Topic idea for project II

Ok for our next project I wanted to take on a topic that has become very hot lately with all of the rising fuel costs, so I am going to choose alternative fuels. I am not a tree hugger or anything crazy like that but the prices of oil right now are unreasonably high and I don’t believe that it should be. Oil companies are making so much money off of gasoline and diesel fuel more so than anything. How can a fuel that is a byproduct of the process of making gasoline cost so much more than gas itself. Back in the 1800’s and early 1900’s when we just started using automobiles oil companies that produced gasoline had this waste product, diesel fuel, that they didn’t know what to do with. Their solution was to give it away to the railroad companies to burn in their engines just to get rid of it. Now when you are at the gas station and you see that the price for the crudest fuel it more than the most refined. To me that is price gouging to the extreme. Diesel fuel should cost no more than 87 octane gas. In fact it should be much cheaper, but those who are selling it think, oh well truckers need this stuff so we will jack up the prices to make a lot of money off of them. (words: 234)