Let's All Politicize High Gas Prices

Build Refineries, we have not constructed a refinery in this country since the early 80s. Drill baby drill is worthless without refineries. Forget the handful of people who are always against everything. It should not take 10 years to build a refinery put pressure on politicians to get it done or vote them out. It will also create JOBS.

Oreilly was also for the Tarp bailouts of wallstreet and the auto sector.

We need help not kelp

Funny how 4 years ago, high gas prices was GWB's fault, but now, the media says that you can't blame the president... Well, its really not funny, but it is worth noting...

Oil prices are not set by the oil countries, they are set by the speculators and traders. The US government needs to step in an change the way oil is traded, way too many hands in the cookie jar between the oil being pumped out of the ground to it being pumped into your car. The way the system works now is pretty much the same way a drug cartel operates.

Are you tired of the Middle East and Big Oil running your life? It wont happen over night but Rome was not built in a day. GO GREEN, SUPPORT GREEN, Recycle, Conserve, Waste less ,Use Less, SACRIFICE our Parents and Grand Parents did it we cant we?

what hummer gets 15 mpg? Maybe perfectly tuned on the freeway with a tail-wind at optimum speed.

One wonders whether this article, with this tone, would have been written with a Republican in the White House when gas prices were on the rise. It IS true that the President cannot directly affect the price of a gallon of gas. That's a market function that the politicians can do very little about. But with a Republican in the White House it is highly doubtful that the mainstream media would be reminding us of that fact. Instead it would be ALL about failed policy and disconnect with the public, etc.... go back and read news items 6 or 7 years ago on this subject, you'll see what I mean.

I don't know much about politics related gas prices, but I do know that during those $1 and below gas era, there's about maybe $40-$50 billions speculating on Oil and now we have about $500-$1000billions or more speculating on Oil. I guess all those billions of dollars got nothing to do with driving the price up!

"Let's All Politicize High Gas Prices" ?

Might as well, since the same thing was Done during Bush's re-election campaign.... ZING!!!

The corporate politicians WANT 40 billion dollars a year in taxpayer subsidies to go to the oil companies so the oil companies will give them money. We need government reform! Bad!

I am sure that the editors and writers over at The Atlantic are smart enuf to understand and describe the true debacle of higher gas prices:
In other less developed countries, people have their food supplies restricted by corrupt politics and crime gangs...............this leads to Food Riots! ie.....look at the Middle East..............it all boils down to .............We're starving!!!
Yes, Arab Islamicists use starving masses to their political advantage..........but the root cause remains the same............we're starving!!!
In USA............we are more dependent on Gas than we are on food...............for now.
When Gas supplies get restricted by corrupt politics and, yes, crime gangs(oil oligarchs).......expect RIOTS. $5 gas will put the price of everything out of reach, food, jobs, schools, you name it...........

Whazzamatter? Libs can do it when Bush is up for re-election but not when Obama is up for re-election? LOL. Well guess what? It's gonna happen.

How come only a Democratic president cannot affect gasoline prices? That's not what the press says during ANY Republican administration.

Kinda biased reporting AGAIN!

Does Pelosi wish now that she hadn't blamed Bush for the high gas prices in 2008?

we should post some of the old news clips when gas went up while W was in office, the propaganda mills worked on the prices 24/7 then

Don't we go through this in every presidential election cycle? Why can't we just admit it, deal with it or not; but spare me the #$%$ speeches?

White House Played Politics with Drilling Ban!

The White House rewrote crucial sections of an Interior Department report to suggest an independent group of scientists and engineers supported a six-month ban on offshore oil drilling, the Interior inspector general says in a new report.

In the wee hours of the morning of May 27, a staff member to White House energy adviser Carol Browner sent two edited versions of the department report's executive summary back to Interior. The language had been changed to insinuate the seven-member panel of outside experts - who reviewed a draft of various safety recommendations - endorsed the moratorium, according to the IG report obtained by POLITICO.

"The White House edit of the original DOI draft executive summary led to the implication that the moratorium recommendation had been peer-reviewed by the experts," the IG report states, without judgment on whether the change was an intentional attempt to mislead the public.

The six-month ban on offshore drilling installed in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill became a major political issue over the summer, as Gulf State lawmakers and industry groups charged the White House with unfairly threatening thousands of jobs. House Republicans have said they plan on investigating the circumstances surrounding the moratorium when they take power next year.

The reserves are full, we're producing more oil now than at any time in the last 10 years and demand is down due to the recession. The current price of oil has little to do with supply and demand fundamentals and everything to do with speculators and commodities traders jacking up the price in Wall Street's latest fantasy finance casino game. All they need is a projected harsh winter or an embargo somewhere in the Middle-East and the manipulations begins. This has grown from a 10 billion to over a 300 billion dollar industry in less than 10 years. A provision of the Dodd-Frank Act is intended to curtail the amount of non-end user positions on oil futures, but the Republicans are stonewalling it by blocking the appointment of anyone Obama has selected to head the commission created to oversee the regulations; meanwhile sending Boehner and Canter out on a PR mission to coddle the industry execs and assure them they will either defund or repeal it as soon as they can buy or coerce the votes. Then they take the stage and tell everyone our real top priorities are the need to cut medicare benefits and protect religious liberty.

GOP Candidates, why are you not questioning Obama's give away of Alaska islands to Russia. These 7 islands are located in the Chuchi Sea off the coast of Alaska,right in the Chuchi Sea Oil & Gas field. Search " Report: Obama AdministrationIs Giving Away 7 Strategic Islands to Russia"????