Do you think the high oil prices are a ploy by the Bush Administration?

A game their playing to pump up the public before the mid-term election? A game of raise gas prices, higher and higher, until just before the mid terms, and then let George Bush ride in on his White Hourse, and make a big speech about how he got the oil companies to lower the prices?Do you think the high oil prices are a ploy by the Bush Administration?
yes and no





yes = he owns a lot of things to do with oil so i think higher oil prices more money in his pocket...there are also people in his administration also have a lot of stock and thing in the oil company





no = make him look bad with how much he is making the people suffer in he contry with a war that is not going anywhere!Do you think the high oil prices are a ploy by the Bush Administration?
Liberals have a wonderful way of blaming everything on Bush.





This guy, who according to them, is so stupid, you have to wonder how he got Laura pregnant, is now all of a sudden (when it fits their inane arguments) smart enough to plan, connive and cajole his way through the government and industry to once again out smart the intellectual elite of the democratic party.





BTW liberal elitist - you spell horse, H-O-R-S-E, further supporting my belief that we need to do away with the democratic designed, administered and grossly over funded public education system in this country.





Christ - Can you frigging morons do one thing right?
yes, Big oil owns the White House and Congress, they will do nothing. Both are a worthless waste of tax payers money.


Ethanol is cheap, My truck will run on 10 percent Ethanol, where can I buy it? A 10 percent reduction in Gas usage would lower the price. Also Congress could stop Saturday mail and order a jet fuel reduction. They will not but they could. Congress wants to steal Billions from the tax payers and give you $100 rebate. Congress also loves the high profit big oil has made, members of Congress get it back in contributions. We used to have a Federal Cap on the price, Republicans ended that for cash. It is also true that Republicans own stock in Big Oil, they love SUVs and love no mileage standards. They laugh at consumers all the way to the bank.
Bush, has no power over the price of oil. So the answer is NO.
No government has control over world oil markets. The seeds of the current nightmare were sown by declaring war against one despotic regime in favour of another (Kuwait) years ago. Now we are lumbered with a holy war against Islam and incidentally will grab all the oil if we can win.
i think w/ Bush coming from an oil background...it's his way of making $$ for fellow oil tycoons.


$$ and sex is what has driven this country from day one, and it always will. think about all corruption...why did they do it?


$$ or sex.
Is there anything that the liberals don't blame on Bush?
Nope, because gas is MUCH higher in Europe. Germans are paying 1.37 EURO a liter, which is about 5.50 Euro a gallon. With the exchange rate, that's about $7.50 a gallon or so.
yes. The Bush administration is the great ';evil-doer'; of the biggest Rogue State in world at present.
Dick Cheney met with oil company executive early in the first term of this administration to set oil policy. Environmental groups sued to get a record of that meeting and failed.





It's not a ploy, it's just that this admin is big on Big Oil and wouldn't have it any other way.





Republicans could give squat about car gas mileage standards and are tools of Big Oil.





BTW, Right wingnuts have a wonderful way of blaming everything on Clinton and/or liberals... even though they OWN the three branchs of government.
no thats retarded





Bush's approval is low enough, he would not dare hold prices high





they are getting higher because the oil companies keeping raising the price for a barrel of crude oil





thats as dumb as people saying that we cought Bin Laden and were holding him until the 2004 election to say we cought him so bush could win, turns out we never cought him





AND BUSH WON ANYWAY!!!!! go W
oil men in the white house and suddenly oil prices shoot out of the roof. It don't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out. they can sing the supply demand song all they like. nothing has changed. same supply, same demand so why all of a sudden now it shoots the prices sky high? even when the price of a barrel of oil has gone down over the last few weeks gasoline prices have not dropped. and anyone who believes otherwise is totally brainwashed by the crooks in the white house and in congress.
no, not everything bad is a ploy by the bush administration.... silly liberals...
A typical stupid liberal question... No is the Answer....
i think is all a setup.... and that the only reason of the war on those countries is to have control over the oil
Do not be swayed by the liberals! And if you are a liberal SHAME ON YOU! And no, I am not a conservative (shame on them), or a republican, I am probably a moderate indepentant or something.





You know, all the celebrities going all ';Bush is to blame'; is not helping either. After all we know how much people like to be like celebrities, even if they do not admit to it.





I mean, sure I do think that Bush is a jackass, but so were other presidents.
Not really, George Bush and his whole family are oil men. It's George Bush repaying his favors to the people that elected him into office. I know it was his plan all a long to force the false inflation's to make fortunes for himself and his buddy's.
Typical libtard thinking, but the answer is no.
Yes, it's not only a game for the upcoming elections but both Bush and Chaney are oil men and this is Bush's last term, people are stupid but the administration thinks they are. I have always been a big believer of what goes around comes around.
I don't think Bush wants the prices to be too high b/c it affects his rating and the elections of people in his party. He just decided not to add to the Federal Reserve to help bring down the price and create more supply.
let me put it this way when you install someone who previously work for oil companies what did you expect