I think this belongs in my "news" section.
I was inspired by Chud's: http://chudworld.blogspot.com post about gas prices.
It's $2.76 here in Ohio (which is NEWS, and why I'm not posting this in my blog.) Sure, that seems like a lot to you people who were paying .15 in the seventies. Chud posted a great rant about supply and demand, so I'm not going to steal his thunder there. He also did some math showing that no, gas is not outrageous if you look at the price per barrel, and then at the actual profit the oil companies are making.
Consider this: we've placed a whole lot of environmental demands on these people who are getting oil. We don't want it to come from any protected areas, we don't want it to disturb the natural environment too much, it has to be transported in a way that's safe...a lot of safety measures have been put in place since the days of .15/gallon. Which is great! I love the environment, really! But these things also cost money...so YES, yes gas is more expensive.
Chud also did some nifty math, regarding oil company profits and how to get the price per gallon, showing that no, prices are not being astronomically padded right now just because it's cool to pad prices. The same people I know who whine about this are the same people who buy jeans for $70 when you KNOW they cost $2 to make.
I went online and did a little research myself, cause I'm cool like Chud.
Gas is $2.76 a gallon here in my part of Ohio.
Snapple would be $10.32 a gallon
Evian water...$21.19
My favorite fact is NyQuil...$178.13 per gallon. Chew on that before you develop a cough syrup habit, oh teenagers of the world.
I will also note that a month's pass for the Cleveland RTA (our transit system) would be $90, PLUS the joy you get from sitting next to someone who's drinking out of a paper bag, or behind a group of teenage girls who won't shut their pieholes despite not having teeth. Now, if you work in a city and in addition to gas you'd have to pay parking, the RTA is a good option. However, where I live, I need a car to get to the RTA.
To drive my car for a month, I would spend around $60, give or take a few depending on if I do more driving than usual.
This is the United States, and sure, we're free to drive whatever we want. If you live in a place that never sees snow, or in the suburbs where you never drive on anything tougher than your gravel driveway and you want to drive an H2, that's your own decision. But don't come crying to me when you're spending hundreds on gas a month. They have small V6 SUVs, you know. Or, you could *gasp* NOT drive an SUV. How about driving an ECONOMY car, if it's going to mean that much to you?! What a NOVEL idea!
It may be harder to pimp the honeys in a Chevy Aveo, but you'd have more money for blunts and 40s and Kanye CDs.
It's $2.76 here in Ohio (which is NEWS, and why I'm not posting this in my blog.) Sure, that seems like a lot to you people who were paying .15 in the seventies. Chud posted a great rant about supply and demand, so I'm not going to steal his thunder there. He also did some math showing that no, gas is not outrageous if you look at the price per barrel, and then at the actual profit the oil companies are making.
Consider this: we've placed a whole lot of environmental demands on these people who are getting oil. We don't want it to come from any protected areas, we don't want it to disturb the natural environment too much, it has to be transported in a way that's safe...a lot of safety measures have been put in place since the days of .15/gallon. Which is great! I love the environment, really! But these things also cost money...so YES, yes gas is more expensive.
Chud also did some nifty math, regarding oil company profits and how to get the price per gallon, showing that no, prices are not being astronomically padded right now just because it's cool to pad prices. The same people I know who whine about this are the same people who buy jeans for $70 when you KNOW they cost $2 to make.
I went online and did a little research myself, cause I'm cool like Chud.
Gas is $2.76 a gallon here in my part of Ohio.
Snapple would be $10.32 a gallon
Evian water...$21.19
My favorite fact is NyQuil...$178.13 per gallon. Chew on that before you develop a cough syrup habit, oh teenagers of the world.
I will also note that a month's pass for the Cleveland RTA (our transit system) would be $90, PLUS the joy you get from sitting next to someone who's drinking out of a paper bag, or behind a group of teenage girls who won't shut their pieholes despite not having teeth. Now, if you work in a city and in addition to gas you'd have to pay parking, the RTA is a good option. However, where I live, I need a car to get to the RTA.
To drive my car for a month, I would spend around $60, give or take a few depending on if I do more driving than usual.
This is the United States, and sure, we're free to drive whatever we want. If you live in a place that never sees snow, or in the suburbs where you never drive on anything tougher than your gravel driveway and you want to drive an H2, that's your own decision. But don't come crying to me when you're spending hundreds on gas a month. They have small V6 SUVs, you know. Or, you could *gasp* NOT drive an SUV. How about driving an ECONOMY car, if it's going to mean that much to you?! What a NOVEL idea!
It may be harder to pimp the honeys in a Chevy Aveo, but you'd have more money for blunts and 40s and Kanye CDs.
posted at 7:48 AM
3 Comments:
and this is why garvin has needs to in the running for the singly luckiest man alive. i shed a little tear as i read this.
Garvin sleeps with a beautiful, smart, and funny woman... but he also lives in Ohio.
He isn't that lucky.
HEY!
Ohio's not bad. We have soybeans and corn and Menonites...and...um...Drew...Carey.........shit.
I got nothing.
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