There is just very little we can do about gas prices. Like, next to nothing.
It would be nice to use laws to reign in the speculators that help exacerbate the extremes of oil prices. But we would only be in control of our domestic trading. Not global. So that would do nothing but put us at a disadvantage and make us slaves to foreign speculators even more than we are now.
We can open up more drilling, but that doesn't do what, apparently, people think it does. First, the producers are not producing to 100% capacity now anyway. They aren't going to pull more oil out of the ground, just because they have two spots to drill instead of one. Second, those are long term projects that could not affect supply for many years anyway.
Obviously the long term solution is to use less oil and gas.