A most ill-informed, intemperate editorial on energy policy sadly was published in the Kansas City Star this weekend, … but thanks to the market-based, democratizing power of the internet, so-called elite media opinion can more easily be exposed for the absurdity it can sometimes be.

In the internet era anyone with a computer, an internet connection, and a clever blog name can stand tall in reply, offering the common sense of the masses as an antedote to foolishness such as the column penned by Mr. Yael Aboulhalka’s of the Star’s ed board. Read his editorial here which calls for a 50 cents per gallon gas tax.

And read below some comments from the KCStar’s readership, …

From CZMdivemaster on January 4, 2009 - 2:24pm:

Yael T. Abouhalkah, man are you living on the same planet as the rest of us? The economy is tanking, many, many people are losing their jobs and you think now is the right time for a large gas tax? …

From sonofrogue on January 4, 2009 - 10:32am.

Now that gasoline prices have returned to “normal,” morons like alphabet want to raise the taxes on gasoline to encourage “conservation” and the search for alternative fuels like wind and solar. Please. Oil is, and will remain, the most effective energy source (next to nuclear) for years to come. Lets encourage alternative sources, but not sacrifice our economy again to crippling gasoline prices.