Monday, May 14, 2007

Gas Panic!

In case you haven't heard, tomorrow is "National Gas Protest Day" or whatever. I've been hearing about this for a while now. This sort of grassroots thing thrives on the Internet. Basically what they are saying is, tomorrow don't pump any gas to protest the price of gasoline. Many people are claiming that when this was done in 1998 it lowered gas prices by 30 cents!

Amazing!!! We should all do it!!!

Except that it's all a crock of shit.

For one thing, let's say that EVERYONE in the country didn't buy gas tomorrow. Okay, so what? The day AFTER (May 16) people will flock to the pumps...so the big oil companies won't get their money on the 15, so what? The only way to actually hurt these mega companies is to actually use LESS gas. Not put off buying it for a day or so.

This whole thing is stupid. If you don't believe me, check it out at Snopes.com:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/nogas.asp
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What tongueless ghost of sin crept through my curtains?
Sailing on a sea of sweat on a stormy night
I think he don't got a name but I can't be certain
And in me he starts to confide

That my family don't seem so familiar
And my enemies all know my name
And if you hear me tap on your window
Better get on yer knees and pray panic is on the way

My pulse pumps out a beat to the ghost dancer
My eyes are dead and my throat's like a black hole
And if there's a god would he give another chancer
An hour to sing for his soul

Cos my family don't seem so familiar
And my enemies all know my name
And when you hear me tap on yer window
Yer better get on yer knees and pray panic is on the way

Cos my family don't seem so familiar
And my enemies all know my name
And when you hear me tap on yer window
Then you get on your knees and you better pray
Cos my family don't seem so familiar
And my enemies all know my name
And when you hear me tap on your window
Yer better get on yer knees and pray
Panic is on the way
Panic is on the way

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