[chas1776]

Tell me how right he had it when you start paying $8.00 a gallon for gas.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

?????

Nice shot but utterly baseless.

[G.Mason]

"Tell me how right he had it when you start paying $8.00 a gallon for gas."

That's right!

Not to mention how Halliburton is getting rich, and he's messing with Social Security, and then there's that WMD lie, and he won't fire Rumsfeld, and how he wants to stack the courts with those right wingers, and how much like Hitler he is, and ...

[wayoverontheright]

Tell me how right he had it when you start paying $8.00 a gallon for gas.

The country which wishes the most that we hadn't gone into Iraq is Saudi Arabia. The specter of Iraqi oil coming fully on line is ominous to them. Iraq's extraction technology yields now about 30% of what it could yield with tech upgrades (coming soon), they have a trillion cubic feet of natural gas...in the long run, and from a purely economic standpoint, this could be a profitable war.

The current runup in crude prices has to do with increased demand from China and the anti-economic freedom shenanigans in Russia and Venezuela, anyway, not Iraq.

I just don't see where you're coming from here. When it's all said and done, the country which will have its hand on the spigot of enough crude to change the whole ballgame will also have statues of George Bush in its streets.

[Coldwater Creek]

Since we have been paying considerly more for fuel in the last two years, I have not seen where people are staying home, car pooling, slowing down or using any other method to save money at the gas pump. So what is your point??????????

[avital2]

you would trade people's liberty for cheap gas? EEK!

[7.62 x 51mm]

At $5/ barrel, we go into ANWR and drill the hell out of it.

[carlr]

You would prefer the French model of backroom deals.More palaces for tyrants and more mass graves.

[Dudoight]

Can't quite figure out the your comment. We should much rather have Baathist, wahabbi, tyrany/dictatorship in the arab world so we can get cheap gas? Is that what you are saying?

[CIB-173RDABN]

Tell me how right he had it when you start paying $8.00 a gallon for gas.

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I will assume that you are using hyperbole to make a point.

Freedom is good, as long as it does not cost us anything?

Or, are you really unable to connect the dots. The middle east has been a stagnent pool where violence and hate (against us) has been allowed to fester because the people there had not hope for a better future.

The world had been willing to go along to get along with the dictators in the middle east as long as they kept the cost of oil low, and did not bother us too much.

The price of that oil began in the late 60s to today to include innocent lifes, as terrorist begin to bomb and kill first Israelis, and then anyone not like them, until they managed to kill over 3,000 Americans and bring down two towers.

The price of gasoline had already gone up over $8 a gallon. So my question to you is how many innocent lifes are you willing to let die (by ignoring the middle east) in order to keep gasoline cheap?

This administration may not have all the answers, but we all know the status quo was not working, and so far the changes appear to be good.

[laredo44]

Tell me how right he had it when you start paying $8.00 a gallon for gas.

Precisely 180 degrees wrong. The way to get gas to $8 is to leave the cartel in place. The way to destroy the cartel is to open the economies of the cartel countries to capitalism. The road to capitalism is Bush's push to democratic republics.

[Cobra64]

Tell me how right he had it when you start paying $8.00 a gallon for gas.

Guess you know a lot about oil exploration and refining, eh?

BTW, ever buy gasoline in the UK? (shaking head and rolling eyes)

[alnick]

I can see you have your priorities straight. /s

[DB]

The high price of gas has little to do with Iraq currently. It has much more to do with high demand throughout the world and not enough supplies. The demand for oil is far higher than it has ever been before. In time Iraq will be producing far more than they have ever before. That will help fill demand and lower prices. Venezuela is also a mess and producing less than they once did. The other cause is the weak dollar. That too has little to do with Iraq.