[DustyMoment]

"Our cowboy mentality has failed us miserably in Venezuela," said Fadel Gheit, an energy industry analyst at Oppenheimer & Company in New York. "We could have pumped up Chávez to be our back-alley oil reserve, but instead we squandered our attention and resources elsewhere. We're paying for having botched Venezuela."

Ah, yes, ANOTHER appeaser heard from. Perhaps he should get his facts straight, however. Currently, our largest oil supplier is CANADA, NOT Venezuela. IMO, I think Bush is allowing the gas prices to rise so that Americans can see that the Senate should NOT have opposed drilling in the ANWR. If enough of us get unhappy and complain to our Congresscritters about the price of gas at the pump, maybe the leftists will re-think their position on our reliance on foreign oil. From a security standpoint, it's not a good strategy.

[freethistle]

..And how much is that ANWR drilling supposed to prove. I heard it was a six-month supply.

The Alaska issue is interesting because Alaska has semi-socialized their industry. I understand that every adult and child who is a resident of Alaska get a nice fat check every year based upon the energy drilling or profits. Some families are thought to have more kids to get more checks.

How did Alaskans figure out that deal?

[mikenola]

I think Bush is allowing the gas prices to rise so that Americans can see that the Senate should NOT have opposed drilling in the ANWR

How the heck does a president "allow" prices to go one way or another? The man's power is boundless!

There's alot of refining capacity offline now as they do the spring turnaround. From what I've seen crude supply/price isn't the main factor behind the gas price spike.

[Green Knight]

Bush should definitely be launching a slew of ads right about now about ANWR, and lay the blame for rising gas prices squarely at the feet of Democrat Senators, like JFK, who opposed drilling in ANWR.