Posts Tagged ‘Advantage’
Offshore drilling is not the answer to high gas prices
zk0 asked:
There have been a lot of discussions about the high gas prices in USA the past months and what exactly should be done to curb this trend. Some politicians, like McCain, Bush, and Gingrich, are taking advantage of the situation and tries to push for the ending of a 27-year moratorium on offshore drilling along the coastlines of USA. But offshore drilling is not a “quick fix” and it won’t help to lower the gas prices. The only ones that will profit from this are Bush and McCain’s friends in …
Would you give up leisure driving and your vacation trip in an effort to lower gas prices?
Allen J asked:
I was recently told by a gas station owner that gas prices are going to steadily climb. He said that everyone is ignorantly allowing the wealthy oil companies the advantage to keep raising the price, by continuing to pay what ever they choose to charge. It is about supply and demand, right? If we do not drive more than absolutly necessary, car pool when possable, and make a few sacrifices on our pleasure trips, that would cut the demand. Would you make these sacrifices? Do you think it would lower the prices?
I was recently told by a gas station owner that gas prices are going to steadily climb. He said that everyone is ignorantly allowing the wealthy oil companies the advantage to keep raising the price, by continuing to pay what ever they choose to charge. It is about supply and demand, right? If we do not drive more than absolutly necessary, car pool when possable, and make a few sacrifices on our pleasure trips, that would cut the demand. Would you make these sacrifices? Do you think it would lower the prices?