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Stand Up Against Gas Prices; Urge Congress to Take Action

gaspriceprotest.com — American families are suffering from higher gasoline and food costs. In just the last 10 months, the average price of gasoline has increased by more than $1.04 per gallon, greatly impacting the already tight budgets of hard-working Americans. Congress should reduce these high gas prices by immediately suspending the federal gas tax.

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  • tkeeley, on 06/01/2008, -4/+14Signed it! We'll see if Congress listens!
    • NoBailouts, on 06/01/2008, -0/+10that'll be the day.
    • mejaredme, on 06/01/2008, -0/+10O Congress listens...you just need to have a large enough pocketbook....
    • digitronix, on 06/01/2008, -1/+5Great idea. But what you really need to do is sign a petition to have Congress put restrictions on the Federal Reserve and how much money they can create out of thin air. The value of oil is not going up, the price of our dollar is falling fast.
  • mejaredme, on 06/01/2008, -4/+16I signed it. Let's send this all the way to Congress.
  • jojensen, on 06/01/2008, -3/+9It's kinda neat that this is going to Congress
    • JonGalt, on 06/03/2008, -0/+2Why? Do you have respect for people that legislate their own type of morality and rob its citizens of the results of their own labor? If you do maybe you should join an organized criminal group, you would be doing the same thing holding people at gun point for money and making them do what you want.

      The tax your income, they tax the products you buy, they tax the companies you invest in, they tax you when you sell an item, they tax you when you make a gift to a family member, they even tax you when you die. But you complain only when you desire a little cheaper fuel. While your justified in asking for this absolutely I still say all of you are pathetic. This petition should be to abolish income tax and get back to the original intention as written in Article 1 Section 8&9 of the constitution.

      Buried for you people trying to make congress more relevant than they need to be.

  • clarencepaul, on 06/01/2008, -3/+22We should not be in the gas rut we are now in if the Congress and the Senate and our current President did what they were sent to Washington for, we should not have to depend on no foreign country to supply us with anything, including oil, because of the enviormentalists we have stopped drilling and building and maintaining refineries, so we are going to
    let these whackos wreck our economy and send us down the drain ? Montana has over 400 billion tons of shale coal,
    that could be made into fuel oil, we have the resources, but what we are really lacking are govt. management, men in charge, making decisions for the overall good, not doing the will of green earth "gore" lackeys.
    • Dumbledorito, on 06/01/2008, -1/+3The extraction process is only viable if gas prices soar.

      Not to mention that giving tax breaks to car companies to build SUVs and not classify them as trucks didn't help our consumption. We let greed and waste do this to us.

      And refineries? The oil companies started closing those all by themselves to restrict supply when gas was ultra-cheap.

      Why is it that people on this site will sing the praises of efficiency when it comes to gadgets and laptops, but the suggestion that maybe driving a 3-ton behemoth to cart two kids to soccer practice might not be the hottest idea gets the knee-jerking "u hate 'merica" crowd frothing?
      • Taquoshi, on 06/01/2008, -0/+2While what you say is true, Congress also enacted stricter controls on sulfur emissions from truck fuel, which in turn, made the process take longer, become more costly and limited the supply. Independent truckers are now being forced off the road because of the escalating fuel costs.
        That in turn, drives up fuel prices.

        We had to replace my vehicle last year, and I ended up purchasing a brand new vehicle. When I went in for a recent maintenance appointment, the mechanic took my keys, smiled and said "Well, you chose well considering the gas prices." I grinned all the way home.
  • NoBailouts, on 06/01/2008, -2/+16There is definitely a lot of domestic exploration that can be done to help this.
    • DarrylWatts, on 06/01/2008, -0/+4why are we the only country to deny itself our own resources???? They really thought this out didnt they? =)
  • clarencepaul, on 06/01/2008, -5/+10I signed it, sent a strong message and also sent it to four others ! I am also praying we will have a gas war that all those who have imposed this hardship on people who are struggling to make ends meet will reap what they have sown.
    In 1st Thessilonians: It is a right thing to God to retribute tribulation to those who affict you. We have been afficted !
    America is and has been farmed out too long !
  • johnny2k, on 06/01/2008, -3/+18I am not going to sign the petition. Suspending the federal gas tax is not the answer. The federal gas tax is $.184/gallon. Take off 18 cents per gallon from the current gas prices, and guess what, your gasoline is still expensive. And then what happens when the suspension time expires in September? Gas goes back up 18 cents/gal!

    The truth is, oil prices are currently high because of speculators buying oil futures.

    The truth is, if Congress were to allow exploration, drilling, and production, as soon as the bill passed and was signed by the President, the oil futures speculation bubble would burst. You probably would see a much bigger drop in your gas prices overnight than that 18 cents/gal.

    People need to spend some time educating theirselves on this issue, rather than depending on what the drive-by media and politicians are telling you. Contrary to what you heard them tell you, the oil companies are not evil, and there should be no "wind-fall profits" tax on them. The oil companies make much less of a return on their investment than software companies like Microsoft. The oil industry has less percentage of net profit to total revenues than many other industries.

    Here, to help get you started, begin with this page:
    http://www.api.org/policy/exploration/expanded-acc ...

    In the mean time, I'm not wasting my time to save 18 cents/gal, only to see the savings disappear next Sept. 20. And besides, those tax revenues are used to maintain and fix our existing highways. Where would the money come from to pay for that? Oh, yeah, I almost forgot. I think they mentioned cutting back pork barrel spending. Excuse me, but pork barrel spending should be cut back and eliminated, anyway!!
    • NoBailouts, on 06/01/2008, -1/+9I think the main goals of the petition are:

      To the U.S. Congress: Make Gas Cheaper NOW by:

      * Cutting gas taxes and banning earmarks Learn more
      * Increasing American oil production
      * Building and expanding U.S. refineries

      (that's from the petition's site, so there is more to it than just eliminating the gas tax. I think it's just one of many things that could be done)
      • johnny2k, on 06/01/2008, -2/+9Thank you for pointing that out.

        I was going by the intro web page that was submitted here, and the only thing I saw it talking about was, "While there are many factors that can be attributed to rising gasoline costs, the gas tax is the easiest for the government to control" and, "the thousands of Americans who have already signed, in telling Congress it’s time to cut the gas tax." They didn't mention that the petition spoke of the other issues as you mentioned above. They should have, as I was led to believe it only involved suspending the gas tax.
      • jana67, on 06/01/2008, -2/+3Learning more is the key to understanding why gas will go much higher... http://www.squidoo.com/the-energy-non-crisis
    • johnny2k, on 06/01/2008, -2/+7Sorry, above, I said "The truth is, oil prices are currently high because of speculators buying oil futures." That was way over simplified. I actually skipped by an important factor in rising oil prices; it is called SUPPLY and DEMAND. If the U.S. were going to begin allowing exploration/drilling/production, the oil futures speculation bubble would soon burst because it would mean that in the future, there would be much more oil on the market.

      Another thing we should do, is tell other oil producing nations the following: You have oil, we have food. You want to eat, start producing more oil. We should not have to be begging the Saudi Arabians to produce more oil. Just cut off their food until they do.
      • HanFastolfe, on 06/01/2008, -1/+5I can't go all the way too starve people for oil. I'd be willing to make them pay a good chunk of that money they have gotten from us over the years, but if they ran out of money/oil they should not have to starve.
    • Qong, on 06/01/2008, -2/+6Our government collects billions of dollars in revenues from the Fuel Tax. They are wasting that money, as they do with the vast majority of the money that they take from us; as such I am for anything that keeps each Americans hard-earned money in their own pockets and out of big governments wasteful hands.

      Cut the Fuel Tax.
  • tkeeley, on 06/01/2008, -0/+11@ johnny2k, there is definitely more to this petition than just suspending the gas tax, it's a plea for Congress to actually take action that lowers gas prices, instead of just talking about it. Yes, the gas tax suspension will have a short term effect, but there are also other things that Congress can do that could have a long-term effect in terms of maintaining lower gas prices. Just read the main petition, it's all there.
    • johnny2k, on 06/01/2008, -1/+6tkeely, thank you for your response. I am still not for suspending the gas tax, though. It could have unintended consequences. Price you pay at the pump goes down, demand goes up, then supply becomes a bigger problem and the price just goes right back up again.

      The main thing we have to do is increase supply. That is it, period.
  • ShrikeDeCil, on 06/01/2008, -1/+13Google 'Drill Here, Drill Now" for a petition that isn't focused on a tax holiday, but just getting Congress off the dime.
  • alkajazz, on 06/01/2008, -2/+9I think it is more prudent for us to find alternative fuels. Tapping into our strategic fuel reserves is just a temporary fix. Fossil fuels are a finite resource. It would be more beneficial for us to make an efficient renewable energy source.
    • HanFastolfe, on 06/01/2008, -1/+6The prudent route is admirable, but last time I checked the price at the pump wasn't noble intentions, they wanted money. Whether, you, or I, like it or not this nation (today) has an oil based economy. It's not just gas in our cars, a whole host of products we all buy at the grocery store have petroleum used in their creation/processing/packaging, and that's just the food supply. When you take a look into how much is consumed by the health care segment the creation/processing/packaging, of pharmaceuticals, and medical equipment it's just amazing.Fuel is only one component in the equation, it's more noticeable to the consumer since they pay directly for it at the point of sale.

      Not many people are against renewable energy sources, even the oil companies invest in them. More to the point that in the hear, and now one can not simply power a semi-truck on wind as it delivers the parts to a new wind farm. Too many people see this as an "either or" situation, there is nothing wrong with expanding oil supply while at the same time encouraging alternative fuel/processes, and conservation that uses less oil in the final equation. We all want to be at the final equation, just because we can see it doesn't mean we're there yet. Something needs to happen to get us there.

      Contracting the overall economy, and all that goes with that concept buy artificially restricting current energy (taxes/regulation), only will slow that process down. I'd rather sprint to the finish. Expansion of traditional energy, expansion of alternative energy/precesses (when appropriate), expansion of conservation of energy could allow all the numbers to meet somewhere in the middle. One thing didn't get us into this problem, one thing wont get us out.
  • alkajazz, on 06/01/2008, -7/+3Unfortunately it wouldn't be the Oil barons would pay the price for a gas war. They would more than likely benefit from it. And the working class would suffer, because we have to fight the wars for them.
    • carpespasm, on 06/01/2008, -1/+1When the rich wage war it's the poor that die.
  • StarWarsFan, on 06/01/2008, -10/+8BURIED.

    People think that if we stop the gas tax, gas prices will go down by fifty cents or more. But oil companies already know that we are willing to pay four dollars a gallon. If the gas tax is removed, they'll simply raise the price back up to four dollars a gallon (Maybe not all at once, due to competition, but over a short period of time). So you can either pay four bucks a gallon and have that money go to wealthy Arabs, or pay four bucks a gallon and have some of that money go to fund our six-trillion-dollar-in-debt government. As much as I hate the government, I'd rather have my extra fifty cents of gas money going to the government than to oil corporations.

    Gas prices need to be high. It's the only way people are going to invest in alternative energy that gets us off our dependence on foreign oil. As long as gas prices are low, nobody is going to invest in alternative energy. But sooner or later, the nation's entire infrastructure needs to change from oil to alternative energy. It won't be easy, but it needs to be done. We can't keep slapping band aids on the problem for temporary fixes.
    • elleigh2, on 06/01/2008, -4/+2You are just a liberal who has drunk the Koolaid! We have plenty of oil here at home to tap into for years! We could be totally independent of Middle Eastern oil! If you want to give your money to the Gov't, be my guest, but they have not proven they can be trusted with a dime of mine! I would sooner trust big oil with the money! It's the "Free Market" stupid!
      • FeargusMcDuff, on 06/01/2008, -3/+5Lower tax --> Lower prices --> Higher Demand --> Less supply --> Higher prices.

        Lowering tax is pointless.
      • DarrylWatts, on 06/01/2008, -2/+1It's FlavorAid STOOPID lol
  • gmdmartyr, on 06/01/2008, -2/+8I signed.
    • carpespasm, on 06/01/2008, -1/+2I will not. This is the same BS McCain and Clinton were trying to push recently. It makes no economic or social sense. Over the course of the summer (the usual proposed term) it would save the average 2 car family about 50 bucks, but it would take out millions (billions?) of dollars from the federal road system. Sure it's wasteful as hell, but that's what should be focused on. Making an inefficient machine lock up for 3-4 months doesn't make it more efficient.
      • DarrylWatts, on 06/01/2008, -1/+1I don't understand why people are quick to jump on TEMPORARY solutions. Just like the stupid stimulus check...What good is it to waive a check in front of needy families, only to take it away because of outstanding student loans and/or taxes. Well the truth is that many people who are in debt really need to money! And how did sending a stimulus check help our huge deficit???? sorry to have changed the subject.
      • bamapachyderm, on 06/02/2008, -0/+1Please see responses to the "gas tax holiday only" misinterpretation above. This is NOT! just about gas taxes!
  • osko2052, on 06/01/2008, -3/+6I see your point but eliminating the gas tax will change nothing. The government will just find another way to tax us. We are taking baby steps towards a socialist government. How about we eliminate the IRS and have flat sales tax on everything.
  • Qong, on 06/01/2008, -4/+6I don't understand how so many of you people can be so ignorant when it comes to the Fuel Tax.

    That money is being wasted by our government. Take a look at the shape many of our roadways are in, just last year they allowed two bridges to collapse. Think about that for a moment, bridges literally collapsed here in the United States of America. They take billions of dollars every year from hard working Americans in Fuel Taxes, and they can allow bridges to collapse and kill many of our fellow Americans?

    The Fuel Tax is not going to good use. The government is wasteful. Knowing these two things, removing the Fuel Tax, even for just a short time, is a good thing. Allowing our fellow Americans to keep more of their hard-earned money is always a good thing.
    • postingbh, on 06/01/2008, -3/+2Removing the fuel tax only works if you offset revenue loses with spending cuts - that's the basis for the pay-go system, which congress and the President gutted circa 2002. If you don't lower spending, those tax cuts aren't cuts at all; they're just deferrals pushed onto our children and grand children. The notion that tax cuts are always a good thing and that we can simultaneously cut taxes while spending skyrockets is utterly idiotic and entirely immoral.
      • Qong, on 06/01/2008, -1/+1It isn't responsible to continue spending without revenues from taxes. They would have to print huge amounts of money which would destroy not only our economy, but would negatively impact the entire world.

        There's no way that such a thing would happen. Less revenues in taxes would lead directly to less governmental spending. They won't continue to spend if they know that doing so will have the economy in ruins. You should note the difference. The reason that they don't care about our grandchildren is because they can't vote.
        • postingbh, on 06/02/2008, -1/+4"There's no way that such a thing would happen. Less revenues in taxes would lead directly to less governmental spending. They won't continue to spend if they know that doing so will have the economy in ruins."
          - Hahaha, that is honestly the most naive statement I've read in a long, long time regarding fiscal policy. Seriously, do yourself a favor and research before commenting. For starters, take a look at the national debt. Guess where all that debt comes from. I'll give you one hint - start by subtracting revenues from spending. The remainder is what we leave to future taxpayers and I'll warn you ahead of time - it's not pretty. Oh, and the debt shown isn't the real debt but rather a fraction of it because the gov't accounting approach doesn't consider liabilities coming due past 10 years. If public companies accounted for liabilities like that, prisons would be filled with CFOs and Big 4 partners.

          After you take a glance at the national debt, read Running On Empty by Peter G. Peterson. Don't worry, it's a quick read and I promise you'll learn a thing or two. Then listen to the David Walker (former Comptroller General and head of the GAO) talks on YouTube and Google Video.

          Your argument is known as "starve the beast" and it doesn't work because politicians care about today and staying in power - not the economic future of America. After all, that's somebody else's problem, right? Honestly though, I don't blame you for being ignorant about fiscal policy - most Americans are. The American people have been fed a load of ***** by both parties about what makes for a good fiscal policy. But at least you got one thing right - that we are on the road to explosive inflation caused by the need to print money in mass to pay off compounding interest on debt. Of course, there are other options though which I'm sure we'll pursue (like letting our creditors indirectly control our military).

          And just in case you think I'm full of *****, I'll say this much: I'm an accountant and fiscal conservative. I follow fiscal policy closely because our own financial irresponsibility is entirely out of control and arguably the most important problem facing this nation. So regarding, "There's no way that such a thing would happen," - it's been happening for almost 30 years; time to wake up.
        • Qong, on 06/02/2008, -1/+1You're not telling me anything new. I'm also a fiscal conservative and I've worked in personal finance for a little over a year (I'm 23); while that doesn't exactly qualify me as being an expert in national finance, you're certainly wrong in stating that I am the one showing their ignorance here.

          The issue that you're missing in your argument is that the less revenues that the government takes in from taxes, the more and more obvious it becomes to actual voters that their spending is out of control. This would directly result in less spending through tax cuts. The government will not overspend to the extreme of having to inflate our currency into nothingness. That will negatively impact current voters and it will cause politicians to be voted out of office.

          I am also well aware of the "starve the beast" strategy. While that isn't what I had in mind exactly, such a strategy would also work if implemented, for the very same reasons that I stated above. The tax cuts would have to be drastic of course, but there is no way that government spending would or could continue at such levels. Everyone in the country and the world would take notice of what is happening and the big spenders would be voted out of office.

          There is not a doubt in my mind that it would work. You're clearing missing the point behind the idea; as you are right in saying that politicians want to stay in power, as I also stated in my first reply: - "They would have to print huge amounts of money which would destroy not only our economy, but would negatively impact the entire world." - but wrong in saying that spending at such levels would be sustainable with less taxes, it would not.. It would have an immediate negative impact on nearly every American, as such it wouldn't happen due to fear of losing power.
        • postingbh, on 06/02/2008, -0/+4Honestly, you seem like a reasonably smart kid so I'm going to make a suggestion: do your homework. Read Running on Empty, listen to David Walker, crunch the numbers. Then come back and tell me about how you're a fiscal conservative and what that means. Right now, you're just spewing voodoo economics that contradict all of the evidence.

          "You're clearing missing the point behind the idea; as you are right in saying that politicians want to stay in power... but wrong in saying that spending at such levels would be sustainable with less taxes, it would not.. It would have an immediate negative impact on nearly every American, as such it wouldn't happen due to fear of losing power."
          - I would never assert that "spending at such levels is sustainable with less taxes." In fact, I'm saying the exact opposite. Our current fiscal policy is entirely unsustainable in the long term. But we're not focused on the long term; we're focused on the short term. In the short term, everything seems fine and dandy - which is precisely why David Walker calls it a "tsunami of spending." Our debt problems don't hit us right away, they creep in slowly and then grow exponentially b/c that's how compounding interest works.

          To argue that "it would have an immediate negative impact on nearly every American" is to fundamentally misunderstand how debt works. I can't stress this point enough. Debt is about delaying payment. By definition, debt is not about immediate impact on the debtor(s).
        • eir574, on 06/02/2008, -0/+3"Debt is about delaying payment. By definition, debt is not about immediate impact on the debtor(s)."

          And hence, the subprime mortgage fiasco. People had enough trouble seeing how their own debt could affect their own lives. I certainly don't want to depend on voters to recognize that economic policies promoted by their elected representatives are not responsible in the long term. This isn't a jab at the stupidity of voters -- it's recognition that something, whether it's human nature or lack of education on finances and economics, seems to make it difficult for the average American citizen to make sound economic decisions.
  • FeargusMcDuff, on 06/01/2008, -1/+5Do you all hate capitalism or something? I thought you Americans believed in that sort of thing.
    • lazerus9, on 06/01/2008, -4/+2This is not capitalism, it is corporate fascism. The oil trust should have been broken back when Teddy "the shill" Roosevelt directed feigned outrage at the very oil people who helped get him elected!
      • FeargusMcDuff, on 06/01/2008, -4/+1Corperate facism = capitalism. There is a high demand and low supply, so there are high prices, thats how capitalism works. Price fixing only happens in communist countries and fails every time. Your attemps to break your own economy will end fruitlessly, becuase your elected government are smarter than you.
        • lazerus9, on 06/01/2008, -2/+2Another defender of fascism! I think you are a little confused as to whom is trying to "break" the economy! Your assertion that a distinction is to be made between- (Corporate fascism) and communism is a false paradigm.Corporate fascism supersedes any and all forms of government.
  • ladyjusa, on 06/01/2008, -2/+7If you compute the price of gas in Europe it comes to $14.00 a gallon American. and we think we have it bad. But in Iraq they pay around .10 a gallon or so.
    • DarrylWatts, on 06/01/2008, -2/+1Being an American myself, I think we have it way too easy around here. I pay 4+ bucks a gallon in salinas, ca...
      and I still dont complain because I am aware that Europeans have it far worse....But why am i sympathizing with them? Especially if the middle-eastern region is paying far less than anyone....but wait aren't they the ones supplying the fuel? =)
      • ladyjusa, on 06/02/2008, -2/+3This is exactly why we need to stop relying on oil from the middle east, we need to open our oil reserves.
        • BigBenKlingon, on 06/03/2008, -0/+2Then maybe you should move your fat ass over there.
    • saWgurr, on 06/05/2008, -0/+0i agree with america not having it as bad, there are alot of good things that come out of high gas prices, such as...
      http://digg.com/travel_places/Are_The_Rising_Gas_P ...
      this gives you a totally new perspective on the gas prices, check it out
  • viciouspictures, on 06/01/2008, -1/+6gotta love the quick fix! we can all see how the rebate checks have saved our economy. did anyone do anything with that money except spend it on normal crap?
    • lisaawesome, on 06/01/2008, -1/+2I paid a credit card bill and a cell phone bill with my stimulus check. I bet I single handedly just saved the economy! lol
    • fuzzybeard, on 06/01/2008, -0/+1We (my family) bought a new computer for me (replaced a 6--year old Dell), and a new TV (old one died, aged 15); the rest is being held in reserve to pay the *da-da-DUMM* taxes on the rebate check itself.
  • TommyGuns, on 06/01/2008, -1/+5Ride a bike, fixes so much and is so simple, honestly.
    • carpespasm, on 06/01/2008, -0/+4Doesn't fix major metropolitan city design based around cheap fuel that leaves lots of roads where riding a bike is a deathwish. Riding a bike or scooter is a great idea if you can though.
    • DarrylWatts, on 06/01/2008, -2/+1what about all of the poeple locked into jobs that require long commutes? they can't just up and ride a bike...sure they could car pool. But from experience it isn't as easy to find a willing ride...no matter how easy CBS, FOX, & CNN say it is. Or you could go the insane route and be a HYPERMILER...which i think is a bunch of *****!!! how many people actually hypermile!

  • ladyjusa, on 06/01/2008, -3/+2I signed the petition and e-mailed it to my friends.
  • Stevanoski, on 06/01/2008, -2/+5Why don't the Democrats care about the poor and how their children will go hungry if we don't get a handle on the supply end of the oil business? All they do is hold hearing on Republicans outing some skank cia spy. Don't they care about the poor?
    • DarrylWatts, on 06/01/2008, -0/+4The democrats seem to think that citizens cant run their own lives and need the help of big brother...where's the freedom in that?
  • umbriago, on 06/01/2008, -7/+5Raise the damn gas tax, that way people will use less gasoline which, in case you haven't figured it out, is what we need to be doing.
    • anarcurt, on 06/01/2008, -3/+3Death to the suburbs!!!!!!!!!! (Not being sarcastic, they really must go)
      • bamapachyderm, on 06/02/2008, -1/+2What are you, 12? Grow the ***** up.
    • DarrylWatts, on 06/01/2008, -4/+2yeah for far too long have we ignored the time for useful innovations. now we are suffering. It will be a blessing when gas hits 8 bucks a gallon...
    • bamapachyderm, on 06/02/2008, -0/+4Easy for you to say, I guess. Love how big-gubmint liberals with money are so free with spending OTHER people's money.
  • cerealjynx, on 06/01/2008, -2/+2Why do you think we were born with feet!?
    ...oh right, to work the gas pedal.
  • TheMachine1, on 06/01/2008, -3/+2If you want to know who is to blame for the price of gas look into a mirror.
  • fr0ng, on 06/01/2008, -2/+4It's the ***** purchasing power of the US dollar thanks to inflation, not because they raised the gas prices a significant amount.
  • delmar14, on 06/01/2008, -3/+5I'm down for any tax suspension.
  • anarcurt, on 06/01/2008, -1/+5Good luck getting them to cut pork barrel spending. Honestly, of all the problems our nation faces $4 gas is probably behind at least 2 dozen more important issues.
  • RCRN, on 06/01/2008, -2/+1LET'S SEND A REAL MESSAGE AND STOP DRIVING FOR AN ENTIRE DAY AND I MEAN EVERYONE!
  • quakerorts, on 06/01/2008, -1/+2Pollution=bad
  • yish, on 06/02/2008, -1/+1nope. Not high enough. If gas price would cover the real cost, they would be three times higher. The only way to get Americans to stop driving those Humvees to walmart is through their pockets. bring it on!
  • lodibug3, on 06/02/2008, -0/+3Signed and blogged! http://earlychristianamerica.com/blog/?p=48
  • bstein80, on 06/02/2008, -0/+2We should have explored in Alaska and off the coasts long ago. The left has blocked our efforts to expand domestic supply of energy. It's time to drill!
  • weirdralph, on 06/02/2008, -0/+2This should be our mantra:

    Dig here!
    Dig now!
    Pay less!
  • faultlineusa, on 06/02/2008, -0/+1I figure that we need to sign every petition that comes agong until we get someone’s attention in Washington. Yes we need to explore other alternatives but in the mean time we need relief!!!
  • lgfaphile, on 06/02/2008, -0/+1Signed it.
  • pbd1637, on 06/02/2008, -0/+1Most members of Congress have forgotten why they ran for office in the first place. Remind them - vote for somebody else!
  • socialismEVIL, on 06/03/2008, -1/+2"the gas tax is the easiest for the government to control"

    actually IGNORING hippies is as easy: harvest OUR OWN oil !!
  • JonGalt, on 06/03/2008, -2/+1artificial and very temporary fix. Here's what we need to do.

    TELL CONGRESS TO GET THE ***** OUT OF PRIVATE INDUSTRIES WAY.

    Every jack off that signed this wants another century of more of the same. Tell congress to stop making laws and sit on their hands. Things will get done when private individuals and companies do it, not the government.

    Buried for being retarded.
  • farmerjohn48pan, on 06/03/2008, -0/+0If Congress hadn't removed the restrictions on futures investing (gambling with money you don't actually have) then we would not be in this mess. Combine that with the idiotic policy of no drilling in CONUS and no new refinerys and here we are, screwed.
  • saWgurr, on 06/05/2008, -0/+0i dont think this increase in gas prices is entirely bad for america,
    http://digg.com/travel_places/Are_The_Rising_Gas_P ...
    this gives you a totally new perspective on the gas prices, check it out and diggggg
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