Letters to the Editor
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Sad, but Hillary is just exploiting people's ignorance
No disrespect, but honestly regular people do not understand the economic arguments of this idea. They only understand that their gas prices would go down so they'll hop on board.
Hillary knows this is a failed policy. Her windfall profit tax is also a failed policy. She is clearly doing this political pandering just to get votes. It's obvious to anyone that is somewhat educated on the issues.
The problem with this is that in an election year, you can't really give people the brutal truth of why gas prices are they way they are and their future. Simply put, we are reaping what we have sown. Americans need to get their wallets slapped and to make it hurt to realize that our energy policy is totally unreliable and not sufficient for our economy. Enough of this whining, crying and bitching about how you can't pay for gas anymore. Everyone is in the same situation.
What needs to happen is people need to get up and demand people actually look for long-term solutions to our reliance on oil for transportation. It is so clear to anyone that looks at the situation to see that our entire economy is reliant on the most volatile region in the world. Forget solar and wind energy, that doesn't power cars, trains, ships and planes. OIL does. We really need to work towards real solutions to our transportation energy issues and throughout this campaign no one seems to want to take it head on. Instead we get political pandering crap like this from McCain and Clinton and to be fair, little of nothing from Obama.
Perhaps it's not politically viable to tell voters that these high gas prices are going to be around for awhile and until we get a leader that implements a long-term plan, which means you won't see relief anytime soon, nothing is going to change no matter how much crying you do about it. However, voters need to wake up and realize this and soon or there will be bigger problems than not being able to afford to go on vacation this year.