What Is The Gas Prices Going Up?

If the question is "why is the gas price going up". The answer is simple. You keep buying it. You hear on the news when they hold those mock hearings for oil executives it is supply and demand. Bull!!! The change in supply and demand hasn't changed much the last 5 years. We have more oil in this country alone to supply our energy needs for hundreds of years. When this all began the price of gas went from 1.85/gal. To 2.85/gal. Overnight. They held phony hearings to show the people that the government was trying to hang someone so the oil co. Dropped the price a little to satisfy the people. We still paid it and they said" look at these idiots, we've double our asking price and they're still paying." this recent hike is just phase two and guess what. We're still paying it. You see on the news people saying" what can we do? We have to pay it". NO you don't. Stop buying gas, let the country stop in its tracks, don't go to work. People want to complain all day long but don't want to take the steps to make it stop. Last i checked, the government is not its own entity but the government is you and me and every American born citizen. We don't need to buy oil from outside the country.  we need to be self sufficient. Until the people of this country make a stand you'll keep buying and they'll keep price gouging. If something is being allowed it's only because someone's palms are being greased.

The oil companies are certainly much to blame for the price increases we've seen over the last year. That being said why doesn't anyone trot out the fact that our federal government makes $3 for every dollar that the oil companies make. To me it makes our grandstanding lawmakers into pretty hypocritical people.