Scroll down a ways if you want to skip my rant (PART I), and get to the current U.S. politics and hypocrisy stuff, including video (PART II). I didn’t intend for this post to turn in to something this long,…

..the Qatari Energy Minister sees this and suggests that if the politicians would quit with the rhetoric which is driving the prices up, if they would stop, he thinks prices would drop at least $15 a barrel.

If the government wants to bring down prices, they can eliminate some of their ludicrious taxes. After all, for the 9 cents the oil company gets in profit from us, we at least get a product or service. What do we get from the 50+ cents the government c…

On Capitol Hill, members of Congress are blaming oil companies for high gas prices. Politicians want

If we adjusted gas prices for inflation (which the price controls eliminated), we should be paying a minimum of $4 / gallon, but some sources say it would be in the $6 / gallon range.

Michelle has an excellent piece about oil company profits working out to about nine cents per gallon while taxes on gas are between 40 and 60 cents per gallon. Government greed is worse than corporate greed!…

These two paragraphs from today’s Washington Post tell us everything we need to know about the Democrats’ “energy policy” ideas:

Oil analysts concur that the primary causes of the escalating prices cannot be mitigated by fede…

Perfect statement from Neil Cavuto, (as reported by Michelle Malkin):

I see Chuck Schumer wants to investigate the oil companies for price gouging. Why doesn’t he ask his fellow politicians to

Can someone please remind President Bush, Speaker Hastert and Majority Leader Frist that we Americans elected a Republican majority so that we wouldn’t have to live in a Democrat America. It’s beginning to look more and more like we only h…

There is a lot of punditry in the sphere this week about gas prices, the President’s approval rating, crude oil costs, Lee Raymond’s retirement package, price gouging, and how all of these subjects are closely related. Being the analytical (anal

Simple facts destroy demagogues. Profit margins, not net profits, tell an entirely different tale on ExxonMobil: it’s not making enough money. McClatchy newspapers, meanwhile, must be fleecing their advertisers and readers.

NEWS: – Bush orders probe into gas prices – Lobbying Reform Legislation Heads to House Vote – U.S. Backs Israel’s Defense, Urges Caution – Bush sees Iraq win as ‘blow’ to al Qaeda – A Look at U.S. Religious Freedom…

Who is next to be the victim of the so-called Bush Administration Shake-up? I really don’t think that rearranging the chairs is going to solve the problems in Iraq, with the economy, with gas prices or our swelling debt.
Maybe Bush could solve e…

So, the grandstanding asspirates that make up the government are now calling for an investigation into gasoline prices, saying that the ‘windfall’ profits that they’re making are unfair when the average American worker has to pay nearly $3.00 a gallon …