[lilylangtree]

The $100 rebate has got to be one of the most ridiculous ideas on the table. If the govt forced the oil companies to lower their prices by at least a $1.00 makes more sense.

[VictoryGal]

> The $100 rebate has got to be one of the most ridiculous ideas on the table.

Truer words were never spoken.

[Sooth2222]

If the govt forced the oil companies to lower their prices by at least a $1.00 makes more sense.

That's what Jimmy Carter did, and guess what happened.

If I'm Royal Dutch Shell or British Petroleum I'm not going to sell you a gallon of gasoline for $2 if I can sell it in Beijing for $3. Since we don't produce all the oil we use here, and we don't refine all the oil we use here, the price of oil and gasoline is now largely out of our control. If you try to tell the Dutch Royal family to sell gasoline here at a lower price than the world market price they will laugh at you. At least our caribou and the manatees are happy. Enjoy!

(I agree that the $100 rebate is a pretty dumb idea. A much better idea would be to do nothing at all but politicians can't restrain themselves in an election year.)

[tobyhill]

The $100 gas tax rebate is a part of a bigger plan that includes opening ANWR and Frist has already said that to get the $100 would have to include ANWR. The cost of the tax rebates is $10 billion but the prize of ANWR is 12 billion barrels of oil, massive amounts of NG, royalties to the gov, lease agreements payable to the gov and taxes from the oil companies to the gov. To open ANWR I'll be checking the mail and if anyone feels bad about getting the $100 I gladly accept donations or better yet give it to a charitable cause. Remember who the Republicans are talking to. Put a little money in front of a Rats face and they're usually willing to accept just about anything.