Gas Pains  Oliver North  3/9/2012 12:01:00 AM - Oliver North
WASHINGTON -- One year ago this week, I wrote a column titled
"Crude Cruelty," which covered a jump in the cost of motor fuel
and a corresponding spike in prices for food and rising
unemployment. Government "experts" attributed the bad news to
"supply disruptions" and "uncertainty" caused by unrest in
Libya. Today Moammar Gadhafi is gone, but the average price for
a gallon of gasoline in the United States is $3.79 -- up 27
cents from a year ago. Unsurprisingly, mortgage defaults are up
22 percent, and orders for durable goods -- cars, appliances,
machinery and aircraft -- are down. Our anemic economic recovery
is being threatened. Gasoline prices are expected to top $4 per
gallon by this summer.  None of this is good news for the
incumbent in a presidential election year. So now, in an
alternative version of college basketball's "March Madness," the
Obama propaganda machine is on the hunt for someone to blame.
It's not OPEC, the cartel that controls