Rep. Terry Everett: "The Clinton Administration has failed in its duty to develop a policy to deal with our national energy supply and is therefore directly accountable for the higher prices Americans are now paying at the gas pumps."

Dennis Hastert: "House Speaker Dennis Hastert accused the Clinton administration Friday of misleading members of Congress about the causes of skyrocketing gas prices in the Midwest."

Rep. Wally Herger: "Congressman Wally Herger recently denounced the Clinton-Gore Administration's complacency during the current gas price crisis. 'Northern Californians are being held hostage at the gas pump,' Herger said. 'The Clinton-Gore Administration has demonstrated a complete and total lack of leadership in preventing this problem. It is a clear failure of domestic and foreign policy.'"

Larry Kudlow: "The Clinton-Gore administration's hapless and incoherent management of foreign policy is nowhere as evident as in their bungling on OPEC's oil-price hike. ... While crude oil prices could drop to $25 per barrel, they will stay well above the average $20 real price of oil registered over the past ten years. And way above the $10 worldwide average marginal cost of producing new oil. Meanwhile gas prices at the pump are likely to be upwards of $2 per gallon well into the summer."

Glenn Spencer: "In recent weeks, gas prices have surged to their highest level in a decade. Prices for home heating oil and natural gas are expected to rise by about 30 percent this winter. ... With the Clinton-Gore administration's policies largely to blame for the pain being felt by consumers, Vice President Gore's camp has pulled out all the stops to shift blame away from his own administration."

Various Repubs: "Representatives Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Menomonee Falls), Tom Petri (R-Fond du Lac), Paul Ryan (R-Janesville), and Mark Green (R-Green Bay) today blasted Energy Secretary Bill Richardson and the Clinton-Gore Administration for their failure to implement a comprehensive energy policy to deal with staggering gas prices Wisconsin consumers continue to face at the pumps."
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Hmmmm.
Wonder who they're blaming now???

Gas prices are rising because we keep demanding, and buying MORE GAS.

It's simple supply and demand.

Even you should be able to figure that out.

I watched the Senate talking about this on c-span today.
It is defintely NOT just a matter of supply and demand.

And because most of the OPEC nations hate us...

Until Americans STOP BUYING SO MUCH GAS the price will NEVER go down!

That IS Supply and Demand. Period.

Which is why EVERYBODY should be riding their bikes, walking, burning E85 in their cars and SoyDiesel in trucks.

Would COULD and SHOULD totally cut off our supply of foreign oil. Period.


THEN we can give the "consumate finger" to the middle-East idiot terrorists. They can sit on their oil, starve to death, and rot in hell.

I completely agree, however to make this happen in a rapid fashion we need those in our government to stop making money off of oil (personal involvment, lobbyists). After that our government could mandate some serious changes to get us off oil althogether.

The government itself is the biggest recipient of money from the gas taxes. You can mostly thank your wonderful democrat friends for raising those taxes. Of course, it's just much easier to blame everyone in government rather than those who are really responsible.

Our government is responsible. If we really wanted to our government could mandate that we be independant of foreign oil within 5 years time.

But the oil companies are deep into our politians pockets.

HELL YES!

Ahem... Sorry. I'll try to control my enthusiasm for the above statement.