An oilman in office and the price of gas is incredibly high. Hmm. I wonder if those two things have anything to do with one-another? Of course Bush and his cronies are profiting off of our suffering. He even vetoed a bill that would increase taxes on the oil companies’ profits. I wonder which board of directors he will be on when his term is (finally) up. If we tax the oil companies, especially in light of such record profits, we could invest the money in research for newer technologies. OPEC doesn’t care how high prices go because they make monstrous profits no matter if gas sells for $2.00 per gallon or $10.00 per gallon. It’s the energy companies, Exxon, etc. that are making money off these higher prices. I know gas is much higher overseas, but that is because the government puts high taxes on gasoline to encourage more use of mass transit or eco-friendly methods of transportation. Bush has gotten worse as the years went on and more overt about his corruption. Once in his second term, he didn’t’ have to worry about re-election, so he got worse and worse. Now, in the last few months of his term, he knows that he is beyond the range of impeachment proceedings, so he is doing whatever he wants to stick it to the American population one more time.