http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080607/oil_prices.html Our braindead politicians in their infinite stupidity have handed out the welfare checks so that you can hand them over to the oil companies. So rather than address what the President has called our "addiction to oil", they are talking about another "stimulus" package. The President keeps bringing up drilling in Alaska - is he saying that's going to bring our oil price down to when he first took office in 2001? If it's not going to help, then he's just moving his lips so the suckers can say "Oh yeah! That's a great idea! He's really doing something!!"
If you think about it... isn't that all we EVER get from federal politicos? Lip service. (Well, and ever greater deficits of course.)