate floor right now.

[L. Coyote]

19. Anyone watching = C-SPAN 3 ??

[L. Coyote]

20. Leahy just asked the execs how much they make per year.. Over 2 MILLION!!

[Kajsa]

25. Some of them make WELL OVER 2 million/yr.

- that's a big part of it!

Record profits- Record prices.

:(

[earthboundmisfit]

21. I wish Ted Kennedy was there

We need The Lion in on this to kick some ass

[L. Coyote]

22. Check out the PINK hanky panky in the background. "We want GREEN" sign.

[LSK]

23. just turned it on

[L. Coyote]

24. Feinstein up now. Speculators, hedgers, ...CFTC: "oil companys driving up prices" ??

[L. Coyote]

26. Falling dollar = 20% of increase in oil since 2004. Send BUSH a "thank you"

by voting DEM!!

[spanone]

27. is there a dumber ass than jeff sessions? using his time to promote drilling in the us

[Subdivisions]

28. I like how Sessions brings up Boone Pickens' observation

that we send $600 Billion to foreign countries without also mentioning that the LEGENDARY oil man Pickens' also says that what we're seeing is declining production, or peak oil.

He's no longer an oil man. He just bought 667 wind turbines (the largest single purchase of wind turbines ever) and will be drilling for wind power instead of oil.

[LSK]

29. wow I agree with Sessions about Diesel

:wow:

[LSK]

30. Durbin goes to CEO pay

:popcorn:

[spanone]

31. durbin has his facts together

these guys are dancing on the head of a pin

[LSK]

33. why do you have so much cash on hand? why are you not investing in infrastructure

[LSK]

32. why are you operating at 85% refinery capacity?

[L. Coyote]

34. "I have lots of friends who are regular people" Peter Robertson, Chevron VP

Would "regular people" be us commoners who earn under 2 MILLION a year??

[LSK]

35. Dick Cheney is a regular guy

:sarcasm:

[LSK]

38. protesters interrupting saying " get big oil money out of congress"

[LSK]

39. Russ Feingold up

[L. Coyote]

40. PINK disruption "Get BIG OIL money out of Congess" yelled by demonstrator.

Someone is off to the clinker!

[Subdivisions]

41. Go PINK! Did you notice that Whitehouse

sort of allowed her to have her say as he yielded for security to move in?

[Subdivisions]

42. The oil guys consensus is that there is plenty of supply, So....

why do they need to drill off the coasts and ANWR if the world is "well supplied"? If there is plenty of supply and that IS NOT what is causing the price run-up, then why the scramble to open up new oil fields? Why not just leave those until we need them?

[L. Coyote]

43. Extortion??

They pulled this routine in the late 90s, and we gave
them practically all the oil under the Gulf for free.

[mdmc]

51. You are correct

and they are correct. They have the oil and gas, and want to profit off of it. They currently have the right to do it.

[Subdivisions]

52. They're saying there's plenty of oil while whining that they can't

drill off the coasts or in ANWR or scrape the earth's crust for MORE oil.

Which is it? Is there plenty of oil? Or isn't there?

[mdmc]

53. they want it all

ANWR won't lower prices.

[mdmc]

45. these guys are profiting off of a valuable commodity

gas prices will never decline.

[L. Coyote]

47. Not to mention the national security concerns.

Any industry that can impact national security cannot be allow to rampantly gouge the entire economy, impacting food costs, etc.

[mdmc]

50. socialist can nationalize the gas industry

but the military really should be reduced to a defense budget instead of a world police imperial military budget.

[L. Coyote]

46. Whitehouse: Cost rises $2,000 per family in Rhode Island.

[L. Coyote]

48. Whitehouse: "We are in Iraq now, due, in large part, to out dependence on foreign oil"

[Subdivisions]

49. They continue to assert that oil is well-supplied but they need

to drill from more to flood the market with spare capicity in order to bring the price of gas down.

I call bullshit.

[L. Coyote]

54. REPLAYING now on C-SPAN 3. Code Pink is in background right now!