You’ll have gasoline for only so long as someone is willing to sell it. This is how they make their living, it is not a hobby.
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Worth repeating. I use a local station that is a few cents more per gallon than the convenience store stations exactly because I want him to be there and operating on snow days, or when I need to have my tires checked, etc.
In my campaign to ‘force’ big media to tell us news we can use instead of propaganda, I want to know how many American refineries have suffered ‘accidents’ requiring unanticipated shutdowns in the past year. We are fed certain news items ad nauseam and other news items are totally ignored. I am suspicious of refinery accidents during this time of war. How many young mosque-going muslims work in refineries? My inquiring mind wants to know.
I also want to know how many Americans are aware that we have to import gasoline. We do not refine enough for our daily use. Talk about outsourcing! That is more serious than outsourcing the manufacturing of TVs or shoes.
So go blame the EPA, Congress and all envirocritters.
Read a good economics textbook too - oligopolies and monopolies can only be sustained by government laws restricting entry into a field.