Paper should take stand against area's oil cartel

Our own Daily Bee is a one-man pro-school levy advertisement and we will be bombarded about why we should vote yes until election time.

Not arguing about the need for a positive vote, I would like to make a suggestion as to why the last levy failed.

Bonner County was in an unknown property tax situation but, the big one no one wants to touch, is our local oil cartel maintains about a 30-cents-a-gallon increase over the Coeur d'Alene market.

When we figure every fill-up costs ups about $3 to $6 excess that goes directly into the pockets of a single handful of local business folks, it's sick.

I can see if the above and beyond profits were used for a positive levy, we could have paid for a new jail plus the schools in just a few months.

When one oil corporation has billions in profits in a single quarter, there is money to bribe/contribute to every politician in the land plus the required bureaucrats to maintain any prices they want.

We need fuel cell technology to rid ourselves of the giant oil problem but it will never happen until the last quart of oil is used up.

It takes energy to make hydrogen but we can do that with nuclear power. The word oil cartel is not just overseas, it's right here in Bonner and Boundary counties and is taking us to the cleaners.

Why can't our own newspaper make the same levy effort to help its readers by constantly searching and blasting our select cartel people?

I already know. It's the good old boys' club.

LEWIS W. WETZEL

Sandpoint