Sue for cheap gasoline!

[Mo_Gearhead]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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.

The measure passed in a 324-84 vote, a big enough margin to override a presidential veto.

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Brilliant!

From the same individuals that believe that 'enemy combatant's' (captured on the battlefield) deserve U.S. taxpayer payed attorneys and a day in court; Our elected officials believe that we should go to court and DEMAND cheap gasoline?

(Oh, please ...just go back to steroid investigations and REAL problems.)

We can only HOPE that asteroid, racing towards Earth, hits D.C. (and that would also confirm the existance of a God and end that thread!)

[widgeon13]

It will accomplish nothing for the US to sue OPEC, just make us look like the moron's we are in the world's view.

Every freakin one of them should be shot/fired/ booted out the door. When will this insanity come to an end?

[Nathans_Dad]

Gee, the US suing a sovereign nation in US courts...yeah this is a whole lot more than Congressional pandering. NOT.

[Dennis Kalma]

If there ever was support for the ROW view that the US does not understand anything outside of its borders and has a unreasonable view of how the ROW should view it....this is it.

It is proof that the intelligence of groups of people is much less than the whole...I just can't believe it...

And to think, I am normally a US supporter....

Sigh

Dennis

[Red Baron]

We'd be better off carpet bombing their asses,

[Rick Lee]

Originally Posted by Dennis Kalma

If there ever was support for the ROW view that the US does not understand anything outside of its borders and has a unreasonable view of how the ROW should view it....this is it.

It is proof that the intelligence of groups of people is much less than the whole...I just can't believe it...

And to think, I am normally a US supporter....

Sigh

Dennis

I couldn't agree more. I wonder what our Congress could do to embarrass me further. Wait. Don't answer.

[dd74]

Sue OPEC? We should sue Congress for coming up with stupid ideas like suing OPEC.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Can't we somehow fire them all and start over? My God this is stupid.......

[cgarr]

Certain things are best left to the Military, I cant wait till SA needs their a$$'s saved again....

[tabs]

If the Dems win by a landslide in November America is DONE.... you will then be living in UTOPIA. Where your every want and need is taken care of by the government who will do all your thinking for you , as you are not FIT to think for your self. You might just run amok and want to eat a Big Mac, smoke a cigarette, own a gun, drive a SUV, or object to an enlightened government that knows better than you do. Ahhhhh I can hardly wait, thinking for yourself is so tiresome.

[Jim Richards]

Sue OPEC? WTF? I thought I detected the aroma of glue in the air.

[Rikao4]

the Goverment of Burma is starting to look sane.

I would say God help us..but he's laughing,

Rika

[Porsche-O-Phile]

I'd rather them be grandstanding about crap like this than focusing on new ways to destroy the middle class.

It's a pretty sad state of affairs when we have to choose between government ineptitude or government actively working to destroy America. I choose the former.

[ckissick]

Remember, Congress has even lower approval ratings than Bush.

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by Nathans_Dad

Gee, the US suing a sovereign nation in US courts...yeah this is a whole lot more than Congressional pandering. NOT.

Not exactly the same, but I do remember this.

Exxon Mobil “No Longer Welcome” in Venezuela
http://ecoworldly.com/2008/02/16/exxon-mobil-no-longer-welcome-in-venezuela/

The world’s larges oil corporation, Exxon Mobil, is no longer welcome to do business in Venezuela.

This follows from a lawsuit in which Exxon convinced international courts to freeze $12 billion USD in assets of Venezuelan oil company, PDVSA–ten times their original investment, according to the the Venezuelan Minister of Energy and Petroleum and President of the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, Rafael Ramírez.

When Hugo Chavez cuts the US off, things are going to get ugly fast. These will be the good old day of $4.00 a gallon gasoline.

[Nathans_Dad]

I'm still waiting for the Democrat controlled Congress to fix everything like they promised to...

I'm not sure I will hold my breath though.

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by Nathans_Dad

I'm still waiting for the Democrat controlled Congress to fix everything like they promised to...

I'm not sure I will hold my breath though.

The Dem's don't even have half the Senate when people are sick, plus there are independents and Lieberman keeps voting with the Republicans.

Democrat controlled Congress.........far from it.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2007/12/senate_talk_of_60_fades.html

For any Senate strategist, 60 seats is the proverbial Holy Grail.

I heard on Charlie Rose the same thing, there is no clear Senate majority.

[Hugh R]

Effing brilliant! What do we do when OPEC says eff you USA, and sells all their oil for a few months to everyone else.

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

Effing brilliant! What do we do when OPEC says eff you USA, and sells all their oil for a few months to everyone else.

What if Hugo teams up with OPEC and cuts us off 100%

Canada, sorry but we think you have WMD's.

Here it is, China must fall and fall hard. That earthquake is a good start.
http://www.finfacts.ie/finfactsblog/2007/10/ozone-mans-vindication.html

[Rikao4]

we hope for change