Instead of building a Keystone Pipeline from Canada to Texas, why not build an oil refinery just south of the Canadian border? Why build an oil pipe line to transport oil to Texas when oil can be refined and gasoline distributed all along the line to Texas?

Article one of the Constitution clearly states that: Congress shall make No law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. What more respect could Congress show religion by making it exempt from paying taxes?

The Catholic Church owns over a Trillion dollars of property that it pays no taxes on. Its members can give up to 10 % of their income to the church and deduct it from their taxes. Every tax payer has to pay more because churches pay none whether they are religious or not. A lot of people would like to have the respect that Congress gives to religion with respect to taxes.

The Mormon Church spends billions of dollars on building Mormon Temples where you can go and get baptized for the dead, but only Mormons who have paid 10 % of their gross income to the Mormon Church can get in a Mormon Temple unless they lie about it. All successful cults have successful ways of collecting money.  Moses and Joseph Smith were great teachers on how to collect. Moses collected  livestock and burned a few so God could enjoy the smell. Joseph Smith built Temples and charged 10 percent of gross income in order to visit and get all the blessing of a visit.

I am not opposed to religion except when the idiot son of Billy Graham or his kind put their noses where they don’t belong, or they say stupid thing like Rick Santorum and the Catholic Church. Franklin’s Father had the good sense to stay on message, even though, we all knew he was a republican. All religions should take a page out of Billy’s book, or be willing to debate religion with Bill Maher.

All other religions get the same tax treatment. Ask your friends to visit the Internet Free Press.

Only the big oil corporations can negotiate the price of oil with the producers of oil. They do not have to change the price of gasoline every day. They can take the loss if that is the best they can do.

Consumers can force the big oil corporations to do a better job of negotiating the price of oil with the producers of oil by fighting back. By organizing they can refuse to pay to  more than three dollars per gallon for gasoline. They can reduce the amount of gasoline they use. They can buy only five dollars of gasoline at one stop which would create problems at the gas pump for the big oil corporations. The consumer needs to fight back at the local gas pumps. There are many more ways to fight high gasoline prices than the ones suggested.

Inflation is an euphemism for theft.  Gasoline prices in Knoxville, Tennessee were 2.95 per gallon on December 31, 2011, and when people got their 3.6 % raise in Social Security on January 1, 2012, gasoline price had gone up more than they got in their pay check. The oil corporations were just waiting to raise price.

Big oil  corporations are alone to blame for high gasoline prices. They do not compete. All prices change at the same time on the same day. Next day gasoline prices  are posted on the internet for dealers every day. They all follow suit.