http://dorgan.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=295532

Senator decries 'orgy of speculation in the oil market'

Thursday, April 3, 2008

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(WASHINGTON, D.C.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) is pushing
back against escalating oil prices by raising questions about the
rampant speculation in the oil market that he says is distorting
prices.

“While hedge fund managers, investment banks and speculators continue
to make big profits by buying and selling barrels of oil, consumers
are paying higher prices at the gas pump,” Dorgan said at a Senate
Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on oil speculation
today. “The oil futures market has become an orgy of speculation,
driving up the price of oil beyond where the fundamentals of supply
and demand would put it.”

Dorgan said investors are buying and selling 30 times the amount of
oil that is produced each day.

It May Be Over
Voters unimpressed with Rush, “tax holidays” or McCain
© Bryan Zepp Jamieson
http://www.zeppscommentaries.com/Election2008/Ind-NC.html
5/6/08

At Hillary Clinton’s victory speech in Indiana, Bill Clinton looked
decidedly downcast. Chelsea Clinton was off camera, but BBS presenter
Katty Kaye reported that she looked on the verge of tears. There was a
telling moment in her “victory speech” when she said, “I win, he wins,
he wins, I win. No matter what happens, I will work for the nominee of
the Democratic party because we must win in November. And I know that
Senator Obama feels the same way.” That sounds more like a concession
speech, and it may well be one.

I suspect a lot of people will go to bed tonight convinced that
Hillary did win Indiana, and perhaps she did. But normally, when there
is a 4 point margin between candidates with 87%% of precincts in, it’s
time to release the balloons, give the speech, and congratulate the
loser on a fine effort.

On May 6, 11:24 am, Anarcissie gmail.com> wrote:

You were wrong.

Yep, you'd have thunk it? It appears that that, forty years after the
civil rights
push, there are so very many white, democrat racists in North
Carolina. So
many that even Operation Chaos seems to have fallen flat on it's face
here.
How else to explain the loss of The Great White Hope to B. Hussein and
Rev. Wright.

Hey, maybe I should be hopeful and chalk it up to thousands of
democrats
finally seeing Candidate Rodham and The Big Creep for what they are.
If
they are joining the many of us who've known about the Clintons for 10
years
then that is a good thing for all of us. Better late than never!

Now it's on to the post-primary spin.

May 05, 2008

Clinton: OPEC 'can no longer be a cartel'

Clinton's attacks on oil prices as artificially inflated, Enron-style,
keep escalating, and today she appeared to threaten to break up the
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

"We?re going to go right at OPEC," she said. "They can no longer be a
cartel, a monopoly that get together once every couple of months in some
conference room in some plush place in the world, they decide how much
oil they?re going to produce and what price they?re going to put it
at," she told a crowd at a firehouse in Merrillville, IN.

"That?s not a market. That?s a monopoly," she said, saying she'd use
anti-trust law and the World Trade Organization to take on OPEC.

Clinton has cast herself as a warrior for working people against the oil
industry and malicious "speculators," and made that -- along with her
push for a gas tax holiday -- central to her closing message in Indiana.

It's a potent message, like the attack on "Wall Street money brokers,"
with deep roots in American politics. It' It's also very hard to figure
out what exactly she means by the threat to break OPEC.

Another bullshit accusation from Gary the Racist. But We KNOW for a fact
that your party still to this day has a Kleagal sitting in the
Senate..HA!!!!
Here's some more 'good reading' for your racist ass, rosetard..enjoy!

http://www.wthitv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8274089

Coffee in Tibet

RANDI Rhodes Calls Limbaugh a "blowhole" (Operation Kaos)

She was quoting an article Rush "quoted" onair
about Repubs wanting to vote Dem but they couldn't.
(Of course, he was lying to his trusting fans again. Duh.)

...she included what the Limbaughtomy left out of that
article. ...that Repubs were being quoted about how disgusted
they were with what the new Repub Party has become (sleaze, prices etc).
...she also quoted an article of crossover "hardcore" Repubs who
wanted to vote for Obama (opposite of Rush's Operation Kaos plan)

Rush Limbaugh:
"Voters who voted yesterday believe that
Republicans are; "the big government party now."
How can you blame them?"
-- Rush Limbaugh November 8, 2006

Is it any wonder why Repubs must "change" reality
to get support?

Liberal Radio ! - 27 stations online NOW!

Why do Republicans fear us?

http://www.gallup.com/poll/107029/Most-Democrats-Eager-Either-Candidate-Drop.asp...

Heading into Tuesday's important North Carolina and
Indiana presidential primaries, 6 in 10 Democrats say
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama should continue their
presidential campaigns. [...]

If the remaining contests play out as the prior contests
have, with the candidates fairly evenly matched, then
the decisions of the remaining uncommitted
superdelegates will determine the party's presidential
nominee.

CHINA STARTS OIL DRILLING OFF FLORIDA

WHILE AMERICA TWIDDLES THUMBS, CHINESE TAP BILLIONS OF BARRELS

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By Mike Blair

While Washington dithers over exploiting oil and gas reserves off the
coast of Florida, China has seized the opportunity to gobble up these
deposits, which run throughout Latin America, the Caribbean and along
the U.S. Gulf coast.

The Chinese have forged a deal with Cuban leader Fidel Castro to explore
and tap into massive oil reserves almost within sight of Key West,
Florida. At the same time, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who
controls the largest oil reserves in the Western Hemisphere, is making
deals to sell his country’s oil to China, oil that is currently coming
to the United States.

Meanwhile, a new left-wing populist regime in Bolivia has nationalized
the natural gas industry, threatening to cut off supplies to the United
States.

SLANT DRILLING