BLAME THE BUCK FOR THE HIGH GAS PUMP PRICES. Gasoline prices are up and still soaring. If you're looking for a reason, just take out your wallet. Your elected politicians will offer "cover-up" platitudes and stuff the public with phony rationalizations. Demand is up. Unrest in the middle east countries, refineries are switching from winter blend to summer blend. Etc., etc. If you buy that, you'll believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. Here's the real deal. In the worldwide marketplace, another consideration: the dollar is being hammered and has taken an embarrassing crap because of political games with the budget, billions dollars per month war spent on wars with no end in sight, growing government waste, pork barrel politics and a totally out-of-control deficit spending right here in the USA. PROBLEM America's credit is plummeting along with its respect by other countries. Everything is going to cost more. The $100.+ a barrel price and $4+ per gallon prices are now here not just down the road. With certainty, as the dollar goes down in value, the foreign oil cartels who control most supplies want more dollars to compensate themselves for their "dip" in windfall profits. In the meantime, China is building up its industrial complex. And without a war to divert its cash, that nation is on a revolutionary roll. India as well. With their new found prosperity at America's expense, they're cranking out cars and buying more oil, too. Welcome to the wonderful world of competition for foreign oil that America never had to deal with. But when the price of gasoline goes up, it attracts a whole hell of a lot of attention. But we are still fed the same kind of political lip service we were fed when the Arabs embargoed oil in the70's, when gasoline lines stretched for miles around stations across the country and even when terrorists struck the United States on Sept.11, 2001, by terrorists financed by America haters flush with oil profits. Look folks, contrary to popular belief domestic energy sources have always been here, just waiting for people to notice. U.S. offshore drilling is a viable source of made-in-USA fuels. Sure we had a spill. In 60 years of drilling there has only been one major incident, Issuing new permits in the Gulf will require no stimulus money, no increase of foreign debt, just good old fashion made in America jobs, all waiting to go back to work. Americans can use their collective clout to tip the energy marketplace in their favor. FOIL the Foreign Oil Independence League is leading the campaign. More to follow.
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