Fueled up and fuming.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services)

The following editorial appeared in the Orlando Sentinel on Friday, 6-23:

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Motorists are pretty charged up about prices at the gasoline pump these days.

They're angry at the oil-producing nations, oil companies, oil refineries, gasoline stations.

They don't care that America still pays some of the lowest gasoline prices in the world. They don't want to hear that gas prices have risen little over the years when inflation is taken into account.

Motorists want a quick return to the good ol' days of scarcely a year ago, when gasoline cost less than $1 a gallon.

But they have as much chance to make that happen as they do …