re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Here in GA our governor got rid of the gas tax temporarily and prices still went up beyond the tax discount. Oil companies have been taking taxpayer dollars forever, not spending their own money on inevitable cleanups, buying off politicians so they don’t have to be responsible, making fortunes many times over and people STILL blame presidents for that. That is a Congress problem and a prime example of why KStreet and lobbyists need to be done completely the hell away with. Oil isn’t the only industry guilty of this(defense contractors, all kinds of insurance companies, etc), but it does have the biggest direct impact on many other things. If Reagan and the GOP of his time had been pro alternative energy sources we could be a lot better off now.

It’s depressing as fuck to keep watching this happen over and over with no lessons learned