Here's some background. Basically, the president feels he looks bad with the high gas prices. He wants to look good before his term is over. The gas prices don't help, so he wants to lift the ban to drill offshore. Our reserve is enough to lower the prices on gas supposively.
Personally, I don't think so!
Here you go..
From CNN (about gas):
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, said "four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline is unacceptable to the American people and unacceptable to the Republicans in Congress, and we want to do something about it. And doing something about it involves both finding more and using less. We need to do both." See how gas prices have gone up across the country »
But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, resisted the Republicans' calls for an expansion of offshore drilling, saying it would do little to reduce prices at the pump in the near term.
What the president should do immediately to lower gas prices, Pelosi said, is release oil from the 700 million barrels in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Bush has resisted that move because, he says, it would hurt national security.
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Gas is such an interesting subject, I personally think that while it may suck to have these prices now, its not necessarily a bad thing.
Having the gas prices at around 5 dollars a gallon would only force us to find a better, more efficient means of transportation. While it may be a problem in the beginning, once we find the means to get us around without the dependency on oil its pretty much all down hill from there. improvements, tweaks, ect.
I think the U.S. lacks the motivation to research different forms of transportation. High gas prices might be that extra push that we need.
On the ground level, I now started riding my bike to work, while everyone can't just get up and start riding bikes, I did, and I did so because of the high gas prices.
From the same point of view, there may be a scientist out there who can not ride his bike to work, but he can research into a better, more efficient means of transportation.
point is. If every one adapts to the change instead of trying to make it cheaper, we would be much better off.
lol god this is long...
but a perfect example of a country that worked around their intentionally high gas prices is Europe.
What awesome public transportation they have, and cute tiny cars that will make a full gas tank last for a bazillion years.
oh yea, and as for the president...
he's a retard no matter what. lol.
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