OT - There goes the gas prices... Options

[GaroldShaffer]

In my neck of the woods one of the big gas station chains is Speedway. Now in my big city of Portage Indiana (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/blink.gif) we have three speedways. I took my boy to Nana's so she could watch him for the day and on the way home I thought I would stop and fillup the truck. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/headbang.gif) The station by mom is $2.97 for regular, I thought I would check the other two. The next station is 3 miles in the wrong direction from where I needed to go but hey look they are $2.83, so like a dumass I stop and fill up the truck ($48). I pass the speedway which is about 1 mile from my house, damn...$2.63 WTF.

My little trip this morning was 8 miles, so there is a $.36 a gal difference between 3 stations all from the same company. Why (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/confused24.gif) not that it really matters at these prices now days but still.

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I was just talking to someone on the phone and they said that tomorrow is the day you are not supposed to buy gas. I started laughing, tell me what this would do? A big fat nothing!! One day wont change anything at all. The oil companies would just sit back at the golf course, sipping martinis, smoking big fat cuban cigars and laughing all the way tot he next day when the money came pouring in again. I told her if you really want to make a difference, it would take at least 40% of America to stop driving their cars for about 6 months, ride a bike to work instead, use public transportation. Even at that, it would probably not make much difference. She said she lived too far to do that. I asked how far she had to go, she said 12 miles each way. I told her, ok, if you rode a bike to work 12 miles, at the average speed of say 12 miles per hour, you would be to work in about an hour, no traffic hassles, you would be excersizing at the same time and this country would lose weight and be healthier. I could not find a drawback there. America is just a bunch of whiners that are over weight and spoiled. They all talk about trying to make a difference but wont do anything about it. They complain about gas prices and then go buy big old SUV's that get less than 10 MPG. All I have to say is, if you are not willing to do something about it, dont even talk about it. We only see what they want us to see, open your eyes world, we live in a controlled environment and it is controlled by big business and our government. It's only a free country if you do it their way. We are all doing what they want us to do. Why? Because so many of us are mindless and dont look past what is right in front of us. It's all about control and they have it.

End of rant, I could go on for days.