An angry American

[Rocky Raab]

Listen closely. Take a deep breath and chill. Here's the truth.

Bush and Cheney have NOTHING to do with high gas prices.

Gas prices are high because crude oil prices are high. Crude prices are high because Wall Street futures speculators have driven the price up. When they say they'll be willing to pay xxx per barrel in three months, why the hell should those selling it accept any less? They don't - and that's why prices are high: because some damn fool speculator said he'd pay out the wazzoo for it. Even OPEC says prices don't need to be this high. They themselves say it ought to be about $70 to $80 a barrel. But they'll happily take $135 if some damn fool offers that much.

So would you!

In the meantime, treehuggers and their Congress minions prohibit us from getting oil anywhere but from the places where the idiot speculators have inflated the price. We can't explore, we can't drill, and we can't even use the oil we already have drilled and capped off.

It's lunacy, but (again) Bush and Cheney have NOTHING to do with it.

Oh, and the answer is not to elect somebody even LOONIER about the economy, oil, taxes and business. (Unless you think a full-blown socialist would be an improvement, because that's what the Democrats are.)