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1) Use less. For example, if everyone simply drove the speed limit, the price of gas would plummet dramatically.
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How would that reduce the cost?? The demand wouldn't be as high and they would have to raise prices to maintain the same cash flow??
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2) Lobby your representatives to lift environmentalist restrictions on drilling. (Stuff like ANWR should be a no-brainer.)
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So the drilling would create more oil that needs to be stored as the refineries have plenty of oil, they just can't produce enough to supply the need?? If they had more oil to stockpile costs would also go up as they would need to pay for the storage???
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3) Lobby your representatives to reduce the tax on gasoline. The government takes more money in taxes out of a gallon of gas than the oil companies take in profits.
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This seems to make sense but then our politicians would be panicked as to how they would, cover such a bold and generous gesture??? The result would be higher taxes on something else, most likely the middle/lower income families, don't ya think??? Then as soon as the oil companies realize we are paying less when they know we can pay more, they will come up with excuses (terrorism security, storms, storage, to get their greedy hands on the money the government is no longer cheating us out of in the first place???
I would hope that we don't have to resort to price controls, but we (most of the planet) are literally at the mercy of the oil companies until an alternative can replace our dependency!!! Also not good!!!
