Like millions of other Americans, I own a car. I don’t walk or ride a bicycle as well as I used to. There are no subways and the great government subsidized bus routes are very sporadic, inconvenient, and wasteful of money, fuel and time. It is a business only a government can tolerate. You see, of course, only government can just take our money and burn it, then tell us all how fortunate we are hat they are taking care of us. The bus can transport 40 or 50 people, but what if they aren’t going where I need to go? Should I ride the bus full time, I would need a couple of computers working all day, just to co-ordinate just my essential activities. I don’t know. How would our Senators like it if it took all day for them to travel a couple hundred miles? What is good for me is not for thee?
I have to have a personal vehicle (or have access to one) to get to places like the store and my doctor’s appointments. It’s nice to have one in order to visit my children and grandchildren. My sister lives an hour’s drive to the north of me and I have nieces and nephews a few more hours drive northward. And once every year or so, I’ll jump on a plane, bound for a little town in Connecticut where I was born and raised, to spend a day or so with my other surviving siblings Maybe visit my old school, look up the dwidling number of friends living there, or perhaps, just stand at the gravesites of my deceased parents and brother.
My point is: these are the little things that we common folks do. My seemingly mundane travels make my life more livable. I am blessed to have the few things I do have and life is far richer when I can share it with my friends and family. That’s what makes people, people. We are captives to being social creatures. I didn’t set up my society. I didn’t design the nation’s travel infrastructure and simply because we are in an election cycle, I don’t see why I should be forced to just stay home. Until I am able to put something else, besides gasoline in my 20 thousand dollar coach, then damn it; stop telling me all this is my fault. And I don't give a damn about China because they damn sure don't care about me.
If the market dictates that I cut back-as it does now-I can do that. If the market makes it more favorable for oil companies to find more oil, then, government, get the hell out of their way and let them do it. I resent being thought of as a rat in some social experiment, brought about primarily by an unelected lunatic named Al Gore. I’m already buying the 2 for one generic brand sale items, the and probably eating more starches than I should. You see, I can’t just print more money when my account gets low. When the money is gone and the doctor needs a few bucks-the plastic comes out. I do what I have to do.
Thanks Al. By the looks of you, you don’t seem to be sharing my travails. Looks like you’ve put on a few pounds. Life is good for a Nobel laureate, I guess.
The refrain from the socialists is “We can’t drill our way out of this.” And: “It will take ten years to bring ANWAR oil to the pump.” And: “It will only change the price a couple of cents per gallon.”
We get all these campaign bromides after they all threw our good money at Midwest farmers to produce a foodstuff that was then turned into a far less efficient fuel. An unintended consequence (and isn’t government the master of the unintended consequence?) is the dramatic rise in the world’s food prices. Maybe we should say: Al Gore is trying and lying, and people are crying and dying.
Finally, I’ll put Aqua-Velva or Mazola in my car, if it works. Give me something to put in it. The five or ten years it would take to make ANWAR oil is far more useful to me than the twenty or thirty years it may take to invent George Jetson’s vehicle.
So to all you politicians out there…just give me something to put in my PT Cruiser and stop preaching to me about what I should do or do without. I do not answer to you now and I never will. You answer to me and the millions who agree with me.
That 9% approval rating that you all now enjoy is not without cause. But you are all so wedded to your damn unworkable ideologies; you don’t see the seeds you have planted that will grow into a movement that will eventually lead to your own demise. I just hope it’s soon.
I'm down to a quarter of a tank and the check doesn't get here till the first.