I can’t afford to drive all the way downtown,” he said. “So I just watch the games at home. It’s nowhere near as fun.
“Generally, I go out less now,” said Janet LaVigne, 51, who fills her 1994 Mazda Protégé daily to deliver newspapers in communities outside Cleveland. “I do my job and come home. I used to go out to the movies, sometimes to restaurants, but now I can’t afford the gas.”
Sara Scheerer, a 17-year-old high school senior, said the high cost of fueling her 1999 Ford Explorer to drive to basketball team practices and school had forced her to get a salesclerk job at Walgreens. “I can’t spend as much money on other stuff like clothes,” she added.
Unseasonably Higher, Gas Prices Add to Strain on U.S. Consumers,
Potential cutomers for full flex vehicles and ethanol imported from Brazil..
"half-a-billion dollars every day to foreign governments like Saudi Arabia and Venezuela undermines our national security."
Americans recently sent $107 million to Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan dictator who jails or kills opponents, rigs elections, undermines neighboring democracies and seeks to surpass Fidel Castro as our nation's great nemesis in the Western Hemisphere. And this year we will send $50 billion - more than the total GDP of over 130 foreign governments - to Saudi Arabia, which uses our money to fund Iraqi insurgents, Palestinian terrorists and Wahhabist mosques in the United States.
Tariff policy can play a major role in rapidly shifting Americans to more fuel-efficient vehicles. While the U.S. imports Saudi oil tariff-free, we levy a heft tariff on ethanol imported from Brazil, a policy columnist Thomas Friedman questions as either "just stupid" or "really stupid."
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Cut the tariff. We are ready to ship billions of gallons of ethanol |
