You Go Boy, Drop That Pump

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by thenewguy

The Hummer is an easy target because the original ones were huge and simply a status symbol with little or no real need. Now, it is a different story.

Of course. Today, the lives of Americans are so dramatically different from twenty years ago that the average family cannot get by with a mid-size car as the previous generation was once able to do with ease. The commutes of 2007 are nothing like our predecessors could have dreamed! The smooth, paved roads of the 1980s that once ferried families out for a comfortable drive to the grocery store for weekly shopping are now a driver's battlefield of washouts, boulders, and other off road trials that only an H2 can handle.

Of course, I'm kidding -- H2s and their low Tahoe chassis have as much to do with off roading as, well, Chevy Tahoes.

This is all besides the point, however, and the real story is about a dense gas station owner that shut down to "help the consumer" by, uh, removing one more piece of local competition so other stations can raise their prices. Good job, dumbass. That'll show 'em!

Maybe he is right. We can only hope that prices continue to go up, now, to encourage some alternatives so we can cut away from this addiction that has only one possible end. Sick of high gas prices? Tired of paying out a chunk of your paycheck so you can drive your car thirty-five miles, alone, to your job downtown from your beautiful suburbs? Shut up and ditch the SUV, move closer to town, start conserving, or all of the above. It's only going to get worse.