| The best way to lower gasoline and diesel prices | | | | foreclosures, small business failures and downturn |
| is to do what Maria is doing. You see Maria is | | | | in the business cycle. But we may all be to blame |
| voting with her dollar. If everyone did that, the | | | | for our lack of ability to control the lawsuits, junk |
| problem will be solved. Some say that the Oil | | | | science and run-away hypocrisy or environmental |
| Companies are manipulating supply, well then the | | | | activism. Additionally we are to blame in a way |
| consumer has a lever too then, it is called | | | | for the over regulation. |
| demand. If you and everyone is concerned with | | | | The cost to get an EIR (environmental impact |
| fuel prices, then buy less of it and then the | | | | report) and draw up the plans for a refinery is |
| demand will be less and the supply greater and | | | | 250-400 million dollars. Worse are those who live |
| the price lower; you see? | | | | in the Northwest for their natural gas, they are in |
| What is a good price for full economic vitality? | | | | a world of hurt, double whammy; Oil and gasoline, |
| Well we need prices back to $1.35 for diesel for | | | | now natural gas for heating? Energy costs and |
| our transportation sector and to prevent artificial | | | | economics concern us all and we ought to look at |
| inflation, but that will not happen now. We must | | | | the cause and affect, rather than playing blame |
| work to get them there. We must find new | | | | game on the entrepreneurs, capitalists and |
| sources closer to home, build more refineries, | | | | corporations which have built and delivered |
| pipelines and invest. | | | | everything we see everywhere we go and |
| These prices are tough on many businesses in all | | | | provided us the means to get there in the first |
| sectors and that means jobs, lay offs, | | | | place. Think people. |