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