Wow, what a week! Here we sit in warming gasoline while prices at the pump spiral up and up towards $4.00 and further. We are just like the proverbial “Frog In Warming Water”. But who’s worrying? The prices will all come down folks keep saying, but when? The answers are to be found in Raleigh and Washington. Could Bev Purdue call for  a special session of the Legislature and redo the NC Fuel Tax? Could Obama call off his regulator Czars and open the way for the building of new refineries and sign the Keystone Pipeline Bill immediately to let Canada’s sand oil flow south? Sure, both of them could take those actions, but they won’t. They don’t care about regular folks daily use of cars for work and the American Dream of “Cruising” on a Sunday afternoon, the oldtime “Sunday Drive”. Ah, the “Sunday Drive”, a freedom thing, ironically that is the cover of the latest OUR STATE magazine. The Sunday Drive has sort of gone the way of the horse and buggy. How about  high school kids going to the Local Drive In or Berger Joint and hanging out on a Friday or Saturday night? Is that a soon to be forgotten thing of the past? Sadly, it seems so. You see, we will all sit here like frogs and let it happen, we are so used to letting Joe or Jane do it, the Tea Party do it or worse yet Letting The Government Do it! We, you and me, our neighbors and friends are for the most part too damned lazy, sitting in our comfort zones, to get involved by writing letters, e-mailing or even phoning our elected officials. some of us don’t even bother to vote! We sit idly by waiting for a miracle from St. Bev or the Messiah Obama. We don’t even vet or check our local Candidates for Office like RINO Republican Candidate for NC Senate, Randy Ramsey, who in his own words tell you he is not a real Republican. He openly admits that he gave Big Dollars to Purdue, Basknight, Easley  and Company and did we get better government as “Rino Randy”, expected? NO! We have the highest taxed fuel in the Southeast and about 3rd highest Lower Forty Eight and our roads are worsening. So, if you want to change things like the price of gasoline, roads or the economy, you must personally get involved. Start by going to political meetings, find out about the inside scoop on local and state candidates before you vote. Ask yourself, How’s That Hope and Change really working out that Obama and every Democrat ran in 2008? Now once again RINO (Republican In Name Only) Republicans or Pay to Play Republicans along with Democrats are trying quietly move a similar agenda as in 2008 ahead. The potential vehicle of change now may well be the American Automobile User/Owner/Voter that needs a quick “right turn” for a conservative voter refueling. Remember voting for a RINO (Republican In Name Only) will usually mean that a Democrat Policy or Position will be put in place or nudged ahead somewhere.

Austin “Gus”  Wilgus

Emerald Isle, NC 28594