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Billy D,

Sorry I made you have to use a sad face, but I am glad that I didn't disappoint you or surprise you with my response. Everybody expects the federal government to solve their problems, but that just cannot be done. There is no way to make everybody happy.

Alas, you guys complaining about the gas prices will receive a reprieve.

"Bush also issued a memorandum saying the hurricane had created a "severe energy supply interruption" and formally authorized a drawdown of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. He said that the disruption had resulted in a severe increase in the price of oil products and that the price rise could damage the national economy." Quoted from a Yahoo article.

While cleaning up the kitchen and garage tonight, my parents have always said that Americans don't know what hard times are, and I think the rise in gas prices and Katrina pretty much prove that. My parents do not think that Americans are tough enough to make it through tough times, and they might actually be right. Don't get me wrong, my parents are diehard Americans, but they also know what it is like to live in tough times. Billy D, are you old enough to remember the Great Depression? I would think that the generation that lived through that might understand what hard times are like. I dated a girl once that had grandparents that lived through the Great Depression and even though they had a good amount of money, they saved everything that MIGHT be of use.

My parents are the same way as that girl's grandparents and I am always telling them to throw that crap out because the cost of storing it is more than the cost of buying it, but I guess I am only thinking of the here and now. What happens if you cannot buy that stuff anywhere. Then it becomes priceless.

Heck, I don't think I am as tough as my parents.

I guess it is a good thing we can still get gas. Otherwise, Danica would not be able to pursue her rise to fame. LOL