Give me 10 good men and I will give you 10,000 more

Fight back against high gas prices at the pump.

Lets fight back against high gasoline prices. We can't buy Congress like the big corporate donors can, but we can influence the cost of gas at the pump by using free market economics.

As a start, only buy gas from the lowest cost dealer. If enough of us stop buying from the high price gas stations, and only buy from the lowest cost gas station, we will go a long way in stopping the oil companies from squandering our hard earned money ($300 million + as a going away present to the ex ceo of Exxon).

Cut up your gas company credit cards so you are not tied to one brand of gas.

Let us boycott one major oil company each month. Let us start by not buying gas from Exxon during the month of June. Since they appear to have a big pile of money that they can squander, they will make a good candidate to start with.

Please send this message to 10 people. Spread the word. It may be the only way to bring relief to high gasoline prices at the pump.

Where is the beef?

Remember when Dick Chaney had a secret meeting with oil company executives to set the administration's energy policy? I wonder what was said. Could the conversation have gone as follows "Boys let's figure a way to bump up the price of oil. We can all skim off a big piece of change and pay ourselves huge salaries and bonuses. All we have to do is create a shortage and everyone who drives will have to pay. To insure our success, lets make a down payment to our friends in Congress and we are on our way. "

Well, here we are. Oil prices doubled and we are all the poorer. Good job Dick. Even if we put the country into an inflation-recession, your buddies will count their money on the way to the Florida Gold Coast.

Big oil is not going to solve this countries energy problem, not if it hurts their profits. We need a rational energy policy that considers, renewable sources, nuclear, coal gasification and deep drilling on land and in the continental shelf. And probably, most of all we need to change the leadership in the White House.

How many lives? How long do we stay in Iraq? LTE

How many, How long

The United States has been at war in Iraq for over 3 years. Where are we? How many lives and how much treasure are we willing to expend to pacify a people that don’t want us. We have become a colonial power trying to subdue the natives so that we can impose our flavor of democracy on them. From my knowledge of history, no country was able to force a people into submission over long periods of time. Yes, people have been forced to submit, but they eventually seek freedom. Look to Russia as an example.

Our government is trying to impose our form of democracy on three groups of people that don’t want to be united. There is no basis for unity since they have different religions, and tribal relations. The only way the British were able to create Iraq was by force and occupation. Is the United States willing to become an occupying power? I don’t think so.

The question to ask is why are we there. Is it for the oil potential? If it is, we could eliminate the need for Iraq oil by conservation and increasing the gas mileage from our transportation system. We could convert coal into fuel. Is it to settle a political score? If it is, we have declared that we won the war. Lets move on. Is it to stop terrorism? If it is, we haven’t done a very good job, as most of the terrorists still are able to threaten and kill on their schedule.

Why is the administration continuing to lose lives and give away treasure? I think it is ego and afraid to admit that they made a mistake. They are using the war in Iraq as a tool for winning domestic elections by shifting the focus from the real problems in America such as lack of jobs and opportunity, poor education, illegal immigration, lack of competitive manufacturing capability, high cost of medical care; local communities, cities, and states having to assume the burden for the health and welfare of illegal immigrants when it is the responsibility of the federal government to control immigration.

My conclusion is that we should get out of Iraq as soon as our troops can be safely removed. We should let the people of Iraq decide on the form of government they want and should fund their country with the oil revenue that they are receiving.