High gas prices work to Obama’s advantage

Editor:

This time people can't blame it on W and his connections to the Texas oil business. Who wants us to all drive one- and two-passenger rollerskates and pedal cars? Think about it. Could it be Obama and Co.?

Even they realize Americans aren't going to go for those death traps you can't take a family vacation in, unless/until gas prices become unacceptable.

So Obama may not be pulling any strings himself to raise gasoline prices, but you can bet your best boots he's happy. He's getting what he wants without the unpopular step of an additional $2 a gallon federal tax.

He is perfectly happy and eager to micro-manage and/or nationalize/socialize any and all other aspects of the economy and of life in general, but would he do anything to control gas prices? (Mind you, I'm not saying the federal government should set gas prices.) But in no way is Obama going to go there, because high gas prices work to his advantage.

Jerrold R. Shouse

Safford