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Originally posted at http://darrels-forum.blogspot.com/ It saddens me when I look at our nation and see us so divided. We are not divided geographically, but ideologically. If it were that we were divided by some geographic boundary it would be an easy problem to solve, but ideological differences within the same boundaries are a different problem altogether. We seem to have a divide between what some would call “liberals” and “conservatives”. That is our political divide, but there is anothe… Continue

This article previously posted at http://darrels-forum.blogspot.com/ Who does she think she is? Nancy Pelosi is only one of 435 elected to the House of Representatives, yet she has been given the power to claim what legislation gets to come to the floor for a vote. Recently, Qu… Continue

Much to my surprise and pleasure, I got a response today from my representative in the Oregon Senate. Doug Whitsett wrote back to me that he too has been noticing a difference in the mileage between gasoline with and without ethanol. In his Volvo he averages 29 mpg on regular gasoline, but with ethanol his mileage drops to 26.5. He tells me he travels an average of 3000 miles per month covering his five county district. He maintains that he is strongly opposed to the use of ethanol and calls… Continue

Originally posted on http://darrels-forum.blogspot.com/2008/06/highway-robbery.html My wife and I just returned home from a road trip that took us 4500+ miles. We live in Oregon, where gasoline now includes 10% ethanol and is over $4.00 per gallon. When we left we filled at our local station at $4.09 per gallon and drove to Caldwell, Idaho where gasoline is still just gasoline with no ethanol in it. Idaho and Wyoming were the only two states we traveled in that had no ethanol in the gas. We dr… Continue