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When President Bush is finally out of office, should Congress investigate some of his dealings with oil companies?

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Submitted by: realdemocracy
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on Thu, 05/08/2008 - 1:47pm.

In response to Purse Creation Rewards.

The price of gasoline has more than tripled since George W. Bush took office. Recently he has stated that there is nothing he can do about the rising price of gas because "the problem was several years in the making." He forgot that it was his years in office that made it rise faster than any other time in history.

Later he said that there was nothing he could do to lower the price. He said, "If I had a magic wand to lower the price of gas, I would do that." He forgot that he has the power to release 76,000 barrels per day of oil by not storing it caverns in Texas in the Strategic Oil Reserve, which holds some 50 Billion Barrels of oil. By releasing just a small amount of this oil reserve, he could lower the price of oil by at least 25 cents per gallon.

These two misstatements and the fact that the Bush Administration has directly opposed any alternative forms of energy in this country out makes some wonder that perhaps our President is being paid off in a form of a secret commission or a royalty of some kind for every gallon of gas consumed by the American public.

Recently leaks have suggested that the office of Vice President and probably the office of the President also were involved in directing the torture of prisoners by our C.I.A. His office has also broken our current FISA laws by tapping the internet and telephones of American citizens without obtaining warrants. If this was not enough, there is much evidence around today that the President knew that the information he was using to get Congress to go along with his War in Iraq were all lies. If true, thousands of our our brave young troops have died and many others have sacrificed their limbs, their eyesight, their future for a war based on these lies and which has morphed into a war to support a puppet regime. Our economy is in near ruin due to the expenditure of hundreds of billions and by the time it's all paid for, trillions of U.S. Dollars, now almost worthless on the world stage.

Since there is no possibility this administration will fairly and objectively investigate itself - We have seen Bushes best friend, Attorney General Gonzalez forced to resign due to his poor handling of a minor investigation earlier - do you believe an investigation of the Bush Administration, including the President, should be conducted by Congress assuming it is a Democratic Administration that comes into power in 2009.

Also published here: http://www.realdemocracyinamerica.com/blog/

comment Submitted by RCast on Tue, 06/10/2008 - 3:40pm.

IF there is evidence of wrongdoing and it is not dealt with while in office I doubt that it will be dealt with out of office.

comment Submitted by VM1138 on Sat, 06/14/2008 - 11:22am.

This is an example of people seizing on an issue that upsets them, and projecting their ideas onto reality.

Gas prices go up naturally. This huge spike could be caused by anything and we have to be careful not to fall into the traps of politico-speak. In one sense, we're merely catching up to the rest of the world. In another, China is a huge market that just recently opened up and is guzzling much of the oil in the world. There could be some gouging going on, I don't know. But I do know that no conspiracy is keeping gas at the price it is. It has to fall to many events, not just one. Speculators, maybe some corruption, a huge new market, shortages in some cuontries and the overall hostility of primary oil producing nations (Venezuela, OPEC) pretty much guarantees a bleak future.