27 February 2008

Call me hard hearted...

...but I have little to no sympathy for Americans as regards "high" petrol prices. Even if the price reaches $4.00 a US gallon it will still be well below the retail level in most western countries. It is not as if there hasn't been every sign for the past 20 years that an oil crunch was coming and yet the American people have consciously chosen to ignore it and live a profligate life style driving obscenely large and inefficient automobiles, living in obscenely large homes that are obscenely distant from their place of employment.

Sorry - but I'm not not sorry!

By the way the fact that the dollar is worth shit because of a chronically mismanaged economy might have something to with the price of "gas", don't you think?

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