Help me remember... re. Bush on gas prices

[carrowsboy]

Does anyone remember during the debates with Gore, when asked about future oil prices and Bush said "I'll just call my friends and have them turn on the spickett."

I remember this, but no one else i know does.

What was the exact quote?

Which debate was it?

I want as much detail as possible cause I want to write a letter to my local paper.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Inland]

1. I don't remember the quote, but I remember him twisting his wrists

over imaginary spigots, and promising to lower those HIGH oil prices of $30 a barrell.

[Inland]

2. Here's a reference. Another Bush failure, broken promise.

http://www.issues2000.org/2004/More_George_W__Bush_Energy_+_Oil.htm

OPEC will increase oil supply out of respect for Bush
Bush said today that he would bring down gasoline prices by creating enough political good will with oil-producing nations that they would increase their supply of crude. “I would work with our friends in OPEC to convince them to open up the spigot, to increase the supply. Use the capital that my administration will earn, with the Kuwaitis or the Saudis, and convince them to open up the spigot.” Implicit in his comments was a criticism of the Clinton administration as failing to take advantage of the good will that the US built with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf war in 1991. Also implicit was that as the son of the president who built the coalition that drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait, Mr. Bush would be able to establish ties on a personal level that would persuade oil-producing nations that they owed the US something in return.
Source: Katherine Q. Seelye, NY Times Jun 28, 2000

[Lefty48197]

5. bring down gasoline prices by creating enough political good will with oil

Too bad he's pissed off major oil supplies like Russia and Venezuela. So much for "opening the spigots".

[Inland]

7. Well, yeah, but the premise was ridiculous.

that the saudis would lower prices just to be nice.

What the saudies lower prices for, the friendship that Bush speaks of, is military protection that costs an incredible amount of money.

Now that we are even MORE involved in the ME militarily, I wonder if Bush was signalling a belief that strikes against Saddam would be gratefully rewarded by SA.

[peekaloo]

3. Don't see that quote but there's some fun reading from 1st debate.

:sarcasm:

http://www.debates.org/pages/trans2000a.html

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BUSH: It's an issue I know a lot about. I was a small oil person for a while in west Texas. This is an administration that's had no plan. And all of a sudden the results of having no plan have caught up with America. First and foremost we have to fully fund -- heat which is a way to help low income people in the east to pay for high fuel bills. We need an active exploration incentive in America. We need to explore at home. You bet I want to open up a small part of Alaska. When that field is online it will produce one million barrels a day. Today we import one million barrels from Saddam Hussein. I would rather that a million come from our own hemisphere, have it come from our own country as opposed to Saddam Hussein. I want to develop the coal resources in America. Have clean coal technologies. We better start exploring it or otherwise we'll be in deep trouble in the future because of our dependency upon foreign sources of crude.
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what an ass.

oh I forgot.....Sept. 11 changed everything.

[LiberalEsto]

4. "I would rather that a million come from our own hemisphere,"

Translation: Let's invade Venezuela and grab their oil.

[Vickers]

6. Yup, even before he was Prezdent, he had a hard-on for Saddam

What a pathetic jackass.

[OneTwentyoNine]

8. Its not refined so it doesn't matter if they "open the spigot"

That's because the Oil companies systematically started shuting down refineries in the US because they didn't want a Oil glut like we had in 1998 or 99.

Hell,fuel prices around here were as low as 85-90 cents for several weeks. What the FUCK is a BIG OIL company to do about that situation?? Simple,shut down as many refineries as possible--Oh yeah,blame it all on wacko LIEberal environmentalist just for good measure and keep repeating that talking point. So..send all the crude you want,makes no difference until its actually refined into a product we can use.