re: #181 Targetpractice

Still remember when gas above $2/gal drew accusations of price gouging. Now we sit around, praying we’ll one day see $2.50/gal gas again.

It’s sad how quickly we can get used to the “new normal.”

High gas prices will help the GOP: it will hit the people hardest at the bottom of the income ladder, where a larger proportion of their income goes for gas & groceries.

And it will allow them to lay the blame on Obama for not doing more to promote domestic (i.e. Canadian) production, more offshore drilling and more tar-sands exploitation.

Pressure on Iran will keep up tensions there, which will also help to keep crude prices peaking, at least until November.