Gas Price Gouging vote passes

Will it help Americans?
A $100 rebate is ridiculous due to the fact that most Americans spend $100 on gasoline each month. An investigation into the price gouging and record profits will help somewhat if it's actually a credible investigation (unlike most). The openness of the market and the chokehold that Venezuela and the Middle East has on us is what is keeping the prices so high. As long as so-and-so on his $10,000 leather couch in his 50th story penthouse receives close to $300 billion in a bonus, the prices won't go down on their own. We need to create tax incentives for automotive companies that create vehicles traveling over 35 miles per gallon, and we also need to TAP ALASKA!!!!! That's the only quick and cheap(ish) way to solve the oil problem until alternative fuel sources make it mainstream. I don't litter and I pick up trash, but a few Caribou can have their migrations interrupted if they decide the demise of middle-class America.

Will this help Republicans?
The mid-term elections are death sentences for those on Capitol Hill.

It doesn't matter how much crude oil we have.

We need refineries and we need them now. We need to just say screw the minority tree huggers for once.

I just meant that tapping Alaska now would allow us to lay off the communist/totalitarian oil that's costing us so much. I think Jimmy Carter's to blame for the lack of refineries (if I'm not mistaken).

You are not mistaken, thanks to Jimmy and his ilk. Liberals for the most part.