Which candidate will lower gas prices the fastest?

Hillary or McCain. Obama never drove a car.

I want a president who is smarter than a 5th grader:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws

The economy is gonna collapse if we don’t elect Barack Obama.

He can bring down our gas prices fastest.
Then we can get back on track.

Not only the trucking industry that will carry along higher costs, but the beach resorts will suffer greatly.
Coastal towns rely on tourism for their economy.
And with gas prices sky high, people won’t be going to the beach this summer.
That means small businesses based in those beach towns will suffer.
Teens won’t have summer jobs at the beaches.

not the pres candidates they both cant do anything, ask the congress and all the politic ans. I love all the obama fans act like he will save the US from high gas prices, they are such sheep.

Obama will look for real solutions, alternative fuel sources and will make it a priority, not a soundbite a la the silly gas holiday, wake up republicans – start to read!!!

A gas tax holiday, or even a “boycott gas for a day” is laughable. It would only cause gas prices to go up even more.
Moreover, a gas tax holiday might only save the average driver $30 bucks in a year’s time.

The best solution to bringing gas prices down is to stop driving so much and ride your bike. Next, government must mandate an immediate transition to alternative fuels and solar/wind/electric power to be completed within ten years.

Then gas prices will end all together.

None of them will have any major impact. Despite all the blame laid upon Pres Bush, his policies have nothing to do with the price hike.

As far as food prices…look no farther then our Democrat-controlled Congress. When they passed legislation mandating that all gasoline be blended with 25% ethanol, corn prices when through the roof. Wheat farmers switched to corn to get in on the craze. The resulting decrease in available grain supplies for foodstuff drove up prices. The price of fuel has a small impact, but its the economics causing the high food prices.

And you can thank the Democrats for it!

If you think a politician can lower the gas prices, then you are sadly mistaken. Remember when the Dems. won the 2006 mid-terms and how Pelosi and her gang swore that the oil company’s would be called in to congressional hearings and be called to task?

I don’t even have to ask how that went.

90% of D.C. polititians are bought and paid for by big oil. It’s just that the Repubs. make no qualms that they are.

Bring the world oil consumption down and the prices will come down, get the EPA off of the backs of oil companies so they can build refineries, and close the tax loopholes the oil companies use to get their huge profits. I drive a bifuel car that uses gasoline and natural gas, it puts out 10% of the emissions gasoline cars put out and the oil only needs changed every 15,000 miles and the engines last twice as long and the best part is we sit on trillions of gallons of natural gas and I pay 90 cents a gallon, Utah pays 63 cents a gallon…the mileage is the same but it runs better on CNG because CNG has an octane rating of 130 compared to 87 for regular gas, the problem lies with the oil companies not wanting CNG cars. You also get huge tax right offs for alternative fuel cars.

politicians or the government cannot lower gas prices. The law of supply and demand is what sets the prices. The oil producing nations, OPEC have lowered the supply to drive up the prices. The only way to drive down the prices is to increases supply, by drilling here on our own soil and telling the enviromentalists to shut up, or by reducing demand, by conserving or going to practical alternatives for fuel, such as nuclear power plants or liquified coal. Ford and GM are finally developing hybrids, GM is bringing out an electric car next year, the Chevy Volt, and a French company is coming out with a car next year that runs 100 miles on a tank of compressed air….so despite what the Democrats tell you, the “evil corporations” are responding to the higher costs, finally. In the meantime we are going to have to bite the bullet. I’m one of those truckers you mentioned, and I have to tell you, I’m amazed at the amount of cars I see out there, especially in the more densely populated areas that are paying the highest cost for gas, with one person in them. You’d think people would call their friends or co workers and car-pool. If people grabbed three co workers on their way to and from work, think of the money we’d all save.

Guess what, smart guy, almost all of the gasoline consumed in this country is Made in America. That’s right, there are tens of thousands of people employed in the refining business in this country. All of them depend on the price of gasoline being higher than the price of oil, to insure that their companies make a profit and they keep their jobs. Everyone from the security guard at the gate to the operators in the control room. These are average Americans just like you or I. Oil refining industry has a responsibility to their shareholders and their employees to make money. That is NO DIFFERENT than any other company in this country.
Ignorance is bliss isn’t it?

Rather than focusing on “Who?’ we should focus on “How?” any of them will lower gas prices – fastest or at all. The only logical answer seems to be, “None of them.”

Tansportation costs hit us right in the face because we feel them everytime we fill up our cars or buy an airline ticket. But we also are getting hit when we buy food or any number of products made from pretrochemicals, including things made from plastic. That category includes apparel (polyester is a petrochemical products).

So far, our would-be Presidents are satisfied to blame rising oil prices on the oil companies, commodity speculators, and OPEC. But assigning blame for a problem is not the same as solving it, and no one has been saying much of anything about solving this problem. We got our first taste of the “energy crisis” in 1973. That’s 35 years ago and we have done next to NOTHING to avoid the predicament we are now in.

We have been pumping oil from our Prudhoe Bay fields in Alaska for 30 years and have never had a significant spill (the Exxon Valdez disaster was caused by a drunk tanker captain, not by oil drilling or oil itself). There have been no reports of environmental damage caused by oil drilling or the overland transport of oil (nor have any caribou checked into clinics seeking treatment for sore necks caused by ducking upder the Trans-Alaska Pipeline). In fact, our Prudhoe Bay oil fields are regarded as among the cleanest in the world. If they were reconstructed today using current technology, their environmental footprint would be more than 50% smaller.

Although the estimated recoverable oil in ANWR is much less than we found in Prudhoe Bay, it could add substantially to our domestic oil supply. So could extraction of oil in offshore fields in the Gulf of Mexico. But environmentalists have succeeded in banning oil drilling in hundreds of millions of acres of promising areas.

It took nine years from the time oil was discovered in Prudhoe Bay until production began. But ANWR could take far less time because the pipeline needed to transport it is already in place.

We are in a race against time. Even if we launch a Manhattan Project for Energy tomorrow morning it will be years before we can develop the technologies and produce enough alternative energy to meet our needs. In the interim, we will remain dependent on fossil fuels, mainly oil and gas, and the price will keep going up and the supply will remain vulnerable to political developments, including wars and civil strife. Analysts are already predicting that future wars will be fought over resources, including oil and water. That seems to be a sure “when, not if” scenario.

We don’t need to just ask our potential Presidents what they plan to do about our energy problem. We need to TELL them to do something NOW. And that means opening up restricted areas to environmentally sound exploration and development and launching a project to develop alternative energy.

Ask our presidential candidates what they know about alternative energy. What are you going to think when “Er…Ah…Um” is the only answer you can get?

None of them.

That would cut into their shareholder dividends.

All candidates have to wake up to the reality. They are way behind in their “thinking”. They actually demonstrate their lack of common sense thinking. Short term patches like gasoline taxes holidays are a silly move. Mind you, any tax reduction for good is helping the general public.
We need to explore the sources of energy that we have. And we have plenty and the needed existing or available technologies.
First we should drill for oil and gas offshore and in currently arbitrarily protected land areas (including Alaska). How can we just watch the Cubans with their Chinese friends drilling off Key West for oil. We have great reservoirs in the Gulf of Mexico. Untapped. Alaska has plenty and we just watch the Caribous.
Then we have coal. Plenty. South Africa uses a coal liquefaction process invented by the Germans (everything advanced comes from good old Germany and their superior scientists) during the first World War. They are independent from imports. And we claim to be a “superior” nation. the usual empty propaganda playing on chauvinism.
Then we have to accept the fact that nuclear energy is safe and convenient. We have the technology. France produces 80 % of its power by nuclear reactors. And we are ruled by radical minorities with polemics and ill-intended stops of progress.
Until we do anyone of the above, the oil price will be determined by speculators. And the government can just talk about the problem and is not able to fix anything.
Why is it so difficult for parties and government to understand the solution?
If we don’t do this, we will go deep and deeper into economic misery. We are in principle worse off than any third world country who are accepting every method to get ahead. We still live from our “accomplishments” from some 40 -50 years ago and block any realistic innovations. Like in other areas, we are suffering from catering and pandering to minorities, who don’t give a thought about the commonwealth of the nation in their pursue of their special interests.
So, we have to become more active and tell our elected civil servants to stop quarrellings and come to concrete solutions.

Nobody can lower gas prices. Contrary to popular belief, nobody controls the price of gas. Not the government, oil companies, nobody. The only thing the government can do is lower the federal or state taxes on gas, which won’t help much. Who is pushing the prices of gas up? We are (your neighbors, friends, and everyone who trades gasoline.) Gas and crude oil is traded openly on the NYMEX futures market. When more people want to buy it than sell it the price goes up. It’s really that simple. There is no magic person, government, or country pushing the prices up. The prices are going up because most of the traders are buying gas right now because most people think the price will go up. If you want to offset the price of gas, buy gasoline futures. For several thousand dollars you too can buy a contract. When the price goes up, you make money. It’s not rocket science. In fact you can make about $1000 for every dollar that the price of crude oil goes up. So if the price goes from $125 to $126 per barrel, you make $1000. But then of course you are part of the problem, driving up the cost of gasoline. But at least you’re making money, right.

Obama would be the best bet. To me he seems the most likely to take them lower and then freeze them against the fat cat oil companies will. I don’t care if people scream facist/communist/etc. I want my gas cheaper and I want it cheaper now!

Hell if mccain comes out and says were bombing iraq to rubble and whoever is alive will work the oil fields I’ll support that. Like I said don’t care what it takes cheap gas now!