why have gas prices shot up since the Dem's took control of both houses of congress?

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Answer 1

Because of a simple universal theorem....."The amount of Democrats in congress is directly proportional to gas prices in this country" Remember the gas lines in this country when Jimmy was the Pres. and the Democrats controlled Congress?

Answer 2

For all the people going on about environmental groups, additives and all that B.S. Get a clue. The the oil industry has closed down 24 gas refinery since 1995 - 2001 in an effort to control the flow of gas and the price gouge the public. Hence the reason they have made record profits. So get a clue people. Even though it has to do with supply and demand, it is more to do with the oil companies actually controlling that supply and demand.

wyden.senate.gov/leg_issues/reports/wyden_oil_report.pdf

google gas refineries. I found this report. interesting reading I must say.

Read it and weep. They are not done either.

Answer 3

As much as I would like to blame the Democratic Congress, 90% of the members have been screwing things up for a long, long, time.

The Bush energy plan was neutered beyond recognition. Congress keeps working on more regulations, when we need some red tape cut to build cleaner and more efficient refineries, build safer and more effective nuclear power plants, work out the problems with ethanol, use more hydroelectric, and modernized the national power grid.

It will take a strong president to drag these guys into the 21st century.

Answer 4

gasoline expenditures, alongside with the costs of many products and facilities that we've the following contained in the USA have lengthy gone up via global explosion of economic boom in previously underutilized areas together with China, India, or maybe Russia. customer self assurance slid to those degrees we are at present experiencing via a hyper-inflated bubble that grew before this decade with the so-stated as "housing boom". What occurred become that folk that would have not theory about residing house paying for began to, and regrettably, those were the individuals maximum suspectible to sturdy-searching credit and private loan grants. the priority with that lies both with the lending market and the buyer. It takes 2 to tango and definetely it is a serious case of it. you may blame the lenders for making it more beneficial attainable for Joe Schmo to purchase a house, yet at the same time, Joe Schmo must be sensible adequate to do not overlook that their funds flow and the words and prerequisites of the loan gained't be of their astounding interests at that present day fee. expenditures are dropping basically for the actual shown actuality that they were inflated and now returning to regularly occurring degrees. Which that has tax reprecussions which could lead the governments, in any respect degrees (federal, state, municipal) to toughen taxes on pay, gasoline, and different products to make up for taxes lost on the assessed value of the properties that were a lot larger in value. The Dow and NASDAQ are at present at low degrees via re-exam of economic situations and the commercial facilities sector revising this is corporation technique. shoppers are nevertheless paying for, and they are nevertheless paying for alot. VISA and mastercard are seeing will advance of utilization, and that would not inevitably advise mastercard use is up, yet DEBIT card use will be up. the country become basically snapped right into a actuality verify and "scared immediately" more beneficial swifter than in preserving with wide-spread at the same time as dealing with economic cycles. The Democratic-managed Congress can purely achieve this a lot in words of economic coverage. Congress should be pushing ahead public coverage, for which there's a authorities contained in the first position. With the White residing house sending expenditures for the yank those who were irresponsible of their spending, do not blame Congress (all that a lot, besides).

Answer 5

Supply and Demand. Same reason prices went up before they took control. The current increase is due to refineries being shut down for maintenance/repairs, meaning less gas is being produced than other years. Meanwhile, demand is still high.

Answer 6

Democrats or Republicans have no control over the price of crude oil, nor do they control the price of ethanol, (which is mandated to be 10% of each gallon).
They do decide how much to tax gasoline and how much to tax ethanol imports, but these numbers haven't changed recently, so, it is irrelevant who is controlling the house or senate.

Answer 7

The prominent party in Washington does not directly determine the price per gallon. They DO however make laws and restrictions on fuel additives, exploration and production, oil refining, taxes, etc.....all of which exponentially adds to the cost per gallon.

Answer 8

How many times did outed gay prostitute/fake journalist Jeff Gannon/James Guckert spend the night inside the White House since the Bush administration let him join the White House press corps?

Answer 9

Is THIS the latest Faux News spin? When Cheney makes public the complete record of the secret "enegy meetings", done at PUBLIC time and expense, where all this was mapped out, THEN you can talk. Down with Dictator Dumbya!!!

Answer 10

OPEC. They are not our friends. They obviously don't need the money. They want to throw America into confusion, since OPEC has been known to support Hezbollah, and other terrorists groups. If they can't win, by letting all the naive Muslim men and women, who blow themselves up, to kill innocents, and beat America, they'll use other means, and this is one of them. They don't care who runs America, Dems, or Reps, as long as they can control us.