Gas Is giving Me Gas

Wednesday, May 16, 2007


Gas Is giving Me Gas
Current mood: aggravated
Category: vaguely amused News and Politics

How much is unleaded gas going for per gallon where you live? Before you answer that, you had best blow ten dollars on fuel to drive to the nearest gas station to check the latest posting because it could have changed since yesterday. And rest assured, it won't have changed for the better unless you define "the better" as a price hike because you are a CEO with a major fuel corporation.

I got a sick kick out of watching fuel prices steadily drop as we got closer to elections last November, amazed that those in power think that Americans are stupid enough to think that, well, maybe they should vote Republican because prices ARE dropping.

Now here in West Central Wisconsin, (last time I checked) unleaded regular now stands at $3.29.9 a gallon and I have no doubt that by July 4 we will have surpassed the $4.00 mark. It's important to reach that $4 mark so that come next election, when we could be back to paying $3.29 a gallon again, we will all be so relieved and excited about the low prices of fuel.

Now before you start writing me hate mail, I will tell you that perhaps this is the only way that Amricans are going to start insisting that their elected officials legislate more efficent engines and alternate fuels, and we begin buying small, fuel efficient autos instead of gas guzzling Hummers (sorry about your penis!)

Want to stop "just sitting there on the sidelines?"

Highlight the following web address, copy it, paste it in your browser!

http://action.truemajority.org/campaign/fuel_standards

THE REVOLUTION STARTS NOW WITH EACH OF US OVERCOMING INERTIA!

Perhaps this whole farce will bring the revolution to fruition that this country needs so desperately.

I would find politicians of either party amusing if they weren't so damn self serving. As an entertainer, I do a lot of corporate conventions and banquets and I am always dumbfounded with the attitudes of those who are supposed to be serving us.
They will tell whatever group they are speaking to exactly what they think that group wants to hear, then move down the road to the next group and tell them exactly what they want to hear.

I want to finish with a politician story, One of my duly elected local officials bought my "Rude, Crude, and Poor" CD's. He paid for it by check. In the memo portion of the check he wrote: "Larry Heagle Benefit". I would guess that was so he could claim it as a tax deduction?
So I rushed right down to my local pharmacy and bought a gross of Viagra and I wrote in the memo area: " Mrs. Larry Heagle Benefit".

Currently listening :
Fair & Square
By John Prine
Release date: By 26 April, 2005