8 GREAT YEARS OF PEACE AND A BOOMING ECONOMY DURING CLINTON.  ALSO $0.78/GALLON OF GAS.\n\nNOW WE HAVE BOGUS WMD WARS, A SPUTTERING ECONOMY, AND FASCISM.  ALSO $3.00/ GALLON OF GAS.
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I totally agree with you.
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Gas futures rose as a result of the Democrats taking office, knowing full well that they do not comprehend the importance of this resource!\n\nThanks so much for asking! I'm glad I could clear that up for you!
263201
Shoot, Id contribute $100, especially if I knew for sure that we could stop sending $$ to the Middle East and to the commies in South America, and that I would save money in the long run in fueling my car and powering my house.  Anything that breaks our foreign oil dependance, stops polluting the environment, and costs less doesnt sound like it has a down side to me.
278215
We have no inflation,4% unemployment,construction is strong,the home market is strong.When Bush took office we were headed for a recession.I would say yes.
104306
economy is NOT booming.. The economy is suffering from the highest deficit of ALL time. 7 TRILLION dollars.\n\nbush's poll numbers are so low they're at the same level as Nixon's when he resigned office because he was facing impeachment. The lowest of any president of ALL time!\n\n- we're not winning the war. we're hundreds of billions of dollars in the hole. 2,000+ dead... 20,000+ wounded... no WMD's, a super strong insurgency, a hotbed for al queda (wasn't any in iraq before the war)\n- bin laden is still alive and planning, american's are being spyed on\n- the disdain for america is mounting from all sectors of the world\n- china and india are on their way to taking america's place as the world's super powers in 30-40 years, \n- un-employment has increased since bush first took office\n- civil liberties are disappearing\n- and the list goes on and on..\n\nthe healthiest the econonmy has been, the safest america has been was during the 8 years clinton was in office...\na libby...
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HELL YES!!!  \n\nWhat planet are these people living on who claim that Bush has improved the economy?  The economy began taking a turn for the worse with Bush's first tax cuts for the wealthy.  We've been on a downward spiral ever since.  The economy was booming while Clinton was in office.\n\nThen again, maybe I'm mistaken and the moon really has turned to cheese.
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I am white lower income($15000) American and Bush is destroying our family. Gas is to high, cost of food too high, cost of heating too high, cost of living too damn high. My husband is a disabled veteran who receives ssi and we have plenty of class.
217513
I think that the government could do something but they are so out of touch with reality that they won't. When Clinton was faced with the same thing he released the stategic reserves and that brought the price of gas down right now. Bush could do the same thing but he won't because he is probably profitiing by it some way.
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Reg; $0.12 to $0.29 from 1921 to 1934\nReg: $0.32 to $0.39 from 1935 to 1940\nReg: $0.41 to $0.52 from 1941 to 1945\nReg: $0.62 to $0.73 From 1946 to 1960\n\nthose are written facts from the dates of years given !\n2005 to 2006 up to date $2.58 to $3.25 by May 15th 2006\nby then end of the year Reg: gas will climb to $3.69 to $3.99 per Gallon and the your wages will stay the same because If you are making less than $10.00 per hour on your job you'll feel the pinch even worse, because you're working less than Mc Donald wages there by then, welcome to poverty !  Thanks President Bush !
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No problem "N". I'm actually in the market for a new car and I'm considering the Civic hybrid, with the current criminal Bush administration in charge of things, I foresee gas prices going up and up. Some neocon zombies will cite supply and demand, yeah right. Bush is an oil man first and formost. I can't wait for 2008. Give your horses a carrot from me :)
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Not that I am for this--But dear it wouldn't matter and why you ask---well here is an article--this is starting to open up a new can of worms--please understand--Anyone in the world could have all the oil in the world..and it really wouldn't matter at this point...\n\n$3-a-gallon gas: Blame Washington, not Big Oil\nWhat's driving up gas prices? It's not just higher crude costs; it's new regulations.\nNelson D. Schwartz\nMay 3, 2006: 2:20 PM EDT\n\n\n(FORTUNE Magazine) - With gas prices roaring past $3 a gallon and consumer fury rising even faster, Congress and the White House are engaged in a Kabuki-like ritual: pointing fingers at each other over who's to blame, while furiously attacking Big Oil for reaping gargantuan profits - as drivers get hosed at the pump.\n\nIf the politicians really want to figure out who's responsible for the latest round of price increases, though, they'd be better off looking in the mirror. That's because the rise isn't only due to higher crude costs. It's also fallout from some little-noticed provisions in the energy bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush last summer.\n\nBuried in the 551-page energy bill - which was supposed to ease energy shortages, not worsen them - were new regulations governing what additives go into gasoline and how it's refined. Corn-based ethanol is replacing the petroleum-derived additive MTBE, but Congress timed this logistically tricky switchover to occur just as demand for gasoline peaked ahead of the summer driving season - right about now.\n\nThe end result is an extra strain on the refining and distribution system when it can least afford it.\n\n"It's too late now, but Congress has consistently failed to sequence regulatory requirements in a responsible fashion," says Bob Slaughter, president of the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association.\n\nAdds Larry Goldstein of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation: "The gasoline crisis is made in the U.S.A., not in Iran or Venezuela or Nigeria. At least half the increase in gasoline prices is due to unintended consequences of the energy bill, but no one in Washington wants to admit that."\n\nIndeed, while crude prices have risen 21% since the end of 2005, gasoline is up 37% - a sign of just how stretched the system is. Congress's mistake, says Goldstein, was setting the new law to go into effect 270 days after it was signed - May 5 - rather than waiting until fall, when gas demand is typically on the downswing.\n\nNow the big question is, How high can gas go? Well, perhaps the only good thing that can be said about paying three bucks per gallon is that it seems to be slowing consumption - which should, in turn, reduce prices. Over a four-week period in April, says oil analyst Jamal Qureshi of consulting firm PFC Energy, U.S. gasoline demand dropped by half a percent, to just over nine million barrels a day. That may not sound like much, but it's a reversal from the 1.7% average annual increase in gas consumption the U.S. has experienced over the past decade. If $3 is indeed the tipping point at which consumers change their behavior and alter their driving habits, it's the one silver lining in an otherwise very dark cloud for drivers.\n\nThe wildcard in this scenario, of course, is the increasing risk of a military confrontation with Iran. If that happens, says Qureshi, "all bets are off." Given that crude oil accounts for 55% of the cost of each gallon of gas (refining accounts for 22%, taxes for 19%, and distribution and marketing for 4%), an upward spike in crude oil would push gas up even if the bottlenecks caused by the energy bill ease this summer.\n\nThat's why Red Cavaney, president of the American Petroleum Institute, says the answer in the short term is conservation. Washington is indeed being turned upside down when it's left to Cavaney, Big Oil's chief lobbyist, to talk conservat
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It's actually improved.  Economy is booming.   Gas prices just suck.
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They are but prices for gas right now are through the roof. Try at least $3.50 for a gallon of gas. Everything is more expensive. There are a lot of locals who don't like tourist/ military here.
580698
well what i know is the money we have spent fighting over there could have sure fast track developed alternative fuels, or perhaps even cured something like say, cancer.  if we are going to spend hundreds of billions of dollars we don't have i would much rather see it spent on something that is going to benefit the world instead of another lesson in how to destabilize an area and prop up a new government, i've already seen that hat trick thank you.
171983
Obviously it is declining. George Bush has the lowest poll ratings since Nixon. Largest Deficits in history, No child left behind is a failed policy, Medicare is a disaster; Scandals involving his and Cheney's chief's of staff, Illegal wire taps, outing spies, cover-ups about war in Iraq; Gas prices $3.00 and predicted to get to $5.00 per gal.. I am a democrat, but do not involve myself in name-calling. FOX NEWS always puts there SPIN MACHINE into action, as to shed the best light on the issues, and blame Bill Clinton for many of GWB's problems. After 6 years of GWB's failing policies, too many mistakes have been made. The republicans are trying to get their mojo back, who knew they had it before? Bush is doing great for the late night comics, you can't make up this ridiculous stuff.
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Gas is gunna keep going up and no its not over priced its what we get for relying on it soo much we might see it go down a bit but its gunna keep going up as the months go on we are coming to a point were its becoming harder and harder to find oil and especially when we do find it its in contries that dont wanna give it up or charge tons per barrel soo i suggest you looking into a hybrid! or a smart car by Mercedez and Swatch.. the less we rely on oil the cleaner the earth the worlds biggest glaciers right now are wabling on giant rocks and scientist belive that at anytime the glaciers could fall into the ocean causing water levels to rise up atleast a 2-3 metres causing huge problems and they say due to this the whole world would have different climates then they do now such as ONT Canada would be a desert I hope this helped good luck!  \n\nBlake C.
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Iam an American. In the last two months I ate two cows, a pig, ten chickens, 12 lbs of shrimp, 2 dozen oysters, 15 lbs of fish, two chocolate cakes, luncheon meats breads, pastries. Gallons of beer a liquid refreshments, 100 hours of movies and television on my super large screen tv in my nice $18000. home in the sweet sweet American coutry side.\nDrive my sedan anywhere I want anytime I want at the lowest petroleum rates in the world. I vote for the leader of our country without fear of being killed, voice my opinion with out fear of repression, pay tax money I know is going to help morons like you And I have a big huge fat American *** and you can kiss it!