What To Do About High Gas Prices

As complex as the gasoline issue is it isn't easy to formulate a plan to bring down gasoline prices but it is not impossible. Pinpointing the causes is the first step.
George Bush has done a good job of keeping gasoline consumption up by giving automobile companies a pass; by keeping gas guzzling SUVs and others on the market and discouraging legislation that would make it mandatory that automobiles get 35 mpg or better.
The U.S. has done its best to encourage competition for oil by making China and India rich by flooding our country with their goods and outsourcing businesses and jobs to them. This has made them more affluent and greedy oil consumers as well. This has caused our money to go down in value exacerbating the problem. Then there are the energy speculators.
Because of our meddling around the world our debt has gone up, further de-valuating the dollar, and causing angst in the world markets, allowing speculators to capitalize on the uncertainty. Oil producers further cause prices to rise by reducing production, or threatening to. And there is a lot more but this is a blog about what to do about the problem. What to do?
Stop cutting our own throat is the first suggestion. Stop buying Chinese goods. That is hard to do but grab your old lady and suggest she stop buying toys made in China. Send a letter to your Congressman suggesting that fair trade practices be enforced or tariffs will be placed on Chinese goods. Fair trade is equal trade, i.e. no trade deficits. Our goods should have to same opportunity to be imported as their goods have. Stop buying goods from Wal Mart that come from China. You aren't saving money in the long run if you are actually increasing gas prices by making other countries rich.
Write a letter to your Congressman, or woman, to force automobile makers to make autos that get 35 mpg or better--other countries do, so we can too.
Cut back on energy consumption. Cutting back ten gallons here, ten gallons there, will make a big difference. Demand solutions from your leaders. Don't take slick answers for solutions.
Every wonder why 2025 and 2030 are the magic years that George Bush has named as when automobile makers are to have as their goal 35 mpg? By then the World will be on the ropes energy wise, that is why and Bush knows it. We will have used up all the readily available oil and will be sucking the dregs--we will be in dire straights. By then ten dollar a gallon will be cheap, if you can get it.
We have done ourselves damage by being complacent; accepting what we feel is inevitable. Time now for a revolution. It is simple to do--demand answers, action, representation.