Bush and Gas Prices: A letter to my friends

[JusticeForAll]

I have seen this ad about five times in the four hours of television I have watched during the past week. If you, too, have seen these ads, you may have been influenced by the negative light in which the Republicans are attempting to portray the likely Democratic candidate, John Kerry. What you may not know, is that the ads are misleading, and more surprisingly, that our own Vice President INITIATED legislation that would have had a much more severe impact on the price of gas.

According to research done by the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/06/politics/06CHEN.html Free Registration Required) the following was found:

To deflect charges that the White House has not done enough to bring down prices, the Bush campaign has attacked Senator John Kerry, the likely Democratic presidential nominee, as favoring higher gas prices. "Some people have wacky ideas like taxing gasoline more so people drive less. That's John Kerry," a recent Bush campaign commercial said. The commercial singled out Mr. Kerry's support a decade ago for a 50-cent gas tax increase, part of a deficit-reduction package that Mr. Kerry never voted for.

They also revealed the fact that in 1986 Congressman Dick Cheney of Wyoming INTRODUCED legislation that would have taxed foreign oil imports and "would have cost consumers $1.2 trillion."

Bush's ad seemed very influential about a very important topic that hits our pocketbooks weekly - but, this ad was a lie. The lies, hypocritical stances, and coverup that emerge from this Administration seem to continue - How can we believe his story about 9/11 when Bush refuses to testify alone, publicly, under oath? How can we trust that he really believed that WMDs existed in Iraq, yet none have been found? What faith can we put in him when we were promised in May 2003 that our engagement in Iraq was MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, yet dozens of soldiers die weekly. How can we trust him when he cannot be honest in a simple campaign ad?

Please forward this to others who are concerned about gas prices, the truth needs to be spread.

Jeff