Investor's Business Daily has put together a most interesting graph that tells the tale at a glance.
Oh, yes, I'm well aware that correlation is not causation, otherwise the rooster's crowing would really be responsible for the sun's rising. But there's a good logical case to be made for the hypothesis that the Congressional Democrats are directly responsible for this unprecedented spike in gas prices, and IBD makes it in their insightful editorial "Back To The '70s?". Here's a morsel to whet your appetite: Under Pelosi's "common-sense plan," Congress has achieved nothing. Actually, less than nothing, considering that what little has been done has hurt, rather than helped the U.S. to become more self-sufficient. This year alone, we'll spend $431 billion to buy 3.7 billion barrels of imported oil to run our economy. And in so doing, we are enriching some of the world's most unsavory regimes.By all means, read all of it, then take whatever action you can to correct the situation. If enough of us do, the pols will pay attention. After all, they value one thing above all others: their jobs. If enough of us let them know that we intend to kick their sorry asses out of office, then actually do it a few times, the survivors will not only come around, they'll act like they've agreed with us right along, anyway, and it was all just a big misunderstanding – or it was all somehow George Bush's fault.
Ironically, we have plenty of oil — at least 10 billion barrels in Alaska's National Wildlife Reserve, 30 billion or so offshore and a whopping 1.2 trillion in Rocky Mountain oil-shale. But Democrats' extreme green ideology keeps us from drilling for it.
Come to think of it, there's far more evidence to support the hypothesis that the Dems are responsible for skyrocketing gas prices than to support the hypothesis of anthropogenic global warming, isn't there?
Hat Tips: Mark Rose and Terry Frank.
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