Dear Mr. President and Congress of the United States of America,
Subject: In concern of current and future gas prices
I am aware that many issues are currently being thrown at you. Trying to find the time to deal with the innumerous amounts of opinions, solutions, and pressures that are piling up are seemingly overwhelming and impossible. My concern, assuming along with the rest of everyday Americans, aside from the Oil/Gas company owners/managers/CEOs, is the constant growth of the price for gas, and the time that it is taking to mend this crucial problem with an affordable solution.
The gas companies have literally become a monopoly consuming America, not much different from when the first British colonies to settle in America, for freedom may I remind you, were unwillingly forced to be a part of a mercantile merchant system, run by the mother country of Britain (American colonies had the resources, but had to buy products made by their own resources from Britain with a high tax attached). The gas companies are in fact the tyrants now, leaving the colonists (Americans), left in debt, doubt of recovery, rebellion, and most of them are penniless in the pocket.
Alternative options are available if you are of the “elite” of America. The average working man/woman can not afford the high price of most of the electric cars and other products being presented to them. Scientists have the answers, and some have had them since the 80’s before gas was such an ordeal, but unknowingly to the public most of the plans for these inventions that could have saved this crisis were bought up and burned by the big oil companies.
The production of solutions is too slow, and action is needed now. Oil companies will not bow down to the public, nor listen to us “grouch” about everything going up in cost, but if someone of authority with power would investigate, stop, limit, make a law, put forth effort and help the very people that put them in office in the first place to represent them, something might happen for the better. Minimum wage is 6.50 an hour, gas is more than ¾ths of an hours worth of work. The economy is killing its country.
Ms. Diana Drew Davis
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I really like the way you compared the minimum wage to the cost of a gallon of gas. That is an important aspect to keep in mind when looking at our economy and the effects the high oil costs have on it. We all need to start taking the initiative to find other means of transportation that do not depend on oil. It's especially tough for those earning minimum wage because finding alternatives to gas burning vehicles cost money as well. For someone making $6.50/hour even buying a bicycle may be difficult.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks so! I'm sure we aren't but the fact that Americans are still paying for the gas (myself included) and accepting it is just ridiculous. I have thought of alternative vehicles, a street bike in particular, aside from safety issues I would rather be riding something that got almost 70 miles a gallon and risk the injury [awful to even say/think] than a car getting 30 taking almost half my paycheck a week. We can't/shouldn't live like this and if nothing is done, where will we go from here? Diana Drew Davis
The minimum wage issue is indeed an important one. For years they have put forward bills that would raise minimum wage but they have been continually shot down or given "compromises" that don't raise it as high as it should be. Frankly, I think our minimum wage should be at least above the poverty line. Right now, it isn't.
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I wish more people would voice their opinions because you hit the nail on the head.... Many are worried but don't know how to get out their and make a difference, sometimes it seems like we can't you know? Diana Drew Davis
It does seem like that sometimes, but I agree that more people should voice their opinions about it. The only way anything ever got done was first by starting a dialogue about it, which doesn't happen if no one's talking.
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