Gas hits $2.79 for premium, time to revolt
04-06-2008, 06:12 PM
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WHen gas hits 4.50 i am going midgrade. at $5.00 im going 87 with octane booster and @ $5.50 i am walking to work. 35 miles i dont give an ish. I dont know if it is true but i read this email the other day.
Each of the big oil companies just posted like $125 billion profits. thats $125,000,000,000. If they were to only post $20 billion profits we could still be paying only $2.50/gallon
Isnt wierd to say only 2.50. I remember when i was a kid and my granma had a gas station and the prices were 67 cents/gallon. And then around 14 years old it just past a buck. then when i start to drive it was $1.65. and now gas prices are @ $4 and i drive a subie that i have to put 91 in. WTF.
In economics i believe it is called elastic demand. Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP, and conoco phillips can charge $7 if they wanted to and we would still buy the s**t. NO matter what we will always need gas. Especially our beautiful subies.
There is no point in a boycott either cuz number 1 that makes you a hippie and number 2 you cant get to work, which in turn makes you poor, which in turn make you a bum. And then at that point you are a hippie bum.
We can boycott for one day cuz that doesnt hurt anyone, if you were to do one you would have to for at least a week, for a strong word spread for one month. But if that happens then the price of food and everything is going to go up and will make that boycott counter intuitive.
So my answer for this problem is to do what i did. Buy your wife a prius and the money she saves in gas you get to spend on your Subie. And then after a while make her learn how to drive the subie so you can take her prius on your 75 mile round trip job adventure and the whole time think, S**t I bought this piece of junk for her to drive not me. And then the big kicker is you will see her avg. 51.4 miles per gallon, think you can do the same but you lead foot it cuz its a slow car and you only get 30 miles to the gallon and relize you might as well be driving your own car, becuase at least your having fun in your car and you wont look like a retard.
Each of the big oil companies just posted like $125 billion profits. thats $125,000,000,000. If they were to only post $20 billion profits we could still be paying only $2.50/gallon
Isnt wierd to say only 2.50. I remember when i was a kid and my granma had a gas station and the prices were 67 cents/gallon. And then around 14 years old it just past a buck. then when i start to drive it was $1.65. and now gas prices are @ $4 and i drive a subie that i have to put 91 in. WTF.
In economics i believe it is called elastic demand. Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP, and conoco phillips can charge $7 if they wanted to and we would still buy the s**t. NO matter what we will always need gas. Especially our beautiful subies.
There is no point in a boycott either cuz number 1 that makes you a hippie and number 2 you cant get to work, which in turn makes you poor, which in turn make you a bum. And then at that point you are a hippie bum.
We can boycott for one day cuz that doesnt hurt anyone, if you were to do one you would have to for at least a week, for a strong word spread for one month. But if that happens then the price of food and everything is going to go up and will make that boycott counter intuitive.
So my answer for this problem is to do what i did. Buy your wife a prius and the money she saves in gas you get to spend on your Subie. And then after a while make her learn how to drive the subie so you can take her prius on your 75 mile round trip job adventure and the whole time think, S**t I bought this piece of junk for her to drive not me. And then the big kicker is you will see her avg. 51.4 miles per gallon, think you can do the same but you lead foot it cuz its a slow car and you only get 30 miles to the gallon and relize you might as well be driving your own car, becuase at least your having fun in your car and you wont look like a retard.
