I’ll trade you one diamond necklace for one gas card
Apparently gas stations around here are starting to run out of gas. I will most likely be going to get gas during my lunch break today, to make sure I have a full tank if this happens.
I don’t pretend to understand how the economy works, or the government, or corporate businesses. I’m not naive enough to think that anything significant will be done to lower gas prices anytime soon, and I expect to shell out a good amount of money in order to get where I need to go. Less money spent on food, more on gas. I’m also not blind enough to think that gas companies wouldn’t fury after the chance to gouge prices and make more money.
Though in a way, I’m curious what would happen if things reached those “drastic measures” and fuel was more of a commodity among society. Would people be fighting each other for fuel? Would you murder someone else to make sure you got a tank full of gas?
I’ve actually amused myself with the idea of buying a horse to get to work everyday. I figured out what route I would take, the time alottment, etc. If not a horse, then a bicycle. I need the exercise anyway. Perhaps a good bike would be a decent investment for me this summer. Out here in the country, it’s not exactly practical for everyday use like it would be in a city. We don’t have buses out here, I think we might have one cab company. So out here it’s always been your own vehicle.
The fuel cost issue is a perfect example of the problems with societal dependancies. The majority of people in America wouldn’t know what to do without a car, without a grocery store, without television. I’d hate to think of the desperation if something happened to prevent any of those things. It’s kinda the reason I want to get away from people in general. We already have gas syphoned out of our tractor every once in a while. I don’t need someone busting a cap in my ass to steal the gas out of my car.
I guess the rich folks will always run things around here. We need some modern day Robin Hoods or something.
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One Response to “I’ll trade you one diamond necklace for one gas card”
April 26th, 2006 at 9:35 am
The really sick thing is that oil companies make all their money off of plastic. so lets make sure we buy individually wrapped everything! If gas prices rise, its becasue they can’t keep up with demand. So they raise the prices in hopes people will buy less fuel.
This little “skirmish” we are having has caused us to dig into our own reserves of fuel. thousands of american wells were capped off, just sitting there. We are in a boom, its good for the economy. People will oil rights- the little people usually- are making some money. Uneducated or hs educated people are making loads of cash from “roughnecking”. My husband delivers tools (thoe long pipes they drill with) to and from rigs. My inlaws are doing good for the 1st time in a long time because of this boom. Its sad, that we rely on a nonrenewable resourse. It won’t always be here. But I thought you might like to know that some little people are making money out of this situation.
A negative? The oil was always there. When the boom died in the 80s, the people who weren’t smart with their money got burned, towns like mine dried up; everyone left. Now? the people who can help this town grow by tapping into this boom… are too scared to do anything. So here this town sits and rots. We have more people than we can house out here- and no development no nothing is going on- because if people leave… but if they were smart, they would create other jobs for people, activites, nice apartments, something to do- so people would want to stay.
I don’t think bush has any idea what he is doing to small towns in states like Montana with lots of oil. I don’t think he cares. But my inlaws got smart. They own their own company, one that can easliy do something else, rather than working for a drilling company directly as a hand. Sorry to go on, its just that this is such a long long chain reaction… it is all connected and keeps going and going.
bikes are nice, they last a long time, but a horse can be bonded with, and if you hook up a small cart you can get groceries in town twice a month. (you can always bring milk etc, home when you come home from work, lol).