Bush this week began hammering at Gore for failing to exert enough pressure on the oil-producing nations to boost supplies. Bush contrasted the way his father, former president Bush, dealt with the oil cartel with the way President Clinton has performed in the diplomatic arena.
''These are countries with which we should have an enormous amount of capital,'' Bush said during a campaign appearance. ''These are countries where it wasn't that long ago that a President Bush helped Kuwait, or a United States helped Mexico, and I think the fundamental question is, `Why can't the administration get anything done on the diplomatic side?'''
But, what do we see now?
The average retail price of a a gallon of gasoline topped $3 in the United States last week, the highest price in 25 years, according to the latest nationwide Lundberg survey released Sunday.
The national average for self-serve, regular unleaded gas was $3.0150 per gallon on July 21, a rise of almost 2 cents per gallon from two weeks ago when the average was $2.9952, the survey of about 7,000 gas stations said.
Once again, we told you so...
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