Why are Democrats proposing ineffective solutions to the gas price crisis?

Since you're talking about supply and demand how about this? How do you explain that there is already an over-supply of oil on the world market? How do you explain that oil futures prices are more than $32 per barrel below where they were in the Summer of 2008. How do you explain that oil and gas refiners are projecting record profits this year - even beyond the record profits they made in the Summer of 2008.