So Much For That Black Gold Respite

Democrats are celebrating in Wisconsin tonight and Obama celebrates within the party. Republicans may be rallying around McCain, but meanwhile the country is still suffering under the tyranny of George Bush. In our oil addicted society, the rise in crude prices forebears that coming of the next surge from our pocketbooks while filling up at the gas station. Just today oil spiked to its highest price on record, $100.10.

From RawStory:

The price of oil in New York spiked to a record 100.10 dollars a barrel Tuesday on supply concerns.

The price for a barrel of light, sweet crude, eclipsed the record set in January of 100.09 dollars a barrel.

The market rallied amid speculation that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which supplies about 40 percent of the world's oil, would cut output at its March 5 meeting in Vienna, analysts said.

"Oil futures surged higher amid technical buying underpinned by the ongoing saga between Venezuela and Exxon and on speculation surrounding OPEC's next move when they meet in March," said Sucden analyst Nimit Khamar.

Oil may go down again but looking at mean oil prices now and eight years ago doesn't even begin to tell the story of our dependence on what will ultimately destroy the planet we live on. Our current President has increased that addiction with economic policies that encourage us to consume more and more. That includes the oil that gives energy to our economy as we know it. While cities and states try to fight on a local basis throughout the land, only the Federal Government can effect true change....that is...change that we must wait for until January of '09 at the earliest.

George Bush: Still A Bumbling Idiot

We are now in our seventh torturous year of George Bush's presidency and yet he still manages to make a fool of himself wherever he goes. Today was another shining example of what a buffoon he truly is.

From The Huffington Post:

He'd only reached the third sentence of Friday's speech to business leaders, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, when he committed his first gaffe.

"Thank you for being such a fine host for the OPEC summit," Bush said to Australian Prime Minister John Howard.

Oops. That would be APEC, the annual meeting of leaders from 21 Pacific Rim nations, not OPEC, the cartel of 12 major oil producers.

Bush quickly corrected himself. "APEC summit," he said forcefully, joking that Howard had invited him to the OPEC summit next year (for the record, an impossibility, since neither Australia nor the U.S. are OPEC members).

The president's next goof went uncorrected _ by him anyway. Talking about Howard's visit to Iraq last year to thank his country's soldiers serving there, Bush called them "Austrian troops."

His grand finale at APEC was to walk off stage the wrong way. Thankfully his pal Australian PM John Howard steered him towards the stairs instead of a precipitous drop off the platform. Not only does Bush fail in his policies and general "Presidentin." He can't talk, walk or see straight. The only thing I'm wondering is whether this had something to do with Jack Daniels or something more local to the event like Fosters?