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this is a really complicated topic. But anyone could see this coming with the US's decades long unchecked rush to oil addiction. Though the rest of the worldd has suffered high gas prices for decades, the US just kept turning out gas guzzlers. Many people have spoken out about the Us'S oil addictiojn but no one has done anything about it..
Certainly, there's been no effort at all on the part of the current administration to curtail oil usage in this country, all their effort has been to allow more drillling----which only feeds the addiction, it in no way deals with the root of the problem.

The Middle East doesn't hold us hostage over oil---we hold ourselves hostage over oil.
here's a partial solution: outlaw professional auto racing----how many milions of gallons is wasted with high powered cars chasing each other around a track? Soon these will have gone the way of the buggy whip and chariot races.
But how many people are willing to give up NASCAR? Not the Repuglicans, its too much of their base.