The Senators didn’t ‘refuse’. They were ordered by their lobbyist handlers to ‘Vote Against’. These are not the senators of the People.  These are the paid puppets of the corporate owners of our government.

Chavez sells gas to Venezuelans and others @ 0.12 per gallon.  Why doesn’t your friendly convenience store buy that gas and retail it for a quarter?

It’s time to ask questions of those who control the price of commodities.

The Senators didn’t ‘refuse’. They were ordered by their lobbyist handlers to ‘Vote Against’. These are not the senators of the People.  These are the paid puppets of the corporate owners of our government.

Chavez sells gas to Venezuelans and others @ 0.12 per gallon.  Why doesn’t your friendly convenience store buy that gas and retail it for a quarter?

I can think of 41 senators who need replacing.

Just giving an agreement to the point that Saddler makes. The only way to effectively resolve what is an eternal issue, (access to energy) is to put the profits of the current ever dwindling supply into alternative methods for producing it.

My Hope is that Sen Obama fights fire with Fire and offers the VP spot to Sen Chuck Hagel- an Old School Republican who realizes his party has been Defeated and conquered by the Corps.A Great Military record to cut the legs out from under Mac’s ONLY claim to fame. Has spent his tim eactually working for issues which effect americans- Agent Orange/Vet issues, Autism, Drug coverage for the Elderly, Family Farmers, and he has Railed against this Admin and their Foreign Policy…He is the type of Republican I have only dreamed of. Granted I am Sure here are areas I may not be in lock step with, but they are most likely ones we can find a compromise.
Want to watch McCain Implode? Support Such a Ticket- it will be a Slaughter in Nov. He is Nothing this life long Liberal Dem Fears, I welcome all True Patriots- I am Really ‘color Blind’ when it comes to Changing the Disaterous course we are on,and have been on for Decades. Let’s give a hand Up to those Real Republicans who have been maligned just as badly as US of the True Democratic party. Let’s beat them at their own game- Infiltration and Covert Operations, but we’ll need some help from the other side to succeed.The Goal is to Win Back Our Country from the Grip of the Corps, the rest of Our Freedoms and rights will follow once that is accomplished.

Presidential wannabes Obama and McCain should stop their demagogic debate on taxes and gas prices and focus on the infinitely more important issues of our national debt, budget deficits and endless borrowing abroad which are more direct causes of our economic woes than oil prices. They need to tell us what their views are on these issues and what their policies are likely to be.
My bet is that both softies will try to avoid these issues like the plague.

G.Anderson, freezing the price of gas sounds like a good idea as well, but it doesn’t do anything to help encourage alternative energy sources.

In regards to the actual proposal, I don’t think the oil companies threat of raising prices further can be taken seriously at this point, considering they are clearly going to raise prices regardless and keep the surplus value.

Actually I think there’s point to the argument that if we impose a windfall profit’s tax, they’ll just pass it on to consumers in higher prices.

So here’s a better Idea, why not freeze the price of Gas.

Nixon did it in the first energy Crisis, so why not now?

They could also require the Gas company’s to keep Gas at the same supply levels or fine them.

This would give people a chance to adjust to higher energy costs, so why not Freeze the price of Gas until after the election.