Move to Caracas and gasoline is only 6 cents a gallon.  Be in Europe and pay up to $7.41 a gallon in Oslo Norway. How long do you think before we will pay 7 dollars a gallon in the US?  The link below is an interesting article showing the cheapest and most expensive prices for gasoline.

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And why is gasoline so high in Norway and almost as high in Denmark?  

Because when the price of gas goes up you use less and oil imports go down. So how long do you realistically think it will be before our politicians officially discover this fact.  After all, Ross Perot suggested it in 1992 as a way to move Social Security toward solvency and to pay for our roads and bridges, which many experts describe are becoming hazardous.

Fortunately and unfortunately the US has not dramatically raised gas taxes yet.  Fortunately because none of you want to pay more for gasoline, at a time when all your budgets are perilously stretched. Unfortunately because when it happens, the ramp up by month and year will be much more dramatic than if we had started earlier like the Europeans did. And if Perot’s ideas  of the  politically unpopular fifty-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax increase to help pay off the deficit had been implemented, we would have made a major step towards addressing both the deficit and our dependence on foreign oil.

So when your politicians find this logical answer to addressing the deficit and returning roads and bridges to safe and usable status again, what should you have started doing tomorrow to minimize the impact to your business and personal life?  Think of your impact at 4, 5 or  6  dollars a gallon for gasoline!