Found this handy dandy little list.  In case you were harboring the naive notion that the current gas crisis was not designed and executed according to Democrat plan.

A brief history on the Democrat scheme to rid our beautiful nation from the scourge of cheap energy and evil big oil...

Voting statistics:

ANWR Exploration
House Republicans: 91% Supported
House Democrats: 86% Opposed

Coal-to-Liquid
House Republicans: 97% Supported
House Democrats: 78% Opposed

Oil Shale Exploration
House Republicans: 90% Supported
House Democrats: 86% Opposed

Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Exploration
House Republicans: 81% Supported
House Democrats: 83% Opposed

Refinery Increased Capacity
House Republicans: 97% Supported
House Democrats: 96% Opposed

SUMMARY

91% of House Republicans are on record trying to increase the production of American-made oil and gas.

86% of House Democrats are on record against.  

How they get away with is a question for the ages.

Further summary:


The laws of supply and demand are not really that complicated.  Supply up = demand and prices down,  supply down = demand up and price up.  The decades long Democrat crusade to deliberately limit supply is unmistakable and irrefutable.

It's been belabored ad nauseum that congress ignores the laws of economics at it's own peril yet somehow their political peril seems non-existent. The lethal combination of widespread economic illiteracy and spineless go-along-to-get-along Republicans, hey W, yeah, I'm talkin to you, who for fear of being accused of questioning their patriotism, can't muster the cajones to call out the Democrats for undermining our economic and national security.  

If what they are doing is patriotically questionable that's their problem.  State the facts as they are and demand an accounting.  After all, looking the other way while they usher our economy into the tank is as patriotically questionable as it gets.