Department of Energy

With a motivated and focused Congress, zeroing in on NOPEC legislation with enough votes to override the president's ever obstructionist veto, much could happen to solve our energy and global warming nightmare swiftly.

As our so-called friends in Saudi Arabia watch our economy sink into recession, it's clear that the price of Mr. Bush's friendship has become frighteningly expensive to us and the rest of the world.

If there is an administration strategy, its focus is not getting at more oil -- it is laying the groundwork for and successfully rationalizing to a gullible public the ever skyrocketing oil prices.

If anything can be called a success in these bleak seven years, it is the oil industry's triumphal avalanche of riches, having been orchestrated with the White Houses' blessing.

The New York Times article informs us that we, and our dollar, are primarily to blame for the current vertiginous oil prices.

Where is the White House announcing that our Strategic Petroleum Reserve is available and at the ready to make up for any of Hugo's extortionary tactics?

They did it! Through gross inaction and disingenuous lip service, they were able to steer the price of oil from the low twenties at the start of the Bush years to $100 a barrel today.

This administration has done little to confront the looming danger that our consumption of fossil fuels presents to the nation's environment, economy and national security.

In its one-dimensional policies predicated on the stubborn mantra that the oil market is freely traded and working, the administration has helped prop up ever-rising prices.