The "Bomb Iran for Cheap Oil" train has left the building...

[kpete]

Monday, April 17, 2006
The "Bomb Iran for Cheap Oil" train has left the building...

Think Progress has the video: http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/17/forbes-iran-oil-prices/

Fox News Transcript:

FORBES: Well, it’s interesting. And about $15 a barrel on the price of oil today is worry about Iran, that crisis.

HOST: So, without Iran, the price of oil would be $15 less per barrel is what you’re saying.

FORBES: Yes, it would. There is real uncertainty, huge producer. But the bottom line with Iran is, when we have the confrontation, which we will have, we can really deal with that crisis. Then the price of oil will come down. The longer we let it fester, the higher the price of oil will stay.

http://pissedonpolitics.blogspot.com/2006/04/bomb-iran-for-cheap-oil-train-has-left.html

[Taxloss]

1. Remember how prices plunged after we invaded Iraq?

Nothing increases regional stability in oil-producing areas like bombing.

[Deep13]

6. They're practically giving it away!

assholes

[leftchick]

14. and those sunburn missiles in Iran will just sit idol

and not be used on the US fleet supposedly there to protect the Stait?

I want what Forbes and the fox folks are smokin!

[bryant69]

2. Lord almighty

Yeah a successful invasion of Iran, that settles quickly into a gentle peace would lower the price of oil. But, if we are going to wish for impossible scenarios, my money is on space aliens showing up and giving us waste-free cold fusion technology (akin to Mr. Fusion).

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Beware the Beast Man]

3. Let him get the oil. Fucking pig.

[havocmom]

4. So, just engaging in saber rattling helps the oil barons?

That is interesting. Maybe they won't actually go to war again in a new theater.

This business of policy via rumor, PR and BS is interesting to watch

[lectrobyte]

5. Does this bullshit still float? That was part of the deal with Iraq, and

look at gas prices (and Exxon-Mobil record profits) now. How stupid do they think we are? After all, oil pipelines seem to be an extremely vulnerable thing, and military action only seems to disrupt production, driving prices yet higher.

[greekspeak]

9. "How stupid do they think we are?" It is not our stupidity they bank on

It is the people who fall groveling at their feet when they say "fetuses is a dy-un cuz o them libruls" or "fags is gunna ruin your marriage." And it is not so much stupidity as people letting fear get the best of themselves. Of course, the RW radio indoctrination of the past nearly 2 decades has been a big part of the issue. "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" has become a silly nonsense librul relic.

[aquart]

7. This kind of "logic" should be labeled "gymnastic."

It's that athletically twisted.

[thereismore]

8. Forbes has not made enough profit yet. nt

[norml]

10. Same lie they sold the suckers on about Iraq. The opposite has happened.

War makes gas cost more.

Withdrawal from Iraq, and standing down from war with Iran, Venezuela, etc., is what will cause oil prices, and big oil's profits, to tumble.

[Marie26]

11. Or is it the "Threaten to bomb Iran" for expensive oil campaign? nt

[converted_democrat]

12. He's been pushing it since 08-30-05.. Look at this article, something is

wrong here..

http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2005/08/30/afx2195813.html

SYDNEY (AFX) - Oil prices are set to crash from this week's record highs as a speculative market bubble bursts with an impact that could make the hi-tech bust of 2000 'look like a picnic', business publisher Steve Forbes has predicted.

Forbes said the high oil prices currently dampening the US economy, which peaked at more than 70 usd a barrel yesterday as Hurricane Katrina headed for the US Gulf Coast, would fall to 30-35 usd a barrel within a year.

'I'll make a bold prediction... in 12 months, you're going to see oil down to 35-40 usd a barrel,' he said, according to Agence France-Presse.
----------
So he's either full of BS, or they've been planning the attack on Iran for awhile.. Or both..

on edit- I think Iran will block the Strait of Hormuz, and make prices go through the roof..

[robertpaulsen]

13. Didn't Forbes get the memo? It's not about oil.

It's about freedom. It's about WMD. It's about getting rid of a bad man. Uhh...hold on, there's another justification lying around here somewhere...

:sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm:

[Supersedeas]

15. Catapult the rationales...maybe just maybe something will stick.

[lonestarnot]

16. Oh SHIT! Missed another train.

:wink:

[DearAbby]

17. MONEY!

What about the PRICE IN LIVES LOST?!?

Is it worth it to have cheaper oil, how much per gallon of BLOOD? IS IT WORTH IT?

What about the PRICE IN LIVES LOST?