I liked your sarcasm to moose about supply and demand. Thank God that both my children minored in Economics.
I'm not a populist, and I don't believe in any way that this is a solution to the problem of rising oil prices, period. But, Repubs and the President need to get in front of this issue now before the dems and the MSM try to blame us for the fact that some people cannot/will not be able to afford to heat their homes this winter.