The Bucknuts Hot Spot

thats what is so amazing about the whole thing, you have a Energy SECRETAY--MR. CHU who has constantly made statements, that he WANTS high GAS PRICES but u have OBAMA coming out and saying "of course I don't want high prices, when I'm trying to get re=elected" so does the OBAMA adminstration want high or low prices which is it.........comments from the Democrat peanut gallery would be appreciative on this subject......

Boys, there is no gas shortage. We are paying the price of living in a free market economy. Speculators have the power to drive up oil prices because there MIGHT be a problem in Iran soon. Amazing.O btw, correct me if I am wrong, but the Keystone pipeline was to be built to pump oil from Canada through the US overseas. We weren't to see a drop of it.OK I was wrong on the last part, I checked, but the whole project is politics as usual. Read up on it to see how thw republicans tried to force O's hand on this prematurely by linking his approval to their approving the unemplyment benefits package in January.

$ 3.66 in cleveland. You suckers are getting screwed.

Just think with 5 dollar a gallon gas coming our way , the price of goods will go through the roof . I can see more and more private truckers just selling their riggs . Damn it already costs me nearly 200 dollars to fill up now . Crazy !

You do understand that saying high gas prices would be good for forcing Americans to change their habits is different than saying you want high gas prices, right? I find it interesting that a political conservative wants the President to do something about gas prices and not just let the free market handle it. I suppose the previous government intervention could be used to explain why you want further intervention but that isn't very Republican of you. Tsk, tsk.

Its Canadian and would only help exports....Minster you really need to improve your education, whoops, you live in minster sorry

Really--yours is an incredibly ignorant remark. All conservatives want is for the President to allow the free market to work--and not have him artificially depress supply by curtailing U.S. production on public lands. What is truly "interesting" is how leftists stubbornly hold onto their ideology regardless of demonstrable facts. Nice try, but your bozo President has been intervening in the economy, penalizing the use of capital, stifling job growth and fossil fuel production ever since he came into office. We will see if Americans are gullible enough this time around to buy into his false promise of government "goodies' for the middle class and the downtrodden.

Are you on meth? Ive never seen so many short phrases trying to be passed off as a complete sentence. I need to ask a 4th grader to translate what you write. Is everyone in Minster as uneducated as you? Or are you the creepy old sicko that stares at the underage girls from the park bench talking to yourself about Obama all day?

No i got out in December of 1995. My military days are over. When do yours begin? Oh wait you are a patriot like Dick Cheney that didn't want to serve. A false patriot.

So you would tax the oil companies (who would then simply raise their prices, causing gasoline prices to go even higher) as some kind of solution? Alternate energies cannot power the economy at this point, regardless of the amount of subsidies. Perhaps you would prefer even higher unemployment rates while we wait for so-called green technologies to develop, but I would not. I have more empathy for the average person trying to make ends meet to wait for such a "solution." BTW, you have heard of Solyndra, right? How did that subsidy work?

Why not increase production by permitting more drilling on public lands? I'm tired of having a President who will not authorize increased production, thus forcing me to pay well over $2.50 per gallon at the pump. If you don't understand the relationship between gasoline prices and Obama's refusal to authorize drilling (U.S production on public lands is down 40% since he took office), then you need a primer in economics.

I'm also tired of having a President who poses as a semi-intellectual, but not only lacks any knowledge of basic economics, but of elementary items such as the number of states in the U.S. (he referred to the 57 states) and the languages of Europe (referring to the "Austrian language"). Dan Quayle was pilloried by our "mainstream," leftist press for misspelling the word "potatoes" (failing to insert the "e"), but Obama gets a pass for much worse gaffes (which display a shocking lack of knowledge of basic facts)?

Let's elect someone who can help right our fiscal ship, take common sense action to lower energy prices by authorizing increased production (which will also create jobs), and get our economy back on track. Let me give you a hint: that person ain't Obama.

Unfortunately, because of past Congress and Presidents, oil and gas companies do not exactly compete in a free market.

Quit calling his duty into question. He served. If you disagree with him, then keep it at that. But don't call into question whether or not he is a veteran.