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We have decided to cover gas prices. In order to cover this topic we had to get some background information. Since Hurricane Katrina gas prices have spiked, reaching $4.37, the price has gone down since then back to the low 3's and high 2's. The gas prices in the Middle of the country are lower at $2.00 to $2.50. The price tends to increase due to inflation and other factors including supply and demand. The gas prices are higher where it is more heavily populated.

One way that I will help the gas problem is that I will have Congress suspend the 18.4-cent gas tax and 24.4-cent diesel tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day this year. If we remove gas tax we will be able to cut the amount of money that people pay on gas for a short amount of time until we can put the following plans into motion. I want to start by switching to different fuel sources and encouraging car companies to start making Flex fuel vehicles

I also plan to start drilling in our own country, off the shore of Alaska, instead of paying for foreign oil. If we drill in Alaska then we shall also cut the Iraqi weapon supply. This is because we are currently buying a lot of oil from them and these funds go to the terrorists whom we are fighting. This profit goes to their weapons and other supplies. Drilling within our domain will also cut the transportation fees we pay. Our country will benefit greatly over all from simply drilling in Alaska.

Rebuttal Obama wants to use renewable sources as fuel instead of oil. Though this may seem like a good idea, an entire nation of over 300 million people cannot be expected to switch over night. I plan to slowly ease into this idea by lowering our oil dependency bit by bit until we are virtually only using a trickle of gas.This will help those whom are skeptical to get used to the idea.