Friday, May 16, 2008

Wake Up America

Today I paid almost 25 dollars for 6 gallons of gas, how can this be when OPEC nations are paying only 12 to 40 cents a gallon? Why is oil more expensive when it is bought by non-OPEC nations? We have aided Saudi Arabia since the 40’s and this is how they repay us. It seems that we no longer drive the price of oil.

China and India have the biggest demand for oil now, because we have moved our manufacturing and support jobs to both of these counties. We have helped their economy to become strong, which increase their demand for oil. The solution to our problems is to bring all of these jobs back to the U.S.

We have to realize that if OPEC nations could just slow production of oil, what’s to keep China from slowing production on the items that we are in demand of. They are already sending us produce that do not met the U.S. standards. We as a county must realize that there is no such thing as free trade.

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