This thread will probablly be locked because this subject breaks the rules but who cares. IMO it's both parties that are more or less equally responsable for the upcoming subject called CRUDE. Yes crude. The democrats dont want the U.S. drilling and building new gas refineries and the republicans let the oil companies merge a few years ago that has monopolized the market which has led to no incentive to build more refining capacity and exploration of oil because that would drive down the cost of crude. Folks, the lobbyist have won both sides of the isle on this one. We as americans shouldnt be putting up with this crap and we need to send a clear message to those in washington on both sides of the isle about this problem. Anyone have any suggestions how we achieve the goal? One of my suggestions is we americans need to flood our elected officials with mail, emails and phone calls to do something about this problem they dont want to do a darn thing about.