Energy insanity

Gov. Ted Strickland and AG Marc Dann arre making noises about gas prices. Strickland first:

With gas prices in Ohio reaching $3.50 a gallon for regular unleaded, Gov. Ted Strickland has joined 16 other Democratic governors in signing a letter to President Bush urging him to take action to help address rising prices at the pump.

“We are calling on the president to stand up for consumers and help alleviate the heavy burdens facing Americans at the pump,” Strickland said in a release. “I join my fellow governors in urging the president to act on our concerns and begin working with Congress and pressing oil companies to find a long-term solution to this issue.”

Here’s Marc Dann:

State Attorney General Marc Dann told Tribune news partner WYTV 33 News he is watching the pump price fluctuation closely.

‘‘Well, we’re looking at it, our consumer protection and anti-trust division looks at the gas prices, every day, and where or not there is manipulation in the market, whether there is vertical restraints on local retailers,’’ said the Liberty Democrat.

Dann also said he thinks more time needs to be spent, looking at alternative fuel sources.

What are Democrats doing about long-term solutions? Matt at Right Angle Blog has this to say:

Dann should keep a closer eye on his fellow Democrats who raise gas taxes, have made it impossible for more refineries to be built, and have opposed domestic oil drilling. When it comes to increased gas prices, the blame belongs to the Democrat party.

Don’t forget about fighting nuclear power.

Democrats are really insane on this issue. Energy use is bad, because of the environment, because of Global Warming and our greedy little lifestyles, so they don’t want people to use too much of it and they want to do things to discourage energy use. Then when prices go up, forcing people to use less energy, that’s bad too, because it hurts consumers. So energy should be really cheap, and we should use very little of it. They’re above supply and demand.

As far as I can tell, the Democratic position is that the energy sector must be tightly controlled- just not by the market.