Dems Full of Gas

George Will writes today about the posturing going on among Dems in regards to gas prices:

Democrats, seething at the injustice of gasoline prices, have sprung to the aid of embattled motorists. So resolute are Democrats about defending the downtrodden, they are undeterred by the fact that motorists, not acting like people trodden upon, are driving more than ever. Gasoline consumption has increased 2.14 percent during the last year.

That probably is explained by the inconvenient (to the Democrats' narrative) truth that Speaker Nancy Pelosi was characteristically overwrought when she said that Democrats intend to do this and that because the price of gasoline recently "set a record" at $3.07 a gallon. In real (inflation-adjusted) rather than nominal dollars, $3.07 is less than gasoline cost in 1981.

Pelosi vowed, as politicians have been doing since President Nixon set the fashion, to achieve "energy independence." Such vows are, as Soviet grain production quotas used to be, irrational reflexes that no serious person takes seriously. Pelosi baldly asserts that "energy independence is essential to reducing the price at the pump," but does not say how.

How can you tell when Dems are lying? When they use the phrase "energy independence". They're not interested in energy independence or else they would get out of the way and open up the resources that America is not exploiting has such as ANWR or various offshort tracts. As long as they continue to rob America of its own energy assets and hold on to their various alternative energy pipe dreams, energy independence for the U.S. will not be possible.