Others have responded quite well to your own question about oil and gasoline prices.

With regard to right-wing opinion ... you really need to consume a lot more of it ... spend more time at townhall.com ... there are lots of youngish women writers there whom you may get comfortable with.

But the best project you should set for yourself ... would be to go to the library and take out any book by Thomas Sowell ... and read it cover to cover. There will be lots of valuable data ... and even more valuable analysis from a point of view ... a really brilliant one ... which you've never experienced before.

There's a lot more out there than the loony leftist claptrap you've exposed yourself to ... give it an equal opportunity. Then decide what to believe ... and what not to.