Oh, what the heck.
On ABC’s This Week this AM, host George Stephanopoulos interviewed Chuck Schumer and oil lobbyist Bennett Johnson, former Dem Senator from Louisiana, about the price of gas. Schumer, as you’ll see from my brief show notes (taken from the review at RedState.com), was particularly hilarious:
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CHUCKIE AND BENNETT ON TW. Steph’s next guests were Chuck Schumer and oil lobbyist (former Senator, D-Louisiana) Bennett Johnston to talk about the price of oil and gas. Johnston said it was a supply and demand thing, and that the price would go down. Schumer argued that we should take action against OPEC and the five major oil companies. Steph argued that the oil company mergers cause higher prices.
Johnston urged Chuck to help keep the U.S. from “rattling sabers at Iran.” Why? Because, he said, Hezbollah would give us $100/gallon crude oil and $6.00/gallon gasoline if we bombed Iran. He did not address, despite Steph’s weak question, a nuclear-armed Iran.
Schumer declared that we need a “Manhattan Project” for alternative fuels, adding that the Administration believes that what is good for Exxon is good for the country. He wants to engage, he said, in some “old-fashioned trust busting.”
Johnston recalled having voted for a windfall profits tax against oil companies [Jimmy Carter’s] which turned out to have been a terrible mistake and had to be repealed.
