It's the start of summer vacations and driving season. Also the annual raising of the gas prices.
Isn't it strange that this time every year, gas goes way up and it's always some mysterious problem at the refinery? Or could it be that Big Oil has what everyone needs and can fleece us for it?
I guess the half-billion dollars every year in government subsidies of our money isn't enough.
When oil dropped to about $50 a barrel, gas dropped to $2 a gallon. Yet now gas has risen to over $3 a gallon and the price of a barrel of oil is only $59; still very low.
So if you think the Keystone pipeline is going to translate to lower oil prices, better think again. Just look at the California coast north of Santa Barbara right now and ask yourself, is it going to benefit us or plunder the countryside? Yes, it will create about 3,900 jobs for about a year constructing it but what then? Isn't it all about them making more money?
Wally Lasuer, Minden