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Gas prices throughout Vermont are rising faster than the thermometers during the summer. As of mid-May, most pump prices are around $3.75 per gallon (see http://vermontgasprices.com for the dismal news). Thefts are on the rise both for gas and money to buy gas so perhaps it’s time to keep a shotgun handy and lock your doors. If gas prices keep going up, that will have a residual effect on many other things. For instance, I’ve noticed a lot of restaurants and closing for business lately. Costs money to eat out and food prices are also heading up. Remember how generous Asian restaurants used to be with rice? Not anymore. Yup, the even cost of rice is up too.

Looks like we’re in the midst of a perfect storm (or more appropriately “stuck knee high in the manure pile”). Thank you Bill Clinton for passing the highly controversial Free Trade Agreement before you left office. I wish they would outsource you and your wife to China. By the way, take George “WMD” Bush with you. He pretty much finished the job by running down the value of our dollar and sending what’s left of it to fund the ongoing madhatters tea party in Iraq.

Oh yeah, and let’s not forget the mortgage meltdown. A lot of greedy people made a lot of undeserved money by handing out loans to anybody or thing that lived, breathed or could sign a piece of paper, regardless of whether they could actually pay back the loans are not. Seems like a lot of crooked people should be getting the tar and feathers treatment. I would recommend jail but they’ve already squandered enough of our tax dollars. If these highly educated “professionals” are the leaders of our country, we’d probably best start learning to speak Chinese real soon. Dumb asses.

It’s going to be interesting to see how we get out of this huge mess. Kind of makes the cliffhangers on ABC’s Lost seem a bit pale in comparison.