Who's to blame for high gas prices?
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18 years ago
Who's to blame for high gas prices?
Figures, they miss the real cause of the problem..
No, the real problem is Washington's idiocy about producing and refining our own oil, and over regulating gasoline production. How many people realize that about 30 cents of the recent price rise is ENTIRELY due to the EPA screwing around with the gas formula again?
If the government really wanted to deal with this problem they would come up with a set of simple and sane regulations dealing with gasoline (like getting rid of the boutique fuels), lighten up on restrictions on building new refineries, and open up OUR oil fields for exploration and exploitation.
But they won't, they'd rather play politics than deal with problems.
Jeff DeWitt
D.J. wrote:
CEO's salary's are obscene for sure, however the real cure for gas prices and ending terrorism is outlined in the book, "The world is flat". An excellent read on globalization.Amazon.com: The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded] : A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century: Books: Thomas L. Friedman
Basically the President would announce a new program similar to the space program. This time it would be to develop alternatives to oil/gas dependence.
Imagine living in the Mid East and no one wanted your oil? No money pouring in? Yikes.
You mean something like this?
There is a lot of talk among the political types about energy independence, while that is mostly a pipe dream it is insane for a country as great as the United States to let itself up in a position where regimes as warped as Iran's and Venezuela can put our economy at serious risk. While we can't be totally energy independent any time soon we can get ourselves in a position where a major disruption in supplies from other parts of the world won't seriously damage our economy.
Toward that end I offer my own energy plan, it offers incentives to reduce our imports, increase domestic production, and provide abundant supplies of clean, inexpensive electricity.
After all is said and done America will be cleaner, richer, more secure, and we could very well be energy independent!
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