Those Wacky Kennedy Boys

I mentioned in this recent post on my companion business blog that I subscribe to the uber-liberally biased Outside Magazine.

In another recent issue of the periodical, I found a story about the current situation in the dictatorship of Venezuela. The picture painted by the article's author was truly horrendous; rampant thievery, kidnapping, drugging of tourists to rob them, advice to avoid any unknown taxi drivers.

In part of the story, the writer related how his taxi driver/guide bemoaned how Chavez parades on the world stage as an environmentalist, yet, at home, prices gasoline at the equivalent of US $.40/gallon. This subsidy has brought incredible congestion to the streets of Venezuela's major cities.

This got me thinking about those wacky Kennedy boys, Joe and Bobby.

Joe is that annoying do-gooder with the commercials showing him in a utility suit, heating oil hose nozzle in hand, dispensing free, Venezuelan-sourced fuel to American poor. Joe decries all things conservative, ignores how some of these people brought about their own evictions or financial problems, alleges that our government has failed them by failing to provide them with heating oil, then gets to work with his fuel truck.

Thus, Joe is supporting Hugo Chavez' wanton environmental destruction via artificially cheap gasoline prices.

But then we have Bobby. Well, Bobby, Jr., I guess. Except the original Bobby is dead, so Bobby, Jr. could be just plain old Bobby.

Anyway, I digress.

Bobby is often seen arguing for green energy grids, non-carbon energy sources, etc. The usually greenie heaven on earth, with no thought to cost or jobs and industrial electrical or locomotive power lost.

So, here's my question.

Shouldn't Joe and Bobby get their stories straight? Their combined acts together?

One of them, Joe, is ought dispensing free, carbon-based fuel, on behalf of a banana republic dictator who is polluting the world thought overly-subsidized fuel prices.

The other is railing against carbon economies.

Shouldn't they have just one family story line?

Or are they following their grandfather Joe's financial instincts, and providing a sort of "Kennedy energy hedge," by being on both sides of the same environmental issue at once?

Ah, those wacky Kennedy boys.

Maybe their Uncle Teddy should take them for a ride in his car out Edgartown way, to solve this Kennedy political split?

With his brain cancer, do you think he'll even know he's underwater when they go off the bridge this time?