Rush says saber rattling is causing higher oil prices

[TheFarseer]

Not bush's saber rattling though. He's blaming the Iranian leader threatening to destroy Israel is destabilizing the Middle East and everytime he threatens Israel, oil prices go crazy. We should be grateful that bush is trying to stop him.

Doesn't that stand to reason that bush's saber rattling is ALSO affecting oil prices - and even more so because we KNOW bush is just spoiling attack, whereas Iran has never started a war in the MidEast to my knowledge. Rush, you're making our argument for us! Even his knuckle-dragging listeners can put that puzzle together.

on edit, sorry to post so much Rush related garbage but he keeps saying crazy stuff!

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. Well, Duh!

[sharp_stick]

2. Poor Rush

I bet his latest oxy dealer is adding a fuel surcharge on deliveries.

[phantom power]

3. You forgot the basic rule: IOKIYAR

It's OK If You Are Republican.

[Roland99]

4. Nevermind that Iran feels threatened with US military on opposite sides

of their borders!

[RufusEarl]

5. Stop listening to Rush, and the headaches will go away

[LSK]

6. you mean hes not blaming the tree huggers???

Wow hes making progress!!! :sarcasm:

[justice1]

7. Ridiculous, Iran wanted a better relationship with the U.S.

Iran has a young population, a large percentage of the citizens weren't even born during the Iran hostage situation. This administration has destroyed any potential we had for peace.

Obtaining oil from the middle east doesn't have to involve threats of war. China and Saudi Arabia just inked out a deal the other day.

We took advantage of the fact, that we were the lone super-power. It's coming back to bite us in the ass.

[gilpo]

8. Well.. There's your problem... "Stands to reason". and Rush... Oxymoron-

Oxycontin eating moron, that is.

[bluestateguy]

9. He bitched and complained about gas prices in the Clinton years

It was all Clinton's fault when gas was $1.60. Oh the horror!

[William Seger]

10. Well, he's half right, anyway...

... which is well above his average. The part he's missing is that Bush*Co no longer has the credibility and world support that it would take to deal effectively with the Iranian problem, and Bush*Co sabre rattling is just making things worse. The primary reason that Bush* MUST be impeached is not as punishment, but because his failed leadership means that he cannot deal effectively with the problems we will face over the next few years.

[Coastie for Truth]

11. Both sides' saber rattling

but it's a minor effect compared to "geology" (i.e., "Peak Oil") and India and China entering the market.

[warrens]

12. Just for a minute there I thought Pigboy's mind had cleared

But since he has very little left in that department, I was pretty sure there had to be a twist only a true fucking moron could come up with.

[npincus]

13. Please stop torturing yourself...

those little anvils, hammers and stirrups of yours will turn against you.

[Virginia Dare]

14. But, but, but....

somebody just posted a quote on DU about a week ago and I wish I had saved it. Right before Chimpy got the GOP nomination in 2000, he said he was going to keep gas prices down by sheer force of his personality!

How does Rushy-boy explain that?

[TheFarseer]

15. now he's actually making a solid point

or at least his caller did. A trucker called in and said the roads are packed with drivers, specifically out of state drivers. If people are out driving all over creation, I guess they don't care about high gas. People still demand gas, so the price has to go up.

Then he got back to environmentalist bashing. Some jackass contractor called in bashing poor people and the idea that high gas affects them the most and said, "I can't pass on my costs, waaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh" Jackass, people that drive to work can't pass on their costs either, what's your point?

[Supersedeas]

16. Do the hate merchants make this stuff up as they go and do their followers

decide to believe at a moments notice?

[TheFarseer]

18. Yes, they make it up

They have no regard for what they said yesterday or what they will say tomorrow and they certainly don't have any regard for the truth. Now I'm listening to Hanitty (I know, I know, but I'm in a weird temporary situation, hopefully won't be listening to hate radio for long) and he just said that we have more oil right here in the 48 states than there is in the entire Middle East and environmentalists won't let us drill it. I think he meant to include Alaska but that's still possibly the most untrue thing he has ever said.

[Strelnikov_]

17. Yea, Right

2002 (+) 1.8 M bbl/dy Price $20/bbl-> $31/bbl
2003 (+) 3.4 M bbl/dy Price $31/bbl-> $31/bbl
2004 (+) 2.4 M bbl/dy Price $31/bbl-> $42/bbl
2005 (+) 0.3 M bbl/dy Price $42/bbl-> $62/bbl
2006 ~ 0 (a)M bbl/dy Price $62/bbl-> $71/bbl

(a) all indications are that supply in 06 has fallen.

So, in the face of increasing price, we have a steady increase in production, just as one would expect (even in 2002/03 with the overlay of the Iraq buildup/invasion ~ sabre rattling).

Then, suddenly, in 2005, production flatlines.

Price drop? No.

Recession reducing demand? No.

OPEC, a cartel that could not even keep it's act together during the relatively low prices of the 90's oil glut, finally are working in unison, and contrary to past (seemingly annual now) statements that the current price of oil is too high? I wasn't born yesterday.

Oh, but no. The high prices can't be that of which we shall not speak.

It just has to be Big Oil collusion Bushco sabre rattling Ahjad sabre rattling lack of investment OPEC collusion Chindia demand . . . and on and on and on. . .

Yet, nearly every article mentions 'supply problems', in passing, always secondary to the talking point of the day.

There is a lot of money to be made in the initial stages of that of which we shall not speak, some of which will not be made if the 'consumers' catch wind of the unmentionable, and begin to make other economic and political arrangements.