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...Schupp is looking on the bright side. With gas at the pump now topping $2 a gal. in his neighborhood and seemingly headed higher, he figures it's payback for all those insufferable, phony-rich, new-economy yuppies in their view-blocking, death-dealing, friend-of-OPEC SUVs. "Gas will probably go to $3, and I applaud it," says the retired computer-company executive as he fills the tank of his light pickup truck at a station in Los Angeles. "I'd like to see all gas guzzlers off the road...
...Price Evan Ramsey knows. Four years ago, he brought a pump-action shotgun to his Alaska high school and opened up, killing the principal and one student. Now he is serving a 210-year term in a maximum-security prison in the Alaskan mountains. Every night, before crashing in the tiny cell he shares with a fellow murderer, he mops the prison floors, a job that earns him $21 a month, just enough to buy soap, shampoo and stationery, which the Spring Creek Correctional Center does not supply for free. His face pasty white from lack of sun, Ramsey told...
...Other words in the White House's quiver of talking points include "leadership" and "modern." Because Bush may take hits for doing little to relieve the pinch voters feel at the pump, the White House hopes to counter by saying that Bush is showing LEADERSHIP by focusing on long term solutions to the nation's energy problems instead of political quick-fixes. Which is what Clinton would have done (and did, last year, when he tapped the Strategic Petroleum Reserve...
...Dick Cheney may have flunked out Yale a couple of times, but he does not lack for brains. And his personal fuel pump may have been closed for repairs four times and counting, but he's not short on energy either. His younger friend the president gave him a familiar order - tackle this, will you? - and he has delivered again for Bush without upstaging him in the process. (The plan is now officially back in Bush's salesman hands...
...Less pollution and fewer fill-ups at the pump...