Do you think republicans are causing the rise in gas prices and will you vote democrat because of it?

Answer 1

No

Answer 2

The government does not control fuel prices. Gas and oil are not price controlled. Current high gas prices are being driven by speculators in the future's market. There is a panic type belief that hurricanes or problems in the Middle East will effect supply. Now if you want to debate the issue based on the fact that the government should be investigating traders and market for interference that I might agree with. As far as voting goes, I will vote for the person who will best represent my interests. Democrat proposals regarding high gas prices are unacceptible. Their proposed idea is that since the oil companies are making so much money they should tax them more. I would hope no one buys this argument. If oil companies are taxed more the price will go higher to cover the loss of profits due to higher taxes.

Contact758: Historically speaking, gas prices were actually higher in the late 70's. This does not mean they were higher price wise. It means that when you factor what people made an hour versus the price per gallon, people were indeed paying more for gas. We also had odd/even gas rationing. this all occured under the democrat administration of Jimmy Carter. The only direct control any politician has over the ppg is related to how much Congress, yes Congress not the president or secretary of state, taxes a gallon of gas.

Answer 3

I do not believe the Republicans are causing gas prices to rise, anymore then humans are causing global warming and Al Gore isn't crazy..

Gas prices are the result of several factors, beginning with supply and demand. Supply factors include getting our transportation fuels from unstable political regions, not utilizing our own resources because of excessive environmental restrictions.. Demand is on the rise globally, the Chinese and Russians are becoming greater consumers because of positive economic growth in those countries.

Both the DNC and RNC seem to lose track of a few things.. I have a real distain for both parties right now because they've adopted social causes and both seem intent on excesses in spending domestically. We need to bridle in the spending, 500 billion dollars for a medicaid prescription plan, the bridges to no where all are signs of out of control legislators.

I've registered with the Libertarian party as the "platform" more closely resembles my view of limited government. The problem is the LP has not produced too many viable candidates as yet.

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Answer 4

No, the reason for rising gas prices is that there are more countries that need gasoline. India and China are both developing at a rapid pace and more and more people there have more money to spend. They are buying cars which means they need gas as well. It also does not help that the Middle East has all the gas and that place is not exactly stable right now.

Answer 5

Gas prices are determined by two things... external prices to buy oil, as decided by OPEC and internal costs to produce oil.

OPEC prices go up any time Muslim terrorists decide to pick a fight. Oil has gone up 3 dollars a barrel since Hezbollah kidnapped those two Israeli soldiers. In addition, because of increased demand from China and India, prices have gone up steadily for the past 15 years. If we could drill in the ANWR or off the coasts of California and Florida, we would be much less dependant of foreign oil. Keep in mind that Cuba drills 50 miles off the coast of Florida, but we don't. Likewise, we would not have to rely on foreign oil so much if environmentalists would stop fighting against nuclear power.

Internal costs are extremely higher than they should be because of regulation created to appease environmental lobbyists. There are caps on drilling, refining, and shipping, in addition to all sorts of regulations that control how all three of those are done. Of course, all of the regulations cost money to comply with, and that cost is passed on to anyone buying the oil.

Republicans are not to blame for gas prices and I do not plan to vote Democrat because of gas prices.

Answer 6

No the republicans have nothing to do with the rise in gasoline prices and no I will not vote democrat because of it.

Answer 7

I will mostly vote dem anyway because they seem to work for the people first before the large corporations but here is something you can`t ignore. Conni Rice has a oil tanker named after her and Junior comes from a oil back ground, i would ask a republican don`t you think with all that oil experience they would at least come up with some ideas.

Answer 8

No, it's not the Republicans' fault. But vote Democratic anyway. We need to get rid of as many of Bush's "rubber stamp" Republicans in the House and Senate as we can.

Answer 9

Gas prices are a matters of economics, not political parties. Remember the 70's gas crunch under Jimmy Carter?

Answer 10

yes, of course. clinton attacked iraq to stop saddam from selling his oil on the open market. saddams eventual plan was to play our game. he wanted to compete with the saudis' oil which would drop prices breaking the stranglehold the saudis & usa/uk oil barrons had on world oil markets. then he could make loans to poor countries that he knew they would default on. when they did, he'd take control of that countries' resources. the bush adminis doing the same thing but went ahead & took the baath out of the equasion. if they can seize control of iraq & keep it destabilized long enough to suck up most of the oil & sell it instead of the saudi oil, the saudis keep their reserves + make premiums off of the stolen oil. last year this time the usa oil business in the gulf was mostly destroyed & is only partially repaired, this plays into the hands of the oil rich in politics since supply & production is concentrated to the saudis. thats why they can keep the oil prices artificially high. theres no way id vote for repbus or dems, theyre the same guys.

Answer 11

No they are not and no i won't change why would you ask this liberal!!! 2 pts! why are just the republiican people doing it like i am a republican i have NO say if the prices go up or not and look how trashy democrats can be you NEVER SEE REPUBLICANS RIPPING ON DEMOCRATS UNLIKE WHEN I WENT TO SEE BUSH THERE WHRE ALL THESE LIBERALS YELLING AT US