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Letter: Where are letters of praise?

The Columbian
Published: November 18, 2013, 4:00pm

Having noticed that gas prices are well under $3.50 now — I have seen it as low as $3.10 in at least one local station — I am wondering why the newspaper has not printed dozens of letters from people thanking President Obama personally for the drop in prices. After all, when gas prices were going up, quite a few people wrote to blame him personally for every extra penny, so if the president can somehow magically control gas prices (which he must be able to do if the increases were his fault), should he not get credit and praise for every penny of savings when prices drop?

I won’t praise him for it, because I realize that prices do fluctuate — always have, always will — and the president cannot control them. But all those previously angry letter-writers should be cheering him, shouldn’t they? Or could it be that they always knew exactly what their “tanks” were full of?

Roy G. Wilson

Vancouver

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