After reading a thread in the General Forum, I figured I'd post my comments about gas prices here. First of all, gas prices aren't going up this time because of a shortage of oil or Iraq. They are going up because an additive used in gas, methanol, is being replaced by ethanol. The difference is ethanol is much cleaner than methanol. The problem is while the big oil companies new this was coming for over a year, instead of gearing up for it tried to get congress to postpone the law requiring this conversion. So once again we are at the mercy of refineries for our gas, which has been the biggest factor in high gas prices over the last year and a half (not so much a lack of oil). There are refineries out there that have been shut down for years and the big oil companies have fought to keep them that way. Those refineries need to be re-opened and new refineries need to be built. The only way that will happen is if there is much better oversite from our leaders in Congress as well as a president who is more inline with the common people (all of US ;D ) Of course the best sollution would be to SERIOUSLY work on development and deployment of alternative ways to move us from point A to point B. Instead of treating the idea of moving away from oil as just some fun little experiment. So should we blame Bush.... Sure, I feel he get's a little, but then again so does congress as well as the greedy SOBs running the oil companies. And maybe we get a little of the blame too.... For not electing leaders (or stepping up to the plate ourselves) who will address and work through the issues that effect our daily lives....

Just my .02 :-/

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