Gas Caps
..., Mississippi, and some of Alabama. This occurred only about one and a half weeks ago, and gas prices have already gone form $2.69 to $3.11 and even higher is some other areas. The hurricane came in through the Gulf Coast where our country has important oil fields. When the hurricane hit, it damaged a lot of those oil platforms. Those oil companies were put on hold for drilling. The workers can’t go back to work until all the equipment was fixed. The oil in the Gulf Coast brings in a good percentage of Marrin2 our oil supply here in the United States. When they couldn’t drill during the hurricane period, that hurt us economically and caused the gas prices to go up. Some states such as Hawaii have already caps on gas prices so it can not go over a certain amount. I think that this is a very good idea, because so many people rely on automobiles to get to work or to other destination, whether it is a car or a motorcycle. Eventually there is going to be a point when people are not going to buy as much gas and find another way to get to their destination. If the U.S. required a temporary gas cap at all pumps, customers would not have to worry about if gas price were going to go up and if they would afford it this week. I think that the government could also take some measures to lower the high gas prices. They put two different kinds of taxes on gas, State and Federal which both add up to about .55 cents combined per gallon. This would not have to necessarily be a permanent move just a temporary one until till gas...