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Anyone who has paid for a tank of home heating oil recently knows the problem is real. Heating oil now costs 67% more than it did a year ago; depleted inventories and high worldwide demand, along with forecasts of a colder than average winter, are expected to boost prices even higher. Last week 111 members of Congress--Democrats and Republicans, mostly from the Northeast and the Midwest--sent a letter to Clinton asking him to deploy the SPR. To dramatize the problem Friday, Gore held an event in Pittsburgh that featured a number of people battered by rising oil prices...
...appearing likable on Regis and Oprah is as important as doing well in the debates? Really, how much do we have to like the guy whose job is grappling with international crises? It's not as if we're going to be invited over for hoedowns on Saturday night. Even Clinton could squeeze in only 404 sleepovers a year...
...move, Gore could again paint Bush and Cheney as a ticket "of Big Oil, by Big Oil and for Big Oil." When Bush and Cheney stressed their plan to increase domestic oil production by opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to drilling, the Gore team was even happier. They quickly reminded reporters that Cheney's former firm, Halliburton, would reap windfall profits from such a move...
...Even so, the issue is by no means risk-free for Gore. It reinforces his image as a malleable pol, so it's worth examining why he claims to have changed his mind. In February, when Bill Bradley, his primary opponent, proposed tapping the reserve to aid homeowners, Gore said the move wouldn't help boost supply, because if oil-producing countries retaliated by cutting production, "they'd wipe out any impact from releasing oil from that reserve." Gore now argues that circumstances have changed. The OPEC nations, he said last week, "pledged to increase oil production, and they have...
Their wives are Waitress (or Secretary) Moms, and they live in suburbs or small towns near cities. They're doing better than they were six or eight years ago, but have little savings. Many voted for Perot in '92 and even in '96, some for Clinton. They are leaning toward Bush. They respond to candidates who convey the capacity for leadership. Gore's "fighting for hard-working families" pitch is aimed their way. So far, it has attracted many of their wives, not many of them...