re: #89 Targetpractice

I’d be more worried about the economic effects of high gas prices than the prices themselves. Especially in light of oil production and consumption being at highs and lows not seen in decades. And the overall reality that America’s oil production does not constitute enough of a percentage of the world’s overall production to drive prices up or down. We simply don’t pump out enough crude in a year to make even OPEC break a sweat.

That has little to do with it. The GOP will go to great lengths to insist that it is Obama’s rejection of the Keystone Pipeline and his refusal to loosen all those pesky environmental regulations that is choking US production and driving up gasoline prices.

And there will be enough people who buy that argument.