A failed oilman talks about failed oil

The Permian Basin POTUS, beating Punxsutawney Phil to the punch by a little more than 24 hours, stuck his head out in public last night, saw the threatening shadow of GOP defeat this fall, and proclaimed something that we already know: We’re “addicted to oil.”

The dreaded “peak oil” theory, ignored by most of the GOP until now, finally rated a peek by the Pennsylvania Avenue groundhog.

But this one’s a bad movie: When we woke up this morning, George W. Bush was still president.

Talk about an endless loop: Bush, the failed “oilman” who is the son of a rich guy who himself dabbled in oil, wouldn’t be the U.S. president if we weren’t addicted to oil, and his family’s pals in the oil bidness hadn’t propped him up with their outrageous profits. And all he was doing in his State of the Union address was mouthing what one of his mentors, billionaire Richard Rainwater, has been saying recently.

Village Voice