Patty Hall – 3/23/08

This page was last updated on March 23, 2008.

Do we buy food or gas?; Patty Hall; Beaver County Times; March 23, 2008.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“Everyone is highly disgusted with high gasoline prices.

“I know people who use their cars every day all day long and don’t make 50 cents per mile. It’s a shame that bosses and politicians don’t realize what these people must be going through.

“All these people who use their cars should take one day out of every week and report off. These companies cannot fire all of you because they would not be able to find enough people to take your place.

“It is a shame that bosses and politicians sit back and call all the shots while employees cannot even afford to buy groceries because they need gas to go to work. I hope the bosses and politicians can sleep at night because the poor people who have to fill up their gas tanks can’t.”

[RWC] What does Ms. Hall want “bosses” to do, buy her gasoline? Does Ms. Hall believe business owners have stockpiles of cash lying around doing nothing?

As far as the politicians, I’ll go out on a limb and guess Ms. Hall votes for the very politicians who oppose efforts to increase our energy supply.

If the gasoline price increases over the last couple of years have driven people into the situation Ms. Hall describes, they’ve been walking a tightrope for a long time. Why didn’t they get themselves out of that position?

“I guess these people have to make a decision: “Do I buy gas to go to work or buy food for a couple [sic] meals?”

[RWC] I suspect that if you don’t “buy gas to go to work,” you won’t have any money to “buy food for a couple [sic] meals.”

“Now, all of you big shots, go to bed tonight with a full stomach and gas in your car because all of us peons cannot do both.”

[RWC] Once again we have the class warfare stuff. Folks like Ms. Palmer would like us to believe we live in country of food lines and soup kitchens. I know nothing of Ms. Hall’s circumstances, but in most cases I find people are in the situations they are because of poor life choices.