Source: Wikipedia (The Bush effect added.)
When Bush campaigned for the office of President in 2000, oil sold for $31 a barrel. Jon Stewart and Aasif Mandvi analyze the dynamics of the $104.00 barrel of oil:
AASIF MANDVI: Well, Jon, it’s true, oil prices have reached an all time high. But before consumers do something drastic, like purchase a hybrid—or as I call them, a mutant—consider the fixed costs that go into producing your typical $104 barrel of oil. Right up front, $5 goes to new development of new oil resources. $10 goes to new technology research. $15 a barrel goes to making those commercials where oil companies try to convince you they’re not raping the environment and $25 goes toward blackening the oil.
Jon STEWART: If I may, just very quickly, right there stop you, I was under the impression that oil comes out black.
MANDVI: That’s what Hollywood would have you believe, Jon. No, oil actually comes out of the ground looking like this. A pretty rainbow! And it burns clean. Cruding it up ain’t cheap.
STEWART: Aasif, so that adds, I guess, $55 a barrel to the oil, what about the rest of the cost?
MANDVI: Well, it fluctuates, depending on how chaotic the political situation is. That’s why the Middle East loves George Bush. Without him, oil prices plummet; Middle Eastern revenue streams dry up and the terrorist are having to work second jobs at Bennigans. Or, the Middle Eastern equivalent: Applebee’s.
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