Today's TRMS
Doesn't McCain just have the most wicked sense of humor?! And yes we mean wicked, not in the Bostonian way, but in the "of the West" kind of way. Especially now that he has publicly tried to persuade his wife to compete in a topless beauty pageant at a biker rally in South Dakota. Now, what would Nancy Reagan do...?
On today's show Rachel will be talking to Greg Sargent from Talking Point Memo about the thousands of dollars Hess Corporation-- an oil company-- funneled into McCain's campaign just around the time of his pro-offshore drilling announcement.
And then Paul Rieckhoff from Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America joins us to talk about the $300 million granted to study post-traumatic stress disorder
Seriously? Right now we get
Seriously?
Right now we get 7 million barrels a day from the US and 13.7 million barrels per day from other countries. With the proposed drilling, assuming that they actually opened up new refineries, something they haven't done with all the land leases they already have, we'd get 6.8 million barrels a day from the US and 13.5 million barrels from other countries.
So that's 1% less oil coming from foreign countries. And that's going to change gas prices by more than a few cents? Really?
People are being told that this is going to seriouly affect gas prices. Even if you're right, it's still a 4 cent difference.
That's a scam.
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By Jason M. BryantAugust 5, 2008 - 6:53pm