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Article #93: Outrageous Gas Prices

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How many times will you drive by a gas dependent economy. (AND with their
station and NOT notice the prices? Let inability to supply us with crude...our
me guess. Ah, never. Not now anyway. economy will slide as well.)
We can start to point fingers as to how Put yourself in the role of supplying a
we got into this situation: oil producing product, any product, which is heavily in
countries are bandits, it's those people demand and you only have the ability to
driving gas guzzlers, countries like sell so much. Would you try to extract
China are industrializing or their the most amount of money for it?
consumers are gobbling up supply... This is exactly what is happening to fuel
ya-da-ya-da-ya-da. prices right now. That gas pump is
The real cause of our current energy trying to extort an obscene amount of
crisis of skyrocketing fuel prices - money from you because of limited supply
leading to our gas pains at the pump - is of crude yet we - along with other
our failure to create alternative energy developed and developing countries -
resources. Ouch. Pointing the finger at demand more and more.
ourselves? Not going to happen...we The solution.
always need a villain as the cause of our Ready for this?
woe. The solution is simple. Simple
We can look to Washington and blame our economics.
various administrations. Many of us were The plan to execute the solution is
not even born to witness the gas extremely complex.
rationing during World War II. However First the solution: we have to cut down
many of us recall the late 70's and early on crude oil demand which would then lead
80's and how we were - excuse my choice to an overabundance of supply. Oil
of words - "over the barrel" when it came tankers will continue to be loaded with
to crude oil prices. Following the lead crude and no place to unload as the
of President Jimmy Carter, we turned our demand for their loads has been
thermostats to 68?? degrees in the dead substantially decreased.
of winter in an effort to conserve Increased crude supply (due to no one
energy. wanting all the crude that is being
These measures which attempted to rein in produced) caused by lower demand for it
our dependency made for great headlines equals major reductions of crude oil
but little else. prices by the oil producing countries.
We eventually cranked up the How does this happen?
thermostats...once again purchased gas Alternative sources of energy with a
guzzling cars which we drove all over heavy concentration of renewable energy
(consuming gazillions of galloons of such as the sun or wind power. (I am not
crude) without any concern. even going to mention a few of the other
An energy conservation or energy alternative energy sources such as grain
alternative program? Please. There is or vegetable oil converted to fuel.)
plenty of cheap crude oil to last us We have the ability to get ourselves out
hundreds of years. of this gas pain at the gas pump.
Wrong answer. The more we can encourage American
Crude oil is not a renewable energy imagination, the sooner our answer will
source. Once you use barrel, it does not come to relieve our gas pains. The
spontaneously regenerate another barrel sooner our answer will come to decrease
to replace itself. It is gone and can our demand for crude. The sooner will
never be replaced. crude supplies start to fill crude
This is what oil producing nations have storage tanks in oil producing countries.
to be concerned about...their limited Prices will have to radically fall to
fossil fuel (oil) supply. Once it is move this crude as our alternative energy
gone, it is gone. There goes their oil technology spreads worldwide..






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