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   From: NoOne@private.corp   
      
   On 1/19/2024 3:31 PM, Jan 6 Donkey Show Fails To Place wrote:   
   > In article <5VKIH.60551$R82.59232@fx46.iad>   
   > "Queer - Inmate Number P01135809"    
   > wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Like Hitler, I too have shocking table manners,   
   >   
   > (From Sixth District Congressman Sam Graves)   
   > When I went to fill up my truck last weekend, I paid over $3.80   
   > a gallon. That’s almost unheard of in Northwest Missouri. The   
   > record high average gas price just down the road in St. Joseph   
   > is just $3.89 a gallon.   
   >   
   > The bad part is, we’ve been relatively fortunate here in North   
   > Missouri. Across the country, gas prices are average $4.27 a   
   > gallon today. If you happen to live in Northeast Missouri and   
   > have to travel across the river to Illinois, make sure you fill   
   > up your tank before you cross the river. Gas is running over   
   > $4.50 a gallon in Illinois.   
   >   
   > All of this is putting a hurting on families. It’s been hard   
   > enough to make ends meet with rising inflation, skyrocketing gas   
   > prices are making it almost impossible. This isn’t just   
   > impacting folks directly, but indirectly too. Virtually every   
   > link in the supply chain depends on fuel to get products to   
   > market and when fuel prices skyrocket like this, it impacts the   
   > price of virtually everything.   
   >   
   > That’s especially true for farmers. A friend of mine over in   
   > Salisbury filled his one-ton feed truck up the other day and it   
   > cost him $300.   
   >   
   > On top of that, prices for fertilizer, seed, and other inputs   
   > have skyrocketed with inflation as well. That’s created a lot of   
   > problems. Even though farmers are looking at record high prices   
   > for their products, the price of production has risen even   
   > higher, putting the squeeze on family farms everywhere.   
   >   
   > The real shame is that all of this could have been avoided. Even   
   > though President Biden likes to blame Russia’s invasion of   
   > Ukraine for the high prices we’re seeing at the pump right now,   
   > prices were rising long before then. This isn’t a problem weeks   
   > in the making, it’s a problem years in the making.   
   >   
   > On his first day in office, President Biden cancelled the   
   > Keystone XL Pipeline, which promised to bring in more crude oil   
   > from our ally Canada than we had been importing from Russia.   
   > That’s just one example. Left wing environmentalists and   
   > politicians have been obstructing pipeline and drilling projects   
   > for years—driving down oil production and driving up costs at   
   > the pump in the name of climate change.   
   >   
   > Enough is enough. It doesn’t have to be this way. We can and   
   > should make America energy independent. Until we do, we’re going   
   > to keep feeling this pain at the pump.   
   >   
   At least this last paragraph actually makes sense.   
      
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