Friday, March 11, 2005
Canyonero
I saw on CNN that gas prices may starting hitting as high as $2.15 in some places. I for one, even when I had my own car, never really paid that close attention to how much gas was. Not surprisingly, Bush wants to tear down Alaska so that we can squeeze some more oil out of the tundra. In any case, I see the problem of gas prices like this:
There are two components to price -- supply and demand. Bush wants to go after supply, which is fine, but I'll tell you my problem in a second. As for demand, look around. Every other fucking car is an SUV or a truck. The SUV craze at least made a little sense, because they're basically just bigger cars. But honestly, how many people that buy pickup trucks actually need them? This is sick. Well all these big ridiculous cars use a lot of gas, increasing demand. So, if we were to assume (and I don't know that this is true) that the amount of gas we have is sufficient to meet our needs, just not at the price we want, we have all our asshole neighbors driving Hummers to blame. Because when the demand for gas increases and the price goes up, it goes up for everybody equally, whether you're driving a Prius of a goddamn tank.
Isn't it so typically American to offer solutions to problems that we ourselves created and then to argue that it is absolutely vital that we go ahead with these plans or the consequences will be unendurable? It's like the child that wants a new toy, but his mother says that he can't have it because there's nothing wrong with his old one. Then the kid breaks his old toy. It's a bait and switch trick as old as the second Iraq war ... I mean as old as Man.
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There are two components to price -- supply and demand. Bush wants to go after supply, which is fine, but I'll tell you my problem in a second. As for demand, look around. Every other fucking car is an SUV or a truck. The SUV craze at least made a little sense, because they're basically just bigger cars. But honestly, how many people that buy pickup trucks actually need them? This is sick. Well all these big ridiculous cars use a lot of gas, increasing demand. So, if we were to assume (and I don't know that this is true) that the amount of gas we have is sufficient to meet our needs, just not at the price we want, we have all our asshole neighbors driving Hummers to blame. Because when the demand for gas increases and the price goes up, it goes up for everybody equally, whether you're driving a Prius of a goddamn tank.
Isn't it so typically American to offer solutions to problems that we ourselves created and then to argue that it is absolutely vital that we go ahead with these plans or the consequences will be unendurable? It's like the child that wants a new toy, but his mother says that he can't have it because there's nothing wrong with his old one. Then the kid breaks his old toy. It's a bait and switch trick as old as the second Iraq war ... I mean as old as Man.
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