What happens to the difference between what you pay for gasoline today and what you paid a week ago? Ask President Bush.
The last time we had a surge in gas prices, the Wall Street Journal said that: Exxon’s income tripled to $7.02 billion, Irving’s jumped to $7.20 billion. (March 2)
Such unearned profits in the hands of the wealthy, plus the exorbitantly high tax returns to those same multimillionaires only goes to increase the capital they can send out of America to build sweat shops and support prison labor.
Maine is loosing jobs daily to overseas, cheap labor. Isn’t it time that we replaced this petroleum loving administration with one not so closely tied to free trade and the oil oligopoly?
Bill Ellis, Rangeley
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