Quote - Er a President doesn't set the gas prices. Politics has nothing to do with it. There is no regulated control, THAT'S the problem. These companies can charge whatever they feel like it for a gallon of gas and get away with it.

They can charge you ten dollars US money for 1 gallon of gas.

You have a Dem Congress why aren't they doing anything about it? All they've been good for is raising taxes and collecting their big phat pay checks and doing nothing in the mean time.

The tax cuts have nothing to do with gas prices either.

*eyeroll.

Er, I didn't say, nor even imply, the president set gas prices.

Nor did I say or imply  that tax cuts had anything to do with gas prices.

I didn't think I needed to explain the comment as I thought the impact of more investment in better, more efficient hydroelectric dams, more investment in state-of-the-art mass transportation systems, etc., etc.  would be obvious .... but I guess not.

As for the companies charging whatever they like for a gallon of gas, the higher prices are largely being driven by speculation on the world oil market and that is mostly due to what is essentially legalized insider trading, a la Phil Gramm ...

(I more or less argued the other point of view just a couple of weeks ago, but I have researched it some since, and apparently I was wrong -- and now I'm off to apologize to SeanMartin for being such a bonehead.)