Lou Dobbs

For those of you who don't know, Lou Dobbs is a host on CNN and has his own show. Everyday on his website he poses a question for people to poll on but it's always very one-sided and his word choice when he presents the question always influences the voters' opinion. Anyways, here's todays:

Do you believe President Bush has been given enough credit for the 23% decline in the price of oil since he lifted the executive order banning offshore drilling?
Yes 49% 1726
No 51% 1806
Total Votes: 3532
This is not a scientific poll


I just about shit a brick when I read this. I mean, are you FUCKING kidding me?!?! Bush's lifting of the executive order on banning offshore drilling has absolutely nothing to do with the price of oil going down. First off, all he did was lift his part of the ban - Congress still needs to lift their ban. In other words, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING has changed in terms of how much oil the US can drill and where they are doing the drilling.

Oil prices rapidly decreased because of simple, basic supply and demand economics. It hit four dollars a gallon (or more) after steadily increasing and Americans said enough is enough and demand rapidly decreased, which increased supply, and drove down prices at the pump. Lou Dobbs is incredibly ignorant if he honestly believes that anything Bush did affected the drop in oil prices.

The only thing Bush has done in his two terms in office is raise gas prices from 1.50 a gallon to over $4 a gallon. You want to know why this country's economy is going down the shitters? It's because we are spending $10 billion EVERY MONTH on the Iraqi conflict. I don't care what your views are on this war, but just think about that for a moment. TEN BILLION DOLLARS A MONTH. I ask you to think for just 10 seconds on everything we could be spending ten billion dollars a month on right now (including, although I am extremely opposed to it, building more off shore oil rigs).

Think about it...