Lower Gas Prices?

Recieved via email:

President Bush wants us to cut the amount of gas we use. The best way to stop using so much gas is to deport 11 million illegal immigrants! That would be 11 million less [sic] people using our gas. The price of gas would come down.

Not bad, except that the guy who came up with this has bought the lie that there are only eleven million illegals. The number is much closer to twenty million, according to those with less cause to lie about it than Mass Media Podpeople and Political Poltroons.

Still, even a more accurate twenty million is just about 7% of the officially recognized U.S. population (who really knows what the “underground” pop is?) and won’t have THAT big an impact on gas prices. No, what would have a proper impact would be if President Bush were to actually act on his own pledge to go after those who harbor or fund terrorists. Then he could send a few marines in to kick the Saudis outa bed. (Lifting cost for the Saudis’ oil is about $5 a barrel.)

But licking the illegals out would be a small thing the administration could do, a small step to restore respect for the rule of law. And in the long run that’s more important than gas prices.

Blind in one eye; Deaf in the other…

Yeh, makes a lotta sense, right?

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Today is totally jammed @twc central. For some Reading That Is Not to Be Missed, just go to Melanie Phillips’ front page and start reading. With well written articles titled, “The war against Israel” and “While truth dies in the west, in the east it struggles to be born” you shouldn’t miss her insight.

I don’t know why I haven’t mentioned her recently. But now that I have, DO read.

And do catch this one from DL over at TMH’s Bacon Bits while you’re out and about.


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