[Graeme]

Ralph Nader: Break Up the Big Oil Cartel
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hat a week it has been for the giant oil companies! Billions in record quarterly profits rushing into their coffers. An even bigger round of quarterly profits coming up. Gargantuan executive pay bonanzas. And a pile of "forces beyond our control" excuses to publicize in response to the empty outrage of Washington politicians and the real squeeze on consumers and small businesses.

Oil man Bush, atop his administration marinated with ex-oil executives in high positions, keeps saying there is little he can do. It is the market of supply and demand. Only fuel cells and hydrogen sometime down the 21st-century road can save the country from dependency on foreign oil, he says repeatedly. Plus more drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge.

The small business revolt can start with several hundred economically squeezed truckers bringing their 18 wheelers to Washington in a protest that encircles in a wide arc the Congress and the White House and the federal buildings in between. Now that would be more than a message. It would be an irresistible visual image for the television cameras day after day.

[joewp]

Ralph Nader: Break Up the Big Oil Cartel

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')The small business revolt can start with several hundred economically squeezed truckers bringing their 18 wheelers to Washington in a protest that encircles in a wide arc the Congress and the White House and the federal buildings in between. Now that would be more than a message. It would be an irresistible visual image for the television cameras day after day.

[emersonbiggins]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he small business revolt can start with several hundred economically squeezed truckers bringing their 18 wheelers to Washington in a protest that encircles in a wide arc the Congress and the White House and the federal buildings in between.

[jaws]

Did Nader just endorse the war on Iraq?

[dub_scratch]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Graeme', '[')b]Ralph Nader: Break Up the Big Oil Cartel

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hat a week it has been for the giant oil companies! Billions in record quarterly profits rushing into their coffers. An even bigger round of quarterly profits coming up. Gargantuan executive pay bonanzas. And a pile of "forces beyond our control" excuses to publicize in response to the empty outrage of Washington politicians and the real squeeze on consumers and small businesses.

[Zardoz]

Funny, Ralph didn't mention anything about his complicity in putting Dubya in the White House by siphoning off votes from Gore in 2000.

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he small business revolt can start with several hundred economically squeezed truckers bringing their 18 wheelers to Washington in a protest that encircles in a wide arc the Congress and the White House and the federal buildings in between.

[Yavicleus]

As the saying goes, "When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

[XOVERX]

Nader's old. Obviously out of touch. And uninformed, to boot.

[0mar]

The thing I don't understand is that every single sector of the economy is allowed to profit except for oil. When oil companies profit, something illegal/unethical must be going on. The #1 priority of a corporation is to post higher and higher profits each quarter/year. ExxonMobil is no different. We don't get all huffy and puffy when any other sector in the economy posts record profits, in fact, we laud them.

[mekrob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he thing I don't understand is that every single sector of the economy is allowed to profit except for oil. When oil companies profit, something illegal/unethical must be going on. The #1 priority of a corporation is to post higher and higher profits each quarter/year. ExxonMobil is no different. We don't get all huffy and puffy when any other sector in the economy posts record profits, in fact, we laud them.

[mjdlight]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('0mar', 'T')he thing I don't understand is that every single sector of the economy is allowed to profit except for oil. When oil companies profit, something illegal/unethical must be going on. The #1 priority of a corporation is to post higher and higher profits each quarter/year. ExxonMobil is no different. We don't get all huffy and puffy when any other sector in the economy posts record profits, in fact, we laud them.

[pea-jay]

I used to have respect for old Ralphie. Unfortunately his has slipped further and further out of touch with reality. Instead of bashing oil companies like the rest of the politicians, he could be out bashing car companies for continuing to produce grossly inefficient cars. Or our wasteful lifestyle. If he really wants to chide business for something, how about Globalism? Their desire for companies to outsource jobs and insource labor (mass immigration) is far more detrimental than the actions of whats left of big oil.

Instead he has decided to follow the herds. Nader is irrelevent. Go home ralph.

[Plantagenet]

Accuses them of conspiring to keep his third party off the ballot

dems conspired against Nader

I think its obvious the dems conspired against Nader and other third parties, but is it illegal?

[Plantagenet]

Nader got hit with some dirty tricks, sure, but that is just part of politics. The dems think third parties take their voters and cost them elections, so they conspired with other groups across the U.S. to keep Nader's third party of the ballot but is that a crime or just politics?

[jboogy]

The details are all academic at this point Plantain , our system of electoral politics is broken . We have the MSM conspiring with major corporations and current politicians to keep ALL unapproved candidates from having a chance . The only way a third party guy can get noticed is by spending huge amounts of his own money or having good name recognition to start with . The MSM have failed us.

[threadbear]

Further to your comments, JBoogy, the media coronation, pre-election, has Ghoul-iani (It is Halloween, after all ) in a horse race with Hillary. Hillary is one of the few dem nominees who can be handily defeated by the Ghoul.

John Edwards, a highly photogenic candidate with charisma and a dying wife (what could be better for ratings) pulled numbers indicating he could garner the democrat AND the republican majority. Truly, Edwards republican numbers are 55%! He's the populist they fear, as is Ron Paul.

I'm not a huge fan of Edwards, though he does seem to be the least worst bet after Ron Paul.

Hillary is the designed to fail candidate, as was John Kerry and Gore before him. Though the elections were rigged, the fact that weak candidates are championed by the media, while the strong ones are ignored or slimed, speaks volumes.

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'N')ader got hit with some dirty tricks, sure, but that is just part of politics. The dems think third parties take their voters and cost them elections, so they conspired with other groups across the U.S. to keep Nader's third party of the ballot but is that a crime or just politics?

[Plantagenet]

I agree, Boo.

The collaboration between the dems and repubs and the MSM and the giant corporatocracy is a big reason we need the freedom in the US to have viable third party candidates when the major parties nominate boobs like Kerry and Bush in 2004.

Nader is fighting to save third parties. By filing a lawsuit against the dems he is still "fighting the good fight" to help the little guy, just like he always has done.

[holmes]

at this point anyone aiding and abetting the dems or the repubs need to be tried for treason and sedition and hung or be shot by firing squad.