[Brilliant]

Wasn't John F. Kerry primarily responsible for blocking the Bush Energy Plan?

[SandRat]

Whatever happened to Bush's Energy Plan?

Killed by all the "Good Little EnvroRATS1"

[alloysteel]

A sure way to decrease dependence on foreign oil - let the marketplace take the price of crude oil high enough, and restrict the refinery capacity, thereby limiting the amount of crude that may be turned into fuel oil and gasoline. Automatically, despite all the grumbling and outcry that "business is being destroyed", the commercial enterprises will find a way to get their goods delivered a little more efficiently, and manufacture those goods with a smaller input of energy from fossil fuel sources, and the alternative energy sources become more cost-effective, with the consequence of institutionally decreasing the amount of energy required to maintain the level of output enjoyed before. Expanding input, of course, will call for still more fossil fuels to be made available for the growing demand for ever more energy.

Suggestion: Find a way to reclaim the vast stores of natural gas that is to be found off the edge of the continental shelf, at a depth of 500 to 1,500 meters, in the form of Methane Hydrate. This is an ever-renewing source of energy. It would not take a great deal of new technology to recover this otherwise unused natural resource. In fact, it may become a NECESSITY to take up this vast quantity of Methane Hydrate, to avoid a climate catastrophe of mammoth proportions. If, for whatever reason, the water at these depths warms enough so the stability of the Methane Hydrate is destroyed, there could be a huge burp from undersea, and the methane concentration could rise so high as to make the atmosphere both almost unbreathable, and constitute a huge firestorm potential.

And a resulting CO2 concentration in our atmosphere unparalleled since perhaps back to Jurassic times.

[Nebullis]

ANWR and nuclear energy. The liberals have a pathological resistance to considering alternatives to imported oil.

[Pappy Smear]

Part of the problem of the high gas prices is the devaluation of the dollar. The dollar doesn't buy as much overseas as it did a year or two ago. So crude oil prices go up. That isn't to say that regulations and such don't matter either.

For all the whiners who bemoan "oil company profits" I encourage them to go out and become an owner of an oil company. Monday thru Friday there is a building in NYC where you can buy as little or as much of an oil company you want. You don't even have to go there, you can buy online or over the phone. You can use the profits to buy all the gas for your car.

[Publius6961]

Gas prices is one of the current important DNC-progressive talking points, and a key element in the political strategy to defeat President Bush.
I can't help wondering why anybody would post this type of article without an explanation less lame than asking a throwaway question. Political moron or something more sinister?

Personally, I believe that there are more serious questions to ponder than gas prices right now. I will not now or ever play the "let's be nice to terrorists and their financers because the price of gas is too high and they are in total control" game. Nor will I have a whole lot of respect for anyone, Freeper or not, who plays that game, even by implication.

[Ditto]

Earlier in the month, the agency, part of the federal Department of Energy, warned that gasoline prices might rise to a nationwide average of $1.83 a gallon in April, well past the previous record — not adjusted for inflation — of $1.747 a gallon in August 2003.

Nice trick, not "adjusting for inflation". Adjusted for inflation, I was paying about $4 a gallon back in the 70s. I wonder if the NY Slimes doesn't adjust for inflation when they set their advertising rates?

And if we go back exactly one year, or exactly two years, or exactly 3 years, we will find the exact same stories in the Times. Gas prices always jump in the spring when refineries need to start batching multiple custom blends for different regions because of the crazy EPA regulations. Those multiple blends drive the refining and distribution costs through the roof.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Anyone who has not been shocked by the rapid climb in retail gasoline prices, to record levels in some cities, may want to prepare for what is to come.

Where I live gas is down to $1.67 a gallon from a high of $2.20 under clinton/algore. This article doesn't make any sense.

It's just like GDP being higher during Bush's term than clinton/algore's GDP but the 90's had a better economy.

[Recovering_Democrat]

DEMOCRATS WANT US DEPENDENT ON MIDDLE EAST OIL!
Open ANWR today.

[CyberAnt]

Yep! Give the guy a break .. he needs to have some issue to run on .. and maybe nobody will notice he's one of those in the Senate holding up the Energy Bill ..?? /sarcasm

[Brimack34]

Anyone who wants us to be just like Europe and who says we should have higher gas prices so no one will drive. Can not comment on high prices.

[ladyinred]

ROTFL! These leftists are so predictable!
Wonder why his energy plan isn't in place you moron?
Look at your own party!!!