Gas Price Increases to Open Anwar? [View All]

Hey, what the hell is going on here?

Who sets the price of gas at the pump? The gas companies. Who refines the gas? The gas companies. Who runs the gas companies? The Chimp and his pals, right?

What major initiative (apart from his social security fiasco) did the mad monkey promise his rich donor pals and his BFEE cronies that he's been unable to fulfill? ANWAR. "We'll develop ANWAR and leave only footprints..." Wasn't that his promise?

Hannity and Rush and Reagan are doing a full-court press on how high prices are the librul's fault, because they won't let the prez "develop our own nation's resources" like ANWAR (Rush says it's a sea of oil that would fill all our energy needs for 30 years) and offshore drilling in California (Because all them liberal Hollywood types think it will ruin the view).

The Veep is doing a big dance about how the Iranians have nukes (they don't, but what they do have is a "bourse", an official office that will be converting the sale of Iranian oil into petroeuros instead of petrodollars); how Venezuala's Chavez is threatening to sell all his oil to the demon Chinee; how our Nigerian friends' supply is threatened by revolution; Chinese demand is rapidly expanding...

But really, aren't the Saudis still sitting on an ocean of oil, isn't the strategic reserve still fairly stable and aren't our Nigerian and Venezuelan friends still selling us oil?

If Bush promised his pals he'd open up ANWAR, and he needs the Murkan people to put pressure on congress to allow it, wouldn't $2.99 / gal. gas do the trick? And don't his buddies have the power to pretty much set gas prices where they want them? And isn't it his buddies who will make lots and lots of money assuming ANWAR doesn't prove to be a bust?

Who is this sumbitch working for, anyway?