Why Are Gas Prices So High?

Neocon Matt Drudge blamed Al Gore for "high" gas prices in 2000. Back then oil was under $20 a barrel and...

had risen to $30/barrel in the course of the year. Seven and a half years later with two rotten oilmen bush and cheney in office, oil has skyrocketed to $145 a barrel, and republicans are still blaming Democrats. http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/314 Do cons overlook the fact that the oil industry literally wrote America's energy policy in secret from cheney's office shortly after bush took office in 2001? Do cons overlook the fact that last year Exxon/Mobil set the record for the most profit ever made by any corporation in the history of the US, breaking its own record that it set the year before? Are cons overlooking the fact that Exxon/Mobil's former CEO, Lee Raymond, retired at the end of 2005 with a $400 million retirement package, also the largest in the history of any public US company? http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1841989 Too bad cons didn't listen to the Democrats. Must cons always learn life's lessons the hard way? For instance, is being punished by the reality of $4.50/gal gas the only way for them to learn that buying their Hummer, a.k.a "the bushmobile", was as bad an idea as voting for bush, TWICE?

Public Comments

1. "buzzflash.com?!" Is that the online equivalent to the National Enquirer? LOL Sean, you really need to use some sort of valid sources for your rants to make you appear to have a higher IQ than we "neo cons." And who is "Matt Drudge?!" Sounds like a Stalone character in one of his sci fi movies. "Cons" would never listen to a Democrat. We like to think before we act.
2. Neocon? is Drudge Jewish?
3. neocom, is some ominous sounding word hate speech liberals have tried to pin ON ANYONE who won't tote their party line ! I'm very sorry you are such an "Open minded" liberal, because that openness is from the lack of gray matter in your cranium.