VIDEO: Cavuto Slams Schumer For Pushing Price Gouging Investigation, Ignores Top Conservatives
VIDEO: Cavuto Slams Schumer For Pushing Price Gouging Investigation, Ignores Top Conservatives
Yesterday on Fox News, Neil Cavuto slammed Sen. Chuck Schumer for advocating an investigation into oil company price gouging. Cavuto accused Schumer of “playing games” and “motor[ing] past the facts.” Watch it:
Surprisingly, Cavuto didn’t have any criticism for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL) or President Bush. Frist and Hastert announced last week that they would ask for Bush to open an investigation into price gouging. Bush has done so and will publicly announced the investigations this morning.
After all, Schumer just requested an investigation. Bush actually ordered one. We’ll be waiting for Cavuto’s denuciation of Bush this afternoon.
Transcript:
CAVUTO: Well, I see that Chuck Schumer wants to investigate the oil companies for price gouging. Why doesn’t he ask his fellow politicians to do the same – about tax gouging? After all, oil companies’ profit works out to about nine cents a gallon. Taxes more like fifty cents a gallon. But you don’t hear him whining about the taxes. After all, that’s an easy source of revenue for a monotonous list of social programs whose failures are legendary. Better to keep funding them through taxes that are killing us than demanding accountability due all of us.
Look, if you want to bring gas prices down, Senator, start offering solutions and stop playing games. Start opening areas for more oil exploration here, so we don’t rely on oil from over there. Start ending the environmental catchpenny of blended fuel mandates that’s done squat to clean our air, but done tons to sully our wallets. Start removing the restrictions that prevent companies like Wal-Mart from selling more gasoline here, and start demanding the same accountability of our tax dollars that you do oil giants’ dollars. You do motorists no good, Senator, when you motor past the facts, and only stop for an open microphone. No one is a saint in this process Senator – least of all, you.
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Who cares what Cuvuto says about anything > he is a FOX News whore, like Tony Snow!
April 25th, 2006 at 10:29 amHe’s talking about opening up ANWR to oil drilling, of course (like they’re ever gonna let that one go). Does anyone have reliable figures on how much of the oil we bring in through the Alaskan Pipeline gets sold outside this country? Or is 100% of the oil sold inside the US? (I thought I had heard that we export some, but I want to be certain.)
Hypocrisy, thy name is “Cavuto”.
April 25th, 2006 at 10:31 amLook, if you want to bring gas prices down, Senator, start offering solutions and stop playing games.
That’s the only thing in his entire rant that wasn’t nonsense. And only if you direct it at all of Washington D.C. We need our elected representatives to fix the problem instead of wasting our tax dollars on what is sure to be a minkey chasing weasels around a mulberry bush. STop the rhetoric and do something pro-active, Sentaors, the whole lot of you cashing your yearly $165,200 pay check for serving the public. Sheesh!
April 25th, 2006 at 10:32 amThat was one severe owning Jud!
April 25th, 2006 at 10:34 amFunny how the segment is titled “Common Sense.” I guess Neil doesn’t think it makes any “sense” to look into an industry that was found to have carried out price gouging in California, authored the administration’s energy policy, had record profits last year, and is one of the most-subsidized industries in the U.S. Consumers are being ripped off by the oil industry while oil industry executives and politicians-for-sale are getting rich.
April 25th, 2006 at 10:35 amPost 2 most of Alaska’s oil gets sold to Japan, but nobody in the press ever seems to mention it! If the idea is to destroy the natural beauty of Alaska to help the Japanese, then screw it and let the oil remain in the ground forever!
April 25th, 2006 at 10:36 amHe forgot to suggest “raise CAFE standards,” which is the most effective solution available. Hmmm… seems like that would make sense, but it’s not in the corrupt Republican’s talking points.
April 25th, 2006 at 10:37 amHe’s talking about opening up ANWR to oil drilling, of course.
Comment by Wayne A. Schneider — April 25, 2006 @ 10:31 am
What short-sighted nonsense, huh? They need to leave ANWR alone.
Ethanol seems to be a more viable alternative while we are working on hydrogen fuels. Hydrogen works for nature (how stars burn), so clearly, it would be the least damaging to the environment. There’s also solar power, wind power and water power. It’s not like we don’t know what to research… It’s just that The White House won’t compromise its relationship with Big Oil. They are a disgrace to their positions.
April 25th, 2006 at 10:38 amPoor Neil…forgot to read his White House updated talking points before the broadcast. Maybe when Tony Snow is Press Secretary, Fox will be able to do a better job of coordinating the daily spin from the White House. It’s good to see we will finally have a “Fair and Balanced” Press Secretary…it won’t be long now before the publics trust is restored…yea, right!
read more observations here:
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April 25th, 2006 at 10:41 amHe was talking to Shumer. If he were talking to Frist, he would have gotten the same treatment. Washington makes more money off gas sales than the oil companies do.
April 25th, 2006 at 10:42 amOnce again, Cavuto proves that common sense isn’t common.
April 25th, 2006 at 10:42 amThe Very Hungry Caterpillars
Turned into natty moths flew to the beloved light, and died.
April 25th, 2006 at 10:43 amYour correct Jay, and the ANWA site, all of it would go to Japan even though it is thought to be a mere 6 month’s supply. I personaly think that the ANWA site is not so much about the oil as the huge pay offs and right offs by this administration to the oil companies along with land grabs and take overs….Bull shit Bush is still talking on the tube….Tune in to C-Span and see what they are not doing instead……..Blessings
April 25th, 2006 at 10:44 am“After all, oil companies’ profit works out to about nine cents a gallon.”
I believe its nine cents a dollar, but I could be wrong.
April 25th, 2006 at 10:47 amSorry for the error thats ANWR……
April 25th, 2006 at 10:47 amFaux Nutwork
April 25th, 2006 at 10:48 amI think you guys are guilty of torture. I pity the poor person who actually has to endure Neil’s complicated rambling without his subject of attack being there to respond. He might as well pick on the handicapped.
April 25th, 2006 at 10:54 amI wonder if he includes the war in that “monotonous list of social programs whose failures are legendary”?
April 25th, 2006 at 10:55 amPerhaps Cavuto is not going to criticize the Republicans calling for an investigation because he expects they’re nothing but show (which is reasonable to suspect).
April 25th, 2006 at 10:55 amPost 13 our government would subsidize the drilling of the oil in ANWR, so basically it is just another givaway to the Oil industry CEOs! Alaska’s oil is very thick and tar like > actually more expensive to refine into gasoline! The State of Alaska would be better served to end the quest for more oil production, and keep its natural beauty for tourism and wildlife protection!
April 25th, 2006 at 10:55 amAcc. to CBS, the White House has said this just a few minutes ago:
Mr. Bush also planned to announce that his attorney general and Federal Trade Commission will send a letter to all 50 state attorneys general, who have primary authority over price gouging, to remind them to stay on top of the issue and offer federal help to do so.
So, yes, it would appear that Cavuto forgot to read his talking points memo.
April 25th, 2006 at 10:58 am#21 – o “REMIND” them? Yeah, as usual Bush is doing everything he can to protect the oil companies, er the taxpayers wallets!
April 25th, 2006 at 11:03 amOil companies pay taxes? Who? And how many? I thought they were all registered off-shore, so they can avoid paying taxes. They receive ‘Corporate Welfare’ handouts, courtesy of U.S taxpayers, while purposely evading paying their fair share of taxes here. You need to GET BACK Loretta!!! And you need to stop using “Sharpies” to ‘enhance your receding hairline, you look like a fat Eddie Munster.
April 25th, 2006 at 11:18 amWhere does Fox find these clowns?
April 25th, 2006 at 11:24 amWhere does Fox find these clowns?
Comment by New Kid in town — April 25, 2006 @ 11:24 am
The big top? ;)
April 25th, 2006 at 11:30 amWhy does TP give FoxNews the time of day?!?!
April 25th, 2006 at 11:31 amWho takes FOX news seriously… They are a joke. Good ratings but so does entertainment tonight. Neil doesn’t look so good either.
April 25th, 2006 at 11:33 amPost 23 the Oil Cartels pay next to nothing in taxes for the United States! Chavez in Venezuela makes them pay taxes and royalties on the oil production in his nation > reason why Bush calls for Chavez to be overthrown or murdered! Americans must demand that all the givaways to the oil industry CEASE! The petroleum CEOs should be told to pay taxes and royalties in America, or we nationalize the industry and seize all their refineries, tankers, etc.!
April 25th, 2006 at 11:33 amif poodles could talk, ….. sorry, forgot
April 25th, 2006 at 11:38 amWasn’t cavuto a child star? I’m pretty sure he played Eddie on The Munsters. I am I right?
April 25th, 2006 at 11:44 amI really think that it necessary to stand the current political debate on its head. WE are now the conservatives, and the OTHER folk are the radicals. Time was that fifty years ago, we progressive/liberals would have been considered Eisenhower republicans (no wonder Stevenson, whom I liked, couldn’t get traction). WE are trying to preserve the American way and THEY are trying to establish a ‘Handmaids Tale’-type theocracy. As a scientist, too, I am absolutely livid at the push to marginalize science. The Rapture can’t come soon enough; us sinners are quite happy in our reality-based existence and would be happy to live in peace.
The new meme has to be that America’s manifest destiny is progressive; we may have the initiative because we are in fact the nation with the most objective power, but we are one among other nations, and must listen. It really is a bit much to assume we are right ALL the time (ask my wife).
April 25th, 2006 at 11:45 amMr. Bush also planned to announce that his attorney general and Federal Trade Commission will send a letter to all 50 state attorneys general, who have primary authority over price gouging, to remind them to stay on top of the issue and offer federal help to do so.
So, yes, it would appear that Cavuto forgot to read his talking points memo.
Comment by swank — April 25, 2006 @ 10:58 am
This must be that “guns and badges” strategery for stopping Bush’s falling poll numbers. It’s like the town drunk saying that as sheriff he’ll be most effective at catching drunk drivers because he has so much experience driving drunk.
April 25th, 2006 at 11:49 amWhat a hateful misguided idiot. I wanted to shower after just reading the transcript clip.
April 25th, 2006 at 12:05 pmIt’s like the town drunk saying that as sheriff he’ll be most effective at catching drunk drivers because he has so much experience driving drunk.
Comment by barfly — April 25, 2006 @ 11:49 am
Well, then, we’re in luck. Both the President and the Vice President (who once shot a 78-year-old man in the face and then considered it a private matter) have got that covered. No need to worry about drunk drivers with them on the watch.
April 25th, 2006 at 12:11 pmCorrect. Most of the oil that flows through the Alaska pipeline is sold to Japan. Why? Ask Exxon.
None of what Bush talked about this morning will be implemented. This is all lip service in an effort to prop up the pukes in the upcoming mid-terms. All he knows about energy conservation is what he reads that is in front of him, thoughts of his speech writers.
He made a tremendous error this morning, stating that cars could run on 85% ethanol. I think it is the opposite.
Did he mention conservation? No, just ways to get people on the road and use as much gasoline as possible.
April 25th, 2006 at 12:13 pmWhen Lee Raymond receives 348 million dollars in compensation, the Weimar Republic is here.
Stop driving. Don’t buy gas. The price of gas will drop if none is sold. It is as simple as that.
Your car is a millstone these days. Stop driving.
If you don’t buy gas, the price will drop.
Repeat if necessary.
April 25th, 2006 at 12:18 pmBy the way, let’s not forget that Air Force One needs forty-seven thousand gallons of jet fuel to fill her up.
America is mired in the muck of Katrina devastation.
Once more: If you stop driving, the price of gas will fall.
April 25th, 2006 at 12:22 pmPost 36 Ron > the Oil Cartel CEOs know that Americans are addicted to driving their cars, so they know they can keep the price going up! Oil industry basically destroyed public transportation system in America! Railroads are in disrepair, subways rotting away, bus service shoddy > in Europe you can push your car over a cliff, because rail and bus service are better than driving there!
April 25th, 2006 at 12:26 pmCavuto looks like someone who deserves to be slapped or punched. Just like O’Lielly, Hannity, Snow, Hume and the rest of the FourthReich of propaganda journalist.
April 25th, 2006 at 12:44 pmThis reminds me an SNL skit making fun of Bill O’Reilly a few years back. Bill (played by Darrell Hammond, I think) complained about doctors receiving a federal grant to research cancer. “C’mon,” he shouts, “Don’t research cancer! Cure it!”
April 25th, 2006 at 12:48 pmI have set a goal of reducing my gas usage to 50%. It’s not so tough, I did a great of descretionary traveling. Didn’t really realize how much until I started cutting back.
But that’s not gonna really change the oil/gas companies’ behavior. The gas companies didn’t like the EPA rules, so they starved us of gas to provide a pretext for Bush to suspend the EPA rules. Simple. Mean. Unpatriotic. Greedy. And that’s just Bush! The gas companies should be nationalized and right away. It’s an essential resource that we really can’t afford to have in the hands of privateers.
April 25th, 2006 at 1:14 pmwhat else do you expect? i mean – after all, that bouffant-haired wanker is merely spewing the Rovian talking points of the day. he’s seen what happens to teh good boys who play the game and spew the same crap as their political masters (everyone give a Shout Out to Tony Snow! wealthy white boy from the burbs makes it big time!)
all this worry about high gas prices is overblown. i mean, after all, once we invade iran, prices will go down (right Stevie Forbes? i mean, you did say that on Fox news too)
April 25th, 2006 at 1:34 pmYes, but the results of the Bush ‘investigation’ are a foregone conclusion. Schumer’s might actually consider the evidence and data.
April 25th, 2006 at 1:35 pm#41 I agree, Solitaire. We should nationalize the oil industry. If oil really is such a national security concern (meaning, I expect, that the security of our nation depends on the free access to oil), then why is its exploration, recovery, refinement, distribution and price all left up to the market? Isn’t that trying to have it both ways? It’s important, but so important that we have to deny greedy people (no other term for them) a chance to take in (not “earn”) huge profits?
April 25th, 2006 at 1:49 pmSorry, that should read “not so important that…”.
April 25th, 2006 at 1:51 pmDidn’t you make some big stink about the WaPo deleting posts? Oh, that was them….
April 25th, 2006 at 3:39 pmhttp://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Democrats_to_propose_cutting_gas_tax_0425.html
OK, Cavuto…
Ummm. It looks like the DEMs ARE doing something about those gas taxes.
Oh, and Cavuto– Those Federal gas taxes are used to keep the roads paved, and bridges safe… Somewhere, out there, Neil, is an axle-breaking pothole, and a crumbling overpass just WAITING to meet you– you PUTZ.
April 25th, 2006 at 4:01 pm–mf
After all, Schumer just requested an investigation. Bush actually ordered one.HAHAHAHAHA. He ordered an investigation into the White House leaks, too!
April 25th, 2006 at 5:51 pmWHAT A FAT PIECE OF GARBAGE.
April 25th, 2006 at 6:45 pmLet’s get real though, folks. Here we are going after those who make money (we all like to make money right?), but we aren’t saying anything to those who are making double the profit of the oil companies without investing a dime or hour into the product. We, the government/taxpayers, should demand that those who collect our taxes to stop collecting upon us, but instead collect upon the oil company’s profits. Big taxers like Schumer (in this video clip) not only taxed Exxon’s profits, but then taxed us at the pump. Nobody’s asking Schumer to quit taxing Exxon, just quit taxing us at the same time on the already taxed product.
April 27th, 2006 at 4:53 pmI think we should keep an eye on the “Blue Fund”. I know if I were someone with avangance toward our country I would channel all the money I could into the Blue Fund to help the bleeding heart liberals such as Murtha get into power so they could cause another 911, as they did when clinton went to sleep at the switch…
June 24th, 2006 at 12:27 pm