"Is it a Republican versus Democrat issue, or are gas prices world-wide the same, regardless of what party is in power?" Good post! Neither side works for us. Both sides are owned by Big Oil, but Obama lovers, Republican lover, Democrat lovers, Bush lovers and "blame it on Bush" people and "blame it on Democrats" people can't see through to the truch apparently.

Ah, got it! Business as usual -- don't expect any significant improvement in the foreseeable future. Thanks!

Can you carify what "business as usual" means and then tell me what it has to do with "Facing environmental lawsuits, Shell debates Arctic drilling"?

Talk of a storm suppressed to keep gas prices low is indeed laughable. The problem is there are too many "naive" people that will continue to misunderstand, misinterpret the real factors in pricing, science, economics that make the world go around. And with the added platform like these blog sites the Flat Earth Geocentric people are given soap boxes to continue to spew and poison the minds of the masses.