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Oil companies: High gas prices are Bush's fault
Nope. High oil prices are exclusively the fault of the American public. We have had more than 30 years (since the first "oil shock") to wean our economy away from petroleum as our primary fuel and have done nothing.
Americans claim they don't want too much government control of their lives, and that's exactly what they've got with regard to energy in general and our oil consumption in particular. Yet, the citizens of this country have not been willing to make the necessary changes themselves to reduce our nation's oil consumption.
Our petroleum predicament is not the government's fault, it's not the oil companies' fault. It is a weak, shortsighted and selfish public that is to blame.