DEMOCRATS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH GASOLINE PRICES

That and other fairy tales the press doesn't want you to know.

Except for the Tampa Bay Tribune.

"A Democratic-controlled House panel voted 9-6 in a party-line vote against lifting the 27-year-old offshore drilling moratorium, at a time when gasoline prices are expected to float at or above $4 a gallon for the rest of the summer.

"As with Florida, the amendment by GOP Rep. John Peterson of Pennsylvania also would have opened up drilling in now-protected areas 50 to 200 miles off the East and West coasts, including off North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina.

"The first 50 miles offshore would not be opened to drilling."

For the FULL STORY.