Thursday, April 25, 2024
Miles from the Mainstream
D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor
Drivers, turn off your engines?

MARCH 5, 2004 --

This photo of gas pump prices at a Bronx gas station was taken March 2, and on the next day USAToday.com ran an article predicting record high gas prices. American Automobile Association (AAA) spokesperson Geoff Sundstrom was quoted as seeing prices continuing to climb and, in this report by USA Today writer James R. Healey, seemed to accept a passive response from motorists.

Continued passivity from motorists in the face of all monetary assaults -- from bureaucrats seeking to close budget gaps by heavy fines on drivers as well as from the oil industry -- will have us out in the street, just like cigarette smokers.

Certainly motorists would not be hurt more taking a day to pass those gas pumps by and voting against candidates who support extortionate fines on drivers.

There they go again!
LPR predicts -- a little solidarity by motorists and the pols are sure to follow. LPR also predicts that passivity that rewards oil companies and bureaucrats will harm the country's economic common good and help defeat President Bush.

With motorists paying quite literally for the change in presidents, there is nothing in the free enterprise system that requires motorists to be passive patsies.