We all complain about the price of gas.
Gas Prices are at record highs. What can the average person do about it? What noise can we make
to get our country free again from the stranglehold of high oil prices?
We Got Ourselves Into This - We Can Get Ourselves Out Of It...
Most of the media articles on gas prices follow a pattern. The pattern is to blame Americans for
living in the suburbs and driving SUV's. The liberals say we use too much oil and so we must
deserve our fate. They say we should all live in mud huts and not drive anywhere. I'm not ready to
just drink the coolaid on this and blame America first. The United States is the economic engine
that all the other nations would like to be like. We didn't get that way by living in straw huts
and riding bicycles to work.
So how did we get ourselves into this ridiculous mess?
The policies of the United States federal government and many state governments are mostly to
blame. The US depends on oil, oil fuels our economy and our economy is the envy of the whole
world. If you don't believe it, show me just ONE other country that people try to sneak into.
The federal government and many state governments have hampered the exploration and drilling of
oil in the United States. We have a lot of petroleum in the US. If our companies were simply
allowed to extract and refine it, we wouldn't be in this mess.
Many states like Florida, limit oil exploration and drilling offshore. There are proven reserves
in the Gulf Of Mexico that we can't get because Florida won't let us. That doesn't stop Cuba, India
or China from drilling for oil in the Gulf. We allow countries half way around the world to
drilling for oil in our backyard while we sit back and twiddle our thumbs and hope for lower oil
prices. The WACKO environmental movement in this county has held sway long enough!
You Can't Put That In My Backyard
No one wants on oil refinery in their backyard. Oil refining is a messy business. Yet, we all
want a gas station right down the street. No oil refineries mean no Gasoline, plain and simple. We
above any other country have the technology to produce and refine our oil responsible - so why don't
we?
The Politicians Are Supposed To Do What We Tell Them To
In reality Congress usually does what the group making the most noise or spending the most money
on their pet projects tell them to do. The American people are fed up! Congress and the oil
industry are only going to change if we the people force them to. The United State energy policy of
get the oil from where ever it's cheapest has failed.
Thank Yourself For Higher Gas Prices
As long as we keep getting our oil and gas from other countries we are at the mercy of any and
all oil producing nations. Who's really to blame? Look in the mirror. Thank yourself for higher
gas prices. If you really want to do something, let your congress men and women know how you
feel.
Taking Exxon to task is not going to do anything to bring down gas prices. That's just political
B.S. It's easy to get mad at the big bad oil companies. However, without them, how would you fill
up your tank? Try to live without petroleum for a week and let me know it turns out. You might be
fine during the summer but what about the winter?
We Need Oil
Ethanol, Wind and Solar are not ready yet, but they can be. There are ways we can replace
petroleum use for vehicle fuel and no it WILL NOT take ten years. We need sane
short term energy policies like those offer by none other than Texas oil man T. Boone Pickens for one. It's
fine to research replacements for oil. I'd be glad one day to drive a car that burns WATER and
doesn't pollute. I don't think anyone is in favor of pollution.
However, wishing for magic power sources and lower energy prices has gotten us where we are at
right now. We need to stop dreaming and wishing and start doing.
July of 2008 marks the FORTIETH thats 40year anniversary of the landing of a man on the
moon.
It took the leadership of John Kennedy to put us there in a ten year time frame. This was one of
the pivotal accomplishments of the last century, done by the United States in less than 10 years! I
for one am sick and tired of the nay sayers telling us it will take another ten years or more to
find something else to make our cars run??
Wars and Rumors of Wars
I don't want to continue to send our nations wealth to countries and peoples who want to KILL
US. We continue to waste our Blood and Treasure and for what, to get cheap oil? The time has come
to end the United States dependency on ANY outside entity for ANYTHING, the least of which is oil to
burn in our cars. If we are going to spend $700 Billion dollars on energy lets stop sending the
money to foreign countries who hate us. Lets invest that money in our own country to provide jobs
for our people. Can you imagine what a 700 billion dollar investment in our
economy, per year, to solve our own energy problem would do!
We can do it - We will do it...
We are the greatest county in the world - The light of ages and favored of Almighty
God, it's time we started acting like it!
Stingram
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