Gas prices are rising. If the press didn't have such a feeding frenzy over Bush's National Guard records, I'm sure that just like last time gas prices went up we'd be hearing about the poor father of five children who couldn't afford to feed his children and buy gas for his SUV. I'll say the same thing now that I said then, "Why the fuck did you have five kids if you can't afford them. Quit your fucking whining! I'm sick of it!"
If you think we pay a lot of money for gasoline go to Europe and see what they have to pay. Howza 'bout $4.00 a gallon? We get off cheap. The Europeans tax the hell out of gasoline to limit usage. Anyway, if you don't want to pay a lot for gas, sell your SUV and buy a Honda or a Toyota.
What I'm worried about is that someone is gonna tell the gummint they gotta do something. That's all we need. Everytime the gummint "does something", they usually fuck it up. Just like Jimmah Carter in the 70's with price controls. By the way, you know why Jimmah always lays on the bottom when he has sex? Because all he knows how to do is fuck up. Rim shot!
You folks in California dodged a bullet. Cruz Bustamonte said that if he were elected governor, he was gonna set a ceiling for the price of gasoline. Hello gas lines.
That's the thing about socialists. They always seem to think they can repeal the law of supply and demand.
Why have gas prices gone up in the United States? You! The stupid looking guy in the back with the Dean For President t-shirt on.
"Because the oil companies are gouging us."
Spoken like a true socialist. No, the reason gas prices have gone up is because the demand has exceeded the supply. When demand exceeds the supply, the price rises to create equilibrium. Gas has been cheap for so long that we decided that we could drive gas guzzlers (In this case SUV's) again. Our gas usage went up. The price went up. OPEC cutting production is gonna make the prices go up even higher.
I'm not saying that people shouldn't drive SUV's. I think they suck and wouldn't buy one, but that's just my opinion. I have one friend who has one for protection. She sits high on the road and has all that heavy metal around her. Many people buy them for just that reason. But, back to gas prices.
For those of you who were not around in the late 70's and early 80's let me relate a little history. Our gummint put ceilings on gas prices. We had more demand than supply and an artificially low price. This led to shortages and gas lines. Any Economics 101 student could have predicted that. Unfortunately we had a Dimocrat for president (Jimmah Carter) and a Dimocrat congress and they probably all slept through Economics or didn't take it. Ted Kennedy was probably drunk when he took it.
When Reagan was elected, he abolished the price controls. Oh how the Dimocrats howled. "This will hurt the poor!" bellowed Ted Kennedy. "Burp!"
Funny thing happened. Gas prices rose. People didn't want to pay that much for gas. They sold their gas guzzlers and bought economical Toyotas and Hondas and next thing you know we had an oil glut. I remember gas at 85 cents a gallon in the 80's. Amazing how that happens. Just like they explain it in Economics 101.
This is one of the failures of socialism. In socialism, you have the gummint setting prices. They try to repeal the law of supply and demand. Unfortunately, that is a law that can not be repealed.
I own two BMW's: a Z3 and a 325is. They both get about 25 miles per gallon on the highway. I also own a pickup truck that gets about the same. I make enough money that I can afford to fill up my cars and it doesn't bother me. If it did, I would buy cars that got better gas mileage.
And that's the thing. If you bitch about the price of gas and you own a gas guzzling SUV, you're part of the problem. STFU and sell your SUV and buy a car that gets 50 miles per gallon.
Or take the bus.
Posted by denny at February 16, 2004 08:31 PM