How about pointing the finger in the direction where it belongs: Your (not so) consumer friendly Democrat Congress.
Noteworthy:
"But the shale proposal went down to defeat with Allard and 13 other Republican members in favor and 15 Democrats opposed. Once again, Democrats were on the wrong side, opting to keep oil in the ground and punish you with higher prices as a result.
This was no minor thing. Estimates put the amount of oil locked in shale in both Canada and the U.S. at more than 1 trillion barrels. Pulling out even a tenth of that would quadruple our current reserves."
....and this:"With its failure to tap the vast supplies in ANWR and offshore, its passage of costly global-warming legislation and now its refusal to exploit our massive resources of oil shale, Congress has set us on a path to less energy, higher prices and weakened national security."
Just more Business As Usual for our Dem pals.
Kind of like our Greensboro City Council, and the ruling cabals in our city, isn't it?
Another factor is the myriad regulations that make it tougher to build, say, oil refineries (and, not entirely unrelated, nuclear power plants). And another factor is windfall profits taxes, which drive up the cost of gas even higher.
ReplyDeleteJoe Guarino