The goverment really can't do much of anything to reduce the cost of oil because it is FOREIGN OIL, as in, not from the USA and out of the U.S goverment control, what is it that you think they could do?. That would be like you having a car for sale for $5,000 and the guy down the street demanding you sell it to him for $2,500 when the car is worth $5,000, are you going to do it?, absolutly not and the guy down the steet has no control over what you do with the car.
Ron 1456 is right about there being more drivers than ever before, and lets not forget everything else that uses oil, such as the plastics industry. The world population is rapidly increasing and oil is something that is precious and the price will only continue to go up as oil becomes harder to get and the demand gets higher. The world is going to run out of oil eventually and depending upon what source you read from, it's predicted not too far off into the future. What we need to do is look into alturnative fuel sources to wean ourselves off oil. I've heard people complain of the Alaskan oil reserves not being tapped into, it's because the enviromental impact would be huge and there is only enough oil there to go a short period of time, then after that what is America to do?. I like knowing the oil is there and save it for a rainy day such as what if another world war broke out and Europe refused to sell oil to us?, we'd be in a real fine mess as we wouldn't have any fuel to power our war vehicles. I also hear people complain about how bad and stupid the EPA is, lets not forget that the EPA's 1 and only goal is to protect the enviroment, the air that you and I breath, thats worth alot to me and it should to you. Without a heathy enviroment we could not live, air quality is getting worse all the time and the EPA does it's best to improve it, without their guidelines that they hold the automaker to, the automaker would not make the improvments on their own and things would be alot worse.
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