everybody s shaking their heads. go ahead. if you talk to people in the oil production business they would like to explore a lot of places they re not permitted to explore. there s a huge commodity. oil prices are up. huge inflation and part of that is oil price inflation. so you know, people shouldn t overreact. it there was a huge issue in july and august of 2008. drill, baby, drill was not carrying a lot of states for john mccain so i m not sure republicans are wise to demagog gas prices. they can make a broader case that inflation is on the way and gas prices are a leading indicator. it s interesting to see as gas prices remain a central issue over the summer, they re not going down. we ll see what the are at presit does. when he was a candidate he