My Solution to the Gas "Crisis"

Some may read this and call me simple but hey, I don't really care. Watch a few of the Farm Bureau insurance advertisements and you'll realize that sometimes the simplest answer makes the most sense.

I'm not going to say...hey, everyone, buy a hybrid car or bike to work. Sometimes that works, other times it doesn't. I'm also not going to tell everyone to not buy gas on the ??th of the month. Please, I can't remember what day it is hardly, how am I supposed to remember when NOT to buy gas? Seriously.

Ok, here it is....my solution.

The US Government needs to simply not purchase any crude oil or crude oil products for a 24 hour period of time.

That's approximately 34 million barrels per day, folks. (Per http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_ep00_im0_mbblpd_m.htm ) OPEC alone has almost 6 million barrels of that.

Imagine what that would do.....and I don't know but I doubt we'd all be stuck on the side of the road without gas.

And, no, I won't go without my big SUV! Deal with it!