High Gas Prices: Who's to Blame?
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Oil prices are high and they're going higher — I think, a lot higher — which for a lot of folks will be a lot more of a hardship.
We're quick to want to blame someone, anyone, for this hardship and oil companies are a good target. After all, they're making a ton of money and we're spending a ton of money.
Unfortunately, a lot of us aren't spending time looking at the true culprits. Like a strong economy — we're just sucking the stuff up.
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And like China and India. Those two countries alone account for as much oil now as the whole world slopped up barely 10 years ago.
And like OPEC — what they collectively produce barely covers what we use in just "this" country, let alone other countries.
Sometimes simple facts like those get lost in emotional times like these.
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Simple facts like conserving fuel: most of us don't.
Or tapping energy sources here: most of our elected officials won't.
Add it all up and the bill keeps going up for a commodity that's limited in supply and demand that is not.
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Politicians love to look at scapegoats. It's harder for them and us to look at something else: a mirror.
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