Bush needs better grip on oil policy

Detroit News columnist Thomas Bray starts this column with a good premise; that Bush is defeating himself by appearing too passive in the face of recent energy news.

After a number of quite level-headed statements, Bray’s conclusions — particularly his implication that soldiers dying for oil is justified — are specious.

The importance of the energy focus in the Presidential campaign is that it brings an opportunity for peak-oilers to show that neither candidate “gets it.”

It’s all about the oil price, stupid.

As petroleum prices inch forward, so does John Kerry