We need to quit blaming government and big business for all our problems. We have the situation we have because we all want the cheapest things (Chinese products) and the easy way out. It's not government or big businesses fault, it's ours. We want cheap, so we shop at Wal-Mart and put local business out of of business.
In Europe, where there is no government / oil company collaboration (it IS more Socialist) the price of a gallon is gas has been $4 and $5 and up for years. Only when gas gets so expensive (and we are almost there) that other alternatives can be made profitable (yes, someone has to make money) will you ever see other forms of energy. So unless we rewrite the Constitution and become a Socialist state overnight, no one, not even Obama can and will make a dent in the current energy situation.
There IS something that can be done. We can allow companies to drill where the oil is. We can make laws favorable to building new refineries and nuclear plants. These three things would dramatically and positively affect the energy situation.
assuming oil companies want to invest in refineries. they have the money, we know that. what is stopping them from investing that record breaking profit in new refineries?
or better yet, alternate sources of energy?
