The Fix for High Gas Prices That Congress Won’t Touch

Analysis: Conservation is one of the few things that would actually help drive down prices at the pump. Too bad most politicians are scared to utter the word
 
Members of Congress have been scrambling lately to tell Americans that there are no quick and easy fixes to high gas prices. “There is not a panacea of short-term solutions to the [gasoline] price situation today because it’s a demand-driven price,” said House Energy Committee chairman Joe Barton, Republican from Texas, at a news conference Wednesday. House Ways and Means committee member Rep. Jim McCrery of Louisiana concurred: “I don

In fact, there’s one obvious thing Congress and the President could do. But around Capitol Hill only a few lonely voices are willing to talk about it