May 19th Gas Out Day

Do this.
Write all of your congressmen and demand that they push legislation for Biofuels.
Then what how they vote and re-write them.

The White House
Today

My Fellow Americans! I have noticed with great alarm the recent, unjustifiable trend towards drasticlly higher Gasoline prices. This is a very serious economic problem for this great country. In as much as neither myself nor my advisors can discover any reasonable cause for this new trend, I have resolved that the full weight and power of the United States Government should be brought to bear upon this unfortunate recent developement!

In as much as the petroleum industry appears to have no reason to provide fuels for American automobiles at reasonable market prices, or else they feal unable to do so, I propose that the United SAtates Government provide financial support for rapid introduction of economicly priced, fuel cell technology and that this alternative technology should be available and installed in American automobiles not later than June 1, 2008!

Additionally, having noted the failure of the petroleum industry to provide fuels at competitive prices, this new technology and alternative fuel system should be sold OUTSIDE of the existing retail system!

Provision for competition has always been the hallmark of the American way of doing things. Americans have always disliked monopolies. While the existing Petroleum industry cannot be called a "monopoly" dominated by any one individual company, taken as a whole, they have stiffled competition, discouraged developement of alternative resources not wholly owned and controlled by themselves, and indeed, in many, many markets, thier pricing tends to be by mutual agreement! This too, shall now recieve the scrutiny of the Justice department as well!

I feel that these measures will only mark the beginning of your government's efforts to ensure that our American economic recovery and well being are not jeapardized by the efforts of one industry!

I will be making further announcements, with greater details in the near future!

Thankyou, and Good Night!

>>>If you were to see the above announcement, I'd just bet that fuel prices would be tumbling before morning<<<

As much as you would like to blame the current administration on the "high oil prices", world market conditions, high demand and a growing economy are all combining to drive the pricing conditions we see today. Gary in TX is also right on the money in pointing out that local laws passed in California and other states have created the need for unique gasoline formulae for refineries to contend with, not to mention transportation and distribution impacts. Before you start blaming our president and vice president, you should learn a little about US & global economics. I am always amused at folks that will complain about high gas prices, but won't blink when they pay more for bottled water than they pay for a gallon of gas. I was in Europe 12 years ago and gasoline was about $4/gallon. I don't know what it runs today but I bet it hasn't gone down. I am all for cheap gas or diesel, but you should consider that prices for many items have risen over the years and also compare those increases to the cumulative inflation rates over the same period. For those of us in any kind of business, rising prices are a fact of life, as are wages, insurance and other costs.

Now if you said no on use gas on May 19th even if it means taking off a day at work and shut the entire road system down then you might have some thing. But I can tell you that will never work. You will not get every one to go along. Just look at the truckers strike of 20 years ago. They were shooting at drivers because they would not strike and still they had trucks on the road.