Pink's Life

[pfloyd]

Anyone else ready to heave their breakfast when looking at your receipts after filling your tanks?
The little Getty that's just about thirty yards up the road from us is charging well over $3.00 a gallon. (They're full serve, too.)
Exxon this morning was $2.919. Stations in Marlboro are above $3.00 per gallon too.
There's a station in Alabama or Atlanta (I was half groggy when I heard it) that's somewhere around $6.00 a gallon.
Can't call it highway robbery anymore, cos we won't be on the highways if this keeps up. And I can't carpool with anyone to work because I'm the only one here to lives down my way. I'd have to drive 95% of the way to work just to meet up with anyone. How fucked up is that?

Working on my rant for tomorrow's entry into the friday_fu. Those religious bastards are at it again...

Comments

[lawful-evil.livejournal.com]

I saw a bit on CNN at Dunkin' Donuts this morning that showed a long line of cars around the block at some station charging only $5.96 a gallon in Atlanta. People are willing to wait for cheap products.

Six dollar gas is not going to cause the end of the highway system. They have plenty of highways in Europe and their prices have been over $6 for a long time.

[pfloyd.livejournal.com]

I found out that the European prices are made up of mostly taxes that go toward regional program funding, like education and medical care.

[lawful-evil.livejournal.com]

You are correct. I've been advocating a much larger tax on fuel for a while. Of course, I'm just some guy that no one listens to.

[pfloyd.livejournal.com]

As evident in our D&D games? :)