{"id":551,"date":"2008-05-22T08:51:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T13:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=551"},"modified":"2008-05-22T08:54:36","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T13:54:36","slug":"saudi-arabia-did-more-last-week-to-lower-gas-prices-than-congress-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=551","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia Did More Last Week to Lower Gas Prices Than Congress Did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?print=yes&amp;id=26608\" target=\"_blank\">HumanEvents.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><br \/>\nSaudi  Arabia Did More Last Week  to Lower Gas Prices Than Congress Did<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Left just doesn&#8217;t seem to get it. They spent much of last week ridiculing the President for visiting Saudi Arabia in an effort to lower oil prices. Here&#8217;s what Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on Friday:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president seems to value his friendship with the Saudis more than his obligation to help the American people with gas prices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But what Senator Schumer doesn&#8217;t seem to understand is that the Saudis did more last week to lower oil prices than liberals in Congress did.<\/p>\n<p>While liberals were voting to prevent domestic production from oil shale, the Saudis, following President Bush&#8217;s visit, agreed to boost their oil output by 300,000 barrels a day. It won&#8217;t fix the problem, but at least it won&#8217;t make it worse, which is exactly what liberals in Congress did last week.<\/p>\n<p>As Americans, we all need to ask ourselves the following: Which is it &#8212; the Congress or Saudi Arabia &#8212; that has a greater obligation to ease our energy prices? And which is the greater obstacle to energy independence and security?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.25pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?print=yes&amp;id=26608\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: HumanEvents.com Saudi Arabia Did More Last Week to Lower Gas Prices Than Congress Did The Left just doesn&#8217;t seem to get it. They spent much of last week ridiculing the President for visiting Saudi Arabia in an effort to lower oil prices. Here&#8217;s what Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on Friday: &#8220;The president seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,1,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}