Is there anyone who truly believes there is an oil shortage? If there is I have some very rare items I need to sell you at a bargain basement price. First over a year and half ago we were told gasoline would be $3.00 a gallon by the summer of 2007. The reason given was a need for new oil refineries because none had been built for many years because of the environmental impact oil refineries place on the environment. Now there seems to be a shortage of crude oil, and the “Big” oil companies need to drill in the Anwar province of Alaska. Is it just me, or is there some sort of pattern here? I have to travel 75 miles one way to work each day, and it really hurts each time the price of gas goes up. There are very few jobs in the Shoals area that pay wages that are comparable to the wages paid in Huntsville, and this is a shame. What has happened to the Shoals area? Why do companies that pay a decent wage not want to locate here? I have lived in the Shoals all of my life, and in my opinion there is no better place to live than the Shoals area. The high price of gasoline coupled with the lack of good paying jobs in time will take it’s toll on the Shoals, because the residents of the Shoals that commute as I do will eventually have to move closer to their place of employment. As for myself this will be a very sad day.
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