A Mildly Political Rant

The price of gasoline, a political football that loves to be kicked around by the ignorant masses, seems to have finally topped off, to torture a pun. In other words, supply has caught up with demand.

Right now, most of the local gas stations in my neighborhood are charging $3.09 per gallon (and what's with this 9/10 bullshit? Just call it $3.10 fer Chrissakes...) Anyhow, while the prices were rising about 60 cents per gallon over the last month, everyone on the left and their pandering politicians have screamed about the obscene profits of the oil companies.

Nothing makes me yawn faster... This is America, motherfarkers, the place where the world comes to make money! Instead of bitching about how much money the oil companies are making, why don't you just buy some stock, or even better, invest in some natural resources mutual funds (which, by the way, had 60%+ returns last year...) and participate in the 'obscenity'.

But nope, the same chuckleheads on the evening news every night can't seem to figure out something so obvious as to actually invest and get a piece of the action, so they talk about 'Windfall Profits Taxes' and congressional investigations. Did nobody in the media in this country ever take Econ 101 in college? Maybe it's because I had to take it twice that I can grasp the concept so easily... but I digress.

Anyhow, a favorite of the lefties is Seattle's favorite corporation--no, not Microsoft, but Starbucks. Yeah, whoever the guy is that has figured out a way to make people stand in line and wait to pay four bucks for a cup of filtered bean water is an absolute genius. I hope he makes several billion dollars, lives to 90 or beyond, and dies in bed in the company of a half dozen twenty-something girlfriends...

But the delicious irony is that while a gallon of gas costs about three bucks a gallon, a 24 oz. venti Frappuccino costs me $4.75 after my employee discount at the casino outlet. At 128 ounces to the gallon, that shiat, as tasty as it is, costs me $25.33 per gallon! And that shit grows on trees (or at least bushes) and falls from the sky! Who's gouging now, motherfarkers???

So where is the righteous indignity??? That's it--I'm writing a letter to my Senator!

Whoops. It's Harry Reid. Lotta good that'll do.

Mikey

(Yeah, spare me your comments about wants and needs, the 'Public Good' and Bush-oil cronies-conspiracy theories--lefties who rant in my comments section will be cast out with extreme prejudice. My house my rules.)