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Big Government and the Oil Crisis

Posted in Oil Crisis on April 25th, 2008 by RottingNation

Today I wrote a very interesting Op-Ed piece for the website digitaljournal.com exploring government subsidies in oil and ethanol along with other reasons why gas prices are so high. You can read it here.

An excerpt:

Gas prices in the United States are clearly on the rise and both short-term and long-term solutions need to be figured out. Cutting state and federal taxes, and calming tensions in the Middle East would help immediately lower the price of gasoline. At the same time, removing government subsidies on energy solutions will help bring about a permanent replacement to gasoline.

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