http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3245701Oh my.
It's about time the primitives stopped whining about high gasoline prices.
Perhaps the primitives can now devote their whining to the excess windfall profits of the marijuana industry.
matt007 (62 posts) Mon May-05-08 03:06 AM
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Gotta admit this...................I'm happy about the price of gas
On a certain level i am glad its up and will go up more. Lets face it. NOTHING was going to stop Americans from driving SUVs (Standard Urban Vehicles) trucks, and V8's. This will and in the long run we'll be better for it. I sympathize with the five percent or so who NEED to drive something not gas friendly for work etc. But now when I see a Hummer or Escalade or any of the others I hear a giant sucking sound of that idiots disposable income going away. I smile a little. Looks like the big land beasts are going the way of the dinosaurs.
good riddance!
Ooops. The primitives aren't happy about the high price of gasoline at all.
Alas! the poor primitives! alas! never happy! the poor primitives!
bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Mon May-05-08 03:11 AM
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1. The upper middle class people with the SUV's just pay the high prices and move on
They may grumble about it, but the Stepford families making $200,000 a year will just pay the higher gas prices and not change their behavior in any way.
bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon May-05-08 12:25 PM
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34. Thank you for caring what some of us are suffering. Very few ever so enlightened "progressives"
seem to give us a thought.
Our suffering and deaths are NOTHING to them.
I appreciate your words, more than you know!!
merwin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon May-05-08 03:25 AM
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5. Except for people like my wife who has to commute 70 miles to work once a week because of the lack of decent jobs and public transit around here.
So it's someone else's fault the marvin primitive chose to live far away from somewhere with decent jobs?
What's to stop the marvin primitive and Ms. marvin from moving?
Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon May-05-08 03:25 AM
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6. my coworker is PARALYZED NOW because he tried to save on gas
he had swtiched from a car to a motorcycle to try to save on gas and was hit by a car that pulled out in front of him....he had surgery on his spine and the word out now is that he will not walk again...do you not understand that most of those assholes driving Hummers will CONTINUE to drive them - as always it's the LESS-THAN-WEALTHY folk that get hurt more
proud2Blib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon May-05-08 06:09 AM
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19. Sorry but the poor are the ones who suffer, not the SUV drivers
MadHound (1000+ posts) Mon May-05-08 06:42 AM
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20. Gotta admit this....................You sound like a clueless, heartless sunuvabitch.
Way to laugh at the plight of the poor, most of whom are forced, due to economic circumstances, to drive large gas guzzling cars. Way to write off farmers who are getting killed by high fuel prices. Way to laugh at all of us as food prices rise to unbearable levels.
And you're doing all this laughing because people who bought SUV's are getting hit with high gas prices :crazy: Yes, there are many people who shouldn't be driving SUV's, but there are also lots of people who need an SUV, contractors, various business folks, etc. Way to laugh at their pain. And as far as those who drive an SUV sheerly for vanity's sake, well guess what, most of them are going to pay the price at the pump and not blink an eye.
Such schadenfreude is grossly misplaced, and totally uncalled for. All you're doing in most cases is laughing at the plight of those who are less well off than you, thus making you look like a jerk, or worse.
bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon May-05-08 12:39 PM
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44. Thank you. People like me are so much trash underfoot to people like this.
He/they will be glad when we're wiped out by all this.
The attitude of the OP is what the media is picking up on as "elitist".
And it ain't helping this country one bit.
Alexander (1000+ posts) Mon May-05-08 06:45 AM
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21. As gas goes up in cost, food and everything else goes up as well.
You know what that's called, boys and girls? Hyperinflation.
I can't imagine why you'd wish this upon other people.
This is hilarious, The primitives are ALWAYS wishing misery upon other people.
Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon May-05-08 09:00 AM
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25. My company paid twice as much in the first quarter of '08 as it did the entire year in 2000 on fuel for our trucks. We deliver food products so guess what is happening to the price of food..
It's just a really big blazing bonfire.
The original primitive returns to the bonfire about halfway through.
Low gasoline prices = the primitives complain.
High gasoline prices = the primitives complain.
Alas! the poor primitives! never happy! the poor primitives! alas!