According to a front page article in the Washington Post this morning, oil prices are going up and there's no reason to think they will ever go down again. "This time it's different," according to the Post. But not all of us are suffering from the price rise. India is putting more cars on the road, enriching the government and manufacturers while ensuring that finite quantities of oil will be distributed ever more widely and at ever greater cost. And John McCain -- who now supports an unrealistic policy to tap and gobble up, at top prices, our finite sources of oil -- is making out like a bandit.
"Campaign contributions from oil industry executives to Sen. John McCain rose dramatically in the last half of June, after the senator from Arizona made a high-profile split with environmentalists and reversed his opposition to the federal ban on offshore drilling.
"Oil and gas industry executives and employees donated $1.1 million to McCain last month -- three-quarters of which came after his June 16 speech calling for an end to the ban -- compared with $116,000 in March, $283,000 in April and $208,000 in May." ... Washington Post, page A10
