Going a Short Way to Make a Point
By Dana Milbank
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines.
Gas prices have gone above $3 a gallon again, and that means it’s time for another round of congressional finger-pointing.
“Since George Bush and Dick Cheney took over as president and vice president, gas prices have doubled!” charged Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), standing at an Exxon station on Capitol Hill where regular unleaded hit $3.10. “They are too cozy with the oil industry.”
She then hopped in a waiting Chrysler LHS (18 mpg) — even though her Senate office was only a block away.
The thing is a lot of people are hypocrites on this issue. If you are driving a Hummer or driving the car immediately above you are in the same boat. How can the environmental wacko types bitch and moan about folks driving big SUV’s when there are millions of people driving around in old, big, nasty ass cars with muffler falling off, rusted, balding tires. These cars are equally as bad on fuel consumption and in many ways worse that todays modern SUV’s. Just a thought….
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April 27th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Here, here, they’re all a bunch of hypocrites. I’m not crazy about gas prices going up, especially since I’m broke, but the prices are a helluva lot lower than elsewhere on the planet (middle east excluded).
If gas prices jump 30 cents a gallon and you have a 10 gallon tank; as much as it sucks it is only $3.00 more for that fill-up and is not the end of the world.
It sure pays to get better mpg though…