DEAR ALIZARIN: Finally my $2 (since $.02 is worthless) on the gas issue
From Alternet:
Yes, I dread going back to work and having to dump close to $30 into gas a week (for my little Toyota that gets a reasonable 32 mpg) when not so long ago it was a mere $15 to 20 a week. I don't want to become bitter (or feed the bitterness) of all the SUV drivers getting 12 mpg (ok, maybe 20). Moreover, I don't want to be a whiny American crying over having to pay forfor the convience of having my own car to go where I want when I want. Afer all, for years we have paid far less for gas (particularly in comparison to our standard of living) than almost any other country in the world. However, what I do find intolerable is having to both pay outrageous prices and listen to the Bush administration rhetoric about the war and all the good we are doing in Iraq. Who sees through this? Who can get beyong the billions of dollars Bush and his corporate friends are making on this war at the expense of the Iraqis and many Americans (not that I am comparing myself to anyone in Iraq, but there is a large part of the American public for whom this gas prices increase is a huge burden; luckily, I am not one of them). Higher gas prices to fund technology to preserve our environment and to encourage more ecologically friendly car purchases I could deal with. Higher prices to fund the mistakes, egos, and wallets of a President, about whose legitmacy as President I have reservations, and his friends . . . well . . . need I say more?
Lychee
posted by Lychee @ 8/22/2005 10:03:00 AM
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Thats is the most unorganized, ridiculous, and asinine statement I have ever read. For the record, we recieve a majority of our oil from Saudi Arabia, not Iraq.
Ah smell the sweet myopia that plagues the general public. Yes our primary supplier is Saudi Arabia. However did it ever occur to you that leveraging our political agendas into the second largest oil reserve (Iraq) could allow us to alleviate our dependance on the critically corrupt machine that orchestrates saudi Arabia. This is also utopian as the current administration was born and breed into the oil industry. No less than 4 of the most powerful people in the United states government made their living working for this industry. They are so closely tied to Saudia Arabian royalty financially and politically the move to oust Iraq's former government and "stabilize" the new one is more of an effort to monopolize this commodity. It is not about freeing a people from tyranny. Govenrnment is business it is simply doing business. It may be unconscionable but until we as a populace resist and demand alternatives oil will dicate our politics.
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