4 bucks a gallon

Come on congress, this is getting ridiculous. I scream at the TV each night while watching about the ever rising gas prices "It's not that freaking hard people"! Drill in ANWAR drill in Montana, Drill off the coast, build more refineries, use our coal to our advantage. America is the Saudi Arabia of coal. The tree huggers want to save the polar bear to prevent us from drilling in Alaska. At this point I don't care about the polar bear. I care that it costs me $4 dollars a gallon to fill up my tank. Sure polar bears are cute on the coca cola commercials, but in real life they'd rip your chest open like you rip the saran wrap of a pound off ground beef. Not so cute now huh? When tree huggers start effecting humans negatively, that’s just insane.

No, what does congress do? They sue OPEC. That'll really get the prices down [/Sarcasm]. My 3 year old is more intelligent then these retards in congress. They fine the oil companies, they tax them more like the oil companies will go "Gee golly, they are serious now, we better pay the fine and not pass it on to the consumer". Congress said they would get prices down, 2 years later it's doubled. Gone are the days of $2.50 a gallon. Back then that was insane, today it's a steal. Americans are getting pissed off. Pushing ethanol won't help, forcing unperfected technology won't help. It creates animosity towards the government. Government doesn’t create products that work, they dictate what they think is right. When someone is forced to do something (government programs, ethanol), it is no longer free market capitalism (weeding out what works and what doesn’t), it is socialism. Forcing someone to do something that is unproven technology only makes costs go higher. Right now we need to drill OUR OIL. We have enough of it in Alaska, Montana and off the coast.

Congress needs to let capitalism run its course and gets it's nose out of the economy. Notice what happens when they do? Capitalism when left unmolested will weed out what technology works to get us away from oil. People are smart and know what to do. In the mean time nothing pulls the BTU’s like oil, coal and nuclear power. Get away from Iranian and Saudi oil, and drill our own, while letting capitalism run its course. Problem solved.