To the Editor:
President Bush says he must address the root causes of high gas prices. This will not be difficult. The No. 1 cause is the failure of his leadership.
The president says our dependence on foreign oil has increased in the last decade. That is, in the four and a half years under his watch during which the price of our growing foreign dependence became painfully clear, this president has done nothing.
Nothing, while vehicles got larger; gas mileage plummeted; public transportation systems crumbled; and his friends in the oil business got richer.
During World War II, the national leadership told Americans that it was their patriotic duty to conserve. In the war on terror, we are given to understand that it is our patriotic duty to surrender our civil rights.
The paradox is overwhelming.
Georgianne Arnold
Rochester, April 29, 2005
Sometimes one might think so (at least, given the above.)