I think the gas price stuff is a losing issue for the republicans. I'm going to be honest, I don't

[Journeyman]

14. Los Angeles Times, front page today: "Higher gas prices cause less public anger this time". . .

and this in one of the "car capitals of the world."

http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-gas-outrage-20120407,0,6378896.story

Gas prices have soared about 15% in the last six months, hitting $3.94 a gallon on average nationwide, and $4.29 in California.

The mood of motorists? Meh.

Partisan finger-pointing aside, polls suggest that most people aren't as worked up over gas prices as they were four years ago, when a gallon of regular hit a national average of $4.11 a gallon. Nor has there been as much clamor for drastic measures, such as tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Texas and Louisiana.

"I think we all have adjusted," said Lara Clayton of Los Alamitos as she spent nearly $60 recently to fill up her 2008 Lincoln Town Car at a Seal Beach 76 station. "We just don't drive as much and we are careful to combine errands."

That's one reason for the comparative complacency, and economists and industry observers say there are others.