To the editor:

Tuesday’s Journal-World reports that our esteemed anti-tax anti-tax anti-tax legislators are now reversing field, suggesting increased taxes to fund a new highway program but OH, NEVER NOTHING for schools. Something is really wrong here! Did we Kansans actually elect these people? Please note that I refrain here from adding those adjectives which they so richly deserve.

Now, yours truly would gladly, even enthusiastically support increases in gasoline and vehicle taxes for entirely different reasons: If adequate funding for schools is not provided otherwise, a major portion of those taxes MUST go to education.

The reason for support of much larger gasoline taxes is as follows: We should not be supporting OPEC by buying their oil while at least some of their members are our sworn enemies. The best and perhaps the only way to limit that support is to make use of said oil so expensive in fact that one would never even be tempted to buy that big SUV or to drive a Hummer, heaven forbid.