Dick Cheney and Oil Prices

I seem to recall years ago, when I was in college (1980's), when then congressman dick Cheney said that high oil prices were not a big dea for America. How come the Kerry camp is allowing the shrub forces to use the 50 cent tax discussionlike Kerry tried to write in the Constitution against him. But, the Kerry people do not use Cheney's position on high oil prices against dickie-boy.
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people! I haven't ever heard of Cheney saying that before. Hoepfully, his words can be found!

I thought the bush and cheney carpooling joke was rather leaden. A little bit of a disconnect with the lives of normal people? I wrote to them suggesting they turn
that "troubling" word they're using against them. what could possibly be more troubling than all the shit that has happened under cheneybush. Those are expensive ads there're throwing at Kerry. We need to take their branding and shove it back down their throats.

high gas prices

Kerry gets the blame

the bushgang and their oil cronies get the inflated profits.

In October 1986, when Dick Cheney was the lone congressman from energy-rich Wyoming, he introduced legislation to create a new import tax that would have caused the price of oil, and ultimately the price of gasoline paid by drivers, to soar by billions of dollars per year.

"Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States," Mr. Cheney, who is now vice president, said shortly after introducing the legislation.

Oil prices had plunged to $15 from nearly $40 a barrel in the early 1980's, as Saudi Arabia flooded world markets, and Mr. Cheney argued the tax was needed to stabilize oil-state economies devastated as a result. But other lawmakers, including some Republicans, criticized the Cheney plan and similar proposals as "snake oil" that would throw 400,000 Americans out of work.

Yet the cost of Mr. Cheney's plan ultimately would have been passed on to drivers and other consumers through higher prices on gasoline and other refined petroleum products. In addition, he said in a February 1987 statement, he supported the tax partly because it would "assist us in reducing our budget deficit."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/06/politics/06CHEN.html