Hillary To Sue OPEC?
Hillary Clinton continued her swipes at Barack Obama in her final swing across North Carolina before the primary vote there Tuesday. Via Balloon-Juice:
Clinton again criticized her opponent for not accepting her gas tax relief proposal saying, “Sen. Obama wants you to pay the gas tax this summer - instead of trying to get it so the oil companies pay it out of their record profit. I believe that we should start standing up for the vast majority of Americans who are paying these outrageous prices.”
I’m confused by this. I thought both her and McCain were simply going to drop the tax for the summer. Now she’s talking about making big oil pay the tax temselves? What? Is big oil aware of Hill’s new plans? (I bet they’re nervous!)
Hillary also talked about a possible lawsuit…
Clinton also said that as president, she would try to sue OPEC — the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which controls the price of two-thirds of the world’s oil supply.
“We-re going to go after OPEC which remember is a monopoly cartel,” Clinton said. “There’s nothing free-market about it. They sit in some conference room a couple of times a year and decide how much oil they are going to produce and how much they are going to charge for it. So lets change our laws so we can sue them on anti-trust reasons.”
What say we all meet back here in about an hour so we can have a group eye-rolling?
