We're all solid middle to low end middle class. We've all felt the gas price crunch like no one's business.
Does this outweigh the benefit of waking our nation to the fact that we're dependent on imported oil? Is it worth $4 a gallon to tank the SUV industry and get a nation of automobile users to car pool and buy hybrids?
I look at the Clinton era and think, "Damn. I was doing pretty good in 1998. What's happened in 10 years?" I can point to regulating speculative trading of oil and say, "Hey! That's different."
In one breath I can call it the rape of the American public. But in another, and just as accurate, I can say the feds removed the blinders to the public about the growing crisis of energy. It was going to happen with or without regulation. We either paid $4 or we saw lines like the 70s. To artifically control the price to save the economy is slapping a band aid on an amputated leg.
This is just gas, mind you. Should Bush be held accountable by history for leaving the American public to take it in the ass by big oil, or applauded for holding the mirror of reality steady and showing the country the ugly situation for what it is?
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I'm having some issues with the site... my posts are all being placed under the date of 9-17, even though its now the 18th. So you have to scroll down to see them.
Sorry.
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