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You want to see the gas prices get cut in half? Then you have to contact your Senator and Congresscritter and demand they start drilling anywhere and everywhere. If Congress had the wherewithal to stand up to the environmentalists and pass legislation to start drilling in ANWR, off the East coast, West coast and the Great Lakes, the Middle East oil czars would see the threat and cut the prices.

To drop more, immediately start building refineries in the vacated Military Installations across the country. We have not built one since 1973. We have gotten to the point that we are importing gasoline, yes, already refined gasoline to meet the demand. To see the price drop more, tell the FED to stop printing money that is making the dollar worthless around the world.

Whose fault is it? CONGRESS and the Environmentalists that demand everything that is hurting the economy. Who the hell in their right mind would turn a major food into an energy product? Wonder why your groceries are so expensive like bread, milk etc…. CORN being turned into fuel and using existing supplies to do it. Yet we still subsidize the farmers, some to grow and too many not to grow anything at all.

Frikin country has turned on it’s head and we are being slammed into the ground. Stupidity, pure stupidity.

Who Is Really Responsible For The High Prices You Pay For Gasoline?

For the last 28 years, Democrats in Congress and a few Republicans have again and again opposed our drilling for oil in Alaska’s ANWR area when we knew it contained at least 10 billion barrels of oil we could be using now.
• For the past 31 years, Congress repeatedly prevented us from building any new oil refineries that we now badly need.

• More recently, congressional Democrats defeated and discouraged any bill that would let us drill in the deep sea 100 miles out. However, it’s somehow OK for China to drill there.

• As a further indictment of our Congress, since the 1980s it has continually stopped all building of nuclear power plants while France, Germany and, yes, Japan, plus 12 other major nations, did build plants and now get 20% to 80% of their energy from their wise and safe nuclear plant investments.

• From 1990 to 2000, U.S. crude oil demand rapidly accelerated by 7.41 quadrillion BTUs, according to Department of Energy data. And our rate of foreign oil dependency dramatically increased while our domestic oil production steadily declined.

Under the eight Clinton years alone, U.S. oil production declined 1,349,000 barrels per day, or 19%, while our foreign imports increased 3,574,000 barrels per day, or 45%.

During this time, President Clinton vetoed ANWR drilling bills that would have clearly made Alaska our No. 1 state in the production of our own vitally needed oil supply, not only for all Americans but also for national defense emergencies.

So were Democrats and members of Congress together merely short-sighted, with only a few having any real business experience?

Or were they just ignorant about economics — the fact that the law of supply and demand determines the price of all commodities such as oil, steel, copper and lumber?

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