Well, that just stinks to high heaven! Sounds like we need to clean out the Senate of all the boneheads who enacted the laws (and reaffirmed them year after year by doing nothing) that allowed such a disconnect to occur. This has happened over years and years of neglect and politics.
I don't know why I've been in quite a foul mood of late, but it gets worse and worse each time I drive by a gas station and see the price of gas going up, up, up! I think about how there are folks out there who could barely afford gas when it was $1.50/gallon, and now it's a dollar more/gallon. Who controls the price of oil? (I know this has nothing to do with the Gorelick Wall, but I'm just fed up!) This Gorelick Wall stuff fuels my foul mood.
"Who controls the price of oil?"
Unfortunately, the 'speculators' in the stock market have a direct influence on market prices.
If they 'think' that there may be an attack somewhere (verifiable or not) then they rush to buy 'hedges' against a 'possible' shortage.
It's these people that just totally drive me nuts because they basically have control over the price of oil, whether it's justified or not.
"This Gorelick Wall stuff fuels my foul mood."
Mine too!
To be fed up will not do a thing.
For years we skidded into this mess by allowing Democrats to block drilling for oil, natural gas, block building of atomic power plants, forcing us into refining capacity shortages so that we need to import 11% of our refined fuels from Mexico and Canada, created multiple different grades of gasoline and prevented regional trans shipments of gasoline.
Besides we enabled a group that prevented cleaning out forests or do clear cutting which then were called meadows and at the same time served as fire barriers.
To burn up 6 million acres of good wood in '04 and
7 million in '03 is a waste that no other country's voters would tolerate as a concession to a democratic party garnering and vying for the green vote.
Those that now are voting and empowering naysayers, blockers and the latest twist: just be against everything without providing an alternative, yes those voters are the enablers that got us there.
No fast way out, but start by putting people in place (Congress)with the common man's interest uppermost.