Immediately after Hurricane Ike devastated a chunk of the Gulf Coast, you could count on the issue of oil creeping into the first few sentences of every newscast. How high will the "Ike spike" go? Are we being gouged at the pump? Everyone knows we're more addicted to oil than ever. We've learned nothing from the gas lines of 1974 and 1979. Jimmy Carter was the last President to put forward a real energy plan, and nothing has happened since, no matter what party was in power. Where are the candidates on this issue? Why hasn't the President ever addressed the nation in primetime with some plan of attack? Maybe that's why someone like T. Boone Pickens felt the need to step forward and get the conversation in gear - the way it should have been in since the oil embargo of late 1973. It's called leadership... setting the tone. Oil affects everyone's constituency.
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may be the president knows people wont listen now...
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