The Hill Street Blahg

All of this campaign talk regarding a gasoline tax holiday is insulting to most clear thinking people. Both John McCain and Hillary Clinton must think we’re all a bunch of trained seals who can be bought off with nothing more than, as Barack Obama puts it, $.38 a day. This entire gasoline tax holiday is almost as insulting as the recent $600.00 election year income tax rebate congress bestowed upon us. Election year events such as this put me in mind of a manipulative monarch throwing small pieces of bread from his castle window — for no other reason than to placate his subjects so he can go on taking advantage of them. Similar to an old man feeding the pigeons from his park bench.

Yesterday, Hillary even made the threat she was going to break up OPEC. Please…give me a break. How gullible does Hillary think we are to make a comment like that? She’s casting herself as a sole crusader for the poor working people against the evil oil industry and evil speculators she claims are responsible for high fuel costs. She’s a regualar David vs. Goliath and will solve all of our energy problems if only we give her the chance. Hillary is exhausting to say the least. John McCain puts me to sleep with his straight talk express along with his political politeness towards his opponents. So far, McCain is nothing more than a lesson in boredom trying to have it both ways. As for Barack Obama, he’s nothing more than a liberal socialist, more so than Hillary, and the idea of government giving up anything in his world just isn’t going to happen.

I’m really getting disgusted with all of this political rhetoric and especially with the Republican Party for their inability to take advantage of a most important issue. That issue being fuel prices and domestic oil drilling. This country and the entire world operates on oil and we can build all the wind farms we want, foolishly convert our entire corn supply into fuel, and produce all of the hybrid vehicles we want…but without oil from the ground, our goose is cooked. John McCain should be capitalizing on this issue instead of once again joining in with the opposing party and all of their ineptness.

There is only one thing that’s going to ease our pain at the gas pumps and put a halt to foreign oil dependency and that is drilling for our very own domestic oil. We also need to build modern refineries and environmentally clean nuclear power plants. Unfortunately, the very same politicians who want to hand out income tax rebates and gasoline tax holidays are the very same people who are blocking domestic oil exploration, new refineries, and new power plants we so desperately need.