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National Security?
Now that the President’s been told that rising gas prices are a matter of national security, he’s announced he’s going to do something about the problem. My guess is he’ll use take the same political skills and resources of his high office that he’s used on other national security issues (like the hunt for bin Laden, securing the borders and preventing unstable states like North Korea, Pakistan and Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons) and gas will be at $4.00 per gallon by Labor Day. Tempted to say Independence Day, but given the state of utter depedence we’re in, that would just be too ironic.
Why couldn’t he have said it was an economic problem? Then we might have a chance.
penalties, regulations, antitrust, price controls — whatever the Politics of Pull feels like at the moment. It seems that oil is a key lubricant for the gears of Leviathan. — Howling Pointreminds us that the Defender-in-Chief also called rising gas prices “a matter of national security.” Which I suppose means that he has, under this Administration’s “Chief-in-Chief” theory of Article II power, plenary authority over the oil industry. Stay tuned.