[tobyhill]

If Americans are still paying $4.11 average a gallon by November it will happen.
The whole mortgage mess can in part be traced back down to the price of gas. If someone is paying $300 more a month in gas then that's $300 difference in what may have been their mortgage payment. Got to keep their jobs though even if they lose their houses.

[LostInBayport]

If Americans are still paying $4.11 average a gallon by November it will happen.

And don't forget what I've already heard a lot of people talking about here in the northeast...heating oil. Those prices combined with gas prices will provoke a very angry reaction. But which party will bear the brunt of it?

As someone else posted in this thread, if the stupid party can just do one thing right this year, they could swing the election by justifiably painting the democrats as beholden to envirowhackos and unwilling to drill domestically. A good start would be a biting 527 ad featuring the Obama quote from one of the Sunday shows where he basically says he has no problem with gas prices rising...he's just sorry they rose so quickly.