Re: Petro at $3 20
- From: "hhc314@xxxxxxxxx" <hhc314@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:29:29 -0800
On Nov 6, 8:54 am, nottooo...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Nov 7, 2:34 am, herbertglaz...@xxxxxxxxx (G=EMC^2 Glazier) wrote:
All. is not well.
Nobody can stop it, there's nobody to blame. You can only overcome it
by adapting yourself.
Nonsense. An effective govenment regulatory agency would have been on
top of this price gouging at the pump some years back. Evidently our
federal government has more important priorities.
What do you suggest, that we all turn down our thermostates here in
the Northeast to 50-degress, and then invest thousands of dollars in
medical care when illnes erupts, or when the older retired folks and
young children start to die?
Transportation is a far less significant issue, because most people
can reduce their personal automotive transportation needs to just one
small car driven only 3-days a week. Confine your driving to having
your wife drive you to a local bus or subway top, and then return the
car home. That's what exactly was done during WWII, when your gas
consumption was limited to 3-gallons a week, and you were only allowed
one new automobile car each year.
If the oil prices continue to rise, the railroads will resort to the
use of their old, coal burning locomotives. (The US has lots of
coal.) This has many benefits.
For example, the coal burning locomotiveshave this tendency to discard
significant quantities of unburnt coal between the rail tracks. So, by
giving each of your small children burlap sacks, they can spend a few
hours each day collecting the unburned pieces of coal in their sacks,
and returning them to their home where the coal will heat the home
until the next morning.
[If you believe I am joking about having the kids collect the coal
each day, I'm really not. that was the way things operated during WWII
in small town USA.]
I never heard of a kid during that era being killed by a train, or
otherwise, and a significant majority of them went on to become
doctors, lawyers, banker, etc. Still at that time there were no
distractions like TV, computers, IPODS, drugs and the like. If we were
really, really lucky, we could attend the matinee on saturdays at the
local theatre, and watch Roy Rodgers capture the bad guys each
weekend. Hard work never hurt any of us, and probably were better
because of it.
I'm not suggesting that we go back to those days, but the public and
government's lack of action against a system that allows people who
produce nothing of material value to live in palacial luxury while
thos of us who work for a living and produces goods of value really
disturbs me, the fuel barrons being the worst of the lot. They
manipulate things so that if the price of crude oil or natural gas
goes up by a dime, the product sold to the public goes up by 10 time
that cost increase.
Some things the people of this country would permit during WWII. But
today with the wealth and affluence being kicked into our faces, there
is no excuse for this to be allowed to continue. .... Most of use are
becoming time of seening more and more "connected friends" being
emplyed in nearly no-show positions, who do nothing constructive, but
still taxpayers have to fork up their pay. Ok, I could blather on
about this all night, but let's cut to the chase. The problem with
continue to exist unless the federal government takes some definitive
action to correct the enormous inequality that exist in the US. We
need a change in Washinton politics, where today all of the votes are
bought and sold to political action groups from major industry.
Here is the very worst part: Every single candidate of either party
are owned, lies, and is generally untrustworthy. Were I to vote
tomorrow, I would have to vote "None of the above!" Are these
candidates the very best that the United States Of America have to
offer up to become its next President? I don't think so.
It's roughly a year until the presidential election. I'm praying that
a new canditate, with some depth of character will emerge during that
time. I'm reasonably sure that a few other voters feel the same way.
Harry C.
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