Congratulations to Karl Clifton-Soderstrom for writing the first sensible words I’ve seen regarding the current cost of gasoline (Voice of the people, June 7).
To paraphrase Mr. Clifton-Soderstrom, gas prices are not out of line when adjustments for inflation are taken into account, and he further suggests that many Americans use gasoline inefficiently. I think he is dead-on in both assessments. In fact, he has demonstrated to me the ability to think logically in a way that presidential candidates George Bush and Al Gore have not. I think I have my write-in candidate!
I once had a neighbor who insisted that Americans have a birthright to a cheap gallon of gas. That’s rubbish, of course. When U.S. motorists start abandoning their 6,000-pound, SUV-as-commuting-vehicles-for-one (which have never been off-road or had so much as a piece of lumber in the cargo hold), I’ll know that gas prices have increased to the proper level–$5 per gallon ought to do it.
