Rant for the day....
I'm so frelling sick and tired of gas being so god damn expensive. Come on now, here in Kansas City, regular unleaded gas is $2.86 per gallon, and I think that it is getting a bit ridiculous. Not more than 2 days ago, gas was $2.56 a gallon. Now, yes, I understand that the reason that it's gone up so much in the last few days is because of Hurricane Katrina and the closing of the oil refineries in the area effected by the hurricane.
What bothers me is a couple things...
First off.... America has what's called the "Strategic Petrolium Reserve", which is a stockpile of oil, some 700 million barrels of crude oil. From my understanding of how the SPR works, it is for emergency use at the President's discretion. Now that's all well and good, save for the fact that our current president's family made a LOT of money in the oil industry, so what incentive would he have to help keep the cost of gasoline down? And of course there's the fact that quite a few of the politicians that help govern our country have been backed for many many years by the oil industry. And of course, they want to keep that money flowing into their bank rolls, so they're not going to put in any type of real legislation to move towards more effective solutions for the impending energy crisis that will occur when we run out of fossil fuels.
Second.... Speaking of oil companies... from what I've been reading, the majority of the oil companies have made INSANE profits in the past year(some up to 300% profists), due to the fact that they were raising prices for their products, such as gasoline, but the price of crude oil is not fluctuating that much. Yes, I understand it has gone up, but I don't think that it's gone up enough to necessitate the raises in gasoline prices that we've had to put up with.
Now what brought all this on....
Well, between the van and the car, I put $50 in gas in the two vehicles, $30 in the Windstar and $20 in the Escort. The Windstar has a 22 gallon tank, the Escort about a 13 gallon tank, if I remember correctly. With what I spent in gas this morning, each of the vehicles has 5/8 a tank of gas. Now in the Escort, that'll be enough to last a couple weeks, as it gets like 28-30 mpg city. The Windstar, however, is another story altogether. It gets between 16-20 mpg city. Yeah, it's got a bigger engine, but shit, at the rate things are going now, I'm not going to be able to afford to take the boys to Kindercare anymore. Not because I can't pay the tuition at Kindercare, but because I'm not going to be able to afford the gas to take them. I think it's getting close to an economic emergency to where people are not going to be able to afford to purchase gasoline for their cars, which in turn will prevent them from going to work, which will lead to the economy crashing.
What a wonderful world we live in, eh?
What bothers me is a couple things...
First off.... America has what's called the "Strategic Petrolium Reserve", which is a stockpile of oil, some 700 million barrels of crude oil. From my understanding of how the SPR works, it is for emergency use at the President's discretion. Now that's all well and good, save for the fact that our current president's family made a LOT of money in the oil industry, so what incentive would he have to help keep the cost of gasoline down? And of course there's the fact that quite a few of the politicians that help govern our country have been backed for many many years by the oil industry. And of course, they want to keep that money flowing into their bank rolls, so they're not going to put in any type of real legislation to move towards more effective solutions for the impending energy crisis that will occur when we run out of fossil fuels.
Second.... Speaking of oil companies... from what I've been reading, the majority of the oil companies have made INSANE profits in the past year(some up to 300% profists), due to the fact that they were raising prices for their products, such as gasoline, but the price of crude oil is not fluctuating that much. Yes, I understand it has gone up, but I don't think that it's gone up enough to necessitate the raises in gasoline prices that we've had to put up with.
Now what brought all this on....
Well, between the van and the car, I put $50 in gas in the two vehicles, $30 in the Windstar and $20 in the Escort. The Windstar has a 22 gallon tank, the Escort about a 13 gallon tank, if I remember correctly. With what I spent in gas this morning, each of the vehicles has 5/8 a tank of gas. Now in the Escort, that'll be enough to last a couple weeks, as it gets like 28-30 mpg city. The Windstar, however, is another story altogether. It gets between 16-20 mpg city. Yeah, it's got a bigger engine, but shit, at the rate things are going now, I'm not going to be able to afford to take the boys to Kindercare anymore. Not because I can't pay the tuition at Kindercare, but because I'm not going to be able to afford the gas to take them. I think it's getting close to an economic emergency to where people are not going to be able to afford to purchase gasoline for their cars, which in turn will prevent them from going to work, which will lead to the economy crashing.
What a wonderful world we live in, eh?
posted by Tenchi-kun at 3:59 PM
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