* Has No Incentive To Lower Gas Prices......

[global1]

1. He's a lame duck. He don't care. No emotion for people dying in NO or Iraq or Afghanistan - why should he have any feelings about what you pay at the pump.

2. The higher the prices - more profit for his oil buddies.

3. The higher the prices - more pressure on Congress to lower environmental restrictions on new refineries, new drilling, etc.

4. The higher the prices - more pressure to drill in Anwar

Everything plays right into his lap so that he gets what he wants.

[wakeme2008]

1. The downside is poll numbers in the 20s

and Repugs in Congress running from him.

[TheFarseer]

2. His only incentive is to help his repuke buddies

in congress and they are running away from him as fast as they can, so it's hard to tell how much of an incentive that is. I wonder if gas will spike after the elections since he REALLY won't have any reason at all to keep gas low.

[MADem]

3. The higher the prices, the more incentive to find alternatives

Even the Bushbots know that price gouging is going on. ANWAR won't lower the price; it will just provide more profit for the greedy bastards running the oil companies.

And even the rabid GOPers are starting to see this...they know how much these clowns are making, and they know how much it costs to fill up that dumbass yellow Hummer they bought two years ago, thinking they were so damn cool!! They may as well chop the roof off the damn thing, fill it with topsoil, and use it as a planter!

Even those with reasonably fuel efficient vehicles, that used to be filled up with less than twenty bucks, are not escaping from the pumps without forking over thirty or more. I had to fuel two cars in the past week due to an unusual amount of travel (normally, I gas them up less than once a month!) and I chatted up my fellow fuelers as an exercise in "gauging the mood" -- make no mistake, people are BULLSHIT. And the GOP types feel very, very betrayed.

So much for "jawboning OPEC" so they would "open those spigots!" That priceless comment should be aired, over and over again, from now until November...2008!

[greenbriar]

4. buttt heee said.....and he is a "follow thru kind of guy"

"In 2000, when gas was selling for $1.60, presidential candidate G. W. Bush said:
'What I think the president ought to do is he ought to get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say we expect you to open your spigots. One reason why the price is so high is because the price of crude oil has been driven up. OPEC has gotten its supply act together, and it's driving the price, like it did in the past. And the president of the United States must jawbone OPEC members to lower the prices' (The New York Times, 9/29/00; George Bush, Republican Primary Debate, Manchester, NH, 1/26/00)
"Would the president call that statement "inoperative" now?"

[lutefisk]

5. It also diverts attention from his misconduct in office

If this administration ever ran out of distractions, they'd be in serious trouble. They've managed to keep the country off balance for more than 5 years now. They think they can keep one step ahead of the chaos they create, but it can't work forever.