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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: megimoo on May 05, 2008, 07:36:56 PM

Title: Clinton: OPEC 'can no longer be a cartel',She threatens to break up OPEC
Post by: megimoo on May 05, 2008, 07:36:56 PM
"Now she has lost it ,Just how does she propose to do that ?"

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 crod 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.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Clinton_OPEC_can_no_longer_be_a_cartel.html
Title: Re: Clinton: OPEC 'can no longer be a cartel',She threatens to break up OPEC
Post by: Wretched Excess on May 05, 2008, 07:44:20 PM

drill for oil in ANWR.  that would be a good first step.
Title: Re: Clinton: OPEC 'can no longer be a cartel',She threatens to break up OPEC
Post by: Lord Undies on May 05, 2008, 07:49:49 PM
She's gonna use some "international woopass" on OPEC??   :lmao:

Hey, Sir Hillary!  The best way to control OPEC is by making them irrelevant.  Drill Drill Drill, you ignorant slut!
Title: Re: Clinton: OPEC 'can no longer be a cartel',She threatens to break up OPEC
Post by: Chris_ on May 05, 2008, 08:09:44 PM


Hey, Sir Hillary!  The best way to control OPEC is by making them irrelevant.  Drill Drill Drill, you ignorant slut!

Heard from bill clinton while he was hunched over with his ass in the air on their wedding day.
Title: Re: Clinton: OPEC 'can no longer be a cartel',She threatens to break up OPEC
Post by: Wretched Excess on May 05, 2008, 08:18:07 PM


Hey, Sir Hillary!  The best way to control OPEC is by making them irrelevant.  Drill Drill Drill, you ignorant slut!

Heard from bill clinton while he was hunched over with his ass in the air on their wedding day.

hillary wouldn't have heard it.  she wouldn't have been in the same room when that was happening.
Title: Re: Clinton: OPEC 'can no longer be a cartel',She threatens to break up OPEC
Post by: Baruch Menachem on May 05, 2008, 09:42:29 PM
I tried hitting your plus button twice in a row over that one undies.  The system wouldn't let me.

Just what army is she going to use to break up OPEC, and how will she do it,  and how would they respond? 

Most of them have enough money already. 

She is supposed to be smart?
Title: Re: Clinton: OPEC 'can no longer be a cartel',She threatens to break up OPEC
Post by: rich_t on May 05, 2008, 10:02:01 PM
She really is a moonbat ain't she?
Title: Re: Clinton: OPEC 'can no longer be a cartel',She threatens to break up OPEC
Post by: JohnnyReb on May 06, 2008, 04:25:13 AM
She really is a moonbat ain't she?

Yeah, but that's not a problem when you're speaking to other moonbats.
Title: Re: Clinton: OPEC 'can no longer be a cartel',She threatens to break up OPEC
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on May 06, 2008, 05:55:34 AM
I call that large talk for someone who can't even keep her own husband in line.
Title: Re: Clinton: OPEC 'can no longer be a cartel',She threatens to break up OPEC
Post by: JohnnyReb on May 06, 2008, 07:29:09 AM
So, what does she plan to do, start a "War for Oil"? :whatever:
Title: Re: Clinton: OPEC 'can no longer be a cartel',She threatens to break up OPEC
Post by: DixieBelle on May 06, 2008, 09:44:01 AM
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! Okay, now let me clean my monitor and keyboard. I just spit coffee everywhere.

Okay, I'm no financial wizard but, isn't the price of oil tied to the dollar? And wouldn't the Fed slashing interest rates have some effect?