That McCaskell babe is a real moron. If she actually thinks that Bush has power to tinker with gas prices, and OPEC kicking up production has nothing to do with it, then she's too stupid to be voting herself, much less to be running for election. When prices stopped dropping it was a day after OPEC said they would lower production so prices didn't drop too much. That's proof positive that OPEC, NOT Bush and NOT big oil controls the price at the pump. Period. When OPEC increases production, price at the pump drops. When OPEC reduces production, price at the pump goes up. Which is why we'd be better not buying Muslim arab oil, using our own, building 200 more nuclear and clean coal power plants, drilling in ANWR and the new massive Gulf reserves found last month, and building 20 new refinaries. That would reduce our need for foreign oil to 10% or less of our total consumption, and free up about 80% of the oil we use for power production for automobile fuel, using nuclear and clean coal for energy production. It's just that simple, and the Democrats are the ones blocking ALL of that.
To believe that Bush got his "oil buddies" to manipulate gas prices, you have to believe that he managed to convince all the "greedy" oil companies in the U.S. to take massive hits in profits for at least two months just to get the Republicans re-elected. Sheer moonbattery.