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on gas prices.

Congress has adjourned, and normally that would cause great rejoicing among the multitudes who fear for their life, liberty, and property. Unfortunately, in this case, Congress failed to take necessary action to end our dependence on foreign sources of energy as well as reverse the huge price increases on fuel through boosting American supply. As the Wall Street Journal points out, this is not benign neglect, but malicious inaction in preventing a majority from adopting common-sense policy:

Hell — otherwise known as Congress — has officially frozen over. For the first time since the 1950s, Members will skip town today for the August recess without either chamber having passed a single appropriations bill. Then again, Democrats appear ready to sacrifice their whole agenda, even spending, rather than allow new domestic energy production.

Reid, Pelosi redeploy over the event horizon on gas prices

But that’s not the real reason why Democrats wanted to see the prices go up on energy. Barack Obama himself hinted at it during an interview:



It’s not just about reducing demand and environmental concerns. They want the price to keep escalating so that they can spend billions of dollars on pet mass-transportation projects, as well as impose more and more government control over energy production. Maxine Waters and Maurice Hinchey made the mistake of explicitly revealing this during Congressional hearings on gas prices, but it’s the direction in which Democrats have headed since the Malaise Speech, 31 years ago.

Pelosi's Energy Stonewall - WSJ.com

Carter Redux.