Mad As Hell About Prices at the Pumps!!!!

[kerrygoddess]

Mad As Hell About Prices at the Pumps!

American’s are “Mad As Hell” about prices at the pumps and the GOP is getting nervous.

As consumers feel pain at the pump, record high gas prices are registering as a political problem with congressional Republicans.

At a town hall meeting this week, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) wanted to talk about Social Security and Medicare, but the session quickly turned to gas prices.

When Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) toured a Veterans Affairs clinic Wednesday, the first question put to her was: “What are you going to do about the high price of gasoline?”

And a growing number of GOP officials worry that, as the party in power, Republicans will pay their own high price — at the ballot box. They are scrambling to find ways to respond.

“People are mad as hell,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said.

When Congress returns from its month-long recess after Labor Day, gas prices will be among the top items on the agenda. The Senate is expected to hold a hearing examining the causes of the price increase and the corporate oil barons may be summoned to testify. Democrats have been spotlighting fuel prices and this has not played well for Republicans in the polls.

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[expatriot]

1. At least you don't pay $6.48/gallon like in the Netherlands nt

[kerrygoddess]

2. Well yes... Europe has always been higher. N/T

[dweller]

5. Taxed to subsidize Universal Health Care n/t

dp

[Fozzledick]

12. We pay income and payroll taxes instead

European governments generally depend on excise taxes on all fuels for their main revenue rather than income taxes.

[Skittles]

15. STOP THSE RIDICULOUS COMPARISONS TO EUROPE

let me know when they are paying THOUSANDS for their teeth and their health please; THEN we will talk

[Mr Rabble]

3. Exxon/ Mobil made $7.5 billion last Q.

Who the FUCK do they THINK is responsible? They need a hearing for THAT?

[kerrygoddess]

4. Guess they do... protocol and all ... N/T

[Mr Rabble]

6. Yet another distraction. Steroid hearings Part2?

[TahitiNut]

8. BP made $6.7 billion in 2Q; ConocoPhillips made $3 billion ... and on top

... of that, the recently passed energy' bill gave the oil companies $6 billion in taxpayer money over the next 10 years. Imagine. :eyes:

It's amazing Amrikans ain't storming the White House.

[applegrove]

7. These are talking points! Don't fall for it. We are mad as hell at the

lies and the destruction of the democracy. We are mad at the ideologues. We are mad cause they are WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. We are mad because they don't think the elites should have to sacrifice a thing during a time of war and try to teach us such adolescent behavior. We are mad because they are trying to bankrupt the government so they can 'break its back' & destroy any regulatory power.

Gas is only one small thing.

Don't drink the juice!

This is re-framing.

[kerrygoddess]

9. I disagree

This is one area, that republican voters who are not so concerned with things like the war, and who are pro-life, etc are getting pissed off about.

You got to understand that not everyone in the country feels the same way we do about them, but everyone is starting to feel the pinch at the pumps. This is yet another wake up call for these people. They are speaking about it, it's reflected in the polls.

There is a whole world outside of DU that thinks about other things.

[applegrove]

11. Cindy isn't about GAS. Neither is Jon Stewart. These are GOP talking

points..trying to direct their flock into an explanation for all the anger that suits their plans.

[LittleClarkie]

13. Like a draft would, gas prices affects everyone

They feel it regardless of ideology. Hence, they can bring a president down. That's cool with me, even if it's not one of the burning issues. If it hurts them, it hurts them.

Have at you!!

[Dogmudgeon]

10. Wait until the price is $5, $8, $12 a gallon

There is nothing to be done about the high cost of gasoline except to develop new vehicles that depend on less gas and/or different, more easily available energy sources. Cheap oil is over. We had nearly 40 years' lead time to solve these issues when they were still engineering problems, and we spent most of that time laughing at Granola, Kumbaya and "Tree-Huggers".

The price of oil will fluctuate, and there will be times when the price comes down, but the overall trend is upward -- sharply. It's getting more expensive to suck the black gold out of the hard gray stone foundation of the Earth, and we've done nothing along the way except to advise speculators how to game their oil investments.

No, all hope is NOT lost, but here's what nobody wants to hear: It's going to require work. We are going to have to bust our asses, and still make do with less. It sucks to have to pay $2.799 for a gallon of 88 octane. It will suck more to pay $5.599 for the same amount, when the price is twice as high. And if an appropriate tax was levied, that $12 gallon of gas will suck even longer and harder.

On the other hand, an abrupt and catastrophic breakdown of the world's economic and food distribution systems would be incalculably worse.

Do we have what it takes to tough it out, to re-build the USA and the world the way the people want it to be, and make sure no one is left out? I think we do. I think we CAN build that better world. So get some education. Make some changes. Pester some politicians. Tell your friends and neighbors.

Grin and bear the gasoline prices; the discomfort will be temporary, and the alternatives to constructive change lead to far worse consequences.

--p!

[whirlygigspin]

14. I hope gas gets more expensive

...just remember to blame Bush for the high prices.

keep reminding everyone that that most of the Bush administration is Big Oil/ Exxon... the "Exxon Republicans"

Supertanker Condaleeza

Exxon Republicans=$3.00/gallon

The Enron Administration

George Bush's legacy, $5.00/gallon gas

[radfringe]

16. wait till the heating season hits

gonna be a long cold winter -- then things will really heat up.

we are already stashing money away in anticipation of arm/leg prices for heating oil. We have a "wood" fund too - for cord wood to supplement heating of the house...

both of us are also out there looking for 2nd jobs just to meet the higher costs. and forget about disposible income -- any extra is either going into the "heating stash" or to pay for gas so we can get to work so we can pay for heat this winter