[DesertRhino]

I agree about making the case that leftist policies are costing us at the pump and showing people that. But how do you make that case when Obama has already said his stated goal is to raise our prices to Euro levels, and that the only issue he had with high prices is that they went up too quickly?

Even more hopeless is that if an inexhaustible supply, exceeding all our needs could be found and could all come from on oilfield in a Houston industrial park. These nuts believe that burning oil is going to cause Manhatten and Miami and DC to be under 20 feet of water.

They simply don’t want us using oil. That matters to them even more than the source. And they are successfully brainwashing a generation of children.

[chajin]

But how do you make that case when Obama has already said his stated goal is to raise our prices to Euro levels, and that the only issue he had with high prices is that they went up too quickly?

It occurred to me, when I read this, that the Democrat coalition is of the very rich and the underclass. The very rich don't mind paying European/Japanese prices for gasoline, and the underclass in urban areas either drive very little or not at all, so they do not care about the price of gasoline, so there is no self-interested incentive to lower oil prices among Democrats in general.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“These nuts believe that burning oil is going to cause Manhatten and Miami and DC to be under 20 feet of water.”

Oh my...we all need to get on our knees and pray that this be so! And maybe we can get SF and LA under 20 ft of water too!

[familyop]

"These nuts believe that burning oil is going to cause Manhatten and Miami and DC to be under 20 feet of water.

They simply don’t want us using oil."

True, or they have interests opposed to harvesting much oil. For one, many of the alternative energy companies (tax credit and other subsidy leeches) have regulated against more honest efforts (e.g., people building their own less expensive heating systems that yield more BTUs per dollar spent).

I suspect that they also push against oil interests for higher prices. Many of them might even be invested in local energy companies around the country (higher prices equal bigger returns).

[Ben Ficklin]

"costing us at the pump and showing people that"

You can't show people that because the cost of gasoline in the US is relatively cheap.

If you compare gas prices in the US relative to other nations, we come in at #44 of 55. Norway is #1

If you compare these gas prices as a percent of average income, we come in at #50 of 55 and India is #1. If your income is below average it would be higher but if your income is above average it would be lower.

Source

You can find many such lists on the internet. This one is a couple of years old but the list is in descending order, is priced by the gallon rather than by the liter, and also shows the "pain at the pump" price.