I’m mad and I have a good reason to be. People have lost jobs or are losing them. There’s no jobs to be found. Everyone’s on welfare or trying to get on it, and the price of K-1 kerosene has climbed to $3.49 a gallon.

What is wrong with the people who establish these prices? Apparently, they have no conscience and don’t care, are money hungry, or are just rotten. I don’t care who they are. I’d tell them to their faces they are.

When are the people in this state going to get some backbone and protest this? I’m on a Navy pension and my wife is on Social Security. We can’t afford K-1 at that price.

Who’s behind this, is it our government, or someone else?

And, on top of all this, we can’t get fuel assistance because we make too much money. I’d like to see anyone live on what people like me live on.

LIHEAP is pretty good, if you can get it, but they make you wait until December or January to get assistance.

I really believe our government is trying to get rid of us. They’ve taken our houses, jobs and expect us to live. Right?

People need help. The people we just voted into government are just as bad as the last. How can they blame President Obama for not fixing everything in two years what the Bush presidents messed up in 12?

Freeman Lewis, South Paris