Can We Expect $5 Gas Anytime Soon

Gas at $5 a gallon is inevitable. India introducing its first car for the masses, China's economy continues to expand, demand for oil is forcing prices up. But that's just what you see on TV. Examples of Other Countries growing, and expanding. Here in the good old Status Quo United States, are we expanding our refining capacity? Not hardly, what could possibly motivate Oil Companies to provide gas, and diesel at a lower price.

The economy is based on a supply, and demand system. When supplies are short, causing the demand to be high, the result is producers can charge whatever inflated price they want for their goods. Some refer to this as the Capitalist System. When prices are so terrible inflated it is pure Price Gouging.

Not a bad situation, if your loaded with money, and able to invest in oil companies. Everybody gets rich, in a pigs eye. Once again the middle, and lower class fill the pockets of the few, but extremely rich upper class.

Oil Companies, and the people who invest in them see no problem with the current situation. There is no motivation for change. To do so will only lower their profits.

When is the last time you heard of a new refinery being built. Not going to happen as far as the Oil Industry's concerned.

There is only one way to address the profiteering that is currently taking place in the Oil Industry. That is to dramatically reduce your reliance on oil across the board.

Sure that's unpalatable to the majority of the citizens in this country. To many they're trapped. As the country grew people migrated away from over populated city centers. Suburbia, country living, ah the good life. Only that requires commuting, two cars in every driveway long ago replaced the chicken in every pot analogy.

With generations of middle class money invested in suburbia living, none will walk away from their comfortable homes, the center piece of their investments, just to avoid the cost of commuting. Oil Companies fully realize this as just another layer in there cozy security blanket.