OPEC & Other Criminals

I would like to know how the following qualifies as anything more than a really lousy excuse for rising gas prices this Monday:

AP: “Crude prices came under increased pressure Monday after the 150,000-ton tanker Takayama was struck off the coast of Yemen as it headed for Saudi Arabia, its Japanese operator, Nippon Yusen K.K., said in a statement posted on its Web site. None of the ship’s 23 crew members was injured, but several hundreds of gallons of fuel leaked before a 1-inch hole in the tanker’s stern was repaired, the company said.”

Several hundred gallons? OH GOD, STOP THE PRESSES! We’re doomed now, for sure. No wonder we’re paying $3.60 a gallon after such a DEVASTATING loss!

 

Also, OPEC…kiss my arse. really. What the hell is this about:

AP: “Comments over the weekend by an OPEC official that the group was not likely to increase production also supported prices Monday. Abdalla Salem el-Badri, secretary-general of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, said Sunday that oil prices would likely go higher and that the group was ready to raise production if the price pressure was due to a shortage of supply — something he doubted.”

Riiiiiiiiiight. It’s all good. You’re making billions with this crap, after all. Why should us petty mortals be given a fair price? Here, let me bend over…do me again, Sam.

~ by zenfoxeleven on April 21, 2008.