$3.00 Gas, Laura Bush and Hypocracy.

Let's start with gas prices. I hear a lot of talk about our need to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. What about the oil companies? These companies make billlions, that's billions of dollars a quarter! I believe that the oil companies are still subsidized by the taxpayer. Let's conduct an experiment. Have the oil companies sell gas for $1.00 a gallon. I'd bet that they'd still make a huge profit, perhaps only millions of dollars a quarter. The rest of America is cutting back...
Laura Bush. I always thought she was a nice, elegant lady. I still do. However I always wondered how she could go along with all of the stuff that went on in her husbands administration. On Oprah she said she was in a car accident when she was 17. Apparently she was with a girlfriend in the car who said "you just passed a stop sign." Then she ran into another car who she would later find out was driven by a friend of hers. Her car collided with her friends car and her friend was killed. As an interviewer, I would have asked her if she was charged with a crime. Oprah didn't. I'm no lawyer, but I think if you run a stop sign and someone is killed, there could be legal consequences! When asked how she dealt with that horrible experience, she said she never talked about it. I guess that ability to block out negative experiences and live in a state of denial served her well when she was in the Whitehouse.
Now for hypocracy. For years I've believed that politicians, especially senators and congressman who hold hearings should have to wear patches on their suits, like racecar drivers wear, to denote who their sponsors are. Having them have to show who their sponsors are would have been very revealing when executives from Goldman Sacs were being grilled by politicians who receive money from the very people they are supposedly investigating. What a dog and poney show. Talk about hypocracy!