Author protests outrageous gas prices in a letter sent to the President, senators of all fifty states and the major networks.
Sun River, MT (Click here) June 1, 2007 -- M.L. Bushman is mad as hell over the price of gas these days.
What prompted her to act, she said, referring to a letter she wrote and subsequently sent to the President, senators from all fifty states and the major news networks is driving by the same gas station twice within twenty minutes to find prices at the pump had risen a full ten cents per gallon.
"That really fried me," the single mom and novelist said, "especially when I took a little ride and discovered every other gas station on the west side of Great Falls had done exactly the same thing. What I couldn't get past was the idea that they [the oil companies] think we consumers, the poor and middle-class especially, are all so flipping stupid that we'll just take this lying down, that we'll let these vultures feed on us at will. As if we're nothing to them, or Congress, but a dead carcass ripe for the pickings." She shakes her head. "Obviously, these greedy oil execs and our politicians in Washington have forgotten that our country began with a revolt against very much the same sort of highway robbery that's occurring now."
"What's ironic is that I briefly touch on this very issue in Miracle," she said of her debut novel, a paranormal thriller recently published by Jigsaw Press.
Ms. Bushman stated that the only real response she received came from Senator Jon Tester of Montana. "I wrote back to tell him he'd neatly sidestepped the issues of collusion and price-fixing and market manipulation, but he has yet to respond." She grinned. "Wonder why that is?"
A recent petition sponsored by MoveOn.org in support of new legislation making price-gouging a federal crime suggests she may not be alone in her discontent. According to published reports, the organization collected over three hundred thousand signatures in a twenty-four hour period, with a full twenty percent of signers having never before signed a petition.
Still, M.L. Bushman isn't satisfied, downplaying the new law as nothing but Congress's weak attempt to placate their constituents. "We don't need new legislation," the author went on to say. "We need our legislators to enforce the laws already on the books."
She laughed and added, "Now wouldn't that be a miracle?"
To read the prologue and first chapter of Ms. Bushman's paranormal thriller, Miracle, the novel, 978-1-934340-55-4 visit the Jigsaw Press website, Click here.
Jigsaw Press is an independent publisher located in Sun River, Montana.
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