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President Carter, on January 23, 1980, gave the US oil market demand to OPEC. The Democratic Congress, on March 27, 1980, passed the Domestic Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax which was fatal to the US domestic oil producing industry. Cheap US oil production has been declining rapidly for 20 years. Expensive foreign oil has been replacing declining US oil production for 20 years. Expensive foreign oil has been causing gasoline prices to rise for 20 years.

Okay, I'm a new member here, so if this type of self-promotion is considered improper here I understand. Please don't skewer me, just let me know nicely and I'll promptly stop. ;) I'm basically here to try to get some conservatives to post more at my blog, I pretty much only get responses from liberals for some reason and while it's fun and all, it gets time consuming to combat their hyperemotional screeds all by myself. So I'm just simply inviting some conservatives to check out the site for themselves and tell me what they think. (Constructive criticism is welcomed,...