Angry About High Gas Prices? Blame Shuttered Oil Refineries

The U.S. has lost nearly 5 percent of its refining capacity in the past three months, as a handful of old refineries have shut down.

 Most Americans as usual want to blame some one for the gas prices and most of the time its the Government. The President has no control over gas prices and cannot mandate a price decrease or regulation.
 The Government can investigate price gouging but cannot necessarily dictate pricing. There has been shouts that the Strategic oil Reserves should be tapped but that does not solve the problem and remember replacing those reserves will cost more now since they were purchased when prices were lower.
 The problem is oil production and these facilities have been shut down due to under production and reduction of revenue to the producers. This is like stores that do not have enough customers- they close!
There is nothing the government can do beyond attempting to insure that drilling in sensitive areas is monitored so that the natural balance is preserved. You may notice That I said "attempting". We as voters at once want the government to protect us and the environment the issue with that is we cannot have both.
 A balance has to be struck, in order to achieve that balance is first stop contacting our Congress for help, these mopes are in this for themselves period! The "scamocrats and Dupublicans have had us over a barrel (no pun intended) for years because we trusted them.
That trust has led us down the path of economic crisis that exists now. The erstwhile Congress has attempted to blame the Chief Executive, since that office has a limited term while they remain in office due to our own naivete.