I've seen and read currently in the news in the U.S. and Uganda that certain people believe that the government should control the prices for fuel, oil, food, electricity. It seems to me that we the people want to give control of these things to the government even though it is a privatized industry. Politicians say that the oil companies are getting too much profits so they should pay more taxes. What about other companies that make large profits like computer companies Microsoft and Apple? Or even software companies that make video games, or clothing companies? Let us tax successful business because they make profits and their share owners are happy. That is the plan . . . . I read to day that the DPP wants the government to stabilize the price of food. But what about all the profit that is being made by exporting this food, and in turn causes the food shortage and high prices. But that is rational thought. Like the U.S. having problems with paying for oil at high prices, and Senator Clinton and McCain says that there should be a tax holiday for the summer to ease the problems of the common man. Why not use the taxes for the summer on alternate fuel research, but wait again, Brazil has been using ethanol for years and about 90% of the cars there run off at least 85% ethanol. I know that the U.S. is pushing for more ethanol, but using corn. I thought corn was one of the main food supplies that we eat and need. In Brazil they use sugar cane, in which the sugar is extracted and the pulp is burned to run the refinery and the waste is used as a food supplement, so externally there is less than 5% waste. And with corn the starch is extracted and the rest is waste and chemicals are added to the starch to break is down to start refining, and the refinery is run by coal. I thought that ethanol was suppose to be environmentally friendly. It is in Brazil, but what happened to the idea in the U.S.? Oh that's right, the U.S. has a lot of corn farms, but once again the use of corn causes a food shortage. My point is if the money spent on or received from these wasteful ventures were used for the good of the people, alternate energy, sustainment farming with processing, then these problems that greed brings will be null and void. But we can't do this on our own, nor can we do this at all. Evidently we can't because we call upon the government to help us from ourselves. When our greed becomes so much that we no longer care about our well being there is a problem. Here are the basic questions that we should ask ourselves - Why is oil high? Because of the demand, using oil as a primary source of energy and the controlled supply and the money being made by government officials and corporations that benefit from us using oil. Why is there a food shortage? Food is being exported to get a higher price to make farmers profit more and food is being used to create highly wasteful fuel when there is alternate means that are environmentally friendly with less waste and better results; which in turn creates a food shortage. But the government can save us on this one. Isn't the U.S. government the same one that is stripping the state of California it's rights to have higher environmental standards with emissions or fuel consumption in automobiles, Isn't the Ugandan government encouraging the export of food stuff so that more profit can be made, isn't both countries still highly dependent on oil and not hydro, solar and wind power, but these technologies are here and being used by countries, and that have been using it since the 1980s and 1990s. So what is the Problem? Or are we too blind to see that the government already has too much control?