Elvis. ...more

May 25, 2008

Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles Bronson is calling on Congress and the Bush administration to investigate skyrocketing fuel prices. Good for him. Although we are not sure if anything will come of it, give Bronson credit for at least trying to do something. "We're being taken for a ride, and the evidence is everywhere, from the escalating prices we pay to fill up our vehicles with gasoline to the purchase of virtually all consumer goods," Bronson said Friday. "It is almost impossible to conceive of a product that is not dependent on oil in either its production or transportation to the stores in which it is sold." ...more

May 24, 2008

What will it take for the American people to become angry enough..... ...more

May 24, 2008

I am writing to you today with some questions and comments regarding gas prices, and more specifically, the greed of the members of OPEC. If we are the greatest nation on earth, and I believe we are, why do we tolerate the gouging we are being subjected to? Why don't we, as a nation, tell the Arab oil companies where they can put their oil, and instead use our own oil for our own people? What happened to all that oil we are pumping in Alaska? What about all the oil rigs off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana? Isn't that American oil? Why do we export our oil to China or wherever, and then import Arab oil for Americans to use? Why not let the Chinese deal with the stuck up Saudi king, and we just keep our own oil? Doesn't that make more sense? And if we did use our own oil and let somebody else deal with Saudi Arabia, then the president would not have to meekly ask the king to please pump up the supply of oil, only to be told no! Because I for one do not like the sight of the American president sucking up to anybody, let alone some smug Arab king! ...more

May 23, 2008

There are so many people on U.S. 27 that should not be behind the wheel of a car. Some people just don't care how they drive, or about others, as long as they have their cell phones and the gas pedal. Also, I'd like to know why so many grass-cutters in and around Sebring do not have tags on their trailers when they go out to cut grass? If I was to go out onto U.S. 27 with no tags on my car I would soon get stopped, so how is it different for them? I have also seen them with no tail lights or turn signals, which is so dangerous when driving behind them; Why is the law different for them than what it is for me? Changing the subject, I would like to comment on the letter from "Billie," you're right, the "rich people" are just too greedy to help anybody else but themselves. With the oil companies, they made so many millions last year, just think what they will be making once gas prices reach $4 a gallon! ...more

May 23, 2008

According to a new poll by Public Agenda and Foreign Affairs, six out of 10 Americans think reducing energy dependence will help national security "a great deal." They worry about global warming, too. But most of all they care about putting cheaper gasoline in their cars. ...more

May 12, 2008

Ralph Jennett of New Port Richey can't find logic of raising taxes on petroleum as a means of making it more plentiful. Oil companies don't control the cost of fuel, the market does, he says. ...more

May 10, 2008

I've wondered a lot about the fact that the political class in this country is so obtuse. Here's more evidence: ...more

May 6, 2008

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called for a vote Friday in the Democratic-controlled Congress on a summertime suspension of the federal gasoline tax, a plan that Sen. Barack Obama dismissed as a political stunt that would cost thousands of construction jobs. ...more

May 3, 2008

In a generally ignorant anti-environmentalist screed, your guest columnist, Colin Flaherty, blames environmentalists for problems that are really caused by markets. ...more

May 2, 2008