White House Blames Congress for Gas Prices

Yahoo! News ^ | 3/30/04 | Terence Hunt - AP

[NormsRevenge]

Don't Drill ANWAR

Don't Drill OffShore

Don't Have Any Domestic Production

Don't Cry If You Voted DemocRat

[NormsRevenge]

·	Bush, Kerry Trade Charges on Gas Prices Reuters - 6 minutes ago

·	Info on America's Emergency Oil Reserve AP - 8 minutes ago

·	Bush Ad Carries Same Anti-Kerry Message AP - 9 minutes ago

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[plain talk]

I wish they had just spelled out the need for drilling in ANWAR.

[Dane]

I wish they had just spelled out the need for drilling in ANWAR

They did and jumping jimmy jeffords didn't like it and sold himself to daschle.

[steve in DC]

Interestingly, Kerry is trying to draw a line between tapping into the oil that is earmarked for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and drawing any oil out of the reserve.

Of course, I would like to see him draw that same line when discussing cuts in the rate of increase in spending for some of his pet give away programs.

[adam_az]

1) Kerry is a DOOFUS for suggesting to mess with the strategic reserves in the same breath he talks about middle east instability. Can you say DUH?


2) The price is only pennies higher than it was at the peak of 2000 when Clinton was in office.


3) Kerry is fishing for issues. His campaign is running on fumes, to abuse a pun.

[SpyGuy]

Kerry has called for the Bush administration to stop filling the nation's strategic petroleum reserve and divert the oil to the market until gas prices fall.

Like the terrorism threat, this is another Clinton problem inherited by Bush (and now being blamed on on Bush). Clinton bled out our strategic petroleum reserves in an attempt to boost his party's poll ratings prior to the 2000 election. National defense meant nothing to Clinton.

[adam_az]

Why doesn't Jean Cherie demonstrate his skillful foreign policy by convincing OPEC not to cut production.

He keeps talking about how he will make America loved around the world again....

BRING IT ON, KERRY! Show us your skillful negotiating abilities.

[Solson]

What gas crisis?? Adjusting for inflation, gas price growth over the last 20 years has been minimal. This isn't a crisis by any stretch of the imagination.

That said, the way to reduce gas costs is by eliminating the new formulas that have been put into place. The cost of reformulated gas is very responsible for the increase in prices.

[facedown]

That said, the way to reduce gas costs is by eliminating the new formulas that have been put into place.

Boutique gasolines. Kills us in northern Illinois every spring.

[HungarianGypsy]

The same thing happens every year at this time. Every year there are also the same accusations. Thank you, environuts!

[CalKat]

How would drilling in ANWR help? I thought there was a limited amount there, and it would be a few months worth, at most.

[Blue Scourge]

It's interesting...I filled up in NC yeasterday and it had a breakdown of the price...

it was $1.73.......43 cents of it was taxes....I think it was .28 state and .15 federal.

[Political Junkie Too]

I doubt that ANWR would have come online by now.

The real problem is the boutique formulations that each city/state regulates for clean air and such. That scheme doesn't allow surplus markets to transfer their fuels to shortage markets because the formulations conflict.

Plus, when the seasonal switch of formulations occurs, that causes disruption in the pipelines, too.

-PJ

[NormsRevenge]

I doubt that ANWR would have come online by now.

That is true! It would take years to ramp up to significant output.

But , if this had been part of a comprehensive energy policy that was approved a few years ago, we'd be well on our way.

One more reason to send the Obstructionist Party packing in November for good.

If the cries by the demRats are heeded and the Reserve were tapped, it is because of the inaction by democRats, that an emergency to do so exists, imo.

In that case, Who is being served?

[Bommer]

How would drilling in ANWR help? I thought there was a limited amount there, and it would be a few months worth, at most.

Thats the Democrap/EnvioMENTAList line. It was estimated to have at least enough oil to last the US for 15 years and enough natural gas to last 30 years, I believe. It was no short term endevior. no oil company would waste its time to spend years setting up pipelines, rigs and refineries for a years worth of oil.

[Dog Gone]

Yeah, it might have less than a year's supply of oil, if you could extract it that fast (you can't), and you shut down every single other oil well in the country and the Gulf of Mexico.

This is the most disingenuous spin of the facts on ANWR, and it's typical of how Rats want to mislead.

Prudhoe Bay was discovered in 1968 and it's still producing today and will for many more years. ANWR could be bigger. Nobody knows because the damn Rats believe it's important to preserve some godforsaken desolate hellhole that nobody will ever see in their lifetime anyway.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Don't Drill ANWAR

Don't Drill OffShore

Don't Have Any Domestic Production

Don't Cry If You Voted DemocRat

Exactly! LOL!

[cinFLA]

You forgot - Ted Kennedy.

No windmills off my beach shore!

[BigSkyFreeper]

it was $1.73.......43 cents of it was taxes

Here where I live in NE Montana, it's $1.70.....I asked the clerk at the counter what the gas tax comes out to, and he said 55 cents a gallon.