On my way into work this morning I thought I’d stop at the local filler-up station and pump in some o that liquid gold at $2.84 a gallon. So I pulled my Ford F150 up to the pump and made my selection (regular of course) and pull the lever to allow pumping to begin. But nothing happened. I reset everything and did it all over again. That’s funny...nothing happened. I place, caps screwed back on and walked inside to inquire as to what the malfunction might be. The little sweetheart behind the counter said she didn’t know why but the company told her to hold up pumping any gas until they could get someone out there. So I decided to take the chance and head on into work on "E".
After work I decided I could make it back to my local station (the same one as this morning). So I drove the 9 miles on "E" and pulled into the station with my tank dry as a bone. I looked up at the big sign and low and behold over the past eight and one half hours the price of regular gas had gone from $2.84 a gallon to $3.49 a gallon. Gas had gone up fucking $0.65 a gallon in eight and one half hours. I said to myself, we must be at war with Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. I started the truck and pampered her back home empty. I figured what goes up will eventually go back down.
My wife’s car has some gas in it and will help me make it to work tomorrow and Friday.
I dunno about the rest of ya but it’s been over a year since I actually filled up my gas tank on either vehicle. I am afraid I’ll drop over dead from sticker shock. And my wife shares my fear also. We put $10 in at a time which is lasting about two days. But I don’t make the kind of money that will allow me to put $55 in my tank every time. And I have two tanks. I used to fill them both up back when I first bought the truck. The rear tank ain’t seen a drop of gas in many years. And it won’t anytime soon either.
The plain friggin truth is.....I am pissed off and I ain’t gonna take it no more. I don’t yet know what I can do about this Cheney sponsored fucking rip off of me and all other Americans but you better bet I’ll figure some way. And Mr.Sure Shot himself will be feelin the rath of us all when we get those fraidy cats in congress to handcuff that man and carry him off to prison.
This is my weekly rant. Thanks for letting me do it. This shit has got to stop.......the republican agenda is to ruin government and give everything away to multinational corporations and bring in Mexican labor and pay them $0.25 and hour to do my job.
Folks, we gots us a big ass problem in Washington DC right now and I really don't think we can wait til January 2009. That guy Cheney has got to be arrested and thrown in jail toot sweet!