Take the bus, carpool, switch out your SUV for a scooter where feasible and see what happens. The truth is, it obviously hasn’t hit most of us hard enough to make us do anything. We just really wouldn’t mind lower gas prices again.

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On the surface it sounds like a very convincing argument you want to sympathize with, especially as Debbie Stabenow explains how they are “on the side of families, and businesses” in this fight. Barbara Boxer says, “we need to crack down on these excess profits, and this manipulation of supply.”

Here’s a good idea that will solve everyone’s problems, right? Why don’t we let the government take over the gas pumps, and give everyone free gas - it will just be included in our taxes! It’s perfect, then we don’t have to worry about any one company that has only 8% of the marketshare setting their prices so high that the CEO is getting a huge retirement check.

My favorite part of the article was the line, “It’s symptomatic that the Arizona resident who complained on the “Today” show about spending $50 to fill his tank was driving an SUV”. It just shows you how much Americans are really concerned about it - not much at all. Sure, it would be nice to have cheaper gas, but not many people are actually changing their lifestyle because of it. Gas is still half as expensive here as it is throughout most of Europe.

To me it’s just another in the growing list of ideas to “fix” the problem without really fixing the problem. Like Bill O’Reilly’s idea to boycott gas for a day. Everyone would just fill up the day before or the day after, and what would it accomplish even if it did work? Then there’s the email circulating that’s calling for a boycott of one oil company (exxonmobil, since it’s the biggest) - that way they would be forced to lower prices to lure people back to them, and then because they lowered prices everyone would have to lower prices. Both ideas are full of so many holes, and void of any economic sense.

I can’t stand the Democrats (and now Republicans!) who think that ExxonMobile or some other “big oil” company can wave a fairy godmother wand and make gas prices go down by “lowering profits”.

Matt Lauer is either an idiot (doubtful) or disingenious (quite likely). ExxonMobile only makes something like 8 or 9 cents a gallon anyways. So even if they lowered profits, Matt “I don’t lower my salary to $0 help anyone” Lauer would save a dollor or two every time he filled up.