Want cheaper gas? Scrap clean air!

President Discusses Hurricane Effects on Energy Supply
"Let me repeat, we'll use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help refineries with crude oil. We will continue the waivers to allow the winter blends of fuel to be used throughout the country. We will continue to waiver that -- to allow broader use of diesel fuel. Because we understand there's been a disruption in supply and we want to make sure that we do everything we can to help with the supply disruption." - George Bush

And if you type "waivers to allow winter blends" into Google you get this...

Federal Regulations are Complicit: Identifying the Causes of Rising Gasoline Prices
"To address boutique fuels directly, Congress should eliminate the Clean Air Act's oxygenate requirement for reformulated gasoline. Congress should also reduce the number of fuel specifications by offering a limited menu of choices for states and localities." (From the Executive Summary)

What Does It All Mean?
Seems like those meany environmentalists were making it more expensive to produce and distribute consumer gasoline products 'cause they got their knickers up in some twist about the air bein' dirty. So those ole tree huggers got some bills passed that required the gasoline industry to clean up their act. Well, the gasoline industry wasn't gonna pay for them fool tree huggers changes so they raised the prices and sooner than later pump prices went sky high. Then big Old Katrina blew in and gave the gasoline industry an excuse to start cryin' about their supply disruption and what not. So now the president come out and say we can relax them ole tree hugger standards. Now here, c'mon over here and I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll help keep this ole supply disruption fever goin' on til we can repeal them tree huggers rules just like we said we was gonna do in June of 2004.