10/27/2004 11:37:50 AM|||Toni|||Yahoo! News - LONG LIVE OIL

William F. Buckley has written what most people refuse to admit. The level of crying about the price of gas today is so aggravating to me on many levels. I see people every day who think nothing of stopping at their local coffee shop and paying $3 to $4 for specialty cup of coffee. Or buying their 8 oz specialty water. Look at what people pay and the increase in price for cable tv....the list is unending. Do these same people ever focus their sights on what they are paying in Federal, State, Local Income taxes? Then you add in Social Security and Medicare. Property taxes. Sales taxes. Telecom taxes which seem to appear on anything communication related....where the hell does this go (you know the ALGore tax!)? To me, at least I get something for my gallon of gas (from point A to point B). What irritates me is the gas taxes included from a State and Federal level. How much of that tax actually goes towards roads. I'll bet not even 50% cause a big percentage goes to mass/rapid transit or trails or parks or a new something or other for Robert Byrd to put his name on! The people who are using this transportation aren't contributing because the fare paid for the bus by no stretch actually pays for that ride. It usually pays for a third (maybe) of the actual fare.

This is all aside from the issue that the liberals/Democrats refuse to vote on the energy bill. Refuse to agree to oil exploration in ANWAR which is a desolate fraction of the actual Federal land in Alaska. They prefer to look at ineffective costly methods of fuel. Wind generators....oh right! Then we've got the Ethynol debacle of which it basically takes 2 gallons of oil to produce one gallon of ethynol so we are supporting Cargil and Archer Daniel in that program. Any Ethynol producer who doesn't receive government subsidies goes down. They are not self sustainable.

How many times do we in the US have to go through this ludicrous headline? The left has so deluded the gullible public on this whole issue it's pathetic. What a bunch of rubes! |||109889507090299018|||Blood for Oil?