While rome was burning, Nero fiddled and diddled
US doing little on high gas prices
August 17, 2005
AS OIL PRICES continue to go through the roof we hear nothing from the Bush administration but hype about how great the economy is doing. Why couldn't this president at least show some concern and suggest driving a little slower and cutting back on fuel consumption? Any president worth his salt would have addressed the American people and reassured them that measures were being taken to ease the problem. There has not been one word from him asking Americans for a little sacrifice to ease the pinch. Besides summer gasoline prices being out of control, the cost of heating a home this winter will be a nightmare.
Right now his ''Stay the course" policy on oil is like the one in Iraq: It means ''We have no plan."