Dear Governor Doyle,
It has recently been brought to my attention that someone who looks and smells like me may have signed your petition to "the evil oil companies." I would like you to know that I would not sign your sham petition, and I am currently working to find out whether someone may have attempted to act on my behalf. If my name does appear on this list, I expect it to be removed immediately or I will call into question the validity of the entire petition.
Governor, your feeble attempt to score political points by attacking oil companies and the federal government over gas prices makes me sick. You know as well as anyone that there are many factors affecting the price of gasoline. Some of these costs to the consumer are under the direct control of the state. This means that you could actually influence the price at the pump if you chose to do so.
In case you are unaware, this state has higher gasoline taxes than much of the country. That would be a good place to start, if you're serious about making gasoline affordable. Another added cost comes from the special blending of gasoline that much of this state is subjected to. Have you not petitioned the EPA at least once to let us ease up on the blending, citing price concerns? I think you have.
Governor, what you are proposing is to hog-tie the oil companies. In the short term, we may get cheaper gas. But, sooner or later they will respond by cutting into their infrastructure. This will decrease supply and drive prices right back up. If the situation gets truly horrible, the government may consider bail-outs like we have with the airline industry. So, instead of paying the price of gasoline at the pump, we will all pay it in our taxes. I suppose this is a clever strategy on your part because you get to give the appearance that you've done something to ease our pain.
The solution to the gas price "problem" is to increase supply while decreasing or controlling demand. Some ways to do that are drilling domestically (ANWR), building refining capacity, and conservation. Environmentalists have focused only on the last point and prevented either of the first two from bearing fruit. In short, we've choked the supply and we're trying desperately to ration what's left. Conservation only slows the bleeding, Governor. With a billion Chinese on the verge of an industrial revolution, how comfortable are you with our energy supply? Hey... Does China even have an EPA? Environmental standards? Suddenly, I couldn't care less about all the starving Chinese kids my mom told me about.
Why don't you create a petition to have a new refinery built in this state? At least, then we as a state would be offering something of value to the rest of the country.
Love always,
Aaron
P.S. How 'bout that lousy deal you made with the Potowatomi tribe, huh? I bet you wish you'd bargained for more now. Please clean up your office and leave all computer keyboards intact when you go.
Governor, your feeble attempt to score political points by attacking oil companies and the federal government over gas prices makes me sick. You know as well as anyone that there are many factors affecting the price of gasoline. Some of these costs to the consumer are under the direct control of the state. This means that you could actually influence the price at the pump if you chose to do so.
In case you are unaware, this state has higher gasoline taxes than much of the country. That would be a good place to start, if you're serious about making gasoline affordable. Another added cost comes from the special blending of gasoline that much of this state is subjected to. Have you not petitioned the EPA at least once to let us ease up on the blending, citing price concerns? I think you have.
Governor, what you are proposing is to hog-tie the oil companies. In the short term, we may get cheaper gas. But, sooner or later they will respond by cutting into their infrastructure. This will decrease supply and drive prices right back up. If the situation gets truly horrible, the government may consider bail-outs like we have with the airline industry. So, instead of paying the price of gasoline at the pump, we will all pay it in our taxes. I suppose this is a clever strategy on your part because you get to give the appearance that you've done something to ease our pain.
The solution to the gas price "problem" is to increase supply while decreasing or controlling demand. Some ways to do that are drilling domestically (ANWR), building refining capacity, and conservation. Environmentalists have focused only on the last point and prevented either of the first two from bearing fruit. In short, we've choked the supply and we're trying desperately to ration what's left. Conservation only slows the bleeding, Governor. With a billion Chinese on the verge of an industrial revolution, how comfortable are you with our energy supply? Hey... Does China even have an EPA? Environmental standards? Suddenly, I couldn't care less about all the starving Chinese kids my mom told me about.
Why don't you create a petition to have a new refinery built in this state? At least, then we as a state would be offering something of value to the rest of the country.
Love always,
Aaron
P.S. How 'bout that lousy deal you made with the Potowatomi tribe, huh? I bet you wish you'd bargained for more now. Please clean up your office and leave all computer keyboards intact when you go.
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