CQPolitics.com Issue of the Week: Gasoline Prices

These quotes are from CQPolitics.com:

"Skyrocketing fuel prices pose a grave danger to the American economy. The cost of gas in our state has jumped 60 cents per gallon since January. This is nothing more than a tax imposed on our economy by oil companies. American consumers deserve to know what's behind these prices. They deserve the truth and they deserve reassurance that the federal government isn't going to stand by and allow Enron-style profiteers to pick their pockets every time they fill up at the gas pump."
- Maria Cantwell

"At a very basic level, in the short term, this is a simple supply and demand issue. While we are dependent on oil, we must increase supply, and we must do it domestically. In the past five years, our state has seen no progress at the pump. Investigating possible price gouging by the oil companies is definitely something that should be done, but it certainly isn't a strategy for increasing supply or bringing down cost in the near future. ... Unfortunately, this very real issue continues to be treated as a political tool back east. Pointing fingers is not a strategy for solving this problem. Instead, our leaders in D.C. need to focus on making as much progress domestically as possible."
- Mike McGavick

Well, this sounds to me like the subtext is demagoguery vs tankers in the Sound.

Some choice.