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As with most anything, CR Nation is ultimately accountable to the people, our readers. College Republicans will either continue reading or they won’t.

In order to keep our readership, in order to keep CRs coming back, in order to truly be CR Nation: News for College Republicans; we need to persistently provide content which is interesting to the average College Republican.

If we don’t, we run the risk of being like every other College Republican blog: more about what the writers want to write (and want you to believe) than what the readers want to read (and decide for themselves).

When this blog was founded it was founded on several principles, one of which was to be a sounding board for College Republicans nationally. If we ever stray from that principle, we expect (and hope) to be held accountable.

Given this, a reader comments on the recent post stating that CR Nation is in the process of adding two new writers:

Hopefully they write about more than CR conventions.

Seriously, this blog is starting to suck. You guys write about the most boring stuff.

So, I ask, on behalf of all the writers at CR Nation, to be held accountable. Tell us what you want us to write about, give us a new direction if you don’t like our current (or lack of) direction. What “more” do you want?

Whatever you do, don’t criticize without providing any solution or alternative. We want your feedback because, as I said earlier, we are ultimately accountable to the people.

This blog is as much about you as it is me. So leave some feedback and make CR Nation a blog of the people, by the people and for the people.

I look forward to reading what everyone has to say.

The gas problem: supply is not keeping up with demand. In this situation, created by consumers, not by oil companies, the market reacts by increasing prices to reach an equilibrium between supply and demand.

Republicans correctly note that “there [is] no mystery to rising prices — supply isn’t keeping up with rising demand.”

The gas solution: increase supply.

How is that done?

First, open up more refineries. Second, open up more areas of the country to oil exploration.

Unfortunately, Democrats do not feel the same way. They do not understand or fail to act in accordance with an understanding that only through an increase in supply can and will gas prices decrease.

As Sen. McConnel has said:

We’ve had an opportunity to build more refineries, and the Democratic majority voted it down. We’ve had an opportunity to open up additional parts of the outer continental shelf, even in a place like Virginia where you had one Democratic senator and one Republican senator in favor of it, and the Democratic majority voted it down. It’s clear that on the production side of the equation, this new majority is not interested in doing anything.

CR Nation will be adding not one, but two new writers in the upcoming days. Grand introductions will be forthcoming…

Hillary’s latest commercial, running in Indiana.

Doesn’t this commercial sound “hopeful” to you? Could “dream” be Hillary’s word for “hope”?

Remember when the Democrats howled about Bush’s response to the question about gas prices a few months ago? Their highest ranking official, Speaker Pelosi, is much better in touch with the current state of fuel costs.

I’d like to know when Pelosi last bought her own gallon of gas. Probably has been years.