With spring break right around the corner…..

Has anyone else noticed the rising gas prices over the last few days? Although this tends to happen during holiday times, the price per barrel of crude oil has shot up over $100. Why is this you might ask? Well with all of our worries about green house gases and the availability of oil in the near future on our minds, many people are worried there may not be enough so they are buying it up now. This is not the only reason, come to find out, and the oil companies are not producing a full capacity or even near it which of course drives up the price considerably. My question to you as a citizen of the U.S. is why has our president not done anything to counter act these things from foreign oil companies? We have our own sources of oil why are we not using those? We need to show those foreign oil companies that we don’t need them or their oil. If we stopped buying from them for a month or two that would put a huge hit into their income, then they would be willing to bargain with us to buy oil from them. I don’t know how or what but these unnecessarily high fuel prices need to come down, it is really taking a hit on people with budgets just a year ago gas was around $2.00 a gallon. Something needs to be done and it needs to have been done yesterday. (words: 248)