>There isn’t a way to bring gas prices down immediately.
Sure there is, repeal all the taxes associated with fuel production/transport. (Might not be a lot, but it would make a dent.)
>However, there are many ways to bring gas prices down in the long term.
Such as repealing the injunctions against building more refineries?
>Conversely, there are many ways to push up gas prices in the long term. And that’s exactly what Obama is doing.
True; but our policies (esp. ‘environmental’) have been doing that for decades.
Just as good an idea would be to cut the federal and state excise taxes in half. That would cut prices by 9 + 15 cents in my state, more in CA, less in most others, but still a lot.
Of course, all the purposes to which those taxes are being diverted would have to be cut.
Darn.