Inflation Calculators from InflationData.com Hillare Belloc’s Advice to the Rich: “Get to know something about the internal combustion engine. And remember -- soon you will die.” To what should we attribute the steep rise in gas prices? A Hartford paper noted Connecticut’s “double-digit spike” in gas prices under the headline “Pain at the pump.” Gas prices were far less painful under the administration of former President Donald – “drill baby, drill” -- Trump, now beleaguered with multiple court actions, none of them accusing Trump of a border policy that has ushered into the United States millions of illegal aliens, or imprudent “taxes on the rich and the middleclass. The Poynter Institute’s Politifact reported in December 2023, “Federal Energy Information Administration data shows that the average gasoline price during Trump’s four-year term was $2.46 per gallon. During President Joe Biden’s presidency so far, the average [gas price] has been $3.54… GasBuddy.com data shows
The French created an ingenious prison cell so confining that the occupant of the cell could never stand, sit or rest at ease. They called it, appropriately enough, “the little ease.” Conservatives, libertarians and independents in Connecticut must occasionally feel the constraints of the little ease, but there are outlets in the state that relieve the constant pressure. Pastor Will Marotti’s radio program on WTIC 1080 provided some release. The above-named groups have been short sheeted in Connecticut for decades. There has been little presence of conservative, libertarian, independent and contrarian political opinion in Connecticut’s left of center print media for decades. Nationally, the print media is overwhelmingly neo-progressive. One detects the strong odor of bias in the print media from things not said. Gallup polling has been measuring the public’s Confidence in Newspapers since 1973. According to a 2022 poll, “Percentages of Democrats, Independents and Republicans who