I'm suprised gas isn't higher the way the government acts. Think of it like this, if you had a neighbor that had more time than you but never wanted to work around the house so got you to do it. So you charge him a high price of 30 bucks an hour and keeps giving you more and more work to the point you have no time for yourself. Then you start charging 50 bucks an hour but he still keeps you to do more and more work while he sits and watches football while your favorite team is on too. So you charge 75 an hr. and he goes on an Alaska grizzly hunt but before he leaves he gives you a list too tall for you do and only wants you and noone else on his land. What would you do? You are obviously still cheap right? Oh by the way his three strapping boys are too buisy lifting weights and studying for college and won't be helping. Ok, 100 bucks an hour! He sais WHAT?, that's too much. OK do it yourself and he agrees after he gets back the price may be 143 an hr and I have enough money now (like OPEC) that if he doesn't like it he can do it himself. This is the way Americans act when it comes to oil. We don't want to drill our own, we don't want nuclear, coal, wind power, natural gas, or small cars. We have people that continue to reelect incumbents even when congress has a 9% approval rating that refuse to let "big oil " drill for fear they will make a fraction of what government makes of a gallon of gas. So here we are still driving way to fast, way to much, way too big of trucks most don't need, huge engines on boats, flying all over like it's mass transportation on long weekends and we complain. We could cut energy use by 25% starting tomorrow if we wanted but we won't cause the average american can afford it or they will spend their last dollar for a gallon of gas, even for recreation. Some will say this won't make oil go down cause Opec will sell it to China. Not really, ten years ago, we used 80% of the worlds energy. Today we still use 70%. Take a company that looses 25% of sales that makes up 75% of their buisness and theywill be hurting fast. They say it's because our green back has lost it's value, ok, americans seem to still like our green back enough to get up every morning for more, lets drill our own oil, make diesel out of coal, use more electric cars, give good paying oil and mining jobs to the few hard working Americans we have left and I bet money Opec will see our dollar has a little more worth than they think. But we are still the neighbor who pays big bucks to get their yard work done cause we refuse to do it ourselves.
