At a time when unemployment is below 5%, the stock markets are near all-time highs, and the first quarter GDP was 4.8%, can Congress be any more out of touch than with the idea of giving us a $100 rebate when the price of gas is near the inflation adjusted cost of two decades ago and most of the world pays more than $5 a gallon?

Normally I'm glad whenever Congress wants to give us money since they usually only want to spend it, but don't additionally tax an industry that is our primary source for energy on our own soil because we're paying a few more dollars for gasoline. Insufficient world supply and an over anxious oil futures market scared by the rhetoric of leaders of nation's with large armies and oil supplies has us in this situation.

We helped create the problem by ignoring alternative fuels for 30 years, not raising the minimum "miles per gallon" (MPG) standards on cars for the last 20 years, reducing the transportation of goods by rail, and allowing some of the worst MPG offenders, the SUV's, to have reduced standards to help our poorly competing, over unionized automobile industry compete with the world. A gas shock will hopefully kick us in the pants to conserve so we can also stop throwing entirely too much money at Middle East dictatorships.

Congress thinks we're so dumb as to not recognize the pandering by both Republicans and Democrats on this issue. An out of touch crowd of long-term representatives that have staff filling up their cars with gas and drive the worst gas guzzlers. You have a vote this November. Use it to elect citizen-legislators again that will not seek long-term non-term limited careers in Washington D.C., and have filled up a gas tank in the last 15 years.


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