Gas problems your Doctor can't fix.

I remember complaining when the price of gas hit $1.35 per gallon thinking that was ridiculously high price to pay. Now I find odd things coming out of my mouth like “Wow gas went down to $2.90 a gallon today.”

I know that gas companies are happy about our sufferings with a portion of the cost of gas being based on the “just in case” clause, where prices are allowed to be jacked up to keep usage down “just in case” something happens in the global market.

Well that’s fine and dandy but I don’t see why the oil companies get to keep our “just in case” money. The better thing to do which I would encourage you to contact your congressmen about would be if that “just in case” portion of the pricing instead of going into the pockets of the already insanely rich oil companies would be to have that portion being channeled into our governments big I.O.U. fund we so lovingly refer to as Social Security.

To me it would make far more sense to have the money go back to the people in that way instead of in the pockets of those who not only don’t need it, but are hanging onto every energy saving technology that’s been brought into existence over the last fifty years.

For those of you who have flown in from some distant little island in the middle of no where and do not know what I am talking about I will explain this for you.

Every time someone comes up with a good idea on improving gas mileage for vehicles or a vehicle that would not use gasoline the oil company grabs hold of them and buys them out.

There are attachments for your vehicles engine that would give you a hundred or more miles to the gallon that the oil companies are sitting on while our pocket books are being chocked by the high prices of gas.

Since their hearts are as black as the soot in their coal stacks obviously they are not going to take pity on us in our time of need and release any of these technologies to help give us a break, so the only thing we could do to make anything better would be for that extra money to be used to our advantage and that will not happen without the voice of the people.

It’s up to you folks! Make some phone calls, write some letters or just sit back and watch the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.