Thanks for the "straight talk"

Nice piece, but what's all this stuff about the deficit and the dollar? When was it that progressive folks decided they needed to sound so much like Herbert Hoover? I have a feeling it may have been during the Clinton administration.

...but I remember Barney Frank on the Bill Maher show a couple of years, when oil prices where first starting to soar, suggest decreasing the gasoline tax to help the middle class.  He also landed the incredible statement that people had been "promised" that they could affordably drive 30 miles to work each day.  I don't remember the "Federal Government's Promise to Commuters Bill", but apparently he thinks there was one.

It might even backfire by increasing demand thus causing prices to rise.

He is looking more and more like John W. McBush

   Markets work really fast these days. Since John Insane made this statementthe the oil market has concluded that the US is going to fight "demand destruction" tooth and nail. Oil has just hit $115. Do you think this is just a coincidence? Even if we never follow up on this pandering, real damage has already been inflicted.

...since he knows that when gas reaches $4 a gallon, Democrats win elections.

"Transfer what used to be tax revenue -- potentially usable for public benefit -- to the oil companies and the Saudis by pushing up oil demand. "

I really sometimes wish these oil companies would just quit. They have no right to their profits. They're selfish pigs and should give all of their money to us. They should give all their money to a greedy, leviathon, cannabalistic government and quit so we can all walk to work and live without life- saving technology.

(They shouldn't quit; they should strike.)