What does President Bush have to do with gas prices?
471960
Well that depends on if your a democrap or a republican.\nDemocraps are blinded by their hate of GWB and therefore cannot reason properly.  They are mind numb robots who can only retort with the crap spued from the liberal media and morons like Micheal Moore & Al Franken.  Republicans are more intelligent and in touch with real world economics (aka common sense).  Conservatives payed attention in economics class and realize that cost of oil is dependant upon the amount of supply and the amount of demand.  The cost of oil is also controlled by OPEC and not the president.  For uninformed democraps, OPEC is an acronym that stands for Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.  That means certian countries set the price of oil and not the President.  IN addition to OPEC, China & India are rapidly growing and thier need/demand for oil has increased significantly.  So in simple terms, there is more demand than supply and that has caused the increase.
138081
Bush is just a fag who likes to bomb other countries and take over them. He likes to accuse people of having weapons of mass descruction, and only helped Florida in their time of need because his brother runs the state... :P\n\nAnd plus, the cost of the war in Iraq is running us about 244 billion dollars, and is increasing about 1,000 dollars every SECOND! Do you think you would be able to afford to help some people in tragedy if you were wasting all your money shooting people?!\n\nI dunno. Maybe Bush isn't doing anything because he got mad at the traffic during Marti Gras. Hey, you never know...
181537
Find petroleum deposit and tell George W. Bush.
550693
Because when it comes to energy, you get it from where ever you can as cheaply as you can.  This is why Bush invaded Iraq after all.  So he can have cheap oil for his Families Oil Companies, so they can sell the oil products to Americans at high prices and become even richer and more powerful than they already are!
964603
because bush wants their oil
202996
I have! Oil prices go down and gas goes up. Supplies increase the price at the pump goes up. The 2nd biggest oil deposit in the world comes under U.S. control.... You get the idea. Enough is enough. His friends have all made a buck on this insanity, let's go back to $1.00 a gallon.
820638
I say bring it on. And, after the investigations have concluded you will hear that they find no wrongdoing. I know you libs and your conspiracies have it all figured out, but oil companies do not make but 8 or 9% profit on gasoline. Your answer for everything is more government control. It's supply and demand, THAT is what drives prices and we are in competition with China since we are the two countries who consume most of the oil in the world. Oh, one more thing, It's not George W. Bush's fault either!\n\nExcellent post! It's nice to know there are like minded people out there.
364050
no.\nbecause the root cause of gas prices in the world is shortage of supply.\n\nthis is mostly because oil reifineries conviently shut down or do not produce enough to meet demand. (all compainies have to do is agree to all inflate prices and everyone benifits)\n\nthe other problem is that big countries like China are buying up huge quanties of oil... which make there less supply and thus greater demand \n\nand price jack up...but never underestimate greed\n\nin iraq we control thier oil. if bush steped down cheney would still let the oil companies rip you off.\n\nwhy do you think all his energy meetings were secret and the white went to court to  prevent freedom of information acts
1149135
Because Bush needs the oil!
87372
Same thing Jimmy Carter had said... He needs to increase his approval rating. By conveying he doesnt want to depend on oil and he wants to use different fuels, he's lessening his main critics about him being an oil tycoon and only in it for his exxon buddies.\n\nThe US is broke. He spoke general, and he has to keep everyone happy. Usually the thing in debate is how the plans are carried out, rather than the sweet short abstract of what needs to be done.
1147879
Basically it comes down to supply and demand.  There is increasing demand for oil (mostly from developing countries like China and India, but demand in the US is increasing also).  OPEC is already producing near its capacity, coupled with no relatively new oil refineries having been built, this causes the an increasing demand against a slower (negligible) increase in supply of the refined oil used for gasoline.   Hurricane Katrina knocked out some production capacity which is still not completely up and running.  Also there are other less significant reasons such as the changing of fuel additives from mtbe to ethanol (this has been done for environmental reasons).  To put a few non-truths to bed...  The oil companies were NOT found to be doing any price gouging (illegally increasing prices beyond unreasonable economic fundamentals).  Second, everyone wants to blame President Bush for increasing prices when in fact he no longer has any personal investments in oil companies(he did this specifically to discredit these accusation most likely); in fact President Bush has probably more to lose from high oil prices than any other single individual alive.  He wants a strong economy, with little inflation and needs that help for party elections this fall.  If you want a specific group of people to blame, you should look at commodity traders themselves, they are the ones who control the international price changes from day to day and are the ones who fear supply disruptions (such as the one that occured in Africa, threats from Iran and Venezuela recently) and terrorists act which affect the flow of oil (the so called terror premium).
486096
America sure wants Hugo Chavez's oil, and he turned down OPEC like Saddam did before the invasion by America. Venezuela has gasoline for .12 cents a gallon right now, and George Bush hates that too.
359449
I don't understand why people think that Bush (or any other president at any other time) is responsible for the price of oil or gas.  Things like wars, production, supply, and demand dictate the price of gas.  Not any given world leader.  \n\nTo blame one man or administration from ANY country for high gas prices is silly.  Believe it or not, our presidents have our best interests in minds (mostly) - the last thing they want to do is piss us off.
645979
I believe that the oil companies are taking advantage of the situation.  It seems the prices are always higher during the summer when people are using their cars, or R.V's to go on vacation.\n\nThe president is walking on thin ice...Republicans are going to feel the wrath of voters because they will be losing their races and the democrats will take their place.\n\nThe president wants us to open up Alaska to drilling, so when we have higher prices...he can say they would be lower if we were able to drill in Alaska.
502628
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
307164
Of course it is his fault... he is an oil tycoon! Oil companies and oil producing nations are benefiting from this increase and Mr. Bush is personally a close friend of many oil producing countries and oil companies. The Democrats have blocked oil exploration in the US because it is too expensive to drill in the USA due to the nature of the land.. even with today's technology.. and that's why American companies prefer to drill in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Libya and others. If you think it is cheaper to get oil from the ground beneath the USA then the government would've done that 200 years ago. It is too simple (why purchase something from someone if you can produce it cheaper).\nThen someone is talking about supply and demand, my dear nothing has changed in the world for it to demand that much of oil except that the US army needs and consumes lots of oil to operate... and oil producing nations –which Mr. Bush has close ties with- have increased their productions to please Mr. Bush and his friends.. some countries went to their daily max and some are considering building more refineries. They are taking your money and they are very happy with that.\nHere is a headline for you: USATODAY.com - Big oil tanks up: Exxon's profit nears $10B.\n\nYou should thank the democrats for their outstanding job... they don't want you to pay more! The republicans are good in hypnotizing people and making them believe in what they want them to believe in. Simply they are a group of magicians but not politicians. I'm sad to say that they are ruining and screwing up a great nation.
574413
It very well could... when Bush Sr. gas prices were sky high and then Clinton came in and prices fell... demand didn't fall though... it's because of all the instability Bush Sr. and Jr. cause in the middle east. If you destabilize area you get a product from, the prices are going to be destabilized, usually resulting in much higher prices... it's basic economics...\n\nIf a new president decided on a less "attack oriented" middle eastern strategy, it could go a long way into stabilizing the market in the minds of those on the market, dropping prices drastically\n\nIt's about supply and demand... but not just simple gallons to drivers, it's about how that supply COULD be changed and war in Iran clearly would change supply (if they US attacked they would probably destroy their oil fields, therfore the oil supply would go down overall) ... \n\nthe threat of war is more than enough to spike gas prices, the supply doesn't have to change, only be threatened...  I mean if you look at when the prices started going up the last time, it was when Bush started talking about invading Iran, it's far from a coincidence, it's common sense... the demand numbers haven't changed drastically