Who needs Al Qaeda?
Posted : May 3, 2006 at 4:03 pm [America/Los_Angeles]
What would OPEC do if it wanted to keep America addicted to oil? That’s easy. OPEC would urge the U.S. Congress to deal with the current spike in gasoline prices either by adopting the Republican proposal to give American drivers $100 each, so they could continue driving gas-guzzling cars and buy gasoline at the current $3.50 a gallon, or by adopting the Democrats’ proposal for a 60-day lifting of the federal gasoline tax of 18.4 cents a gallon. Either one would be fine with OPEC.
So, to summarize, we now have a Congress proposing to do exactly what our worst enemies would like us to do — subsidize our addiction to gasoline by breaking into our kids’ piggybanks to make it easier for us to pay the prices demanded by our oil pushers, so that we will remain addicted and they will remain awash in dollars.
With a Congress like this, who needs Al Qaeda?
- Thomas Friedman, “Let’s (Third) Party”
When I first bought my first car (Honda Civic) in 1999, 20 bucks was enough to fill a full tank of gas. Seven years later, even 40 bucks is so not cutting it. And it ain’t going to get better anytime soon. That’s the fact. Period. So, the B-I-G question is, and as Mr. Friedman continues to bring up in his Op-Ed columns, “What is United States (heck, the entire world) going to do about it?” For what it’s worth, the President has acknowledged that the nation has a problem, “…addiction to oil” as he put it. Great. Accepting that one has a problem is always a good place to start. With that said, what do we do about it. What’s the solution? And that’s where the current US administration and the numskulls (pardon my lingo) in US Congress, most of whom are lawyers anyways, seem to be running out of gas (read, ideas). It’s really sad…really, really sad.
- Anand
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