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Just once I'd love to see it happen ...
During all these useless congressional hearings that happen year after year when gasoline prices rise, just once I would love to see an oil executive come with documentation of just how much the local, state and federal governments make from gas taxes!! Such an amount would dwarf whatever big oil is supposedly raking in. Ronald Reagan was right -- big government is the problem! -- (not big oil!).
Just once, I would love to see those wacky environmental types hauled in before a congressional hearing and grilled for their part in making gas prices so high. Oh, no, we can't drill in a thin strip of the vast frozen tundra of Alaska, or off the shore in the Gulf of Mexico -- they say, but somehow these same environmentalists have no problem letting Castro and that nut from Venezuela drill in those same waters.
I know, it's a lot to ask for elected officials to actually be interested in solving a problem rather than perpetuating it, but just once I would like to see it happen! 
posted by
MrWebsmith
on May 21, 2007 at 10:44 PM
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Wow,Did That Ga$ Station Boycott Ever Work!
If you want to read some serious thoughts regarding the energy problems in this country, read my article High Gas Prices: Let's Get Energized!
posted by
WavyDavy
on May 20, 2007 at 2:51 PM
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Re: Gas is over $3.00 a gallon around here
National average is something like $3.08.
posted by
WriterofLight
on May 19, 2007 at 7:37 PM
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Re: boycott
Welcome, lustorlove! Boycotting gas stations accomplishes nothing. If you want to do something effective, reduce your gas consumption.
posted by
WriterofLight
on May 19, 2007 at 7:36 PM
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Re: Do you have to be a citizen to buy gas?
Of course not. But, as I discuss in a post at http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/WriterofLight/462247, at least one liberal writer thinks so, or at the very least that the oil companies charge high prices only to American citizens. Quoting June Caldwell, whose musings I dissect in that post:
"This seems to reaffirm the worst possible scenario that the war in Iraq not only was built upon lies, but was solely for the purpose of destroying their country so the big US oil companies can own their oil. These same oil companies are still resolute about keeping the oil prices high at the pumps for US citizens (while refraining [sic] refinery capacity), so that they alone retain record-breaking profits.”
OOOOOOOOOOWWWWW!!! (The sound of the Writer of Light suffering a fool)
posted by
WriterofLight
on May 19, 2007 at 7:35 PM
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Do you have to be a citizen to buy gas?
posted by
scriber
on May 19, 2007 at 3:05 PM
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boycott
maybe they didn't boycott that day, around here some stations went down quit a bit, maybe it depends on the companies that are raping us Americans,
I boycotted and wil do it again and again.
posted by
Lanetay
on May 19, 2007 at 2:45 PM
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I agree, these boycotts are a joke, but I got gas the day before anyway. I
didn't need anyone hassling me.
posted by
Ariala
on May 19, 2007 at 2:13 PM
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Gas is over $3.00 a gallon around here.
I don't really have a point to make about it, though.
I think the monkeys at the zoo
should be forced to wear sunglasses,
so they can't hypnotize you.
posted by
Mademoiselle
on May 19, 2007 at 1:54 PM
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