[trubluolyguy]

Soaring gas cost may mean worry for Bush, GOP

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No it won't, everything is just hunky dory. Drink your kool aid and shut the hell up!


I am not saying that the gas prices are the Republicans' fault. But I am saying that they are going to be the ones to lose their jobs over them.

[tractorman]

All W needs to do is announce that we will be drilling our own oil and will not import one drop of foreign oil. Then do it and watch the prices plummet.

[P-40]

to reduce Americans' dependence on foreign oil by investing in alternative fuel technologies.

The number of biodiesel and ethanol plants that are coming online, or are about to, is impressive. If Republicans continue to ignore this fact, they *deserve* to lose elections from President down to local dogcatcher.

[ONEBYEONE]

Why is that???? I would just hammer the Democrats each and every day on how they stopped exploration of oil in the U.S. In fact they should take another vote now and put all of these lawmakers on record.

[DoctorMichael]

Soaring gas cost may mean worry for Bush, GOP

Considering the Demon-crap's continued blocking of any and all Energy legislation such as drilling in ANWAR, offshore drilling, Nuclear power etc., etc., etc. I can't see why.

[Logical me]

Somehow, I feel that something is behind the gas price more that the price of oil. Almost feels like the RATS have set us up.

[D-Chivas]

I went to the gas station this weekend and it was so popular that I had to wait for a pump.

[Major_Risktaker]

If you want lower fuel prices stay away from India & Chinese products. As their economy slows oil prices will drop. Or pump more Iraqi oil for free to the US.

[Bommer]

Damn right it will cost them! Because Democraps have such a better idea for fixing this! Like talk about alternative fuels and complain on how the oil companies are greedy. After several years of this, we'll see gas at the pump be less than a buck!

DEMOCRAPS! Our plan is that your stupid enough to vote for us!

[RayChuang88]

Actually, given that demand already has started to drop once gasoline punched through the US$3/US gallon barrier, I don't think they can sustain the price for long, especially since there are no price controls in place like what happened in the 1970's. The high price and lower demand will cause a price crash by late June/early July 2006.

[Eagle of Liberty]

This is what Chavez and Ahmadinejad are banking on. Hence, their continued rhetoric.

[1Old Pro]

The failure of any kind of national energy policy over the past 25 years is almost unbelievable. If we had one we'd be pumping oil down from alaska as we speak.

[siunevada]

It's so nice to see the Sacramento Bee genuinely concerned about the GOP.

This must be compassionate liberalism. </sarcasm

[verity]

This must be at least the 302d thread on this subject.

What the heck - it is an opportunity to vent.

[finnman69]

Friday night I was taking a NYC cab home, my driver was a Pakistani and he was listening to the BBC which started discussing recent gas/oil prices.

He blurted out quite seriosuly that America "should just invade Saudi Arabia and take their gas". "They don't have any army and the young people all want to be American".

Nothing like prices at the pump to spur public opinion.

By the end of the summer, drivers will be screaming to drill ANWR and invade Iran already.

[The Great RJ]

While the Dems will scream that high gas prices are Bush's fault, what's their plan? I seem to remember that Al Gore wanted a $1/gallon federal tax on gasoline so that people will use less.

[defenderSD]

We need to repeal the outrageous tariff on imported ethanol that is driving up the price of gasoline. Senator Kyl, this would be a popular and economically beneficial bill for you to introduce sir.

[webheart]

I'm going to reply without reading the article, because I don't read the Sacramento Bee. But it does not surprise me that the Bee hopes the high price of energy will hurt Republicans. Americans are so fat and stupid anymore, that our forebears would be ashamed of what we have become after all their hard work and sacrifice. It doesn't matter that the oil off the coast of California, and under the barren tundra of the far north, is deemed unusable because of an unblemished horizon on the ocean or a few caribou and some plants more like weeds than garden flowers. It doesn't matter that for some reason nuclear power is just too dangerous to be used for energy. What we are suffering from is the long-term consequence of letting a small hanful of environmentalists dictate what we can and cannot do. That is it in a nutshell. If we don't get up the nerve to tell them to quit whining and get a job we are doomed as a counry. I think it is getting close to a time where we need to start moving to the place which will be part of the country we want to live in after the United States disintegrates.

[eskimo]

Soaring gas cost may mean worry for Bush, GOP

Probably worried their kickbacks won't be proportionate.