Democrat Price-Gougers

In a 2006 press release, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claimed that Democrats had a common sense plan to bring down skyrocketing fuel prices. The average price for a gallon of gas when Democrats took control of congress that November was $2.25 - a price that Pelosi and other liberals claimed amounted to "price gouging". The average price of a gallon of gas today is now up to a record $3.61, and in Speaker Pelosi's home Congressional district in the California bay area, the price tops $4 a gallon.

Despite the price going up $1.36 per gallon (that's 60%!) since Democrats took control of Congress 15 months ago, an out-of-touch Speaker Pelosi and Congressional leadership have still not released this so-called common sense plan to bring prices under control. Just last week in an interview with Larry King, Speaker Pelosi cited the national average as being only $2.56.

And the Dems' "commonsense solution"? Drilling in ANWR? Building refineries again after a thirty-plus year stoppage? Abolishing the EPA? Even a gimmicky "gas tax holiday" for the summer?

Nope. Try "We believe in a price-gouging bill so that the big oil companies can't collude. We believe that there's too much speculation in the markets, and we believe that ought to be reined in."

There's your new alternative energy source, gentlebeings: not more oil, or natural gas, or nuclear fission, or nuclear fusion, or matter-antimatter plasma, but rather, vast clouds of hot, rancid, fetid, malevolent air.

On the bright side, it would seem to be a "greenhouse gas," which we're going to need as the sun cools over the next twenty years. And in the mean time they might staple Chucky's lips shut as an "anti-global warming" measure....