http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3268439Oh my.
I'm violating my own rule about not posting the sparkling husband primitive until I'm done with that Freudian case study of him, lest I tip my hand and inadvertently reveal all I've learned, but I'll concentrate on another primitive here, so that won't happen.
Husb2Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sat May-10-08 08:38 PM
Original message
Gas
Random thoughts .......
I heard a discussion on the radio today between some oil analyst and the newserperson. They were very cavalierly talking about SIX DOLLAR GAS.
Gas today is $3.87 here.
Has any commodity ever risen as fast as gas?
Do you think the price will ever go down?
Why are people not ANGRY about this? How much shit can the citizenry eat? I am amazed at their capacity for a shit diet.
It is literally a few cents a day .... every ****ing day. Relentless. It really does have to end somewhere. Where is somewhere?
Do these people who get on the radio and teevee and give advice to save a few pennies on fuel know how silly they sound? Add some air to your tires and save a tenth of a mile per gallon. Why is no one suggesting we go lynch the ****ing oil company CEOs, the speculators, and the ****wad in charge who let the oil companies and the CEOs and the speculators DO THIS TO US?
Why weren't we looking for alternative fuel sources and alternative modes of transportation DECADES ago?
Today is National Train Day. How much you wanna bet Congress continues to pull funding from AMTRAK?
We are really ****ed. You know that, right?
Oh my.
Not a word about the excess windfall profits of the marijuana industry, which has raised prices 16 times over the past 28 years. Gasoline and groceries multiplied about 3 times in the same 28 years.
But no, not a word about the robber-baron marijuana industry.
livetohike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sat May-10-08 08:47 PM
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1. If wages went up as fast as the gas price, there would be lots of millionaires. At what price (I can't think of the Economic term anymore)will people say, "That's enough!" ?
There was a poll in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette regarding the gas price. Check this out. 30% of respondents said it had to go over $5.00/gallon before they would "make some changes". Unreal. We're retired and the gas price is high enough now.
http://www.pittsburghpostgazette.com/polls/Default.asp?...
What gasoline price point will cause you to make major changes -- different vehicle, closer job, mass transit, vacation near home?
Category: Business
Voting began on 5/4/2008
Voting ends on 5/7/2008
A.$3.80 - 727 (32%)
B.$4.00 - 607 (27%)
C.$4.25 - 75 (3%)
D.$4.50 - 187 (8%)
E.$4.75 - 27 (1%)
F.$5.00 - 657 (29%)
And then the subway cat growls in:
undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sat May-10-08 08:56 PM
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2. out here people are still driving SUV's and I see hummers.
Class warfare on the transportation front.We cannot move about freely the car industry and the mad zoning boards and cul de sack town planners took that away from us..by building EVERYTHING around the CAR.
Do you think there will ever be a decent bus system in sprawl-land? NO.
Because who drives VS who walks to places out here is how you can tell who's in what CLASS.Drives reinforce that all the time out here. Soon there will be a flight to cities,those who can't afford it will be abandoned ..There was a push to move section 8 residents to the suburbs,
In the end, nearly 25,000 African Americans in public housing were given a chance to live in largely white suburbs. The program reached its goal and was ended in
1998.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_5_38/ai_...
An oppurtunity or a TRAP???
I don't know how many poor people got relocated out here,I do know the tech boom and well paying jobs that have since dried up enabled people that otherwise could not do it to move to"better" locations now they are stranded in cul de sacs ,can't afford a long commute and work is scarce.
The poor who wound up out here chasing a 'better life' will be stranded out here,soon as the car costs too much,there's no bus system or one that is not reliable..or connects to anything like a city,out here.I Guess it makes it easier for a police state to round up isolated poor people stuck in the sprawl who get desperate than face a well connected mob of poor folks fighting for thier rights in a city.
http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/79/novacancy.html
That's all there is to this bonfire, which is a new one.
The subway cat got her paws all tangled up, and submitted the exact same comment two times, though, and so there's really three primitive comments at this bonfire on Skins's island, not just two.
The subway cat might wish to check out franksolich's proposed
Cookbook for Primitives, wherein is a description of socialist-made bread, as one reasonably suspects the subway cat entertains fantasies about being another Twiggy.
franksolich, who is 6'3", came back from the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all weighing.....137 pounds.
That socialist-made bread was awesome, when it came to draining away the weight.
