Outside the Beltway

Prices are coming down but they’re way higher than they were.

Some Democrats are less than pleased.

Crises tend to be distracting.

Houthi rebels in Yemen have claimed responsibility for a massive attack on an important Saudi oil facility.

The gas tax was last raised in 1993.

President Obama is suffering in the polls because of high gas prices, but is there really anything he can do about them?

As gas and oil prices rise, the pressure is increasing to tap into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It’s a dumb idea.