Carolyn
You might consider rewording that - otherwise GREAT LETTER!
I wonder if it's too long for publication though.
It's a really good letter, but I suggest you remove the following portions.....maybe then it'll get printed. Or try to get them to let you do a special citizen editorial.
So, who is to blame for high gas prices? Those responsible for high gas prices are Democrat liberal politicians and those who continually elect them into office. Carol Browner worked for the Clinton Administration. Environmental watch groups support and promote liberal Democratic politicians. These politicians, along with those working and running the EPA, prevent oil companies from drilling within the United States or building more refineries to process the crude oil.
The only fault I lay at the feet of the oil companies is not exerting their financial muscle to create more refineries and to drill within the United States. Do you want cheaper gas prices? Unfortunately, there is no short-term solution.
The information I briefly listed above is available to anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear.
By constantly spewing forth the Democrat mantra of blaming the oil companies, The Calvert Independent becomes a lapdog vice a watchdog.
Let's also point out a simple and obvious truth:
There is $1 trillion of oil in ANWR, and several trillion worth of oil in offshore US areas. Both are offlimits because the Govt forbids drilling in these areas. If we opened up ANWR 10 years ago, we'd have 1 million bpd in extra supply and could displace some of Iran's supply. Prices would be much lower, and US production would be higher and our trade deficit lower.
Further, the enviornmental impact is miniscule, certainly nothing compared to the trillion-dollar impact of access to this domestic supply of oil. The opposition to ANWR comes from people who want higher oil prices and are willing to keep us dependent on foreign oil to do so.
Politicians and Governments are causing high gas prices, not oil companies.
The irony is that oil is so easy to get out, that it becomes 'easy money' that is prey to corrupt and violent types wanting to control it.
Come on, buddy. Everybody knows gas prices are high because we have an oilman in the White House who is conducting an illegal war while helping pad the retirement benefits of the King Of Exxon to the tune of $400 million a year. We don't need piddling details like the ones you cite.
(sarcasm)
Good letter.
Prices of motor car fuel, like every other commodity in the universe, respond to the supply/demand curve. Prices automatically rise until there arrives a strike point between supply, the amount available for sale at any given moment, and the demand, the amount required by the market at the moment. There is actually no fixed place where this point remains constantly. As the price continues to rise, either the consumer finds a less expensive substitute, or reduces use of the commodity, by various forms of economizing. As this produces a surplus of the commodity, over a wide range of consumers, demand falls, and price drops.
Reduce demand, and supply remaining the same, the price will go down.