The title of this blog entry is such a cliche. Every time gas prices go up, newspapers all publish stories called, “Pain at the pumps” or something like that. Anyway, it’s no surprise that we’re paying more than ever for gasoline. Every time the prices go up, the oil companies come up with new excuses for it… a refinery was closed because of a terrorist attack (terrorists are the Communists of the 21st Century–you can blame anything on them and get away with it), a rail-workers’ strike, a fire, etc.. But whenever the crisis is over, the prices don’t go down. This morning, I actually heard a Petro Canada executive on the radio, blaming America for the high prices. He said we had to match high American prices for gasoline, otherwise Americans would flood over our borders and buy all our gasoline. Oh no! How ridiculous and false. Americans wouldn’t know how to find the border, even if there were signs pointing to it. And from my journeys through Buffalo, I must tell you it’s not easy to find Canada from there.
Anyway, I’m resigned to paying more for gas because of my social guilt. I’m paying my penance for taking part in the ruining of our environment by giving up bigger and bigger wads of cash for a fill up at the pump. I just wish that the companies who benefit most from this destruction didn’t make so much money from it.
On the radio, there was a trivia question that said “which tv show had a gas station in its intro that had gas at 97 cents a gallon?” The show was the Sopranos, who never changed their intro.
What bothers me also is not that gas is expensive (we’re still paying less than many other countries), but the attitude and bullshit that flies all over the place.
AND no one makes an awesome-looking revolutionary car. Chevrolet Volt looks freaking awesome but even though it will come to production in 2009, it will have a more conservative look. WHY!?!!? WHY PUSSIFY SUCH A NICE CAR!? Bleh, more like pain at the keyboard over here. 😛
yeah they usually have to make the cars more generic because they use generic parts to make them, and they have to pass safety standards and stuff. boo. i’m not crazy about the look of that car anyway. it’s like a brick with too much trim on its front end, and wimpy looking side view mirrors that don’t match the previously-mentioned brick look.
over here in south africa — they raise the price of petrol — and sometime later — lower it — but lower it by only a few cents — later increasing it even more — they seem to think — we don’t know how to do math and figure that in the end — they still taking our money — later days
I guess I better cancel my 2007 HENNESEY VIPER ORDER. Like the bugatti veyron, it has 1000 BHP and 1100 ft pounds of torque… and 5 miles to tha gallon!! I’ll order the Audi s8 (v10 450BHP) instead 🙂