Essay Archive - Why Are Gasoline Prices Going Up So High?
Why Are Gasoline Prices Going Up So High?
If everyone else in the world is paying a lot more for gas, why shouldn't
Americans? Take your average spoiled American who blames the Arabs for raising
the gas prices unfairly in order to make a bigger profit. It's true, gas prices
have gone up by a lot in the last few months, but is that unfair? Prices still
are a lot higher in Canada, Europe and just about any other developed nation,
according to Mike Royko in the May 2, 1996 issue of the Chicago Tribune. Ted Z.
Manuel in a letter entitled "V....
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