Gasoline

Everyday Americans get dressed to go to work, school, the store, or to take their kids to school, or even baseball practice.   The quickest way possible to do all this is to drive a car, and in order for the car to run you need gasoline. Gasoline is made from oil which the American Government buys directly from overseas and then turns it into gas to sell it to the American people.   It sounds simple right? To tell you the truth though, it’s anything but simple. Gas has always been a problem, mainly the prices of gas and it being harmful to the environment. There have always been speculations that there has been an alternative resource for quite some time now. So why hasn’t anything been done about it? The answer is simple: gasoline is the one of the Government’s biggest profit makers.
Provided that most of the world’s oil reservoirs are overseas in the Middle East, the U.S has to get our oil from them through OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries), which consists of 12 countries that manufacture and sell oil to different countries all over the world, including the United States. The system of the United States Government buying and selling oil has been the same for years. What they do is buy oil from overseas, turn it into gasoline, then put a price on it with tax to sell it to the American people. There has always been speculation that there are other resources that could fuel cars and people would never have to pay for gas. If there were such things, most likely no one outside the Government will ever know about it.
Furthermore, the prices of gas have an even higher effect on Americans struggling to make ends meet.   If a single mother with kids living paycheck to paycheck has to put gas 50 dollars worth of gas in her car every few days, how will she provide for her kids? The Government doesn’t think about things like that, to them it’s all about the money they stand to make off these poor people. This could be a huge psychological factor for a...