I Did Not Know That!
I had no idea that these were tough economic times! It takes 92 bucks to fill my Buick Regal a week. The unemployment rate is almost 10% in Michigan. But if you hadn't come by these "reports" about the "economic indicators" indicating bad times - I'd have NO EFFING CLUE we were headed for trouble. Headed for trouble?
I take back what I said about the $1000/hour hooker Spitzer was seeing. Clearly, she had the economic indicators earlier than the White House and adjusted her rates so she could gas up her SUV.
Dolts!
Posted by Rosemary on
05.03.2008
R.I.P. Steven Malcolm Anderson
Minion
of the Week
$4 a freaking gallon...are you kidding me?
I gave up driving the gas pig van and shove everything into the Firebird -- putting down the top and rolling in the cold for big loads. It may be a sports car, but gets much better mileage, and I feed it regular and it doesn't seem to mind.
I say that as someone who drives a Dodge Dakota Quad Cab and pays more than you do at the pump - AAFES to the rescue of bleeding one more penny out of the military if it can, all in the name of patriotism of course! We paid just under $450 for what amounts to 3 1/2 tanks in the truck - our entire gas ration for the month. That brings a tank to roughly $127 a tank. Considering our tank takes 29 gallons, that's $4.38 a gallon, and that isn't at local Italian prices, that's AAFES swearing that's the "monthly national average" for gas in the states - when it's not.
Talk to me when you're paying almost $4.50 a gallon. And we have is sweet compared to other folks with bigger tanks as 400 liters is the MAX you can get a month without some serious hoop jumping through the First Shirt, and crap loads of paperwork to boot.
What makes me pissed is this isn't even high travel season yet. Our last jump was over $20 per 200 liter book. Come the end of this month, AAFES is going to anally rape the US military overseas and no one will give a shit, just like usual.
Ouch.
But if you hadn't come by these "reports" about the "economic indicators" indicating bad times - I'd have NO EFFING CLUE we were headed for trouble. Headed for trouble?
Rose, if I may repost part of your blog post from the one I link to above:Who's dumb?
Doesn't a Canadian gallon have five quarts in it or something like that?
What's a quart?
We're actually paying $1.30/liter. I had to do all kinds of conversion to get it into your primitive measurement system.
So it's just the US, Burma, and Liberia still using gallons, I hear. Or bushels and hogsheads, or whatever it is.
While I appreciate your desire for efficiency and conformity to world opinion, I prefer the human warmth and historical resonance of our ancient measurements.
I predict that as the US economy deteriorates, a switch to the metric system will be required in order to remain in the game. It's inevitable.
I suppose that Bush deserves the credit.
It will just go on and on like this FOREVER until we finally are so beaten down that we lay "groaning among the happier dead."
Well, watch out: It's all seems fun until someone loses an eye. Then it's a game and everyone wants to play.