"The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation on Tuesday allowing the Justice Department to sue OPEC members for limiting oil supplies and working together to set crude prices, but the White House threatened to veto the measure. The bill would subject OPEC oil producers, including Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela, to the same antitrust laws that U.S. companies must follow." http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSWAT00953020080520?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&r pc=22&sp=true
From an international relations perspective, this beggers belief! Firstly, you cant force someone to sell you something! Secondly, US law is NOT global law! Thirdly, these oil rich nations have been investing in the US....that investment would vanish overnight...sending the already weak US economy over the edge (its not as if there are other places to invest money!)
There is no chance that this law would pass, but nothing seems to serve as a better example of the arrogance and complete detachment reality that the US elite seems to have. Someone should remind them that oil is a limited reseource and that planet Earth is not run for the sole benefit of the USA!
So this is really just average on the Washington Stupid Scale. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Hillary actually threatened to break up OPEC.
With what? Her pantsuit?
It would be like McCain promising to put the ay-rabs in their place with his Magic Smile of Doom.
So this is really just average on the Washington Stupid Scale
Which, unfortunately, seems to be calibrated in powers of ten.
No. Remember she's a big gun-nut now. Annie Oakley in a pant suit. And, really, if Obama can't bowl higher than a 37, how can we trust him to stand up to OPEC?
On a good day. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
