Is it just a coincidence that the gas prices are so high, while Bush is in office?

its no coincidence

even if he is no longer in the oil industry...which I doubt... I am sure he has his dirty little fingers in there somewhere... he still has all his friends and cronies in the oil business that are making money hand over fist with these price increases.

I was old enough to remember high gas prices back in the 70's when there were gas lines and so called "shortages". Nixon was president and got reemed in the same way. It's big business that's jacking the prices up. While Mr. Bush may be in the oil business, and would profit from this, he's not in charge of the whole business. A lot of the decisions are made by the oil cartels, who rule the world's oil, as well as the prices. I think if we pushed harder for other alternatives, we could tell the oil companies what they could do with their high prices! Blaming this one and that one doesn't cure the problem. Finding another cheaper source of energy is the answer. <*)))><

From my understanding that's how the Bush family has made their money, in the oil industry, definitely not as good politicians.

I believe gas will go down when he gets out of office, BUT I don't think the next president we get will be any better, no matter who it is. Bush has ruined our economy so badly, that no matter what they do there is no straightening it out.

Also have you noticed that gas prices go down around the holidays. What's up with that, if they can get them down around the holidays, why not the rest of the year?

Also all these Bush supporters need to consider what an oil rich country Iraq is? If he gets control of an oil rich country that's more money in his pocket, isn't it?

While I am not a Bush advocate and I did not vote for the man, not everything which is happening in this world (or this country) is his fault. Gas prices more than likely would have risen because of the situations we are facing with Venezuela and Iran.

What is utterly irritating are bandwagon opinions- they are no more intelligent than the lack of intelligence Bush is accused of having.

was it a coincidence that inflation, unemployment, high interest rates, anemic economic growth (and high gas prices too) all occurred at the same time while Jimmy Carter was in office.

If you want lower gas prices we need:

1. more refineries - loosen regulations so that corp's will invest billions in new ones.

2. more oil - open ANWAR, and more coastal areas to drilling

(Its not Bush who's trying to stymie more oil development).

Hey Broken Girl -- You're an idiot. We get most of our oil from Canada.

No, it isn't a coincidence. Bush is killing the USA.

Neither. It's because oil companies raised the price to see if we would pay it. We are, and thats that. There is not much the President can do. It's a free economy that makes it happen.

Well it isnt the oil industry thats making the prices. Its simply the supply and demand of our economy.

isn't it a coincidence that all the oil is under our enemies, Bush doesn't know what his left hand did, he just know hes getting a nice big check every so often.

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its all based on cycles! not everything wrong in this country, wait no, sorry, WORLD, is Bush's fault... He USED to be in the oil industry... past tense.