Reply #4: The Oil Companies Were Manipulating The Market Under The Cover Of A Bush.....

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presidency and have made untold billions off the backs of hard-working and struggling Americans. That money is in the bank. How much has the run-up in the gas price contributed to our current economic crisis?

So now when Bush is moving out of the WH prices have come down - and why?

- threat of the windfall profits tax
- threat of competing sources of energy; they don't want us to develop biofuels, solar, wind, nuclear, etc
- they want people to continue their wasteful ways; they want Detroit to maintain the gas guzzlers; they want Congress to back off of any more CAFE stds.

They are hoping that we lapse back into our pre $4.00/gallon ways.

However, we can't be fooled into falling for this old trick again. We need to press ahead and become oil independent - particularly foreign oil.

I would even be pro - new gas tax that would use the money raised to help these alternative energies make it to main stream. I'd rather spend the $4.00 that way than give it to the oil companies.

I'm a bit disappointed by Obama backing off of this windfall tax - it seems to me there should be someway he can go back in and recover some of that manipulated dirty *Co/Oil Co money and return it to the people that are in dire straits right now.