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Second, we learned that there is something fundamentally wrong with any country or entity that would be so cruel as to not increase production in order to relieve the masses of the burden of increased fuel costs, and the cascading effect on all other costs.

Third, based on the first and second points, the Saudis are therefore NOT our friends and allies, and could be considered our enemies. In any case, they don't have the US's best interest in mind.

So where do we stand today? Well, Republicans have failed to get the Democrats to increase domestic oil production. We can now pontificate again on several counts.

First, the Republicans failed to increase production. Apparently the Democrats accepted, in this case, that increased production would NOT lower prices immediately. Fair enough, but they also insist that it would ultimately only lower price a few cents or so. We're talking adding more oil to the market than is available in all of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, and Venezuela, but for some reason, this addition would not lower price. They want to add less oil via tapping the Strategic Oil Reserve which would only provide a mere fraction of our overall usage and insist that action would reduce price, but the addition of orders of magnitude more oil won't do the same. In any case, the Democrats won't increase domestic oil production.

The second count still stands: it's cruel to not increase production to relieve the masses of the burden of increased fuel costs. Anyone who does this is fundamentally wrong.

Using the same formulation used against the Saudis, the Democrats are by their own measure NOT our friends and allies, and should be considered our enemies. In any case, they don't have the US's best interest in mind.

If the Saudis are "buttheads" for not producing more oil, aren't the Democrats the same by their own formulations? I believe this fits the very definition of "hoisted by their own petard."

p>And the Dems look so good in petards! br> -- Karl F. Auerbach br> Eden, Utah /p> p> TWO THINK AS ONE br> Re: Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder

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