I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
aha!
first?
yes...happy birtthday, thers and happy earth-day, too
ah, woody! 
Third?
Hi her eyes and woody
Thers' b-day! well happy birthday to the proud papa!
earth day too!
i'll have to pick up some trash in the street later, when it stops raining.
hi mer! how are you! you beat spinoza!
Ah, clean sheets. Let's try and ignore unless you really feel you have to respond. Then have at it. It is amusing sometimes to read the smackdowns.
they're doing it because their masters jerk off to the anguish of consumers unhappy about proces but still willing to pay.
Well.
This is a soundbite type of issue.
It's very, very easy to take the camera crew down to the corner Cheveron or Exxon station and get some footage.
The very very easy part is important to remember; modern "journalism" is all about gathering content as cheaply and with as little effort as possible to pad the available time between commercials.
ah, woody!
her eyes | 04.22.06 - 2:25 pm |
ha, her eyes
our moment so fleeting...so sweet...i'll remember it always...
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Gas...? Oh, I thought this was a post about all the hot air coming out of the murder-minded trolls on the Keyboard Kommandos thread.
2.89th
And as to the topic. The repukes have been running around wanting to claim credit for the economy, well m'kay. Let's start giving them all the credit for the investor class doing spectacularly well, while the middle class is getting up the ass. The more the media cover the high price of gas the better.
I have my own question and prediction about gas prices...
hola, mer...howzit
hi ql! where's your homepage? i miss seeing the latest creations!
the news does show a lot of people bitching about the price of gas, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing.
i find it a bit funny to see people with hummers bitching about it though.
It will be interesting to see if there is a downturn in consumer purchases in the months to come.
Ah, clean sheets. Let's try and ignore unless you really feel you have to respond. Then have at it. It is amusing sometimes to read the smackdowns.
ql Beale
You're sending mixed signals here...I don't know what to do now...
Isn't it anti-American to complain about Gas Prices?
i'll have to pick up some trash in the street later, when it stops raining.
Okay, but please don't bring it here anymore.
our moment so fleeting...so sweet...i'll remember it always...
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WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka... | 04.22.06 - 2:28 pm | #
how sweet you are! you must be a killa wid da ladies!
It's amazing how much time news stations can spend on showing people complaining about gas prices.
Viewership..
Look Ma, I'm on teevee!
Kinda like that kid on Willey Wonka.
i hate gas!
gas gas gas, my ass!
. . . and the best thing about Saturday is that there is a nice time for naps and other fun activities.
Later, Moonbats
All that matters is that Bush and his oil hallibear buddies are making money.
MORE SKIN ON LOVEBOAT!
TV showing the gas lines in the 1970s was very powerful. Sadly, if we had followed Carter's energy plans we wouldn't be on the verge of seeing new ones.
how sweet you are! you must be a killa wid da ladies!
her eyes
No flirting.
Speaking of which, WGG - I gave you three big smooches on your b'day and you never aknoledged one.
our moment so fleeting...so sweet...i'll remember it always...
Yer breaking the rules!
NO FLIRTING!
Off to gitmo with you!
Karl Rove - Beat –up by a Catholic girl because he was an obnoxious little shithead
hi mer! how are you! you beat spinoza!
I have to let her have a few to keep her non-violent.
"I have my own question and prediction about gas prices..."
--Eli
Glad to see you so optimistic.
Giants reach agreement with LB Arrington
By John Clayton
ESPN.com
LaVar Arrington got everything he was hoping for -- a seven-year contract and a chance to stay in the NFC East.
LaVar Arrington
Arrington
Arrington reached agreement Saturday on a seven-year, $49 million contract with the New York Giants. Further details of the contract weren't available, but the Giants came close to the number he was hoping for. The Giants gave Arrington the chance to compete against the Redskins twice a year.
It will be interesting to see if there is a downturn in consumer purchases in the months to come.
mer | 04.22.06 - 2:29 pm | #
oh, it is almost a given. most of the people i know that bitch are bitching because they can't buy the latest "made-in-china" from walmart because they have to spend a lot of money to fill their gas tanks.
the other thing i've noticed, and it is only a slight difference, is that i don't have as much traffic past my house on the weekends.
Doesn't compaining about gas prices give aid and comfort to our enemies in the middle east?
Got rid of the car. Moved to Berlin.
For$74 a month I move by tram, train, subway, bus around this vast city at will. Most trips under 15 minutes.
So why don't they interview smiling me?
You're sending mixed signals here...I don't know what to do now...
Buzz Bomb
that's because I am conflicted. Some of the smackdowns are exceptionally good.
Glad to see you so optimistic.
As always.
MORE SKIN ON LOVEBOAT!
NTodd, Bungholier
is GaviN MacLeod Naked?
how sweet you are! you must be a killa wid da ladies!
her eyes - 2:30 pm
(quoting Sam Cooke)"if i c'n meet 'em, i c'n get 'em, but as yet i haven't met 'em, that's why i'm in the shape i'm in..."
LaVar Arrington
Has been. Spare.
Arrington reached agreement Saturday on a seven-year, $49 million contract with the New York Giants. Further details of the contract weren't available, but the Giants came close to the number he was hoping for. The Giants gave Arrington the chance to compete against the Redskins twice a year.
Very, very psyched. Wonder if they'll have enough sense to draft a left tackle now...
Eli,
You're gas scenario is scary in its efficacy, but that's what makes it phantasmagorical. The greedy oil barons would never let gas prices drop that much. I'm confident saying that because energy companies like Enron let their greed lead to their doom. I expect worse from oil companies.
Wonder if they'll have enough sense to draft a left tackle now...
Eli
these are the GIants
So why don't they interview smiling me?
zepper | 04.22.06 - 2:32 pm
Sie wohne jetzt im Berlin? Ausgezeichtnet!
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It's amazing how much time news stations can spend on showing people complaining about gas prices.
I love that graphic that shows Bush's approval ratings falling in perfect relationship to gas prices rising.
I also love that I don't need a car. When Manhattanites have to park all their cars due to gas prices, it'll be walker's heaven here!
You're gas scenario is scary in its efficacy, but that's what makes it phantasmagorical. The greedy oil barons would never let gas prices drop that much.
That's why the interim period between the election and the Operation Blow The Shit Out Of Iran has to be so short. They can't bear to not make windfall profits for more than a few weeks.
Wonder if they'll have enough sense to draft a left tackle now...
Eli
these are the GIants
Stole my thought.
Grrr!
Atrios, the thing is this: a lot of us are not in a situation where we can choose NOT to drive. In Muskegon, there is no choice.
Cost Analysis
Purchasing two old cars - $3600 per year
Gasoline for four cars - ($25 per car per week) $5200
Insurance for four cars $3200
$12000 per year. I would love to do without, but cannot.
JPod shows a flash of anger
MARY MCCARTHY AND JEFF GANNON [JPod]
Grrr!
smalfish, discourser |
dman liberals thinking alike
these are the GIants
Stole my thought.
I think they honestly believe that Petitgout is an adequate left tackle.
Extraordinary.
I also love that I don't need a car. When Manhattanites have to park all their cars due to gas prices, it'll be walker's heaven here!
Are you trying to imply your a groper?
Hi Woody,
Ausgezeichnet doesn't begin to cover it. Coolest city on the planet!!!
i ride my bike to work most days, weather permitting.
and i drive a fairly fuel efficient car when i have to drive.
i hate how there are very few sidewalks however.
Extraordinary.
Eli
delusions of adequecy
ql Beale | 04.22.06 - 2:31 pm
ql: ((((((SMOOOOCHES)))))
and thank you...i do recall two at least...and i'm a heartless, thoughtless, selfisch clot...
I also love that I don't need a car. When Manhattanites have to park all their cars due to gas prices, it'll be walker's heaven here!
Marcia Brady∞ | 04.22.06 - 2:35 pm | #
damn, if that happens, i'm moving to nyc! it will be walker's heaven!
gavin macleod is a born-again
TV showing the gas lines in the 1970s was very powerful. Sadly, if we had followed Carter's energy plans we wouldn't be on the verge of seeing new ones.
No shit, if the cafe fuel consumption standards year by year increase, had not been dropped, then most of the vehicles being driven would have greater then 30mpg. Instead you still see ford behomouths and GM mastadons. Unless you are in some sort of construction trade, that requires you to haul around materials (not most construction people, a small PU would sufice for most) There's really no need for those fuel inefficient beasts.
Chimpy is as likely to find examples of "price gouging" as Mitchell Wade was of buying unopened bottles of wine at Citronelle prices.
It will be interesting to see if there is a downturn in consumer purchases in the months to come.
My local news did a heart-wrenching story last night about people who are resorting to pawning their worldy possessions to get money for gasoline so they can go to work. Seems people are hocking their goods to pay for gas, hoping to come back and retreive their items at payday. Things are getting ugly, and unfortunately the lower income are hurt first and hardest.
Are you trying to imply your a groper?
smalfish, discourser
Huh? Unless you have videotaped evidence of my groping anyone, which I am fairly sure probably does not exist, then I imply nothing!
Huh? Unless you have videotaped evidence of my groping anyone, which I am fairly sure probably does not exist, then I imply nothing!
You know the ATMs have cameras, right?
I think they honestly believe that Petitgout is an adequate left tackle.
Actually, he is - if he pays attention AND learns to count to three...look up "false start" in the dictionary and there's his pic...
---
gavin macleod is a born-again
Gen. Lysergic Von Shroomingham
ship captain
damn, if that happens, i'm moving to nyc! it will be walker's heaven!
her eyes
Can you imagine riding your bike down the middle of Broadway?
Ausgezeichnet doesn't begin to cover it. Coolest city on the planet!!!
zepper - 2:36 pm
how long have you lived there? are you Deutsch? i have a very warm regard for Germany...have often thought of returning...
I would think some creative Moveon.org type would produce an ad using the Senate hearing footage of Sen. Ted Stevens screaming that the oil executives before the committee would notbe testifying under oath (while those greedy pricks sat there and grinned their arrogant grins)
It's amazing how much time news stations can spend on showing people complaining about gas prices.
Shouldn't have bought those Hummers.
Wankers.
There's really no need for those fuel inefficient beasts.
Doug, | 04.22.06 - 2:38 pm | #
word on that.
it isn't anything new, and i know i've said it here before, but oftentimes, i find myself on the highway in a sea of suv's. with very aggressive drivers behind the wheel. don't they know they are driving killing machines?? one little slip up and they could wind up killing someone.
It is my birthday and I am celebrating by looking on in horror at Ann Althouse.
You know the ATMs have cameras, right?
Eli
Look, you've made that veiled implication to me before. If you have something to share, then give me your demands... 
How long before they tell us that bombing Iran will make gas cheaper?
Sort of like how all that Iraq Oil was going to pay for the War in Iraq...
Yeah, I commented that I took more notice than usual of local news coverage of Holy Week and Easter-- lots of reverent clips of the Pope and papal ceremonies, and the predictable other shoe of local ceremonies.
And I thought, OK, well I guess I can't fault the locals for playing to their solid audience of decent, respectable, church-going Christians by serving a generous slice of Easter Pie.
But it sharpened my focus on how local news has a standard box of storylines it puts in rotation as needed. The "bitching about gas lines" is a classic. And they can enrich the shtick by making it self-referential, e.g. showing clips from previous gas-shortage crises.
It is the equivalent of a zookeeper whacking the bars with a stick just to get the troops to look alive. I suppose the dynamic is that viewers identify with the complainers in the spotlight and are thus appreciative of the news for the coverage.
In short, it's a cynical exercise in the manufacture of consent, intended more to reinforce viewer loyalty than disseminate worthwhile information as a public service.
Actually, he is - if he pays attention AND learns to count to three...look up "false start" in the dictionary and there's his pic...
He's been around long enough that I don't see that happening. Plus his bad back makes him unreliable. Get someone young and strong (but focused) in there.
Chimpy is as likely to find examples of "price gouging" as Mitchell Wade was of buying unopened bottles of wine at Citronelle prices.
P O'Neill
Succinctly put!
" 'Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past,'"
A memo was released showing that auto companies specifically targeted insecure people with SUVs.
Can you imagine riding your bike down the middle of Broadway?
Marcia Brady∞ | 04.22.06 - 2:40 pm | #
i think that would be kewl...
My local news did a heart-wrenching story last night about people who are resorting to pawning their worldy possessions to get money for gasoline so they can go to work
Will this finally be the end of those never ending self store it places?
Unless you have videotaped evidence of my groping anyone, which I am fairly sure probably does not exist, then I imply nothing!
Well, NYC is putting in place "security" cameras.
All I'm saying is, be careful.
Gropers are *not* a bad thing. As long as the gropee's are male.
Heh, heh. When I bought my hybrid two + years ago, everyone at work kept sending me articles about how the extra cost of the car wasn't worth the gas savings, especially as little as I drive. Guess who's laughing now?
Heard on local radio that metro is having record number of riders; folks are jammed into trains; metro may need to raise fares to add new cars. So the high prices are impacting some people. But I sit behind Lincoln Escalades with one person in them every day waiting to get on the TR Bridge.
don't they know they are driving killing machines?? one little slip up and they could wind up killing someone.
I think that's a perk, actually...
selfisch clot...
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar(aka
Nah, just more concerned with our slide into facism I wager.
How long before they tell us that bombing Iran will make gas cheaper?
Sort of like how all that Iraq Oil was going to pay for the War in Iraq...
Nothing like an extensive bombing campaign to pump up a country's oil-pumping capacity.
Bin hier seit Oktober. I'm an American, speak the local language. The really cool thing about Berlin is that it's not Germany, the same way NYC ain't Murka.
Can't say enough good stuff about this weird city - it ain't beautiful, but it's tough and handsome, it ain't easy (20% unemployment), but it's real, it's gritty. Best thing, for a world capital, it's cheap! And,hey, no Bush!
I keep hoping that the prices on hummers drop enough for me to get a humvee I (the military styled SUV) so that I can toss the engine out and put in a large stationary Steam or Biodiesel engine on the bed. (has to be a PU). Oh well, I'll probobly just get an ancient Mercedes 4 cyl diesel instead.
Perhaps I like the word "pump" a little too much...
It is the equivalent of a zookeeper whacking the bars with a stick just to get the troops to look alive. I suppose the dynamic is that viewers identify with the complainers in the spotlight and are thus appreciative of the news for the coverage.
You are getting too smart for your own good. We will have to do something to protect you.
It is the equivalent of a zookeeper whacking the bars with a stick just to get the troops to look alive. I suppose the dynamic is that viewers identify with the complainers in the spotlight and are thus appreciative of the news for the coverage.
You are getting too smart for your own good. We will have to do something to protect you.
I've been accosted twice at the local pump this year by folks looking for a few bucks for gasoline. One time was an older gentleman in his wife. I gave both times because I had the sense I wasn't being scammed - the older guy offered his driver license to me - said I could hold it and mail it back to him - he needed 5 bucks to get him and his wife home. Unfortunately, at some point those in need will be joined by the scammers, and my charity will have to dry up. It makes me very angry. I can't, however, join most of the people on these types of threads who solely blame oil companies. EVERY American needs to take a good look in the mirror.
Wow, what a bunch of panty wastes this blog is run by. You ban people because they don't agree with you. can dish it out but can't take. And that's why they call you wimpy democrats.
jesus christ, i remember the gas lines of the 70's and i had no time or patience for those gas lines, and unfortunately, i have less of each now that i'm older.
Complaint Cable 24-7!!!
Let's go for it!!!
All complaints All the time!
here we are in toledo:
'aunt betty burnt the tamales'
nd in akron:
' I'm out of stamps, it's Carl's fault'
And in Crawford:
'they killed my son----------
oops.
scratch that.
let's go to the lady with the gluten allergy in milwaukee.
Perhaps I like the word "pump" a little too much...
Do you like blogpumping and blogwhiring?
it's about driving the debate, controling and directing the thoughts of the great masses.
Do you like blogpumping and blogwhiring?
Blogpumping, yes. Blogwhirring, I use 3-in-1 oil for.
(since NYMary isn't around)
{{{smooch}}} to Thers and happy birthday. I bet the kids are gonna have a cake for you.
Wow, what a bunch of panty wastes this blog is run by. You ban people because they don't agree with you. can dish it out but can't take. And that's why they call you wimpy democrats.
I disagree here all the time. And I'm an asshole. But it takes a special disagreeing asshole to get banned. Oh, and you should bring your own bag of pus.
thersowls
Why is it amazing that the news media is talking about gas prices?
These kinds of things resonate when you're routinely putting $60 or more in your vehicle, limiting commutes to work and home, and strategically planning shopping trips.
{{{smooch}}} to Thers
hey now! no flirting! you said so yourself!
happy b-day Thers, and congrats on being a PAPA!
again.
Goes with the seasonal stuff, done every year - "look at that big pile o' snow, wouldcha!" stories, the spring break stories, the "fry an egg on the sidewalk" stories, and any time of the year - the "liberals are evil" stories.
Takes no thought, fills up space.
In the 70's I had this old 1960 40 horse/40mpg VW, that I drove.
The gas lines in the 70's didn't affect me much. When a single gallon could take you 40 miles, you can afford to drive by the overcrowded gas pumps and fill up at one that doesn't have the crowd.
You ban people because they don't agree with you. can dish it out but can't take. And that's why they call you wimpy democrats.
I thought they called them Freepers.
her eyes,
Yeah, I especially hated sitting in the gas lines in the heat. You couldn't run the air conditioning cuz you were almost out of gas. You never knew how long you'd have to sit and wait so figuring out when to leave for, say, work was interesting. You'd drive by one station w/ a long line and wonder if driving to the next station would be smarter or if you'd just have to get into an even longer line there. Yuck.
Those goddamn price-gouging oil companies! And why won't the worthless fucking auto manufacturers do something to put the blocks to those cocksucking greedheads? I'll tell you what - if any of those gutless fools actually thinks I'm going to be buying another Belchfire 4000 Civilian Edition Armored Personnel Carrier next year, they've got another think coming! I'm damned well going to wait until the year after next, at least! And I might just scale back to a Belchfire 3000 next time - I'm thinking about it pretty fucking hard, let me tell you!
How long before they tell us that bombing Iran will make gas cheaper?
And how long after that before they say "We never said that!"?
all cars are killing machines. jest ask them dead little animals ya see on the side of the hi way.
but, fuck 'em. they were gonna die anyway.
one little slip up and they could wind up killing someone.
This is actually a feature for these people.
One of the nifty little psychological twists of the automobile is that it further atomizies people, drives them apart, alienates them from others.
Wow, what a bunch of panty wastes this blog is run by.
Panty wastes? Umm, ew.
You can't get rid of me webmaster. MY VOICE WILL ALWAYS BE HEARD!!!
and no lucky ducky apparently it is the panties on this blog that can't stand to have people disagree with them. Go ahead webmaster kick me again I'll be back with a new ip address faster than you can say Atrios is a pussy.
BTW - panty wastes
If you're going to lob insults, check your little troll dictionary.
It's "pantywaist".
You're welcome.
But panty waste is so much more graphic.
Banning? Feh. Just jump on your neighbors unsecured WiFi AP.
This is a soundbite type of issue.
It's very, very easy to take the camera crew down to the corner Cheveron or Exxon station and get some footage.
The very very easy part is important to remember; modern "journalism" is all about gathering content as cheaply and with as little effort as possible to pad the available time between commercials.
Apprentice to Darth Tigerous | 04.22.06 - 2:27 pm | #
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Ah, my apprentice, as one who has worked for an "editor" who did little more than edit for length and the more egregious spelling errors, I can attest to the truth of this statement.
Especially in the small papers, quantity is what counts, not quality. My editor wanted twelve stories a week from each of his two reporters, minimum. His goal was to fill 18 to twenty broadsheet pages each week. It almost didn't matter what they were about or how good the topic was.
My best researched and most conscientious efforts got exactly the same response from him as my most rushed, slapped-together stories. After a while I was starting to feel like I was writing the generic content that goes into free shoppers.
"Seems people are hocking their goods to pay for gas, hoping to come back and retreive their items at payday. Things are getting ugly, and unfortunately the lower income are hurt first and hardest."
puppethead
I saw something similar CNN. The guy actually by appearences looked pretty well off. It gave me a whole new perspective on who the paycheck to paycheck people are.
MY VOICE WILL ALWAYS BE HEARD!!!
If you're incoherent, it hardly matters.
And if you want to see real censorship, try Free Republic. Seriously.
MY VOICE WILL ALWAYS BE HEARD!!!
I'm sorry, did you say something?
My orthodontist I doubt even knows what the price of gas is.
So why do "people of faith" vote for a man (bush), okay half a man, who attends satanic rituals at Bohemian Grove?
MY VOICE WILL ALWAYS BE HEARD!!!
We hear the noise, but there is no signal at all.
it isn't anything new, and i know i've said it here before, but oftentimes, i find myself on the highway in a sea of suv's. with very aggressive drivers behind the wheel. don't they know they are driving killing machines?? one little slip up and they could wind up killing someone.
her eyes | 04.22.06 - 2:40 pm | #
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Like they care.
Out of my way, puny subcompact!
You can't get rid of me webmaster. MY VOICE WILL ALWAYS BE HEARD!!!
Is that you FY?
You get scrubbed much?
Lee Raymond is starving in hios old age dammit!
It gave me a whole new perspective on who the paycheck to paycheck people are.
When they've put themselves in hock to be able to buy their over sized houses, autos, and live their extravagant lifestyle, even a small rise in costs will drive many of them under.
Probobly the same idiots who make fun of people who live in a real sense a more "conservative" life. Conservative in the sense of spending habits, what kind of clothes you wear, and cars you buy.
Is that you FY?
You get scrubbed much?
Don't smell like it.
Oh please. The most aggressive drivers in the world are black women - 25-45 driving Japanese cars, usually Accords or Nissans. You just try going only 80mph in front of one of them.
Headline in paper today:
Pump prices hurt America's poor and rural drivers most
D'oh! Then:
Young adults next group expected to feel the impact
Yeah, because they have long commutes to work. Right.
Brian Foss (AP) writes:
For most Americans today's rising gas prices are an annoyance, not a serious financial hardship.
After all, mac and cheese for dinner, fewer evenings out, and no summer vacation are not considered hardships.
I must agree young black women are the most aggressive drivers.
The most aggressive drivers in the world are black women - 25-45 driving Japanese cars, usually Accords or Nissans. You just try going only 80mph in front of one of them.
They probobly are not driving that fast, they just have a decent auto, that's faster and more efficient then your Ford Mastadon. (in some circumstances a fast reving, fuel efficient 4 cyl is much faster then a V
in some circumstances a fast reving, fuel efficient 4 cyl is much faster then a V
maybe in formula 1 racing but that is about the only time.
Wait till you see quick electric autos. the Tzero accelerates from 30mph to 60mph in 1.5 seconds.
That car is scarce and expensive, but power controlers much like that in the Tzero are starting to be made for tinkerers.
I think electric cars should be invited. We need to put strips in the interstates that power can be drawn off of so you only need batteries when you are not on a major highway. Ofcorse small wireless metering devices can call in to the power company and tell how much you used that month and a bill can be sent to you.
I belong to an 'autoshare' org.
rent daily, hourly, etc...
little car, half a tank: 26.00
shocking.
doing that two or three times a week as opposed to a 25.00 per week transit pass would be quite
problematic
I don't need or want to have power for my electric vehicles drawn off the grid, for what I'm going to use those autos for. (less then 100 mile round trip) I'll generate my own off of wind and solar.
Seems kind of dumb, but if you log your driving, you'll find that's at least 50% of the yearly milage your gas auto accumulates.
where are the windmill cars when we need them?
The most aggressive drivers around here are middle-aged and older men driving BMWs or Audis. By far the most aggressive.
And,hey, no Bush!
zepper | 04.22.06 - 2:44 pm
wass macht Sie, dabei? als Beruf, ich meine...
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panty wastes
...unless referring to Jonah Goldberg...
then the trool spelling is perfectly apposite...
Would you rather work 14-hour days on hard-hitting journalism that may or may not pan out into something that can go on the air
-or-
Spend 2 hours gathering ignorance at the local gas mart for a story that is sure to pan out?
What if management preferred you did the latter?
What if you got paid the same either way?
Most local news these days is just filler between the ads for furniture and used cars.
Given how much of the content on Eschaton is filler, who are you to criticize an overworked, underpaid local tv reporter?
Gas is now about $3 a gallon here in Massachusetts.
Where's Bill O'Reilly when you need him?
$2.98/gallon in Phoenix right now - 'cept at Arco, where it's still $2.87. Took the opportunity to do all the errands at once - and I hate to break it to you purists, but I just don't think I could manage to transport the five, three yard packages of mulch and compost, groceries, Arthur's dinners for the next two months, a new (recycled) chair, a footstool and a couple of flats of vegetables on public transit.
http://
www.pollkatz.homestead.co...88_image001.gif
go to my site for more.
all the reports I'm seeing are pushing the theme that others are paying more than you
The most aggressive drivers around here are middle-aged and older men driving BMWs or Audis. By far the most aggressive.
In Texas, the most aggressive are soccer moms in brand-new SUVs and tiny-dicks in their big, shiny, oversize pickups. So, that means just about everyone is driving like dicks.
I thought the recent climb in gas prices to $3/gallon here (and believe you me, $3 is a record high here) would do something to reduce the number of trucks on the highways, but it just makes them even more angrier drivers.
What is really surprising is that the stories on high gas prisces are running without any mention of prominent Bush quote from the 2000 election,
"What I think the president ought to do is get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say we expect you to open your spigots. One reason why the price is so high is because the price of crude oil has been driven up. OPEC has gotten its supply act together and it’s driving the price, like it did in the past. And the president must jawbone OPEC members to lower the price."
Bush ran for president in part on the rationale that he was uniquely qualified to deal with the Saudis and Kuwaitis. It is fair to ask why results are lacking.
I'd be much more interested in watching a gas station "clean" its gas tanks for the "summer blend" fuel.
Happy Bday, Thers! Also, a belated Happy Bday to WGG!
What is really surprising is that the stories on high gas prisces are running without any mention of prominent Bush quote from the 2000 election,
"What I think the president ought to do is get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say we expect you to open your spigots. One reason why the price is so high is because the price of crude oil has been driven up. OPEC has gotten its supply act together and it’s driving the price, like it did in the past. And the president must jawbone OPEC members to lower the price."
Bush ran for president in part on the rationale that he was uniquely qualified to deal with the Saudis and Kuwaitis. It is fair to ask why results are lacking.
rk
-Yeah, why isn't "the decider" deciding to act on these high oil prices (guess the Saudis don't want to drink with him)?
And why won't the media pound him on it, like they pounded Clinton about a blow job?
Doug,
2004, 4cyl Camry that gets 31mpg at 81mph all day.
Whenever the local news has a story about the lowest priced gas in town I want to tell them to run a story about the most expensive gas in town to shame those bastards into lowering their prices.
It makes you wonder if the news stations know what you all and I know. That how the rise in gas prices is affecting us at the tanks is the least of it.
The way that we have built our American lifestyle has been on the presumption that gas/oil will always be plentiful and cheap. From our mass migration to the suburbs, to shipping our food in from halfway around the world, it all hinges upon cheap oil.
Just about everything in our modern world requires petroleum to manufacture. When the price of oil in the barrel goes up, so does the price of everything else. That is going to set off a chain reaction of an unavoidable economic cataclysm throughout the U.S.
It's difficult to look at the 'perfect storm' of economic factors that are coming to fruition and not believe that it wasn't a grand scheme concocted by neocons a generation or so ago, to achieve the wildest of their ideological dreams: Attainment of mythic wealth, not having to pay taxes, getting rid of government altogether with those ever-pesky regulations (by bankrupting the country), privatizating the nation's resources and selling them all off to the lowest bidders, developing an economic class system where upward mobility is next to impossible, installing a foreign policy of brute force (and nukes, lots of nukes, big ones, little ones, medium-sized ones), no UN, no diplomacy. Order in the streets shall be maintained by paramilitary police agencies after the elimination of citizens’ rights. Prisons shall be privatized and lots of new ones will be built throughout the nation.
It didn't take a conspiracy theorist to see this coming. He certainly tried to warn us. As did many other liberals.
I remember well the oil crises in both '73 and '79. The first one closed tons of gas stations along I-35 between Austin and San Antonio and the second, among other results, made a born-again out of Donna Summers.
Hey, someone's gotta provide the little feature tidbits.
Least aggressive and therefore almost as scary drivers?
Anyone wearing a hat whose brim is level with the top of the steering wheel and anyone driving a K-car or other ancient Chrysler product or a Ford Granada. Invariably, they are old enough to have served in the Spanish-American War and think the maximum speed in the left lane of the interstate is 40 mph.
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