http://www.fauxocracy.net/fact-the-average-american-does-not-understand-gas-prices/ This 3000 word article is the best explanation of gas prices I have ever seen. Many people do not know of the Kissinger / OPEC deal back in the 1970s that is causing the collapse of the US dollar.
That's an almost funny article. It fails to mention climate change and the price rises are taking that into account as more and more people in the right places see the reasoning that the more oil we use the worse the climate becomes and are doing what they can to make money off that during the transition to alternative energies. Whether that's fact or not, the reasoning of higher prices causing less use is playing a big part of that too (IMHO). People thinking they're helping others by raising petrol (gas) prices because that's what they're expected to do. It also doesn't mention that there are alternative energies available that are currently very expensive to install and raising price on existing cheap, but high polluting, energies will make the other less polluting energy sources more viable. So your solution is not to use oil or spend so much money so you can keep your cable on? It then goes on to doomsday scenario of riots everywhere and that is fixed by loading up on ammunition etc. and preparing for the coming (civil?) war. Whilst it does mean petrol will continue to rise and rise and some people are making squilions out of it right now, it fails to understand that this is more about moving the big wigs to a more sustainable future. If done right, we will switch to a more eco-friendly system and we will continue to have our cable & the luxuries we're used to but we'll be doing it without affecting the planet or causing needless agression.
The article must've been written by a politician. It went all over the place trying to take supply and demand out of the equation, and yet in the end, failed to disprove that supply and demand is still the biggest single factor in determining oil prices. Unfortunately, at this moment of time and at the current level of technology (and for the near future), solar energy is not practical as the production cost is still not energy efficient on a wide scale.
That's a very arguable article you've shared and to tell the truth I've got a lot of pleasure reading it. False or truth it's hard to say, but we should really think about alternative energy resources.
I could bother to try to respond to the load of stupidity spewed by that article but this will do a far batter job :