As the price of gas continues to rise to nose-bleed levels our freedoms are being compromised. How many of us are being stripped of activities and freedoms we used to enjoy? It’s easy to point the finger at “greedy” oil executives but that honestly isn’t the problem. It comes down to the basic supply and demand tug o’ war. As supplies decrease our demands haven’t changed a bit. It takes a change in behavior to lessen the demand on oil. We have heard so much yada yada yada of efforts to lower prices of gas and it keeps us all hoping that they will fall. That’s where the danger lies—because it give us just enough hope to keep us from making any efforts to change our consumption. Seriously, have we ever seen prices at the pump fall to where we all breathed a sigh of relief? Seriously!

Investors Business Daily estimates there are 1 trillion barrels of oil trapped in shale in the U.S. and Canada. Retrieving just a 10th of it would quadruple our current oil reserves. There is a pool of oil in the Gulf of Mexico that is estimated to be as large as any in the Middle East. There is an equally large pool believed to be in Alaska.

The Chinese are attempting to tap into the Gulf oil by drill diagonally from Cuba! They don’t have the environmentally safe technology that the US has. What is our predominately Democratic Congress going to do about it?

We have environmentally safe ways to extract oil from shale and drilling in Alaska and the Gulf. Our Democratic Congress continues to block those efforts. Last week the Senate voted to block extraction from shale in Colorado. They essentially voted to keep gas prices at present inclining levels, and airline tickets rising with even more job losses in the industry expected, and to make heating our homes at comfortably temperatures an option for most.

I’m pretty hot about this topic. I think I’ll go cool off in a carpool!