SYNDICATED COLUMN: The Cure for High Gas and Food Prices
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Vital Businesses Need Nationalization The gas station attendant came outside. Wow, I thought, full serve! Ignoring me, she flung a magnetic price decal on top of the price per gallon. Regular unleaded had gone up 20 cents in the time it took me to drive from the curb to the pump. “You’re kidding me,” I moaned. “It’s 3 o’clock,” she shrugged. “Just got the new price.” There has to be a better way, I thought. And there is. It isn’t drilling in the Alaskan wilderness. It sure isn’t John McCain’s plan to offer $300 million to the first person to come up with a longer-lasting car battery Gas prices could hit $7 a gallon before long, Wall Street analysts say, but Americans–always optimists!–take a little comfort in the fact that Europeans have paid more than that for years. But a lot of foreigners are laughing at us even harder than we’re laughing at the Euros. Did you know that Venezuelans…
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