Diesel here in Oklahoma City has hit $2.00 for the first time ever!!! Regular is hovering between $1.76 and $1.88, with mid-grade and premium about $.08 and $.16/gallon higher, respectively. Our fuel has gone up an average of one cent/day for 31 days...Back in May, Diesel was over fifty cents cheaper than regular gas; now it's over a quarter more/gallon!
In the Summer, higher fuel costs are blamed on the "summer driving season", whatever the hell that is! I drive year-round, personally! In the Winter, it's blamed on the "winter heating season". Natural gas costs are driving utility bills in OK up from 17-25% more this Winter.
I'm all for "alternate' fuels. BUT, there has to be affordability, availability, and economy and feasibility of production before that happens (common sense!). Government fiat and wishful thinking aren't going to make that happen. The environmental wackos in this country have made it all but impossible to drill, explore, build new refineries (last one in the US: 1974!!!), transport, etc. The EPA requires over 80(!) different blends of gasoline to meet their dictates nationwide, so fuel blended for Atlanta can't be sold to Los Angeles when a crisis occurs. People are real quick to blame Big Oil, but you'd better take a look at the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, the EPA, the Energy Department, the Sate of California, and many others before blaming the oil companies for these higher prices.
