Originally Posted by junjobx2199

Look it’s a back patting demonstration! Its both side of the equation less we forget its both parties voting on laws and bills with certain regulation , giveaways, subsides for the Oil companies. : bored: Get it right, your all wrong!

Originally Posted by oolceeoo

It is all the Right's fault!

Originally Posted by Jack

China and India have been in an economic boom for awhile now and their economic activity has put pressure on the oil supply market. That accounts for some of the price of a barrel of oil, along with Wall Street speculators. The Iraq war and a hostile Iran puts even more pressure on oil prices. But the major reason that oil prices are exploding upward today is the American consumption of oil products, we’re the largest consumer of oil.

Now let’s investigate the major, major cause of oil prices and especially the cost of a gallon of gas at the pumps. American consumption is at the top of the list. Our desire for large gas consuming vehicles and our desire to live in suburbia and drive longer distances to work and vacation plays a major roll. However, taking all of that into account, doesn’t negate the fact that America also has even a larger oil reserve than Saudi Arabia underneath our land and coastal authority. Fact is, 80% of that known reserve has been placed off limits by government that has been lobbied by the left to preserve coastal beauty, spotted owls, caribou, polar bears, trees, birds, national parks and any number of other mammals, animals, vegetation and whatever.

The left also has lobbied and succeeded in getting government prohibitions on any and all new nuclear power plant construction, any new clean coal burning plants and even any new oil refining facilities in the United states, causing oil to be our major, major resource for energy supply and guaranteeing that oil exporting nations such as Saudi Arabia, other middle eastern countries and others have the ability to hold America hostage over our energy supply and demand outrageous prices for same.

If there’s any single collective mostly responsible for the price of a gallon of gas at the pumps today in America, it’s America’s political left. And just think, through out stupidity, we just returned them to the control of Congress and most likely are about to extend that control in even larger numbers and most likely even the White House. I don’t know about other folks, but when somebody breaks something that belongs to me, I never, ever hire him/her to “fix” it.

Originally Posted by Xandufar

You are on to something. I believe the left has definitely allied itself more stupidly with causes that reek of eco-suicide. However, I believe the right has a fair share of the blame. Both flawed ideologies share common axioms. If you scratch a member of either extreme, you will see they bleed a similar species of fascism. The postulates may differ, but the axioms are similar.