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National Briefs For Stylish Consumers/ May 9th

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US lawmakers finished crafting a farm bill this week. And you might want to finish chewing on your breakfast before I tell you how much it is going to cost. Because we don’t want you choking on your Cheerios.

300 Billion dollars.

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We Forgot How To Go To The Moon

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But we can still walk up a hell of a lot of stairs and see for miles if we want to do it.

And we don’t even need a space suit!

But it sure would be nice to have a tube of oxygen and a portable defibrillator just in case.

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Gas Prices Are High Because We Want Them That Way

Sin is geographical. ~Bertrand Russell

It’s time we have a talk boys and girls. And I know you wonder why I call you boys and girls when you haven’t been in the third grade for at least a couple of decades.

And you have understood about life and where baby rabbits come from for a good while too. And if you are so old you can’t remember the names of all the characters in Bambi I can sympathize with you.

Because I can’t remember any of their names either including Bambi’s.

So let’s get down to business and talk about gas prices. Because they are pretty high and maybe going a lot higher.

Why is that sisters and brothers?

Because.

Because we want them that way. And before you have a fit and start beating your head against the desk let me say that I am not talking about you personally. Or me either for that matter. I am talking about the “We” in the Declaration of Independence. As in “We the People” decided when we elected certain people that we wanted high gas prices. And the higher the better.

Are Teddy Kennedy or Joe Biden going to vote for legislation that will ease the regulatory burden so more refineries can be built? Because the bottleneck caused by too few refineries (especially after a hurricane or two!) keeps gas prices high. Are these guys and their friends going to vote for oil drilling in Alaska so the supply of oil can be increased?

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