176180: BZZZT. You haven't been paying attention. Bush/Cheney was not voted into office. There was foul play, and there is a paper trail proving this fact. Check this:

[www.gregpalast.com]

219200: No. Bush/Cheney WANT high gas prices. It's not their 'fault', its their design. High gas prices help their friends, the Saudis and Big Oil companies. Duh.

Read this!
"You’d think George Bush would get down on his knees and kiss Hugo Chavez’s behind. Not only has Chavez delivered cheap oil to the Bronx and other poor communities in the United States. And not only did he offer to bring aid to the victims of Katrina. In my interview with the president of Venezuela on March 28, he made Bush the following astonishing offer: Chavez would drop the price of oil to $50 a barrel, “not too high, a fair price,” he said — a third less than the $75 a barrel for oil recently posted on the spot market. That would bring down the price at the pump by about a buck, from $3 to $2 a gallon.

But our President has basically told Chavez to take his cheaper oil and stick it up his pipeline. Before I explain why Bush has done so, let me explain why Chavez has the power to pull it off — and the method in the seeming madness of his “take-my-oil-please!” deal."