Isn't it funny how when you forget something it just suddenly pops into your head at some random time when you're thinking of something else completely? Last time I was blogging I was trying to think of what I wanted to blog about but of course I had to wait for it to randomly come to me. It's not as good as I thought, but here it is;
My Thoughts on Gas Pricing
Well, you knew they weren't going to be positive, no one likes spending more money on anything. On my way into work, car pooling on my brothers motorcycle in the HOV lane, I see a few things that strike me. A hybrid Escape with a plate reading: H1BR1D. Obviously someone proud to own a hybrid for their environmental savy or penny pinching. I see many hybrids with vanity plates cheering their existance. ENVRMNT, PSERVR, etc. Alongside will be a brand new Cadillac Escalade SUV with temporary plates. I honestly think those trucks are gorgeous and I suppose if you have the money, you don't care so much about gas prices, but they always have one scrawny little black driver and not another sole in the 365 cubic space of cargo, and wheels that cost more than my car. I saw a wrangler with temp plates too and so I wonder if people are really driving less now that gas is over $3 a gallon.
I never thought I'd see that day until I was at least retired. I mean, it was 99 cents a gallon when I was in college and that wasn't that long ago. They say that the metro has had record riders and the husband hears there is a lot of gas because people aren't buying as much. The stock fell to under $70/barrell which isn't any higher than it was when gas did cost 99cent/gallon so what's the deal?
It makes me sick to hear about CEO retirement packages valued at hundreds of millions of dollars while they tell us they aren't price guaging. Maybe they need a vocab lesson.
Sometimes I have odd nightmares and the only with I wish for was more justice, and not the kind we have now, real justice that doesn't struggle with right/wrong or guilty/innocent. It is a conflict of interest to have a president so involved in the oil industry. If we have laws preventing business conduct along lines of conflicts of interest, then why on earth is someone who makes more money off the oil industry than the salary paid as president of the United States, allowed to be in that position? Anyone can see he isn't all that bright, I have also lost faith in the voting system to believe that such a moron was elected more than once. I mean, didn't you people WATch the debates? HE is an ass.