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OPEC sets the price of oil. With the oil demands of China and India, up goes the price of oil. If you want to lower the price of gas, we need to drill in the Gulf of Mexico and ANWAR. We have plenty of oil, we just don't drill it. The Dakotas may have a lot of oil, as well as the new discoveries by Brazil. We would also have to build more refineries, since they are already operating at capacity. There is no oil shortage, but our country has shot itself in the foot by kowtowing to environmentalists and we are now paying the price (literally). We should always look to improving our energy efficiency with a cleaner planet as the outcome. But until the time that we can switch from oil to a more eco-friendly energy, we have to use what we have. We've come a long way in my lifetime. When I was a little kid in the seventies, America was a far more dirty and polluted country than it is now.
In my opinion, man-made global warming is the greatest money-making hoax ever. It has done nothing more than panic people and raise prices on everything. Sorry, a bit off-track.
I agree that McCain is pandering and "helping the poor" is the "in" thing with politicians. The poor that I see drive whatever they can afford, gas guzzler or not.
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