Comments about ‘State budgets feeling pinch of high gas prices’

Shame on all you geniuses, basing your budget on the phony unsustainable housing bubble and the funny money it blew into the economy. Suck it up and CUT GOVERNMENT. Get your hand out of my pocket.

It's time to put further restrictions on use of vehicles. Not every manager in government needs to have a vehicle made available to them. And the private use of government vehicles has gotten out of control. Every day I see government vehicles in the parking lots of grocery stores, restaurants, and mall parking lots being used for private uses. And who knows how many seen on the roads are being used for personal transportation to and from home. Reporting these vehicles to the agency's don't get any results and the user is always able to come up with some lame excuse why they were at Wal Mart or in a Park City restaruant lot, on government time and in a government vehicle. Park City is a favorite spot for managers and superintendats of the Granite school district office to go for long expensive expense account funded lunches. Like Grandma said, waste not, want not. There are many places all government agencys can cut costs of transportation if they were willing to do something about it, except raise taxes and complain about cost. Make all employees provide their own transportation like all private business managers must do.

Why then does the state continue to but gas guzzlers like SUVs and light trucks with big V8 engines in them etc. ? Poor purchasing practices = drain on state money....