"Cheap Gas" is a call for socialized price controls or a peaceful foreign policy

[2 Much Tribulation]

Compared to only a couple years ago, demand for gasoline is down and supply is up, which should mean lower prices. But prices are NOT lower, on account of speculation related to unrest in the Middle East, especially Iran.

If Gingrich, or other Republicans, want cheaper gas, they should adopt an anti-war stance. They're not poised to do so.

Alternatively, if they want cheap gas, they should favor adopting socialized price controls on gas. They are not about to do that either, it seems.

Gasoline as a political issue seems entirely designed just to sow dissatisfaction with the Obama administration, and to sucker Democrats into arguing market ideology: The price of gas is controlled "only by market fluctuations" and is beyond the control of the President or his administration.

New drilling is at best a long term effect on gas, and is at best a modest price effect, one that will still be wiped out be speculators betting on the price effects of belligerent US foreign policy.

Rather than being defensive on the price of gas, this issue should be converted into a foreign policy issue by pointing out how US foreign policy is the most crucial controllable factor today in affecting the price of gas. Absent Republican agreement on an anti-war stance, they should be asked to commit to price controls on gas, and absent one of those two things, to just shut up.

[Zalatix]

1. There is no such thing as cheap gasoline.

[freshwest]

2. Good thread. The connection with war and the energy companies is strong.

Same profiteers, a circular system designed to fleece the rest of society. If the energy companies believe that going to war for oil is good business, it should come out of their pockets.

Not from the tax payers who may or may not benefit from their product. They've brainwashed generations to think theirs is the sole solution, to profit them and keep the world in poverty.

Make no mistake, they wage these wars in order to lower the intelligence and consciousness of mankind through environment destruction and poverty in order to manipulate us. A peaceful world with alternative energy would give mankind the breathing room to consider some much bigger ideas than we are forced to do now.

[Land Shark]

3. Dems should not plead helpless in the face of markets. nt