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To: KLP who wrote (473654)	2/24/2012 2:50:34 AM
From: SmoothSail	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794026

High Gas Prices It's a complicated issue and I admit I don't have enough information in my head to distill into anything meaningful. But I do know that if we had an actual leader in the White House, we wouldn't be in such a mess. Some things just don't make sense to me such as giving $3 billion to Petrobra so that Brazil can drill off their coast but we can't drill in the Gulf (using the platforms that were in the Gulf but moved there). Preventing Keystone at the behest of the environmentalist only to watch Canada sell that oil, which would come here, to China; Alaska is HUGE. The area where they would drill is hardly a pinpoint on the map and will NOT affect the wildlife, yet we can't drill there. What we have in the White House is someone obsessed with money and perks of the job. There's $1 billion in his war chest yet he flies all over the country constantly to attend fundraisers to get more money. There is nobody in charge. There are no adults at home. He panders to the lefties and greenies to get their money. He funds companies like Solyndra who go broke - there are several of them - and the people associated with them are walking away from these ruined companies multi-millionaires. Sorta reminds me of what's going on in Russia with the oligarchs.