For my last blog I wanted to write about something that most likely is having an effect on each of our lives currenty and that is the continously rising gas prices.
According to an article in the Star Tribune on May 7th, 2008 titled "Oil jumps as diesel, heating oil supplies drop" oil prices again rose to a near record $124 a barrell today.
The same article also states that the national average at the pumps for gas is $3.61 a gallon for regular gasoline, while the average gallon of diesel is costing customers $4.24 a gallon. It also states that because of these prices consumers are also getting hurt in the grocery and retail stores as well.
I guess this just raises the questions of what needs to be done and what can be done to lower these prices.
Prices where they are at are a huge burden on many people making it tough for them to do anything other then what is necessary because they simply cant afford it. I see this first hand every day in our family business. Our sales have dropped off 40% in the last 6 months and we hear similar things from almost everyone.
I personally feel that the government needs to act fast and correct this problem. Whether it be making it mandatory for cars to get higher miles per gallon, or drilling in alaska its pretty obvious that action needs to be taken.
When i hear stuff such as car companies could make cars get 60 miles to the gallon if they wanted to, or we could support ourselves with oil on our own if we started drilling in certain places on our own country it makes me mad that steps like that arent being taken.
All I hear about is how oil companies are making record profit after record profit while the rest of us are paying for it by having to cut things out of our lives just so we can afford it at the pump, it's just appauling to me and I'm hoping that something is done soon.
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