Thank you enviro-freaks, liberals and the rest of you.

[KenP]

I wish to thank all the enviromentalists and liberals out there who have supported no new drilling fields and no new refineries in the US for around the last 30 years. Because of you and your ill-informed supporters in Congress, we now have these wonderful oil prices to thank you for.

Oh yeah, we can also thank you and the mid-western farmers, their lobbyists, and do-anything-for-a-vote liberals for pushing through E-85 to help drive the cost of food through the roof.

I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

And for all those "War for Oil" people from a couple of years ago, where's the oil and why have you been so silent?

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OIL_PRICES?SITE=VANOV&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DE FAULT

NEW YORK (AP) -- As consumers began hitting the road Friday for the Memorial Day weekend, they faced the sobering reality that it now costs $87 to fill a Ford Explorer SUV, up $14 from last year, and $72 to fill a mid-sized Honda Accord, up $12.

That's because gas prices, which took another jump higher overnight, are up nearly 20 percent, or 65 cents a gallon, over the past year to average nearly $3.88 a gallon nationally. But unlike this time last year, when gas prices were at their peak for 2007, pump prices now show no signs of halting their daily assault on the record books.