Elect me and oil prices instantly drop, says Hillary Clinton in Iowa

BY MICHAEL McAULIFF
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

Sunday, December 23rd 2007, 4:00 AM

MANCHESTER, N.H. - Hillary Clinton predicted Saturday that just
electing her President will cut the price of oil.

When the world hears her commitment at her inauguration about ending
American dependence on foreign fuel, Clinton says, oil-pumping
countries will lower prices to stifle America's incentive to develop
alternative energy.

"I predict to you, the oil-producing countries will drop the price of
oil," Clinton said, speaking at the Manchester YWCA. "They will once
again assume, once the cost pressure is off, Americans and our
political process will recede."

Clinton argued that former President Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s
actually started moving in the right direction toward energy
independence, but his successor, Ronald Reagan, "dismantled" that
work.

"Because costs were low, people didn't care, didn't complain," she
said.

She warned that folks shouldn't be grateful now if oil countries cut
prices from near $100 a barrel to $60 or $70, and compared it to
trying to boil a frog.

"You put him in hot water, it jumps right out, you put him in cold
water and turn up the heat - he's a goner," she said. "We've got to
figure out how were going to not be the frog in the cold water
anymore."

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Damn bimbo doesn't even understand supply and demand and she want to
run a country?