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Friday Thoughts is a light-hearted commentary.
LAST WEEK, my neighbor Darrell Ringler stopped by the paper. He had one of those little receipts from a gas pump showing that, a year ago, he had paid $1.87 per gallon for gasoline.
I don’t know what’s more startling — that the price of gas has doubled since last year or that he’s managed to save the receipt all this time. Christopher White Walker
Editor & Publisher
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Posted by dml (anonymous) on June 21, 2008 at midnight (Suggest removal)
Price of gas doubled in a year...and I thought this was supposed to be lighthearted!
Posted by jayhawker (anonymous) on June 21, 2008 at 1:07 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Darrell best frame that receipt; otherwise, his grandchildren will never believe his claim. On the other hand, his grandchildrens' generation might be smarter than mine and actually harvest the billions of barrels of oil on our continent that remain in the ground because of unreasonable, but politically correct, concerns that it might harm a polar bear or something. I have long assumed that the rest of us put up with this foolishness because it was cover for our real strategy, which was to drain the Middle East first, and then we would be the only one with oil. Either way, if this foolish policy doesn't end soon, our economy will be bankrupt. We need to get to drilling, building refineries, nuclear and coal fired electrical generation plants, and other infrastructure (even if we do disturb a fish or two), or those grandchildren may be reading by candle light and moving about in horse drawn buggies.
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