Letter: Careful whom you blame for gas prices

Why has the gasoline price increased so much?

Gasoline prices have increased a lot

Causing most of us to get boiling hot.

Why, oh why has this happened to us?

How can we drive the family bus?

Must be the awful OPEC, in collusion

With Big Bad Oil, a logical conclusion.

But Big Bad Oil is you and me,

Stockholders in this land so free.

One big part of the gasoline price

Is due to taxing, a government device

To fund a lot of things we don't' need

But feeds each month the political greed.

Meanwhile the USA is the only one,

That bans offshore drilling from dawn to dawn.

This drives oil companies to a distant shore

As the world constantly calls for more.

ELLIS T. HAMMETT

Reno

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