Politics | 04/25/2008 5:01 pm

The Blame Game: Why Is the Price of Gasoline Through the Roof?

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Prices at the pump hit another record high Thursday as the average national cost per gallon of regular gas jumped 2.3 cents overnight to $3.556, according to AAA. Whose fault is this? How long will prices hover in this expensive range? Click here to read the story on Yahoo and click here to read about one Wisconsin gas station owner who shut down his pumps in protest. Can protesting reverse the trend? Can anything?

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There might be a silver lining in the soaring price of gas as it might finally be what we need to get off our asses and address the overall situation in a meaningful way. Alternative fuels, clean public transport, conservation. A no-holds-barred reassessment of it all. Under pressure and with the essential financial urgency.

By Candice Bergen on 04/25/2008 1:28 pm

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Protesting? Yes. On “60 Minutes” Andy Rooney suggested we stop flying for seven days to protest airplane delays. Wonder what would happen if we stopped driving for seven days.

By Jozie Lee on 04/25/2008 8:01 am

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Gas is cheaper today when adjusted for the depreciation of dollar since the mid-1950s when I started driving. I paid 30 cents a gallon in 1957 at a time gold was worth $35/ounce. Gold’s risen 30 times since which means had gasoline kept place with the dollar’s depreciation it would sell for $9/gallon. Why has our economy gone to pieces? Endless war, globalization, and feminist careerism. Too many working women broke the wage structure so badly it now takes two family incomes to almost duplicate the buying power one generated as late as 30 years ago. The family income deficit is made up by borrowing.

By Dr. Mark Klein on 04/25/2008 9:04 am

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“Dr.” Mark Klein, what is your problem? You need to figure out why you are so angry and why you blame everything on the female population. You have no idea why women went to work; indeed you have no idea why women do anything. Enough already!

By Diana T on 04/25/2008 9:12 am

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Diana, Mark is never going to get it—I wouldn’t even bother to worry about it—forget him.

By Frank Peterson on 04/25/2008 9:24 am

Yes Diana…he is a miserable, bitter, blind individual whose life is unloading his pile of merde here….completely ignore him. He’s creating his own karma….

By No GOP on 04/25/2008 10:35 am

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Diana, Like you, I can’t stand this man’s rants and have decided when I see the name, I simply scroll past, not even reading what he says. He is not worth the time. Ignore him.

By J Boylynn on 04/25/2008 1:55 pm

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I know that you are a psychiatrist, I googled you. Are you the same Dr. Mark Klein that is “testing the waters”(your words) in order to run for President of the United States? In your dreams, buddy. I really think you say these things to get a good debate from the rest of us. Surely, you can’t believe the things you say… By the way, you are the same age as I am; I am proud to be a Today’s Woman. Have a good day!

By Diana T on 04/27/2008 7:03 pm

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Please, please let’s not give this twerp the attention he so desperately craves. Ignore him. Please.

By Ginger Richardson on 04/25/2008 9:46 am

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Ginger….you are so right.

By No GOP on 04/25/2008 10:33 am

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What? Women working caused this? Women have to work and want to work because ot this! (Shaking head to dislodge illogical thought—whew, better.) I was wondering how invading an oil rich country and our president being best hand-holding buds with other oil magnates and potentates has resulted in oil jumping almost $100 a barrel. Shouldn’t all this have helped—unless, of course, the money went into someone’s pocket.

By Star Lawrence on 04/25/2008 10:58 am

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As late as 35 years ago most women could choose not to work. Once the shoulder pad feminists talked women into a permanent state of dissatiffaction cured only by promiscuiy, divorce, child neglect and working fulltime, basic supply and demand labor economics guaranteed the buying power of wages would collapse. Things have relentlessly deteriorated ever since women got the vote. Beyond reason sex appeal should have any bearing on voting for a candidate.

By Dr. Mark Klein on 04/25/2008 11:25 am

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Dr. Klein, You do make some good points, but I kind of lost you with the women and voting thing. I’m sure you don’t really believe that, do you? I think it is more a matter of priorities and clearly, there has been a shift toward more selfish behavior beginning in the 60’s which has had a negative effect on our children. But, I think both sexes are guilty of this and there are many women who make responsible choices where their career and children are concerned. If you really believe that women are not equally as intelligent as men, then you have not met the right women.

By eleanor roche on 04/25/2008 1:07 pm

Dr. McGinnis, why am not entitled to believe what I wish? It does bother me overtly pandering to the women’s vote with sexually appealing candidates, e.g. JFK, Obama, in fact works. It’s not that women are less intellient than men. Rather they choice making repetoir is different and less determined by ego adaptive functions oriented to the larger sphere of events. Look, we handed over the control of foreign policy to women secretaries of state for the past 16 years to end up in hopeless, unwinnable wars. The cause in my opinion is they deal with adversaries like p.o.’ed wives or exs who feel they must have their way, or else!

By Dr. Mark Klein on 04/25/2008 1:49 pm

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George H. Bush DID select Dan Quayle as V.P. because he was good looking enough to capture the women’s vote. It is to his own detriment that he underestimated women’s intelligence.

By Olive Oil on 04/25/2008 2:55 pm