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1. Repeal the draconian regulations regarding refineries, let the oil companies start refining more oil. That is truly what will bring the cost of gas down. You can have all the oil derricks in the world, but if you can’t refine the stuff you may as well use it to light a lantern, because you can’t put crude in your car. Open up America to refineries. That’s jobs and growth and increased domestic energy production.
2. Government sponsored prizes for alternative energy. Alternative energy IS the future, and it is the governments responsibility to ensure that the proper infrastructure develops, one that isn’t completely reliant on government funding, like the railroad company is.It should be done in a manner that encouraged economically viable alternative energy, then let the people decide which source of energy to pursue on the free and open market.
3. Increase oil production and strengthen relations with (an increasingly oil rich) Canada to make an effective competitor against OPEC. OPEC is a cartel with little drive to reduce the price of oil A serious competitor in the Western Hemisphere could force OPEC to invest in infrastructure and increase oil production in order to lower prices and maintain competitiveness. If Russia could be persuaded to join the pact, it would make a potent force in the oil industry.
The very first thing we should do is drop the EPA standards that have made it financially impossible to build new refineries in this country (the U.S.A.) When Jimmy Carter signed the bill raising those standards (1975), there were over 560 refineries in this country. Now, there are less than 150 and no new projects slated to actually begin construction. It is all about supply and demand. Drilling for more oil off our coasts will accomplish very little if there are no refineries available to process the crude into a refined, usable product.
The second thing we need to do is keep the cost at the pumps almost unbearably high. It seems that when the cost goes down to a more comfortable level, people tend to speed up, pay less attention to conservation and put forth little effort, money or thought towards viable alternatives. History repeats itself. In the 1970′s Jimmy Carter drew the wrath of OPEC down upon us and we suffered an oil embargo, causing long lines at the gas pumps. Detroit actually moved legitimately towards the production of smaller, more fuel efficient cars. When the embargo was lifted, America went back to driving big, costly, non-efficient cars. We’d looked seriously at oil shale and solar energy. The cost never came down and again, when the embargo was lifted, we moved away, completely forgetting about all of that. By keeping the cost almost prohibitive, people will tend to take conservation and the search for alternatives more seriously. And, in keeping the prices high, we may actually be able to drive down the cost of the many alternatives already available.
I am a firm believer in recycling. My newest car is 14 years old, but it still gets over 24 MPG highway. I believe in solar, wind and wave energy.