People are frustrated. My family shells out anywhere from 2-300.00 per week for gas, it’s ridiculous and it is cutting into all other aspects of our spending. My food costs have gone up as well and it seems to be rising weekly.
However I know it’s the government that has put me in this situation. Just like you said, taxes, lack of refineries and lack of drilling our own oil. Look at this stupid ethanol bs, wait till that hits the fan. We haven’t built a refinery in 30 years. 30 years of technology, imagine how efficient and clean they would be. But NO, we’ll just keep chuggin along with our antiquated system. All the while the government and the media will be screaming at the top of their lungs it the oil companies ripping us off, riling us up. If the truth was screamed as loud as this nonsense many of those elitists in our government would be out of a job next election. Keeping us stupid is what keeps them in power.
On the other hand, it is simple math to understand that if the vehicles your family drove got twice the mileage, you would pay half as much at the pump.