[Cashmere]

This is the most disgraceful comment yet by a U.S. Congressperson regarding oil in the world . . .

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Senator Herb Kohl', '"')Without this legislation, we are powerless to stop Opec from engaging in blatantly anti-competitive practices like collusion and price-fixing that leaves us at their mercy. If private companies engaged in such an international price-fixing conspiracy, it would be illegal. Nopec will give our government a crucial tool to combat the illegal actions of the Opec cartel."

[SILENTTODD]

He's from Wisconsin. They don't have any oil there.

[yull]

It is OPEC's oil - it is in their countries, they own it. They can do what they want with it. They have no obligation to give it to us and should in the future they want to cut back on production to avoid over stressing their fields and preserve more oil for their future generations, who can blame them. Probably means catastrophe for us but hey.

I agree though, I can see World War III over this. It's easy to share equally in times of plenty, when times are scarce that doesn't tend happen. People will want the oil for themselves at the expense of other nations. Imagine China invading Saudi Arabia to secure all their oil production their economy, the US is hardly going to sit back.

[Twilight]

It must sounds like petulant whining over there.

Got a problem with price? Use less. Simple.

[grampybone]

Typical U.S. thinking. Lets demand more of another countries resource at their expense so we can maintain our wastefull lifestyle here in America. Lets threaten to sue OPEC for price colusion because it's not fair that they have a valuable resource that the whole world wants and is willing to pay more for it. How stupid.

[Cloud9]

A boob pandering to an ignorant public.

[wisconsin_cur]

And he is not that good of a senator on any account... if we could get a Republican worth anything to run against him (and I say this as a Dem... be it a "blue dog") I would be very happy to see him retire into obscurity.