Gas Is Effing Expensive
TIME FOR SOME BOMBS OVER BAGHDAD, PEOPLE
FITSNews - May 21, 2008 - According to the Daily Fuel Gauge Report, the average price of a gallon of gasoline is over $4 now. And since that’s more than what we pay for a pack of ciggies (well, before the legislature raises the tax on them), we pretty much did a clutch and wheeze, people.
Anyway, since Washington Democrats are having a feeding frenzy on the issue, we figured it was past time Sic Willie and the FITS Gals reminded everybody that this situation calls for a little less talk and a little more bombing the ever-living shit out of some helpless Arab nation (one with a lot of gas, preferably).
In fact, that sounds like an Elvis song … or an Outkast song … but either way “this aggravation ain’t satisfactionin’ us …”
According to the Associated Press, big oil is defending its profits off the record pump prices in front of a Senate panel today …
Top executives of the five largest oil companies tried to shift anger over high prices to a debate over supplies Wednesday, leading a senator to accuse them of acting like “hapless victims” while racking up record profits.
Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., told the executives there’s “a disconnect” between normal supply and demand and the skyrocketing price of oil—surpassing $130 a barrel even as the oil leaders testified—that the industry has yet to explain.
What’s really hard to understand is how oil companies are NOT raking it in. In an interesting article penned by Thomas Sowell, he says:
The government collects far more in taxes on every gallon of gasoline than the oil companies collect in profits … Nothing is easier, or more emotionally satisfying, than blaming high prices on those who charge them, rather than on those who cause them.
Ronald Bailey, of Reason magazine, also explains how the weakening dollar, geopolitical uncertainty and market speculation are playing roles in all this, not to mention supply and demand …
In the meantime, OM Fuels in Charleston is selling bio-diesel to the Lowcountry. So we edumacated ourselves, and found that biodiesel is a “clean burning fuel … produced from domestic, renewable resources that can be used in any diesel engine with little or no modification.”
Of course you’ll need a vehicle equipped with a diesel engine … unless of course you’re like our founding editor and power your vehicle on sheer, unbridled sex appeal.
Maybe it’s time for us to buy that Volkswagon Rabbit we’ve always wanted, or maybe one of those Vespas, which get about 70-80 miles per gallon.
Or, we could be the Lieutenant Governor’s co-pilot and ride in one of his metrosexual smart cars.
However we ride, we’ll still be hot as hell, though.
Look, people. The bottom line is that America either need to figure out how to blow some more towelheads back to Allah or figure out how to not need so much of their friggin’ oil.
For example, check out these links …
South Carolina Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Alliance
Comments
By Melissa on May 21st, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Remember when Outkast released “Bombs Over Baghdad” and gas was only $0.97/gallon?
Ah, good times.
By Souldrift on May 21st, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Those SUVs you drive couldn’t possibly be contributing to global demand for gas! Keep on driving!!