[mewzilla]

Americans don't care. Or why would they keep buying so many gas guzzlers?

[biblewonk]

I love expensive gas, ping.

[Bikers4Bush]

I may carpool more but other than that I won't change a thing.

[joesnuffy]

Keeping the Saudis happy....dont want them cashing in those bonds just yet....

[Brilliant]

I don't think this would be too shocking. If you don't like it, then encourage your Congressman to pass the President's energy plan.

[joesnuffy]

Time to start drilling the ANWR

[Uncle Miltie]

Got my V8 just in time; before they outlaw them.

[MichaelP]

It ain't gonna happen! The public outcry and pressure will mitigate the price. The government will open the strategic reserve. The President does want to be reelected...

Mike

[Petronski]

Build More Refineries

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

This is another zinger for the Gore wing of the environmental-wacko set.

Oh sure, high gas prices will make people conserve and drive less, but we want lower gas prices too.

It's like the wind farm issue.

Wind power is good but it is bad........blame it on Bush.......and whatever you do..........

don't build a wind farm in my front yard.

[mylife]

Damn! I thought Bushco owned all the oil /sarcasm

[wayoverontheright]

This is complete bullcrap. The thesis completely ignores the fact that Iraq will be pumping considerably more by summer, and the Russians' refusal to play ball with OPEC. If we have price increases, it will be because of the increased demand from a burgeoning China, which should be completely offset by supply increases. Look for stable prices for a couple years yet.

[Loyal Buckeye]

What does the aging actress and former singer think of this?

[Rightone]

Won't happen in a normal year, let alone in an election year. Gas will stay pretty much under $2/gallon.

[arete]

(Un)usual suspect ping.

Richard W.

[petercooper]

government regulations require gas stations to supply more costly reformulated gasoline to reduce smog.

we need less govt, not more

[JustPlainJoe]

...But I thought we went to war for OIL! That's what the news keeps telling me! Since bad old Georgie has 'colonialized' Iraq, doesn't that mean WE own all those oil wells? Gas prices should go DOWN then, shouldn't it?

[Iron Eagle]

Sure -- Bush will let gas prices soar to 3 bucks in the summer of his re-election.

[FITZ]

Mexico has the second highest oil reserves in this hemisphere --- we're making many deals with them --- giving them our jobs, taking in their poverty-stricken classes --- why not demand something in return? For all we're doing for them, they could give us oil and we should have cheap gas prices.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Didn't we have supply problems in early 2003 that caused us to dip deeper into the reserve tanks? Wasn't that caused by a virtual stoppage of oil being produced in Venezuala?

Chavez has weathered that storm and will likely not make the same mistakes this year. Plus, with Iraq back on track to start pumping crude in the next few months and OPEC's failure to deal with disobedient members, I can't imagine that a one year dip in supply will be so damaging that the larger production numbers by Venezuala, Iraq, and various other OPEC members will be causing a crude shortage by April or May.