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Gas Prices

Gas prices are soaring through the roof because of our "dependence" on fossil fuel and the price hike on fuel will forever continue. So what's a consumer supposed to do? I don't blame Bush and I don't blame Obama or any future President. I blame the consumers of fossil fuel users who have become so complacent. Everytime you pump fuel into your car you continue funding the ongoing Middle Eastern war. Your automobiles are apparently more important to you than our children getting slaughtered at the height of their youth, but if you truly believe that all this oil is worth them dying for then continue fueling your cars and funding the war. Just know that gas hike increases will continue for sure and the death toll in Iraq will continue to soar. As for me? I refuse to drive a car anymore. ...and please everyone, do try to refrain from leaving me a comment stating, "That's easier said than done," because that's a defeatest attitude if I've ever heard one. Where there's a will there is a way, but for now I stand alone pleading to all Americans, "Let's Bring This War Home!"

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Andrea Dietrich

Date: 6/16/2011 10:18:00 PM

billy, much of this is true. But we have to live and we have to get to our jobs to sustain ourselves. There is no kind of transportation I can take 25 min. from my house to my job other than my own car! I wish I did not have to depend on cars either!

Billy Thekidster
Date: 6/17/2011 7:06:00 AM

I've been known to get up at midnight to get to work by 7:00 am. It's a sacrifice I'm willing to make in order to save our children. It's a major inconvenience for me for sure, but I think it's more inconvenient for our children to die in this war. We wouldn't have to give up our cars permanently, just long enough to bring the war mongers down to their knees. It would be a peaceful resistence with less casualties than in the ongoing war of the Middle East.