re: #133 GeneJockey

I once had a wingnut tell me the reason why oil prices dropped from record highs in early 2008 to very low in early 2009 had nothing to do with the drop in demand that came with the world economy grinding nearly to a halt, but rather was because Bush had hinted at releasing oil from the strategic reserve.

Funny, I was pretty sure the meme for that one was that he’d opened offshore areas to drilling and that’s what led to the drop in oil prices, despite every one of the states that those areas belonged to immediately taking steps to prevent new offshore drilling.