May 28, 2004
HILLARY: LET THEM DRINK GAS
The price of gas seems to be quite the political sore point for some
people these days. Although low from a historical perspective,
opponents of the current administration gleefully point at the rising
cost at the pump as it pushes $2.70 and higher--at least in the tri-
state area. Either Bush is colluding with the Saudis to increase
production to get himself elected--Shame!--or he isn't putting enough
pressure on the Saudis to increase production and leaving Americans in
the lurch--Shame!
While that is all very fascinating, I was interested to read an article
in the New York Post today detailing how the
href="http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/643755441.html?did=643755441&F
MT=ABS&FMTS=FT&date=May+28%2C+2004&author=TOM+TOPOUSIS&desc=HOLY+CASH+C
OW!+-+YET+ANOTHER+HIKE+SENDS+MILK+TO+%244.43+A+GAL.">price of milk
is supposed to rise to $4.43 a gallon next week. While this is a
supply and demand issue, it also happens to be a supply and demand
crisis engineered by New York's two embarrasing Senators Schumer &
Clinton. A few years back when milk was inexpensive (a good thing,
no?), ineffecient dairy farms got Chuck and Hill to include them in a
Northeastern Dairy Cartel, which prevented consumers from buying milk
from cheaper providers. Incomes propped, northeastern dairy farmers
felt free not to improve efficiency by merging operations or taking
advantage of economies of scale by increasing herd size. Now NY
customers--Chuck & Hill's constituents--are paying for it out of
pocket, dearly. Don't take my word for it. Here's Salon
accusing Hillary of
href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/07/14/dairy/">selling out
New York families from a few years back. And here's Hillary
href="http://clinton.senate.gov/news/2001/06/2001702644.html">crowing
about it herself.
By the way, the next time you hear either of these anti-family
political hacks complaining about a childhood obesity epidemic, ask
them why they instituted a dairy cartel that now produces milk prices
more than 1.5 times that of Coca-Cola [$4.43 a gallon vs. $2.80 a
gallon]? Too bad gasoline isn't good for growing children. They could
drink that, a bargain at $2.70 a gallon.
Posted by Lexiphane at May 28, 2004 8:52 PM
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