Southern California Gas: $2.55 a Gallon: Iraqi Gas: $0.05 a Gallon.

While reading Yahoo, one of the news blurbs caught my interest. Apparently, Saddam Hussein subsidized the price of gasoline for Iraqis, giving Iraqi citizens at least one thing to be happy about. Remember, even Mussolini got the Italian trains to run on time. (Or perhaps not.)

Now that the U.S. is calling the shots over there (something I am against, BTW, and have been since the very beginning), we are apparently doing the same thing. To the tune of 5 cents a gallon. (I just paid $2.55 for hi-test yesterday. The poor British citizen is paying about $5.30 a gallon.)

So now, at least when a local militia member drives a car-bomb over to a U.S. soldier (who I am personally willing to support far more than our "President") and kills him, they are able to do so economically. And on my dime, too, since U.S. taxpayers are actually the ones subsidizing cheap Iraqi gas.

I sure hope I'm not the only one who is pissed off by this. If you are too, please remember how you feel now when election time rolls around...