Crude futures are still dropping, trading below $114 a barrel, the lowest level since May. There are a lot of reasons for the current declines… a big part of it is demand continuing to stay lower than previous years as Americans adjust their driving habits to a tight family budget. Another big part is the battle currently being waged in America and Washington to increase supply and start drilling at home.

If you want the price to keep dropping, then you must keep up the fight. It doesn’t take too much to remember what it was like before oil broke the $100 barrel barrier or when gas prices broke $3 a gallon. Those previous unbreakable positions were broken… and after complaining for a few weeks, Americans turned their attention to something else and prices started rising again. If we don’t want to return to $140+ barrels of crude and $4 gallon gas, we must keep the pressure on. A quarter or two drop in the price per gallon is not enough to forget the lessons we have already learned.

There is too much supply in our land and off our coast that is not being taken advantage of. We have already seen Americans want domestic drilling… just the threat of which has helped to spur the price decline. Imagine what we can gain when drilling actually begins.

Don’t go back to sleep America, now is the time to act. Momentum is on our side. The country is on our side. Some brave Republicans are on our side. If we fail to act now, $4 per gallon will likely return with $5 not too far behind.