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Unreasonable regulations and high taxes drive the cost of the regulated commodities up and slow economies down. Consider which party has been in control of the states that suffered the most during the recession and are continue to suffer. California, Michigan, Illinois - blue states that refuse to pare government expenditures. These are also the states whose answer to declining economies is to raise taxes and drive more businesses away.

The global recession and sluggish economy should have held energy prices in check but under Obama and a Democratic Congress, prices have soared instead. Yet the federal agencies under Obama's control have acted to reduce domestic supplies of both coal and oil, creating great uncertainty in the market. Uncertainty invites speculation and high prices.

The fact that prices are rising demonstrates that your assertion that Republicans (despite not having control of Congress for several years) have somehow been able to give huge tax breaks to oil companies. If that had been true (a good thing, IMO), it would tend to depress prices and that has obviously not been the case.

I am a conservative - not a Republican, BTW. Too few Republicans are really fiscal conservatives. However, almost all fiscal conservatives that hold public office are Republicans, so I have pledged not to vote for any Democrats for national office. I think it would be great if our country opened up ANWR and other areas for drilling and eliminated taxes entirely on energy production for oil, natural gas, and coal sold in the US. Nothing would have a more positive impact on job creation and the GDP.

Do you remember that six year old article printed by the "only unbias news source", and you asked me in not so many words, what in the world does this have to do with anything.

I was planning on you to make this statement sooner, but now that it is made. Who had control of both houses of congress and the President during the printing of that article. It seems to me that prices were higher then?

Now there is a logical conclusion to that, we didn't have enough oil during that time, drilling could not have been an option, the democratic party went into the white house and put a bug in G.B.'s ear. at which point they got back control.

Or it could be what I have been saying all along, republicans do not want to change the market, along with the democrats, because again of special interest groups... in my previous post, a show that there is a demand, and technology is always developed when there is a demand. So there must be something else to hinder market. It again is the only logical conclusion.

So now I have proved that when Republicans/Democrats had control of both houses and the president, nothing changes.