Record gas prices

Oil has closed at record highs for 3 days in a row. If you think gas prices are high now, wait. We are wondering why this is happening, are you kidding? We have an oil-man in the Whitehouse, is it really any surprise? Republicans are rubbing their hands together in glee as oil companies make record profits because they either are owners or own shares in them. Do you really think they are going to do anything about it? What is interesting about this blog and my site is that I hear from people from all over the globe. What I have heard a lot recently is that paying $3.00 a gallon for gas isn't a big deal everywhere else. I find it humorous that GWB is saying in his speeches that Americans are too dependent on oil and we need to find alternative resources. Ummmmm are we not the country that in basically 10 years went to the moon? You're telling me that we couldn't institute some new fuel source in the matter of a few years? Look at ethanol. Now I hold a degree in natural sciences with an emphasis in chemistry. So this blathering that the right does about the difficulties are over dramatized to keep things going as they are so they can get richer. Seriously, consider ethanol. It is a fuel source made from grains, primarily corn. Ummmm, seems to me that farms have been lost in record numbers. Gee, let me think about this for a minute. We have a WAR because the country that it is in is the richest oil reserve in the world. (Are we invading all the oil less nations in Africa where genocide is taking place? No, because they don't have oil) Our country is the most oil dependent in the world soon to be over taken by China which is going to raise competition for oil which will make it more costly. Oil pollutes more and is finite.

Uhmmmmm. Don't cha think that we should be moving to ethanol for now and be researching new and completely different methods of energy sources and ways to deal with waste and recycling? I mean we all know the damage we have done AND CONTINUE TO DO. So why are we still doing it like that?

Moving to ethanol would put a lot of farmers back in business and reduce emissions. So why aren't we going there? Because the establishment does not want to upset the status quo. If they did processing ethanol is a bit different than oil. All of the existing infrastructure would have to be augmented. Meaning money would have to be spent. IT also means that the source for the fuel would be disbursed all over the country. That means that a small operator could build an ethanol production plant near the source and distribute it locally and keep the price down. Gutting the strangle hold the big oil companies have.