Posted by
Roxanna M. on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:34:10 PM
At a gas station in Gorda, California, a gallon of premium unleaded gas is $5.39. A gallon of regular unleaded is $5.19. This is about a $1.50 more than in most places in California. Obviously, the owner of this station isn't going to let the oil companies be the only ones who gouge us.
And to add to the misery, OPEC says that it is not going to put more oil on the global market. So, the price is only going to go higher.
Is this the time that we finally start paying the price for what the idiots in Washington have been doing for the past several decades? The refusal of dimocrats - in thrall to environmentalists - to explore for, drill, and/or refine our own natural resources has brought us to this point. They weren't alone in this, not by a long shot. They were thoroughly aided and abetted by gutless wonder republicans who couldn't find their collective backbone with a map.
I can see it now. There won't be a single dimocrat who will acknowledge that their policies are to blame. They will blame Bush. Republicans will blame dimocrats. There will be massive CYA and pointless scrambling to bring a quick fix to the mess their years of incompetence and shortsightedness have wreaked on America. They might even give themselves another raise to cover the increase, all the while claiming to care about us little people. If the price hits $6, $7, or higher, it will be interesting to see the campaign commercials. There will be no place for the incumbents to hide. They did it, and they just might finally have to answer for something. Could the American public actually do something so bold as to remove these leeches from office?
How high is the price going to go? How high is the price of everything else going to go?
It's hard to tell. But, every single bit of it will be the fault of the witless slackers in DC whose vision and concern for the future never extended beyond their re-election.