Mack the Knife <bulldog101750@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> used a stick in the sand to
babble
>Clinton: OPEC 'can no longer be a cartel'
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>Clinton's attacks on oil prices as artificially inflated, Enron-style,
>keep escalating, and today she appeared to threaten to break up the
>Organization of Petroleum Ex****ting Countries.
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>"We’re going to go right at OPEC," she said. "They can no longer be a
>cartel, a monopoly that get together once every couple of months in
>some conference room in some plush place in the world, they decide how
>much oil they’re going to produce and what price they’re going to put
>it at," she told a crod at a firehouse in Merrillville, IN.
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>"That’s not a market. That’s a monopoly," she said, saying she'd use
>anti-trust law and the World Trade Organization to take on OPEC.
Rhetoric. She'll do no such thing. OPEC could crush the US economy
with a single meeting.
>Clinton has cast herself as a warrior for working people against the
>oil industry and malicious "speculators," and made that -- along with
>her push for a gas tax holiday -- central to her closing message in
>Indiana.
I have no doubt that under Clinton, the bottom half will see their lot
improve but what's going on now, is campaign rhetoric from all sides.
>It's a potent message, like the attack on "Wall Street money brokers,"
>with deep roots in American politics. It' It's also very hard to
>figure out what exactly she means by the threat to break OPEC.
>
>UPDATE: The Obama campaign points out that Clinton has not signed on
>to cosponsor a bill that aspires "to make oil-producing and ex****ting
>cartels illegal."
Because it would insult the Saudis who could crush our economy with a
single meeting of OPEC?
Swill
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