It seems like every day, the media complain about high gas prices. But it is not often that you hear that someone was so angry about pump prices they sent a death threat to an oil CEO.
According to CNN's November 15 "American Morning" Shell president John Hofmeister has not just gotten hate mail.
“Pretty brave that you decided to do this, you know you were heading out on tour, you didn’t just get hate mail, but you actually received a death threat at one point?” asked co-host Kiran Chetry.
“Well, you could call it that. It was a picture of me hanging from a high branch of a tall tree," said Hofmeister.
“American Morning” didn’t make a big deal out of the threat, choosing to focus multiple times on customer grief and even complaining about Shell’s profits:
“So you felt like people, you know, are very fed up and people are very upset about the price of oil …” said Chetry.
and:
Attacking oil company profits isn’t a new policy for CNN. Back in 2005, Miles O’Brien presented a story about high third-quarter oil profits as “something to get your blood boiling” and “get you a little outraged.” The broadcast networks were just as irresponsible.“Here’s what gets people fired up though, we hear these profit reports. You had worldwide profits rise 16 percent last quarter, net profits at nearly $7 billion, yet people are paying 90 cents more per gallon for gas than they were last year,” Chetry continued.
—Julia A. Seymour is an assistant editor for the Business & Media Institute.
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Let CNN invest in the
November 15, 2007 - 13:17 ET by ConservativeRexLet CNN invest in the equipment, the leases, the talent it takes to get oil out of the ground, shipped to port, refined and brought to market, and see why gasoline prices are when they do.
From what little I've seen of their news, their product pretty much falls into their lap.
Don't believe that red herring about building more refineries in this country. Why do that? Refineries are running max out and at the same time making top dollar for their share holders. There is no sense in diluting that with more refineries.
And if there are more refineries built in this country I say we build them in the middle of Manhattan or Boston of Philadelphia. So those folks would quit bitching about how much gasoline they have.
Better yet, let them all stay here in Texas and WE get to set the price on mogas and NG.
sounds like the MSM has
November 15, 2007 - 13:47 ET by TruthMongersounds like the MSM has declared a jihad against big oil
obviously getting some good tips faxed from OBL and company
and finally getting some martyrs out there now
it's all in the liberal holy books - talk to any mullah in hollywood, new york, or your local university
peace to ayatollahs ward churchill, bill maher, rosie o'donnell, randi rhodes and all other brothers and sisters fighting victoriously in the name of the supreme and benevolent moonbat allmighty:)
A COUPLE THINGS...
November 15, 2007 - 14:48 ET by danybhoyLet's start with oil prices, as much as I liked Kiran Chetry at Fox, I doubt if she(or anyone in the MSM)really knows much about why gas prices are so high. I don't believe she learned too much about oil since she was dumped by Fox.
As for threats, I gotta think & say Chetry & O'Brien, or anyone else at CNN, or any public figure would take death threats very seriously. You would be a fool not to.
"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise" Mark Levin