I paid $2.50 (Yeah, that is American Dollars) for a single gallon of gasoline today. I remember back in the early '70's when gas went from 21 cents to 35 cents. I almost had a stroke at the pump. I was coming home on leave from the Army, and was driving from Fort Knox, KY, to Alexandria, LA, and like to have crapped myself when I saw what they wanted for gas on the interstate. 35 cents? You gotta be shitting me? I can still get it for a quarter at Knox!
Now, at the pump down the street, the same gas costs ten times as much. Jeez! Now I know why they call it a pump. Someone's getting pumped, all right.
Didn't we just take over an oilfield in Iraq? Isn't there oil in Alaska somewhere? How about off the coast of Florida? Or California? We need to be pumping that shit out of the ground. Damn a pipline! Dig a ditch to the refinery and run that shit right down the ditch.
I read somewhere that the problem is the lack of refinery capacity. Well Dammit, build more refineries! The environmentalists complain? Well, screw them! Gas is too damned expensive. We've got to get our priorities straight and when I'm paying over $2.00 at the pump, we gotta get the supply of gasoline back where it belongs.
Hell, it's getting so I can't afford to pour gasoline on a fire ant bed. You want to kill fire-ants? Pour a half gallon of gasoline on a fire-ant mound, then drop a match on it. Yeah, it leaves a black spot in the grass, but the fire ants are made to feel decidedly unwelcome.
Bigger tankers, more refineries, and gas back to 35 cents a gallon. Pay the tanker skippers a little less, and let them drive drunk. The cute tiny baby seals can't help me get the price of gas down, then they're just in the way.
I oughta run for office.
Believe it or not it's 5 and 6 dollars a gallon in some countries.
ReplyDeleteTheir distribution chains are all fucked up. Probably socialist countries. Let the marketplace decide and we will be all be buying gas for the same price.
ReplyDeleteThe greens have fucked this up beyond all belief.
It would be nice if this administration did at least one thing for the good of the country and declared emminent domain on the Florida and California offshore oil reserves, thereby allowing drilling.
ReplyDeleteWell, homie2, you must not want to use oil. May I suggest that the good citizens of the state of California stop using oil until they are willing to start producing it?
ReplyDeleteIf you don't like offshore drilling, why do you use gasoline?
A tax proposal: if a state has offshore oil reserves and won't allow drilling to tap those reserves, then a special $1 per gallon federal tax shall be levied on all oil-based fuels sold within that state.
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