Bottom line is, there is no gas shortage, there is no crude oil shortage.... There are billions upon billion gallons of oil being pumped out of the ground every day. OPEC and the United States Government control how much is released to the public and at what rate the refineries are pumping out finished product (GASOLINE), None of the refineries are producing at 100% and a lot of the crude that is being pumped isn't going into the market, it is going into stockpiles.
For everyone that says HOW IS THE GOV"T SUPPOSED TO CONTROL IT??
Got news for you, THEY ALREADY DO !!
If The Gov't and OPEC and the Big oil companies would quit freaking stockpiling crude and run the damn refineries at somewhere near their able capacity there would be so much gas that we couldn't use it all and prices would go down.
Like I said there is not shortage, just like there was no shortage back int he 70's.... TRhe Crude is there, get the **** to the refineries and bump up production and quit gouging the hell out of the American citizens.
As far as all that crap that Fabs spewed about living closer to work and working closer to home.... Yeah OK I drive an hour one way because I like to sit in traffic...... Oh wait a minute maybe it is because The area I work in is not safe to live in, much less fit to raise a child, much less send my son to school with a bunch of gang banging hoodlum drug addict thugs. Oh and Yeah I am certainly going to give up a gov't job with full benefits and all my retirement to go to work for a private company closer to where I live now. Sure that is totally feasible.. Let me get right on that
