The USA uses 21 million barrels of oil a day.
There are 42 gallons of oil per barrel.
do the math- that means we use 882 million gallons of oil a day
even if the oil companies marked up their oil by only ONE CENT a
gallon, they'd make 8.82 million dollars a day.
i.e. they'd make 3.2 BILLION dollars a year, with a ONE CENT per
gallon markup
so it's obvious, they are not "gouging" us- it is a VOLUME BUSINESS,
and the reason they make so much money, is because we, the American
consumers, USE SO MUCH OIL
the USA economy was built on the premise of cheap oil being used to
fuel the internal combustion engines during the late 1800's- early
1900's- and it's going to stay that way, until something better comes
along
if you say "don't use oil" you may as well say "don't eat"- because
all our farm combines, engines, machinery is run off the internal
combustion engines and machines
wake up America, the answer is DRILL MORE OIL WELLS in Alaska, the
Gulf of Mexico, and the western continental USA- get the oil shale,
get the oil sands- the solution to high oil prices, is INCREASE THE
SUPPLY
tax the oil companies profits ? where do you think all the working
class 401K's are invested- in oil stocks and futures.
wake up America, taxing the oil companies, will give us $10/gallon oil
like Europe has now, instead of $3.50/gallon oil like we have now
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