Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Politics, religion and gas prices

I'm all antsy for the end of the week. I want to see if we can go an entire week without going to the gas station. Last week, after the Last of the Red Hot Rodeo, I worked up a spreadsheet to get an average dollar amount spent on gas. Jim has a truck and I had an SUV. Neither are fuel efficient. We spent, on average, $559 a month on fuel. Makes me want to vomit.

I was reading an article at CNN.com yesterday that was talking about Congress laying into oil executives about profits. What a joke. Congress says "Shame on you" while holding out the other hand for campaign contributions. I could go into a really long rant while jumping up and down on my soapbox, but I won't. To a point - sending economic stimulus checks won't fix the economy and opening more areas of the U.S. to oil-drilling won't prevent higher gas prices.

And just because I needed something to laugh about:



And the classic Beer Song:

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