Futile and stupid gesture

the very definition of US foreign policy.




We used to joke that the US was trying to be Global Police, but now
you can see they're knocking off easy countries for their oil, as
well as knocking them off to raise the price of oil. That makes the
oil companies and speculators richer.

What happens when the US government needs the price of oil to fall
to keep the public from lynching them? Well, the government creates
some new tax loopholes for the oil companies, and pays to clean
up their messes. In udder words, we end up paying for it, twice.
Once at the pumps and again in the tax settlement.