Obama: You don't need cheaper gas.

While upwards of 70% of Americans are now demanding that the government allow companies to begin oil exploration here in America, drilling in the barren Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge, the Dakotas, and on our continental shelf, Barack Obama thinks that we don't need more oil.

He's not for opening ANWR (nor, for that matter, is McCain).

He's not for relaxing the ethanol tariff to allow for cheaper importation of ethanol, either. (There's currently a $.54 per gallon tariff.)

He's for the Cap-and-Trade bill that the Environmental Protection Agency says, based on their most conservative estimates, would increase your price at the pump by $1.50 per gallon. (You think $4.00 per gallon is bad, how 'bout $6.00 per gallon?)

On CNBC on June 10th, Barack Obama was asked if record gas prices could force Americans to switch to unproven, 'alternative' feuls. Barack answered affirmitively, saying that he 'would have preferred a gradual adjustment'. (He prefers, it seems, that we have higher gas prices -- just not that the price would rise so quickly.)