If in Doubt, Choose Ignorance

Schröder is going to lose the election. Quick find his someone to pin the blame for all the world’s ills on. Its OK we have a culprit.

Gerhard Schröder, the German chancellor, on Tuesday criticised the profits made by large oil groups due to surging oil prices and called for measures to curb the impact of “speculative oil trading”

Gerhard old chap. In the east of your country, they used to have many measures to curb speculators, not just those in the oil sector either. As you know, the experiment was unsuccessful.

He added that it was time to reduce the impact of speculative oil trading, which “was responsible for a large part of the oil price”

Well as a consumer the largest part of the price you pay is actually tax. In the Federal Republic, whose responsibility would that be? Well Herr Schröder of course.