Blame gas prices on shortsightedness

[rodeodance]

http://www.madison.com/wsj/arch_opinion/index.php?ntid=81886

FRI., APR 28, 2006 - 12:01 PM
Blame gas prices on shortsightedness

Wisconsin State Journal editorial

In the United States this week President Bush called for yet another investigation into allegations that gasoline prices are being manipulated.

In Brazil last week President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced that his nation had become virtually independent of foreign oil.

Which country had the more effective response to rising gasoline prices?

If you answered Brazil, fill 'er up and move ahead. If you answered the United States, you're in for more of the same tired demagoguery that has driven us in costly circles for more than 30 years.

[madmom]

1. If we would have listened to Jimmy Carter in the 70's we would be

right beside Brazil thumbing our noses at OPEC and the middle eastern oil cartel, but the infinite wisdom laughed him right out of office.