Why isn't the congress doing something about the high price of gasoline?

Question

With hurricane season coming, gas prices will shoot up to five dollars a gallon. After Katrina, congress was investigating gas suppliers, and nothing got done. When are they going to start doing their jobs?

Answer 1

Ask Nancy, weren't her and her friends going to take care of all this?

Answer 2

Congress should do something about the gas prices as soon as you point to the section of the Constitution that says Congress should do something about the gas prices.

Sorry to dissapoint you but it's not the government's job to do anything about the gas prices. If you don't like the price of gas, buy a car that uses alternative fuels. Go solar and then laugh at all the people complaining about gasoline.

Answer 3

Al Gore wants the prices higher so people won't drive
as much and add to global warming but he is rich so
it is OK for him to drive a gas guzzler and take private
jets consuming thousands of gallons of fuel to prove
that global warming is real.

Also I think that it is Bush's fault, he vetoed the military
budget that had extra pork in it to reduce the cost of
gas at the pump.

The liberals don't want to allow us to take any of the
800 trillion barrels of shale oil that we have (the largest
supply of shale oil in the world), though it is more expensive
to refine, the techniques to refine it have been known
for decades.

My guess is you will not get any cooperation or movement
on gas prices until after the election as this will give the
democrats something to build a platform, similar to the
2 cars in every garage except that only the wealthy
can afford to fill the tank.

Answer 4

Check with the enviromentalists, they go on a rampage whenever a company wants to build a new refinery and they have pressed for different types of fuel blends which without new refineries the current ones must "shutdown" to set up the correct mixtures needed in all the different areas for the different seasons. I guess if the envirmentalists would compromise we might have lower gas prices!!

Answer 5

Stop complaining about high gas prices we have some of the lowest in the entire world. Go to Africa and pay $6.50 or Europe and pay $4.50. Our prices are a laugh... Like a previous poster the Government's job is not to control prices in the market (otherwise it would be Communism)

Answer 6

You must be young. This is what Congress does. (B.S.).

Gas prices are ruled by the free markets. All Congress can do is lower their dirty little tax levies on fuel that contribute to their increasingly insatiable appetite for our tax money.

Congress is pretty useless and has spent us down the river.

Answer 7

Neither congress nor the president control gas prices. Gas prices are set primarily by natural market forces of supply and demand. And in our case, we have a rather set supply due to democrats obstruction over nuclear power, new drilling, and new refineries.

Probably the reason why the oil companies are raking in such huge profits is BECAUSE THEY ARENT ALLOWED TO REINVEST in their own business.

Answer 8

Nothing got done because they didn't find anything wrong. They could start doing their jobs by eliminating the federal, state, and local taxes on gasoline. No... that will never happen.. even though it would save the average consumer about a buck a gallon.

Answer 9

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Congress
They are keeping it up, they have tied the hands of the oil companies.
They have investigated the high profits and found that they are not gouging the public.
Those high profits are are the result of volume, and they have a fair profit margin.VS other industries or businesses.
And I believe the oil companies wish they could profit any way near what the take of the US government is.
Who taps into those profits Shareholders who can be found in stock funds, Mutual funds, 401K's, all those people would like their cut of the pie,,,or should we ask them to forfeit their Dividends to lower the price of gas.

Answer 10

Actually it was the previous Congress that did nothing (the republican controlled 112th) or should I say determined that there was no price gouging taking place. It is simply a matter of supply and demand, simple economics. I suggest you write your congressman and suggest that they support government investiture of renewable energy sources, or you could buy a bike.

*** oh and if you look at the tenth amendment, there is a commerce clause that states that anything that is involved in interstate commerce is at the jurisdiction of the federal government, so whomever stated otherwise...sorry you are incorrect.

Answer 11

Oh, but they have!They've done plenty!

During the Carter administration there was such a cry of " energy Independence " and " we must be free of dependency on foreign energy,"
Once the crisis was over, congress did their usual thing. Absolutely nothing!