don't think for a minute that a new u.s. president is going to reverse this. it goes up a dollar, then down twenty cents, up 50 cents... then down a dime and all the cattle say yay?

if the new obama-clinton-mccain t101 model style terminator is your hopeful answer to gas prices, it just ain't gonna happen folks. the sheiks in the mid east just keep getting richer.. along with the bush family of course.

when i was a kid, my dad drove an extra few miles to beat .59 to get .57 gas

alaska has oil. and we EXPORT it!?!? hrumph!

By Bush's own energy department statement, it will take 20 years before one drop of gasoline reaches the market from the ANWR oil fields, if and once approved. I lived through this same crap with oil in the early to mid 70's when everyone was told we were at 'peak oil' and there were long gas lines, etc. Nixon at the time told his friend, the Shah of Iran a good method to raise capital was to restrict supply.
We know the rest. Of course the Bush / Cheney families, friends and business associates (both past, present and future) will pocket huge sums of money from this oil debacle of which a large factor is the instability in the Middle East created by Bush / Cheney. Man, are we stupid or what? From Halliburton to all the oil related firms in good old Texas and beyond, there are many smiles to be had because of the $$$$$ they are cramming into their accounts. Anyone who stands behind this administration would believe Bush if he said the world is flat. I only wish they would all walk off the edge!

And the longer we wait to start drilling our own oil deposits, the longer it will take to start seeing output.

how long do we sit and tolerate it? why don't we make our voices heard on not just this but on iraq and the illegal immigration issues too?

ok.. are you ready? here is the plan. we are all going to streak the capital.. LET'S.. GO!!!
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um, hello? [crickets chirping]

Ok, I will cave in. I alone will stop these increases....all I have to do is invest in the oil companies...guaranteed, the bottom will drop out!
Please send me $ so we can stop this!

"Please send me $ so we can stop this!"

we can't. had to fill up with the last paycheck

Bush/Cheney - Oilmen keeping oilmen happy.

Remember, Shell and BP have recorded 1st quarter profits of $9,000,000,000 and $7,500,000,000 respectfully (that's BILLIONS). Those are record setting profits.

Now you know what happens when you invade an oil-rich country and lose control of the situation.

McCain promises four more years of the status quo!

We can make a difference. Vote Democrat!

Ok neocons spin it! Defend Bush and the oil industry with your rhetoric!

Yes change, we don't know what it is yet but just change. increase my taxes to support the lazy and illegal. oohhh yea, may i have another

lil bush mccain would cut it by a nickel for a week. obama will cut it 25 cents for a month and the idiot cattle will dance in the streets with joy

Simple solutions:
All Congress needs to do is to make it legal to drill in the US again. Then we will need to wait until some refineries can be built and the distribution ramped up.

EVENTUALLY we will have more supply in our hands then...that is if the foreign interests controlling the existing oil companies let us have the rights OR want to suck it out.

US auto manufacturers COULD earnestly pursue real alternatives too. Pigs flying yet???

I believe some start up companies will bring real alternatives to the market. By then our own bones may be fossil fuel, but they will eventually do this.

Don't count on hybrids to green our way forward as their batteries will be expensive to replace after about 7 years of life and what will we do with all those toxic batteries? Perhaps add them into the same landfills which will become hazardous waste sites for all the "wonderful" (NOT) compact fluorescent lightbulbs leaking MERCURY consumers have tossed into the trash. Cheaper to run and MUCH more expensive to clean up, recycle or contain when burnt out, these bulbs are one of the most short sighted products of the "green revolution".

When the price of an international commodity goes up, then the income made by the companies that sell it goes up.

If we had more of our own oil to draw from we wouldn't have to be paying such high prices to foreign sources.

Profits oil companies make is less than the taxes paid to government, and they don't even contribute to its production.

I remember a year or two ago it was said at that time that, of all the profit made by ExxonMobil, only about 25% of it came from the US. I don't know what that percentage would be now.

if I even wanted to vote democrat, you guys are too busy fighting within yourselves to know what your platforms are. You are your own worst enemy. You won't win this one either, sorry

And their goals aren't even that different from each other...putting as much as possible into Washington DC's hands.

i just have so much trouble understanding how any one thinks that the U.S. presidents have any thing to do with the price of oil. or the taxs, which are set by Congress. of course, Gov. Crist mandates Ethanol in all gasoline products, and then there is the low sulfer diesel mandate and the refiners and suppliers are scrambling to meet these demands but no one blames the ridiculous "enviromental policies" for the high price. or the fact that the congress allows states to mandate their own particular blend of gasoline.

we all have the same cars the gas should/could all be the same and this would allow refinerys to just make gasoline. not constantly retool and jump through hoops. the Ethanol thing has/is causing major problems as it is not compatable with the existing infrastucture.

I think part of the reason for blaming Presidents is poor economic education. They think if they just replace the President then everything will change somehow. They don't grasp the international scope of oil and everything related to it.

Ethanol SOUNDS like a great idea until you get into how much energy (from oil) is required to create it, plus how much strain it places on the corn supply, so corn prices go up. And that makes for the food riots taking place in poorer countries.

They complain about the profits oil companies make, but don't realize that they have their own constraints. They have to buy vast amounts of oil from foreign sources, such as OPEC, who are deliberately limiting how much they produce to keep prices up. If they wish to do anything to improve their own capacity they have to go through years of paperwork and millions in legal and other costs to get through the beaurocracy forced on them by environmentalists who will ultimately never be happy no matter how many safety and pollution control measures are put in place.