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August 31, 2005

The Right Men in the Right Job At the Right Time

It's just a thought but, now that Hurricane Katrina has temporarily knocked out a tenth of our nation's oil refining capacity and a third of our domestic oil production, we're rather fortunate to have a president and a vice president who understand the oil bidness.

By releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and temporarily waiving environmental regulations that force refiners to formulate a zillion different kinds of gasoline, the Bush administration has taken two major steps to offset Katrina's negative impact on energy supply, production and prices.

Photo: Kroger gas station, Columbia Ave., Franklin, Tennessee, 8:30 p.m, Wednesday night. The Market Express station down the road had gas, but not the cheapest regular blend. The next station down the road, a Shell, had plenty of everything.

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"we're rather fortunate to have a president and a vice president who understand the oil bidness."

Yeah, we caught quite the break on that one.

Posted by: A. C. Kleinheider at August 31, 2005 08:51 PM

awww....the rich folks in williamson county won't be able to drive their hummers for a day or two... :(

Posted by: Pete at September 1, 2005 02:26 AM

Certainly a shareholder in any major petroleum company would agree. I'm not sure the people who couldn't afford a tank of gas to leave New Orleans would share your sentiment.

Posted by: BlairBlvd at September 1, 2005 06:52 AM

BlairBlvd,

Are those the same peple who hijacked a nursing home bus? I guess they needed it to get of town; I'm sure they didn't want it to haul away big screen TV's

Posted by: george Rand at September 1, 2005 08:56 AM

Well, we DID leave the foxes in charge of the henhouse. What did we expect? Prices were already through the roof.

Posted by: Jason R. Cox at September 1, 2005 10:02 AM

"we're rather fortunate to have a president and a vice president who understand the oil bidness."

Wow, who'd have guessed that oil would have come up in the nation running department? This is quite the coincidence.

Posted by: Scotch at September 1, 2005 03:42 PM
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