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Put a stop to gas gouging; Sara Thompson; Beaver County Times; May 4, 2011.
Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.
“The higher prices go, the more people won’t be able to afford gasoline.
“If they can’t afford gas, it makes them unable to go to work every day.
“If they can’t go to work every day, then that leads to more people unemployed. That is detrimental for our economy as well to those individuals.
“We need people in the workforce. I know the old saying that ‘it has to get worse before it can get better,’ but come on already!
“How much more do people have to endure before someone in the government puts their foot down and puts a stop to this?”
[RWC] What, exactly, does Ms. Thompson want the government to do? Though it would be unconstitutional and wouldn’t work anyway, we can’t impose price controls if for no other reason than we can’t set the price of foreign crude oil and foreign crude is about 62% of our supply. As for the long term, our current government is doing just about all it can do to impede production of domestic energy sources.
One final note, the Times usually supplies the title. Nowhere in the letter did Ms. Thompson mention “gas gouging.”
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