"Where are the calls to sic Obama's Justice Department on Big Oil to hold the oil companies accountable for "market manipulation"? Why aren't we hunting down the amoral "oil speculators" responsible for repealing the law of supply-and-demand in order to line their pockets?
During President George W. Bush's administration, we constantly heard demands to hold the President accountable for "Big Oil's price gouging." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., just two years ago, knew exactly whom to blame for "skyrocketing" oil prices: "The price of oil is at the doorstep; $4-plus per gallon for oil is attributed to two oilmen in the White House and their protectors in the United States Senate."
In 2007, when the average national price ranged from $2.17 to $3.22, then-Sen. Barack Obama demanded that the Federal Trade Commission investigate Big Oil for "price manipulation." In 2008, presidential candidate Obama urged the Justice Department "to open an investigation into whether energy traders have been engaged in illegal activities that have helped drive up the price of oil and food."
"The newly-installed Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazer, flat-out favors $10+ per gallon gasoline and has said so publicly. Another major Administration player, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, told The Wall Street Journal last fall that 'somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe. . .' [Over $8 per gallon.]"
-- The American Sentinel, April 2009, page 3. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405
....and "I promise unless you make over $ 250,000 you will not see any new taxes." Yeah right.....they fee and price us out the market in their attempts to generate huge corporate profits to fund their liberal programs.
