Gas Is Going Up and Nobody Seems To Notice

Has anyone, besides me, noticed that gas prices are creeping back up again? Just three weeks ago I was paying $2.18 per gallon, locally. Today it’s up to $2.45 for regular. While we’re at it, I seem to remember that mid-grade was always $.10 more than regular and premium $.10 more that mid-grade. Not anymore! Now they are $.12 and $.14 more, respectively.

Anyway, the reason I’m pointing this out,  is that all the talk about domestic drilling seems to have gone away. When we were over $4.00 a gallon, everybody was talking about ways of making us less dependent on foreign oil.  Then the economy tanked and the price of oil dropped because people couldn’t afford it, and the price of gas plummeted. So we stopped talking about drilling at home, new nuclear plants, bio-fuels and all that other stuff.

So, while we’ve been busy getting mad about the economy, health-care, taxes, job loss and a multitude of other problems, the price of gas has started to rise yet again. We are good at  doing that and I think our government counts on our lack of focus. They do it because they talk big about how they are going to solve a particular problem before doing the research to verify it can be done. When they realize that their plan sucks, they have to make sure that they get us to focus on something new.

Frankly it will probably take years to get to the point where we can import a lot less oil, but we need to keep the ideas afloat. We have to develop ways to reduce our dependence on foreign governments, especially those that don’t like us. So take a couple of minutes and let your representatives know that you are still concerned about the price of gas and where it may be headed.