Quick: I need a * quote...

[huskerlaw]

It was a campaign speech where he was blaming Clinton for the "high" gas prices and saying that the President should make sure the gas prices stay low. Or something like that.

Anybody got it??

[TaleWgnDg]

1. . . .

Dunno if this is it or not: http://www.evote.com/index.asp?Page=/news_section/2000-03/03132000Bush.asp

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2. I think this is the damning quote you are looking for

http://www.house.gov/georgemiller/press/rel33004.html

“I think the president ought to get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say, ‘We expect you to open your spigots.’ … The president of the United States must jawbone OPEC members to lower the price.” (Financial Times, 2/2/00)

On the campaign trail in 2000, Bush spokesman Scott McClellan cited rising gas prices as an example of “failed leadership,” contending that if elected, Bush would support a government investigation of higher gas prices. But gas prices in the United States have reached a record high under the Bush Administration, climbing three cents in just two weeks to a nationwide average of $1.80. According to AAA, gas prices could mean that the average American family would spend an extra $600 at the pump this year, and a gas price increase to $2 a gallon could offset the entire impact of last year’s Republican tax cuts.

[huskerlaw]

3. That's it!

Thank you muchly.

[Democrats_win]

4. Amazing quotes, Guys! In the debate with Al Gore he said the same

thing. from the first quote above: you have no overall energy policy.

Can you believe this? If Clinton had no energy policy, then this is the anti-christ of energy policies.

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5. And here's the criminal asshole's entire logorrhea in the debate:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0001/26/se.02.html

BROWN: Governor Bush, last week in New Hampshire, the wind chill temperature dropped in some places to 30 below. Also last week, home heating oil prices spiked 40 percent to where it now averages $1.72 a gallon. There are shortages of heating oil and kerosene and diesel fuel.

Yesterday, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said he would not tap U.S. strategic petroleum reserves in order to drive down prices, saying those reserves are for emergencies. But given the shortages that exist, do you consider this an appropriate time to tap those reserves?

BUSH: No, I don't. I think I agree with the energy secretary that the strategic petroleum reserve is meant for a national wartime emergency.

What I think the president ought to do is he ought to get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say we expect you to open your spigots. One reason why the price is so high is because the price of crude oil has been driven up. OPEC has gotten its supply act together, and it's driving the price, like it did in the past. And the president of the United States must jawbone OPEC members to lower the price.

And if in fact there is collusion amongst big oil, he ought to intercede there as well.

I used to be in the oil business. I was little oil -- really little oil. And so I understand the -- I understand what can happen in the marketplace.

I think it's very important for us, though, to recognize that our country better become less dependent on foreign crude. That's why I am for the exploration of ANWR. That's why I'm for the exploration of natural gas, which is hemispheric. It's not subject to price.

In the meantime, I support the congressional delegation here in New England attempt to fund LIHEAP, which is that low-income heating assistance program.

BROWN: Let me follow up by asking what pressures -- specifically what pressures should be brought on OPEC nations to lift those production curbs?

BUSH: Well, we've got good relations with a lot of members of OPEC. If the president does his job, the president will earn capital in the Middle East, and the president should have good standing with those nations. It's important for the president to explain, in clear terms, what high energy prices will not only do to our economy, but what high energy prices will do to the world economy.

It is in the Saudis' best interest for the price of oil to mellow out. It's not only in our country's best interests. It needs to be explained to them, it's in their best interests.

BROWN: Thank you.

BUSH: And I will do so.

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6. And the criminal asshole's response in 2004:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/28/politics/main646142.shtml

Gas Prices

Mr. Bush was critical of Al Gore in the 2000 campaign for being part of “the administration that's been in charge” while the “price of gasoline has gone steadily upward.” In December 1999, in the first Republican primary debate, Mr. Bush said President Clinton “must jawbone OPEC members to lower prices.”

As gas topped a record level of $50 a barrel this week, Mr. Bush has shown no propensity to personally pressure, or “jawbone,” Mideast oil producers to increase output.

A spokesman for the president reportedly said in March that Mr. Bush will not personally lobby oil cartel leaders to change their minds.