Letters to the Editor
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Delusions of grandeur and gasoline
So Clinton co-opts McCain’s gas tax idea (the 4 more years of Bush guy, remember?) and tries to take credit for being original? So Barack Obama is an elitist Washington establishment friend of big oil? What’s Hillary not been smoking this week, the disingenuous weed from her backwoods Arkansas hemp farm? Gas prices haven’t gone up due to increasing federal gas taxes, but due to global oil supply and demand. If we don’t buy the oil at $120 a barrel the Asians and Europeans will. What’s coming home to roost here is a richer world, with an ever-increasing population of American-style consumers with buying power. The gas tax in fact is a much smaller percentage of the price of a gallon of gas now than it was when gas was at $1.00 a gallon. Clinton’s tough talk to dismantle OPEC and to make American oil companies pay for the global free market profits they make is a load of BS. They’ll just eventually base themselves out of more tax-friendly countries. The US couldn’t break up OPEC back in the 1970’s when the USA was in a much stronger global financial position than it is now; and any attempt to now shows that Clinton has a very tenuous grasp on foreign policy and what America’s global reach is these days. Sabre rattling against OPEC or anyone else is supposed to endear us ugly Americans around the world more than Dubya did?
As Clinton proved in Bosnia, she’s a phoney warrior. She ain’t even the nominee yet, the gas tax holiday is a ruse to dupe ignorant working class types before the Indiana and North Carolina primaries and to falsely paint Obama as an old-hat Washington friend of big oil with her being the anti-Washington candidate, what a spinmeister she is!