Low energy costs, like gasoline, are not forever - We Need Change NOW

<p>Cheap gas!!! YEAH!!!! Bush is out!!!! YEAH!!!! BHO is in starting in January. Maybe YEAH.... We&#39;ll see. <br><br>The price of gas has very little to do with Republicans. You are seeing supply/demand in action, and of course speculators who were wiped out when prices started to decline. People were real hot to beat up speculators as the root cause, yet when the price fell, and speculators couldn&#39;t sell their $140/barrel, they were destroyed.<br><br>Price fluctuations like we have seen the past 2 years are not healthy - both up and down. <br><br>I truly believe there was more to oil pricing than speculation. Many factors were involved, including fear (Middle East war between Iran and Israel)&nbsp;and speculation. It was a plan to see how high oil prices could go, and what was discovered was they went too high too fast and crushed the world economy, not just America, but the world economy. Gradual inflation is one the, shock and awe inflation is totally different.<br><br>If anything, watch in 2009 for a new gas tax that will be proposed by the Democrats; most likely it will be a percentage rather than a flat rate, and possibly with a minimum tax/gallon. They&#39;ll slide it in while prices are cheap and people won&#39;t squeal about a new tax. They were talking about this when gas was $4+/gallon, and knew the timing was wrong.<br><br>To quote Rahm Emanuel, BHO&#39;s Chief of Staff, &quot;the current economic crisis offers opportunities for change that wouldn’t have otherwise been possible. Never let a serious crisis go to waste.<br><br>This says more about how liberals view crisis in order to get what they want. They want crisis. They want suffering. They want you to experience pain so you&#39;ll agree that their Change is needed. They want high oil/gas/energy prices. BHO and other liberals and Democrats have said that gas at $4/gallon was OK, and maybe higher to help be on par with other countries. <br><br>Enjoy low gas prices. They won&#39;t last forever, and they will go back up. You better hope we start new drilling new wells soon, AND initiate a real energy policy that promotes alternative fuels like wind, solar, coal, coal-to-oil, oil shale, NatGas, nuclear, and a new generation of real electric cars that perform like gas engines. New wells take 10+ years to start producing; look at oil prices in 1998, and where were in the summer of 2008. It takes 10 years to bring a nuclear plant on-line. It takes a generation to create new car engines to be main stream. It takes times, and it is time to start now<br><br>We need oil-based products, they won&#39;t go away for 50 to 100 years. Electricity is a better choice and it will take 20-30 years to move towards a more electric-based economy than oil. As we move towards electricity from solar, wind and nuclear, face it, we still need oil. <br><br>We had a taste this summer for the shape of things to come with energy costs, and now we are suffering in a horrible global economy. Let&#39;s do the right thing in 2009 so we have inexpensive energy. Energy is the foundation for all things we do and make. I&#39;d rather see America create its own energy than be dependant on foreign sources as we are today. <br><br>Lots of people wnat to see America collapse. They&#39;ll do it through taxation. They&#39;ll do it through energy inflation. They&#39;ll do it through the Global Warming scam. They&#39;ll do it through our politicians. <br><br>I for one want to see America be the greatest it can be. If other countries can&#39;t keep up, or repress their people, too bad. Competion leads to excellence.</p>