Republican Congress losing sanity and principles

Fire of Liberty

Now if you think gas prices are high now just imagine how expensive the price will get once the busy-bodies in Congress starts fooling around with the law of supply and demand by proposing tighter controls or greater regulations on oil companies. Nixon pushed for price controls in the late 60's and early 70's and we were almost crippled by the lack of gas due to the low prices set by the government (folks bought a lot of gas at a low price and suppliers but also ran into a little thing called supply and demand). This might help relieve things in the short run and boost the members of Congress for elections but the best solution is to build more refineries, more domestic drilling (Gulf of Mexico, California coast, ANWR), exploration of alternative sources of petroleum like shale and tar sands as well as reducing strict regulations and the horrific federal gas tax. Republicans won't win in 2006 if they drop their ideas on capitalism and smaller government and resort to pure populism. Principle far outweighs popularity any day. These folks need to remember that they won in 80, 84, 88, 94, 00, 02, 04 because of standing on principles of small government and private enterprise.