Hillary's solution to the gas crisis has undergone a few revisions but - with her newest scheme -- I think she may finally be onto something.  First a little background...

Phase I was initiated on Friday: the Gas Tax Holiday. This was fun for a few minutes until people realized the actual savings would be miniscule and every single economist in the free world proclaimed the plan to be worthless. Thus was borne...

Phase II: Anti-Intellectualism. Rather than respond to the criticism (which would just be a waste of time) Hillary astutely pointed out that Economists are Ivory-Tower Inhabiting Nerds with No Connection to the Common Man.  Once again, however, this failed to catch fire since people apparently viewed the criticism as "cynical" and even "really dumb."  Thus came:

Phase III: Tax The Fat Cats. This morning Hillary tossed out a new strategem: tax the "corporate oil interests." This plan was pretty much half-baked since, frankly, it made her sound like some sort of economist or something. Plus the connection between taxing a company in order to lower the price of its product made about as much sense as cutting taxes in order to increase income so that plan was quickly abandoned in favor of a new idea. A strategy so audacious and bold only a Clinton could conjure it....

Break Up OPEC!

Yes! Finally!

"We’re going to go right at OPEC," she said. "They can no longer be a
cartel, a monopoly that get together once every couple of months in
some conference room in some plush place in the world, they decide how
much oil they’re going to produce and what price they’re going to put
it at," she told a crowd at a firehouse in Merrillville, IN.

Now that -- ladies and gentlemen -- is the kind of a plan only a true leader could create! Unless you are stone cold fool, it's obvious that breaking up OPEC will reduce the price of oil, cause much third world consternation, and save the puppies and kitties. 

The only thing left are the details.  How will she do it?  Hilary has been mum so far but logic says there are only two possibilities. Either: (a) She has a plan; or (b) She has no plan.

Since it's not like our Hillary to offer empty promises, I must assume she has a plan. And since folks have been unsuccessfully trying to break OPEC up for a good thirty years, I must assume she has a plan that has never been tried before. Something new. Something bold.

And where do all great, new, bold ideas come from?

Why the movies of course! 

That's right! In a worldwide exclusive offered only to the readers of TPM, I am here to announce that I have deduced Hillary's scheme and am proud to say that it is as brilliant as it is daring. Hillary's plan to slake the thirst of our oil-sucking economy is to...

Drink their milkshake!

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