What are we going to do about these high gas prices?
Feb 22, 2012, 8:27 AM
Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: What are we going to do about these high gas prices?
Oil is over $100 a barrel; there are warnings it could hit $150, which would mean gas prices of $4.25 a gallon by spring, and maybe even $5…and we Americans can’t believe it:
“It’s unbelievable. I thought we were beyond this,” said a woman in one news report.
It is unbelievable. But you know what’s REALLY unbelievable? That anybody still thinks high gas prices are unbelievable!
I remember it being unbelievable when it broke $1. Then it was unbelievable when it broke $2 a gallon. Then $3 was really unbelievable.
You know what? I’m starting to believe it.
But Dave you say, how can prices be going up when the White House says we’re drilling more than ever?
“Oil production in the United States has increased every year this president has been in office,” said one report.
It’s called the free market, people!
The thing that every Americans love, including this guy:
“It’s power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched,” said Obama.
And the way it works is, when we save gas, thereby creating a glut of gas, oil companies are free to refine less gas, and to send what’s left over to South Africa — at least according to news articles I’ve been reading:
“It’s unbelievable.”
Well, believe it!
So — what are we going to do about these high gas prices? We are going to unleash a torrent of nasty tweets, like the world has never seen — and then pay them. Until every middle east sheikdom has a mile-high skyscraper.
If you don’t like it, it’s a free country, you can go fracking in your backyard and find your own oil — I hear in some places they can light the faucet on fire and get free hot water on demand.
I’m just relieved that $4 gas is the one scourge in America that appears to have nothing to do with gay marriage. So far anyway.
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