Just how does a product being a certain price and someone selling that product and making a profit for it violate anyone's rights?

Good point Paul. I bet there are conspiracy theorists out there who think it's Bush's fault since everything else is. Perhaps he decided to screw "working" people (by the way why do libs use this term for middle & lower class, aren't the rich working too?) by getting his buddies in the oil industry to jack up the profits and give himself a share.

No, rich people don't work. Everyone knows they got to be rich by inheriting a fortune, being able to dunk a basketball, or by looking like Jennifer Lopez. Those are the highest profile rich people, so that's the common belief, I think. There is no "work" involved.

Of course they don't work Rusty, the money just falls in their laps. That would include people who started with nothing but an idea and became rich. I guess Bill Gates, Micheal Dell, and the late Sam Walton never worked a day. Using only these three people, they totally changed the world for "working" people by providing cheap goods for the masses. So the "working" people should be grateful to these billionaires.

Right, cause no working people work or own stock in Exxon. Whatever.

This had got to be the lamest letter I've seen in some time.
You don't think the editorial letter review person/s are trolling us, do you? Nah.....

I don't think Becky would do that.

If that one was lame, this one was paraplegic:

Don't drill in Arctic

Citizens do not want oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The oil produced would be years in the future and only small amounts would be produced. There would be great environmental damage to many kinds of wildlife.

Mazie Levenson
Bill Tally
Greensboro

Dan, surely people don't think the high price of gasoline is Bush's fault! What about all that talk we heard claiming the reason for our actions in Iraq was to get all that oil? I find it strange that these "theorists" are silent now.

Bunny, I agree with you. The war for oil thing died out.

But if you are a liberal, everything bad is Bush's fault including when your cat gets pregnant.

Bunny--

I don't perceive the "war for oil" theorists to be any quieter that the WMD "theorists."

Perhaps one objective of the war plan was in fact to protect our access to the region's vast oil reserves. It could even persuasively be argued that protecting our access was vital to our nation's interest. But, the president didn't have the testicular fortitude to make that argument did he. Nope, all we heard initially was WMD,links to Al Quaida, bringing "peace" to the region, and the importance of establishing a democracy in Iraq (why not establish one in Saudi Arabia, Rwanda, China, etc.).

As poorly thought out as this war obviously was, it is unfortunately not surprising that the Bush bunch may never have conceived that insurgents/terrorists/whatever-you-want-to-call-them would attack oil pipelines and production facilities.