Ben Smith's Blog - Politico.comOkay - how about we try actually INCREASING the supply of domestic oil?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 Exporting Countries.
"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 crowd at a firehouse in Merrillville, IN.
"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.
Wait - I forgot. The Oil Companies are evil. We can't let them drill. Or build refinery capacity. So - we're stuck dealing with OPEC.
Why is it I keep seeing that Democrats haven't got a clue when it comes to actually solving problems, but are very good at proposing hig-flying solutions which won't address the problem? First Hillary blamed the oil comapnies - wanted to tax them to death. Now, it's OPEC she's after.
Well, I understand it'll take years to get more oil even if we start today. But junk like this isn't going to solve the problem in either the long or the short run.
It does, however, offer an interesting clue into Hillary's mental state - if she thinks she can threaten OPEC and get away with it - she's crazy.
J.