
By Dana Milbank
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines.
Gas prices have gone above $3 a gallon again, and that means it’s time for another round of congressional finger-pointing.
“Since George Bush and Dick Cheney took over as president and vice president, gas prices have doubled!” charged Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), standing at an Exxon station on Capitol Hill where regular unleaded hit $3.10. “They are too cozy with the oil industry.”
She then hopped in a waiting Chrysler LHS (18 mpg) — even though her Senate office was only a block away.

The thing is a lot of people are hypocrites on this issue. If you are driving a Hummer or driving the car immediately above you are in the same boat. How can the environmental wacko types bitch and moan about folks driving big SUV’s when there are millions of people driving around in old, big, nasty ass cars with muffler falling off, rusted, balding tires. These cars are equally as bad on fuel consumption and in many ways worse that todays modern SUV’s. Just a thought….
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