“Good. Actually I want it to go a hell of a lot higher than that.”
I was going to say that too...but didn’t want to be first. I can easily take gas prices doubling (we live cheap, but have a decent income).
Yep, there will be hell to pay for the Dems playing games with our energy security. And there is no way in hell that the Tea Party Reps are going to allow some kind of bailout for the drivers that cannot afford the gas. They are just out of luck - perhaps they will think a bit harder next time they vote.
Remember, the soaring gas prices were one of the memes that the Democrats used to win in 2006. Right now their pet media is suppressing the return of the meme, but at, say $7-8 per gallon or so (if not more) there won’t be any way for the media to keep ignoring it. They will be forced to cover it and they won’t be able to spin it, as everyone ‘knows’ that the President is responsible for gas prices (thanks to the Dems earlier use of the meme) - and this time the President is a Dem.
The higher the better - the longer the lesson will last and the less people will be interested in any blockage of the exploitation of domestic energy sources.