Beware the Utopians!!

I do not enjoy the prices we are paying for gas. I cringe as I watch the food prices ring up on the big screen at Jon's Family Foods grocery store. The increases for bread, milk, and virtually any food with three boys soon to hit their teenage (prime eating) years makes me wish for the perfect world...... dare I say the Utopian world.

However, I thought this quote from the Wall Street Journal was appropriate. We live in a world of laws and principles. They are not what we would always like, but they can only be ignored at one's peril. The energy mess we find ourselves in is because of the Utopian world we like to think we live in.

We have elected to many Utopians in St. Paul and Washington D.C. They have a cure for every problem, and create a problem with their every cure. We need a candidate reform bill that administers a quiz to anyone running for office from this day forward. If they are a Utopian, be they Democrat or Republican, they can run for office but must have a VOTER BEWARE disclaimer on their campaign material.

Politicians want lower gas and oil prices but don't want more production to increase supply. They want oil "independence" but they've declared off limits most of the big sources of domestic oil that could replace foreign imports. They want Americans to use less oil to reduce greenhouse gases but they protest higher oil prices that reduce demand. They want more oil company investment but they want to confiscate the profits from that investment. And these folks want to be President?~"Windfall Profits for Dummies" in today's WSJ

Source: CARPE DIEM