Average Americans are literally driving to the poor house on financial fumes. With gas at more than $4 per gallon, roughly two cars in every household, and the average annual gas usage at 700 gallons, you do the math. Americans are being forced to use their hard-earned money that once put food in their stomachs to now put petroleum into their tanks, but to drive the exact same distances they drove a decade ago for four-to-five times the price.

June 9, 2008

 Though we have more oil in the shale of Colorado, Utah, Alaska, and Wyoming than combined in the Middle East (800 billion + barrels), liberals and environmentalists have made it illegal to touch it.

• It's illegal to drill in northern Alaska (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), or off the coasts of Florida or California.
• Oil fields in Colorado are being shut down.
• We won't develop shale oil fields in the Western states
• It's illegal to explore in the Atlantic.
• It's illegal to explore in the Pacific
• It's illegal to explore in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico
• We're not receiving any more leases to drill in the Gulf of Mexico, while China, Venezuela and Cuba are.
• We haven't built an oil refinery in 25 years and reduced in half those we have
• There's enough natural gas beneath America (406 trillion cube feet) to heat every home in America for the next 150 years, but we can't tap it all.
• We have the largest supply of coal in the world, but it's Germany who is planning to build 27 coal-fired electrical plants by 2020.
• American airlines are in danger of going out of business.
• American truckers are being stranded on the sides of the road.
• American commuters are going bankrupt trying to travel back and forth to work, and are being forced to work locally for lower wages.