WHY I THINK GAS IS SO EXPENSIVE!!!

There are many reasons why Gas is so expensive. I have a friend who said that he knew somebody who drives truck for a living and is putting 600 dollars in fuel each time he fills up! that is outrageous. I don't agree with Barack Obama who said they are going to tax the crap out of the oil companies because all it will do in the end is come back and take a bite out of consumers back pocket. The problem comes down to that enviromentalist don't want us to built any new refiners and none have been built in the last 32 years. I don't know if they know about this yet but in Arizona they are building a new refinery. They might get mad but hopefully they won't get their way and try to shut down the first refinery that is being built in decades. It is under construction and will be in Arizona but won't start creating oil till 2011. It will add about 150,000 barrels of oil a day to our market. That will help us however, As I learned in high School its all about supply/demand. That oil will not last forever so we will have to drill for more oil right here in America that we could use that would help us get off foriegn oil ; Its a short term solution but we will have to find alternative resources to oil. We have oil in Alaska in AWAR where I have been told that most people are open to the idea to drill there. They don't have much of a economy but they do have alot of oil. This will not happen however, for the next 4 years because all of the presdiental candiates are against drilling there. Heres some reasons to support drilling in AWAR. Only 8% of AWAR would be open to drilling which is about 1.5 million acres. This would bring huge revenues to the state and Federal Treasury. Experts say it could bring between 152 and 237 billion dollars. It will create about a quarter million jobs (250,000) I would love to drill there. Who knows if and when we dig there we could find even more oil. I am sick and tired of bowing down at the alter of evil people like Hugo Chavez and the crazy Irani leader. We don't get most of our oil from Chavez but some of the oil. The number 1 country we get oil from is Canada and Mexico. Here is the full list

This is in thousands of barrels of oil (month)
Canada 1,776
Mexico 1,658
Saudi Arabia 1,256
Nigeria 1,163
Venezula 1,009
Angola 641
Iraq 572
Columbia 281
Kuwait 273

Bush said it best in his State of the Union adress in 2006; he said that America was addicted to oil. Here is the actual quote "Keeping America competitive requires affordable energy. Here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world".

What we need as a world and a country is find out new alternative ways to end the need for oil. There are many ways to do this; we can use wood to give us energy but won't do much for us driving cars but we could make battery-driven cars. Could you image the money that could be made if someone could figure a new way to power a car. Like grass; wood, or wind power. It could be done and hopefully we will do this before its too late.


http://www.anwr.org/People/Alaskans-Support-Development.php

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12227
http://www.sacbee.com/103/story/200013.html
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2005/03/epa_approves_dr.html
http://www.anwr.org/People/Alaskans-Support-Development.php
http://www.anwr.org/ANWR-Basics/Top-ten-reasons-to-support-ANWR-development.php
http://abcnews.go.com/International/popup?id=1566549
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/31/sotu.transcript/