Out of deference to calving Arctic caribou, the government declares off limits for exploration the largest oil repository in the United States. Oil consumption up. Oil exploration stymied. Oil substitutes shackled.
Gasoline prices are high.
We have been here before. When gasoline prices last spiked in 1996, President Clinton, ever feeling our pain, ordered Energy and Justice Department investigations to find out why. Oh, the courage. Aside from the fact that repeal, literally, won't make a dime's worth of difference at the pump, it betrays a total misapprehension of the problem. The reason we are in our current state is not high, but low gas taxes.