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Friday, May 9, 2008
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Letters To The Editor Too long on cruise control Prices on everything are going up. It seems some people just don’t get it. So let’s try and simplify it. Everything we buy at stores got there by trucks. If you look at any product, say rice. After harvest, it’s loaded onto trucks and sent to a local storage. Reloaded and sent to Riceland to be cleaned and bagged. reloaded onto trucks and shipped to a warehouse somewhere. Reloaded and sent to, say, Kroger’s. That’s four trips and could be even more. Trucks have around 150-gallon fuel capacity, around $1,200 per fillup. Now for the double whammy. Most people believe that E85 is the cure to gas prices. Every day more farmers are growing more corn for fuel, and the size of food crops are dropping. So the price of these crops are going to keep climbing. Because demand hasn’t gone down just the supply. According to Wikipedia, [in the] Strategic Petroleum Reserve, as of April 29, 2008, the current inventory was 701.3 million barrels, with the current capacity to hold up to 727 million barrels. Yet the government is still buying it, at the same time blaming gas prices on the short supply of oil. Wouldn’t a temporary solution be for the government to stop buying it for a little while and let that oil go into the market. And what’s up with the oil companies’ record profits. I could see record earnings, but record profits? One ex-CEO got $400 million in retirement. Bet that was a nice write-off for the company. Why would big oil companies want to develop new forms of energy, when they’re making record profits. I guess these folks think they can buy their way into Heaven. Who is in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries? Algeria, Angola, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Venezuela and Ecuador. How is OPEC affecting oil prices. Simple: They have stated that they are not going to increase the amount of oil production. Of course not. Most of them don’t like the United States. Why is Bush still in office? It’s been proven (by the 9-11 commision report) that he lied about the terrorists and Iraq working together. He lied about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. So what else has he lied about. If I was to lie to my employer, I would probably get fired. But Bush thinks he is above the law, so there’s no way we would fire him. But he is wrong. We need to send a message that no one is above the law. Quit electing politicians who flip flop. If they don’t know what they stand for they stand for nothing. And those who say “Oh, I must have misspoke.” Try to think before you speak, not after. We need some real leadership. Not just in the White House, but everywhere. Where are the inventors the dreamers that made this country so great (not so great now)? We have been on cruise control too long. Greed is going to destroy this country, if we let it. Tim Long Jonesboro What about that skate park? Here we go again. We are going to have a town hall meeting to decide about a new water park and pool for the city. Why don’t we take care of things that were decided in the past first. The kids of north Jonesboro had a skateboard park promised to them after theirs was torn down by a gentleman who didn’t like it where it was. This man had to go to court. He paid a sizeable fine for this act, and the money was to be used to build a new skate park in north Jonesboro. Now my son was 14 at the time this was done, but to this date the kids still don’t have their skate park in north Jonesboro. What happened to the money that was to be used for this park? I get really tired of the kids in the north part of Jonesboro getting the shaft and the kids in mid- and south Jonesboro get the prizes. It is time we learn Jonesboro is Jonesboro, and we all should be treated the same. So let’s put the new pool next to the new skate park in the north Jonesboro area. There are a lot of good places that this can be done so let’s start looking at Jonesboro as a whole community and not just the good side and the bad side. Mike Brewer Jonesboro Mayor performed an overkill I am having a hard time understanding why the 9-11 coordinator, Mr. Andrews, had to seek legal counsel to have his name cleared. This should be the responsibility of Mayor Formon to show some kind of professionalism after the slaughter he conducted to the character of Mr. Andrews. From my understanding Mr. Andrews retrieved a date of birth that was requested by a city alderman. This is called interpersonal communication, which is a part of teamwork, not sabotage. I feel the mayor performed an overkill with all the media attention and an investigation. Which leads me to believe there is a scandal lying under the table while the onslaught to Mr. Andrews was taking place. I do believe there is a need for an investigation, but it has nothing to do with Mr. Andrews. Cherry Fowler Brookland Send us a Letter (Read Our Policies) |
