If the "war for oil" charges made by the Kode Pinkos were true, why have our gas prices doubled since the beginning of the year?  Didn't the Democrats tell us they would "fix" the sky-rocketing oil & gas prices if we put them in the majority back in 2006?  Yet it has doubled since they took over?  Wherever you look, it boils down to one factor; Congress and the environmental moonbats!  "No, you cannot drill in Anwar, might hurt the caribou." (Despite the fact that caribou herds have grown since the oil pipeline went in throughout Alaska) "No, you cannot build oil to gas refineries." (It's been 37 years since the last refinery was built) "No, you cannot....".  All the while, they are threatening to add windfall taxes that will only succeed in raising our prices higher!  Adding insult to injury, they want to burn our food, and giving our tax dollars away to farmers who sell their corn to ethanol factories! 


" Shortly after the American Revolution, the new government imposed a draconian tax on the stuff, hoping to pay down wartime debt. Instead, it got the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, an insurrection eventually put down by forces led by President Washington himself. Similar hostility — including the indignity of Prohibition, the 1920s-era federal ban on alcohol production — marked official attitudes toward ethanol until 1978.

That year and thereafter, however, the government warmed considerably to "white lightning," as the 200-proof elixir is sometimes known. Rather than tax ethanol heavily, the government now lavishes it with tax breaks. Rather than ban production, the government subsidizes it. And commercial ethanol production, which withered away after World War II, now booms."