Mr. Reynolds and group along with most politicians and the like claim the price increase is caused by demand being up. I will beg to be different on that. Demand is not much different than last year give or take a couple percentage points. And the same goes for the previous years. Greed is what is on the increase. Greed by the executives that control how the oil is used and how much is used. If oil companies are having record profit years than why would the prices still go up 10 percent each year. Our cost of living allowances only increase by a percentage or two each year. That is a major duh. Doing the 'let's boycott the gas companies for a day' is a load of stupidity. You are not going to hurt anyone but yourself doing that. They will only increase the price to make up any difference there would be in a loss. But most will buy before they do that so they have enough to do that boycott and then buy directly after the boycott. Defeats the purpose of the boycott don't you think.
As far as the hybrid and electrical cars go, we will have to look into the future for that to happen anytime soon. Our world is controlled too much by the auto industry and the oil companies to allow that to happen. Our lives are controlled by others that enjoy taking advantage of us and our monies.
In order to make anything happen we will need to gain control 'politically'. To gain control 'politically' we will need to have the correct individuals in politcal power. In reality that will never happen. There are way too many uneducated Americans for that to happen. We may think we are educated but we really aren't. Whoever we do put in office that will start making a difference will be eliminated anyway. That is how power works. Then they feed you a line that they know you will accept. Now that doesn't mean everyone will accept but it does mean that a very large group will.
We Americans will blame the President for what is happening. That shows our limited intelligence and that we always have to blame someone other than ourselves for what goes on in this world. Our President has lost a lot of influence(and it is not because it is George Bush nor Bill Clinton). The President is a somewhat figure head similiar to the Queen of England. Everything is controlled by other parts of the political parties. At one time our country had a lot of pull in the world but the other countries are starting to get smarter and realizing that we are a very dependent country. We 'need' the other countries to survive. Gas and oil are our main needs for now. Yes we need the gas to go back and forther to work and our pleasures but we need to realize that we do not need the gas to that extent. There are other means to provide us with what we need. We just need to move faster to obtain the needs.
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
Butch