Do Americans care more about higher gas prices than soldier's lives? [View All]

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I just finished watching that stupid bush commercial about John Kerry
agreeing to a 50 cent per gallon tax on gas (I've seen it 4 times). I guess gasoline is worth our soldier's blood. I would rather pay for high gas prices because of a tax to pay for substantial rebates for hybrid electrics than to pay oil and gas companies higher profits because of OPEC decisions. Because of our greed, it will be necessary to force our society to move into the next technological phase to eliminate our dependency on foreign oil. How can this be wrong ?
I wish Kerry could link Iraq, oil, environment, greed, soldiers blood, filling the strategic oil reserves during high gas prices to benefit political cronies into one very good concise 30 second political ad. I don't think the American people would understand it anyway.
Thanks for letting me vent !!